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Wednesday Brown Bag Sessions

Works-in-Progress Series

Requests to receive access to Works-in-Progress papers on-line should be sent to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu.

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Spring 2012 Schedule

Bring your lunch and join us from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Seminar Room 105 at the McNeil Center, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.

18 January: 

Melissah Pawlikowski, Ohio State University
“By Beat of Drum Declared themselves Independent”:  Squatter Ethnogenesis & the Ohio Country Civil War, 1763-1785

1 February:  

Mitch Fraas, University of Pennsylvania
From India to the Atlantic world: "Indian grants" and the Imperial Jurisprudence of the 18th Century

15 February:

Nancy L. Hagedorn, NEH Post-Doctoral Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia
On the Waterfrontier: Atlantic Port City Waterfronts as Zones of Cultural Interaction, 1700–1840: A Prospectus

29 February:

Brenna O'Rourke Holland, Temple University
Brothers in Business: Stephen and Jean Girard, 1772-1784

14 March:

Jim Farley, MCEAS Senior Research Associate
Cui Bono? Whose Good?: Philadelphia Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748

28 March:

Andrew J.B. Fagal, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufactures and the Origins of the War of 1812

11 April:

Rachel Banner, University of Pennsylvania
Tautologies of Native Removal in Marshall, Boudinot, and Black Hawk

25 April:

Rob McLoone, University of Iowa
Print Submissions and Plantation Seats: The Women Writers of Virginia's Early Periodical Culture