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Keynotes:
- David Hackett Fischer
Brandeis University, author of recent book “Champlain’s Dream.”
- Eric Thierry
University of Paris (Sorbonne), “Champlain and the Iroquois.”
- Raymonde Litalien
Honorary Archivist of Canada, “Historical Antecedents of Lake Champlain’s Exploration.”
Presenters (in alphabetical order):
- Mike Austin, Castleton State College, “Spiritual Godfather of Vermont: Samuel de Champlain’s Heritage”
- Charles Bashaw, Champlain College, “French Attitudes Towards the New World”
- Sylvie Beaudreau, SUNY Plattsburg, “Commemorations and Historical Memory”
- Andrew Buchanan, University of Vermont, “Lake Champlain: Axis of Conflict”
- Edward Cashman, Champlain College, “Justice in the Champlain Islands”
- Frances Sikola Chevalier, Norwich University, “The Many Faces of La France at Crown Point”
- Kevin Dann, SUNY Plattsburgh, “Dreams and Prophecies”
- Steven Delisle, Winterthur Museum, “Eighteenth Century Forts in Lake Champlain”
- Richard DeProspo, Washington College, “The less common idiom” of Père Isaac Jogues’s Novum Belgum”
- John J. Duffy, Johnson State College (emeritus), “When Stone Houses Came to the Champlain-Richelieu Borderlands”
- Christina Dunphy, Champlain College, “A Champlain Neighborhood Walking Tour”
- Joanne Farrell, Champlain College, “”The Theatre of Neptune” (with Eric Ronis)
- John Hessler, Library of Congress, “Reading Champlain’s Maps”
- Richard Hunt, Champlain College, “Champlain Explores the Maritimes”
- Michael Lange, Champlain College, “Naming Places, Claiming Spaces”
- John Lovejoy, Independent Scholar, “The Black Snake Affair”
- Robert Mayer, Champlain College, “The Guns of Samuel de Champlain”
- Daniel Métraux, Mary Baldwin College, “Québecois Settlement in Greensboro, Vermont”
- John Moody, for Indigenous Traditions, “Indigenous People of the Champlain Valley”
- Sheila Morris, Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society, “Discovering Your Ties to Samuel de Champlain”
- Bruce Morton, Touro Law School, “Cross-Border legal Issues”
- Nancy Nahra, Champlain College, “Travel Writers, Travel Liars”
- Susan Ouellette, St. Michael’s College, “Patterns of Settlement”
- Jon Parmenter, Cornell University, “Indigenous Context of Champlain’s Activities.”
- Steven Pendery, National Park Service, “Archaeology of Champlain Settlements”
- Antoine Polgar, Champlain College, “The Grammar of Discovery in Champlain’s Des Sauvages”
- Willard Sterne Randall, Champlain College, “Benedict Arnold: Master of the Lake”
- Eric Ronis, Champlain College, “The Theatre of Neptune” (with Joanne Farrell)
- Kenneth Wade, Champlain College, “Les Filles de Roi”
- Kathy Whiting, Champlain College, “Through Faith and Medicine: The Fanny Allen Connection”
- Sanford Zale, Champlain College, “Late Medieval French Culture and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion.”
