Spring 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.
23 January:  Maartje Janse, Harvard University/University of Leiden
Associational Mania: New Perceptions of Organizing, 1820-1850
6 February: Sean Harvey , College of William and Mary
'Your colour bespeakes deception and your Tongue a Ly': Language, Race,
and the Ambiguities of Empire in the Ohio Country, 1786-1793
20 February: Kelly Wisecup , University of Maryland
Communicating Disease: Epidemic and Encounter in Thomas Hariot's
Briefe and True Reporte of the New Found Land of Virginia
5 March: Ted Andrews , University of New Hampshire
Of Saints and Savages: Indigenous Missionaries in the Early Modern British Atlantic
19 March: Susan Klepp , Temple University
Go Ask Alice: A Slave's Life and Legacy
2 April: April Shelford , American University
Reading the Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
16 April: Lesley Doig, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
'When a man marries a fortune it is not all he marries':
Riches, Reputation and the West v. West Divorce of 1806
30 April: Jeff Edwards, University of Pennsylvania
'Sypathetic Hearts and Homogenial Souls': American Men of Feeling in the Barbary States

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