Spring 2006 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 Walnut Streets), on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact Zelini Hubbard at MCEAS.
 
18 January:  Nathan Kozuskanich, Ohio State University 
“Falling Under the Domination Totally of Presbyterians”: The Frontier, the Constitution, and Pennsylvania’s Road to the American Revolution
1 February: Sally Haddon, Florida State University
Powers of Attorney and the Operations of Mercantile Law in Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century
15 February: James Farley, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
“The Bigger of My New Ships is Near Launch”: Early Philadelphia Shipbuilding and Shipbuilders, 1676-1772
1 March: Jessica Roney, The Johns Hopkins University
Clubbing Together: The Roots of Associational Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
15 March: Christian Crouch, New York University
The Zeal of the King’s Arms: Questions of Legitimate Violence in New France During the Seven Years’ War
29 March: Jennifer Schaaf, University of Pennsylvania
“Consult Your Bible, and the Life of Your Divine Model”: Catholic Masculinity and the Trustee Crisis in Early National Philadelphia
5 April: Jared Richman, University of Pennsylvania
The Many (After)Lives of Major André: Trauma, Mourning and Transatlantic Literary Legacy
26 April: Rik Van Welie, Emory University
“The Best Steersmen are Ashore”: Dutch Critiques of Coerced Labor in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World

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