Spring 2001 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.
 
24 January Bernard Herman, University of Delaware
"The Shipwright's House"
7 February Roger Abrahams, University of Pennsylvania
"A Swarm of Bees, the Gift of Corn"
21 February Juila Boss, Yale University and MCEAS Dissertation Fellow
"Burning Down the House: Convents and Catastrophe in New France, 1650-1734"
7 March Ashli White, Columbia University
"People of Color and Revolutions in the 1790s: The Case of Stephen Girard and Crispin"
21 March Kate Haulman, Cornell University
"Suiting the Market: The Trans-Atlantic Fashion Network"
4 April Timothy Shannon, Gettysburg College
"The Indian Trader as Artifact in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain"
18 April Jennifer Lawrence, Temple University
"Prisons in the Wilderness: Bucolic Pastoralism and the Image of Antebellum Penitentiaries"
2 May Gene Ogle, University of Pennsylvania
"The Problems of Policing: Maroons, Free Men of Color and the Maréchaussée in French Saint Domingue"
16 May Karol Weaver, Bloomsburg University
"Enslaved Healers in Saint Domingue, 1750-1804"

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