Spring 2009 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.

21 January: 
Katie Gray , Johns Hopkins University
To "try how long [the] Streets are": Youthful Explorations of Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
4 February:
Ross Barrett , University of Chicago
Rioters Refigured: The Gangs of Antebellum New York in Paint and Print
18 February:
Teagan Schweitzer , University of Pennsylvania
"Iron Chef America" (Philadelphia Edition)- Philly Food ca. 1750-1850: A Historical and Zooarchaeological Approach to Foodways in the Past
4 March:
Wendy Wong, Temple University
Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Print, Publicity, and Citizen Genet
18 March:
Vanessa Mongey, University of Pennsylvania
The Curious Case of the Courtois Brothers: Haiti in Atlantic Geopolitics
1 April:
Charlotte Carrington, University of Cambridge
The "knave, cheater, and French dog" Versus the Puritan "Parsecuting Dogs": The Battle between the Jerseyan Settlers and the Puritan Authorities in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
15 April :
Chris Parsons, University of Toronto
Seeing like a Jesuit, or, The Conflict between Missionary Informants and French Colonial Science
29 April :
Natalie Inman, Vanderbilt University
The Role of Family in Chickasaw Politics and Economy

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