Carla Gardina Pestana, discusses, “Pirates and the Problem of Authority in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World”. Pestana is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Pirates and Piracy”.

Steve Hindle, Mark G. Hanna, and Kevin P. McDonald welcome participants and attendees to the “Illicit Atlantic Worlds” conference, held at the Huntington Library in January 2015. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington. Hanna is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. McDonald is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.