Fall 2002 Brown Bag Schedule

Bring your lunch and join us from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in the First Floor Seminar Room at the McNeil Center, 3619 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania. Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact Amy Baxter at MCEAS.
 
18 September:  Jennifer Snead, University of Pennsylvania
“Crocodile Tears and Crises of Epistemology:  Whitefield in America, 1739-40”
2 October: David Stewart, National Central University
“Reading the Republic: Interdisciplinarity on the Barricades”
16 October: Carl Keyes, The Johns Hopkins University
“Marketing an Education in Sophistication: Advertisements for Schoolmasters, French Tutors, and Dancing Masters in Colonial Philadelphia”
30 October: Rick Bell, Harvard University
“The Cultural Significance of Suicide in Early America, 1750-1810”
13 November: Bridget Ford, American Antiquarian Society
“‘New Hearts Bound in Sympathy’: Race and the Poetic Turn in Nineteenth-Century Evangelicalism”
4 December: Mark Hanna, Harvard University
“Beneficial Pirates: The Impact of Piracy on Newport and Charleston, 1680-1730”
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