Fall 2008 Brown Bag 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.

10 September: 
Christa Dierksheide, University of Virginia
The Amelioration of Slavery in the Anglo-American Imagination, ca. 1770-1840
24 September:
Derrick R. Spires, Vanderbilt University
Appeals to the People" Defining Citizenship in the Black State Conventions of the 1840s
8 October :
Raúl Coronado, University of Chicago
 The Sublime Revolutionary Power of Development: José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara's
1811 Travel Narrative and Mexican Independence in Texas
22 October :
Ryan K. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
Trading Cures: Indigenous and European Medicine in Eighteenth Century Yucatán
5 November :
Seth Cotlar, Williamette University
The Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776-1860
19 November :
Julie Atkinson , University of Warwick
Office Politics: Representing the City in Revolutionary New York
3 December :
Brian Rouleau , University of Pennsylvania
Showdown at the Oriental Hotel, and Other Such Tales of Barroom Violence from Abroad

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