Spring 2010 Brownbag Seminar 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.

13 January :	Claire Gherini , The Johns Hopkins University Smallpox and Small Places: James Kilpatrick's Negotiations of Medical Knowledge Cultures in the British Atlantic
27 January:	Dael Norwood, Princeton University Sovereignty, Slavery, and Commerce: The China Trade in Early American Politics
10 February:	Kara Clevinger, Temple University “Keeping a comfortable house”: Moral Treatment for the Insane in the 1840s
24 February:	Jack Dwiggins, University of Pennsylvania “A very viper to the breast by which it is suckled”: West Point and the Fate of American Democracy, 1815-1860
17 March:	Katherine Grandjean, Wellesley College Riding Colonial History: Horse Travel and the Coming of King Philip's War
31 March:	Susan Llewellyn, George Mason University Competing for Power: An Examination of Motivations behind Changes in Women's Property Rights in Colonial Virginia
14 April:	Sarah Blackwood, Pace University Hepzibah's Scowl: In the Portrait Gallery of American Literature
28 April:	Angela Keysor, University of Iowa Down But Not Out: Examining Poverty in a Time of Scarcity, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1730-1820

MCEAS Home