MCEAS Spring 2005 Brown Bag Schedule

Spring 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.

19 January:	Justine Murison, University of Pennsylvania “‘Wrong in the Upper Story’: Hypochondria in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee”
2 February:	Bill Carter, Princeton University “Petticoats and Other Forms of Imperial Rule: Consumer Goods, Gender, and Subordination in the Covenant Chain”
16 February:	Jim Buss, Purdue University “‘Led by a touch of romantic feeling’: Constructing Indian History through George Winter's Artwork”
2 March:	Wendy St. Jean, Dickinson College “Enoe Will's British Commission: Power Politics in Colonial North Carolina”
16 March:	Ken Cohen, University of Delaware “Cultural Business: The Making and Meaning of Leisure in Early America, 1750-1840”
30 March:	Aaron Wunsch, University of California at Berkeley “Parceling the Picturesque: Rural Cemeteries and Urbanization in Antebellum Philadelphia”
13 April:	Heidi Aronson Kolk, Washington University, St. Louis “Inventing Connoisseurship: Tropes of Amateurism and Rituals of Collecting in the Antebellum Travel Journal”
27 April:	Matthew Osborn, University of California at Davis “Klapp's Cure: Phantoms and Inebriate Care in Philadelphia, 1817–1827”
11 May:	Wendy Woloson, The Library Company of Philadelphia “In Hock: Pawning in Early America”

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