2012 Summer Seminar Series
Sessions convene with refreshments at 5:15 p.m.
An informal talk and discussion begins at 5:45, followed by a complementary buffet supper at 7:15.
7 June: |
Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University
The Exchange Artist's Wife
Keynote address for the Capitalism by Gaslight Conference (7-8 June 2012), cosponsored by the McNeil Center and the Library Company of Philadelphia
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21 June: |
Brett Mizelle, California State University, Long Beach
"The Great Hog-Eating Confederacy, or the Republic of Porkdom": Pigs and the Making of America
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28 June: |
Virginia Anderson, University of Colorado
The Ordeal of Moses Dunbar and the Revolution in Connecticut
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12 July: |
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Politics of Practical Grammar: Learning Spanish in the Early Republic
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Early American Literature and Material Texts Inititative
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26 July: |
Tracy Leavelle, Creighton College
Michael Witgen, University of Michigan
Making le pays d'en haut Uppermost: A Discussion of the Catholic Calumet and An Infinity of Nations
Book signing to follow
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9 August: |
David Blight, Yale University
The Problem of Autobiography in Writing the Biography of Frederick Douglass
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