Fall 2005 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 Zelini Hubbard at MCEAS.
 
21 September:  Dan Hicks, The Pennsylvania State University
‘Who Are Her Subjects and Who Are Our Citizens’: Maritime Challenges to National Identity in the Early Republican Period”
5 October: Jake Blosser, University of South Carolina
Anglican Pursuits of Happiness: Popular Religion in the Colonial Chesapeake
19 October: Christopher Hunter, University of Pennsylvania
Without Foreign Alloy: Benjamin Franklin’s Memoires and the Political Economy of Translation
2 November: Michael Carter, University of Southern California
Catholic-Protestant Print Controversy in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
16 November: Kyle Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss’s Piety and the Problem of Defining Evangelicalism
30 November: Simon Finger, Princeton University
An Epidemic Constitution: Quarantine, Diplomacy, and Nationhood in Early Federal Philadelphia
14 December: Margaret Sumner, Rutgers University
Building the Ideal Environment: Principles of Construction from the Early American College World, 1820s-1840s

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