Keynote Speakers

FEEGI conferences traditionally end with a conference banquet, with remarks at dinner from a keynote speaker. Complete conference programs may also be downloaded.

2008 • Georgetown University

Kris Lane, College of William and Mary and President of FEEGI: “Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Medicine in the Early Modern World.”

2006 • Huntington Library

Willem (Wim) Klooster, Clark University and President of FEEGI: “The Dutch Appetite for Spanish Silver.”

2004 • John Carter Brown Library, Brown University

Peter Mancall, University of Southern California and President of FEEGI: "Eating and Drinking on Europe’s Far Shores."

2002 • Huntington Library

Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University and President of FEEGI: "Juan Bautista Witten, Formerly Known as Big Prince. "

2000 • Minneapolis, Minnesota

James G. Cusick, P. K . Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida: "Spanish Florida as Colonial Borderland, 1784-1821: Trade, Travel, Culture and the Atlantic World."

1998 • Huntington Library

Giorgio Perissinotto, University of California - Santa Barbara, and Catherine Rudolph, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation: "World Trade on the Spanish Frontier: Artifacts and Documents from the Santa Barbara Presidio."

The first meeting in 1996 and the founding meeting in 1994 had no keynote address.