2007-2008: Seminars, Conferences, Special Events
 
Event, Location and Date
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SEPTEMBER 2007
   
Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 5:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
http://www.mceas.org/atlantic/
   
Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 6:15 PM
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Lecture
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   

Monday, September 24, 2007 - 5:30-7:00 PM
A Nation Of Counterfeiters
: Dr. Stephen Mihm
Launches New Book at the Library Company

http://www.librarycompany.org/events/index.htm
   

September 27-29, 2007
MCEAS Graduate Student Conference: "Conflict and
Community in Early America and the Atlantic World"

http://www.mceas.org/gradconference07/
   
September 27-29, 2007
North American Print Conference: Impressions of
Philadelphia, 1683-1960
(Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.philaprintshop.com/napc2007.html
   
Friday, September 28, 2007, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
   
OCTOBER 2007
   
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 6:00 PM
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Open Forum
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   
Friday, October 5, 2007, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 12:00 PM
Penn History Department, Early Modern Studies Group Brown Bag
Peter Stallybrass, "K is for King: Charles I and Charles II in Colonial and Revolutionary America" (History Lounge, College Hall 209 )
http://www.history.upenn.edu/events.html
   
October 11-12, 2007
Program in Early American Economy & Society Conference:
"The Panic of 1837: Getting By and Going Under in a Decade
of Crisis" (Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.librarycompany.org/Economics/2007Conference/index.htm
   
October 11-14, 2007
American Studies Association Annual Meeting
(Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.theasa.net/
   
Saturday, October 13, 2007
New Sweden History Conference: Carl Linnaeus, Pehr Kalm & the Early Scientific Community (Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.colonialswedes.org/Headlines/7thAnnNewSwHisCon.html
   
October 16-18, 2008
PHA Annual Meeting (Bethlehem, PA)
http://www.pa-history.org/meetings.htm
   
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 3:00 PM
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Events
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   
Wednesday, October 18, 2007, 12:00 PM
Penn History Department, Annenberg Distinguished Lecture Series: Marcus Rediker
"The Floating Dungeon: A History of the Slave Ship"
http://www.history.upenn.edu/annenberg/annenberg_2007dss.html
   
Wednesday, October 18, 2007, 5:00 PM
18th Century Group: Suvir Kaul, Univ. of Pennsylvania
"Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature"
http://www.english.upenn.edu/
   
Friday, October 19, 2007, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
Monday, October 22, 2007, 5:00 PM
18th Century Group: Mark Lussier, Arizona State University,
"Workshop of Recent Scholarship"
http://www.english.upenn.edu/
   
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 5:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
http://www.mceas.org/atlantic/
   
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 5:30 PM

Philadelphia: A 300-Year History 25th Anniversary
Celebration at HSP

Lecture by Dr. Gary Nash, UCLA,
"This Much Done, So Much Still to Do: Philadelphia
Historical Scholarship in the 21st Century"
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 6:00 PM
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Event
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   
October 25-28, 2007
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~neasecs07/
   
Friday, October 26, 2007, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
October 31-November 3, 2007
The Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
(Richmond, VA)
http://www.uga.edu/~sha/
   
   
NOVEMBER 2007
   
Friday, November 2, 2007, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 10:00 AM
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Event
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 7:00 PM
Dr, Ira Rutkow Lecture: "Gilded Age Medicine and the Death of President James Garfield" (John Perzel Education Technology Center, Holy Family University,
9801 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia)
mcjohansen@holyfamily.edu
   
Saturday, November 7, 2007, 6:00 PM
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Event
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   
November 7-10, 2007
The American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting
(Tulsa, OK)
http://ethnohistory.org/
   

November 8-11, 2007
East-Central American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (Galloway, NJ)

http://loki.stockton.edu/~ecasecs/
   
November 9-10, 2007
American Antiquarian Society Conference: Fields of Vision: The Material and Visual Culture of New England, 1600-1830
(Worcester, MA)
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/fieldsofvision.htm
   
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Saturday, November 14, 2007, 6:00 PM
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Event
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=10
   
Friday, November 16, 2007, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
Friday, November 16, 2007, 3:30 PM
"Cassatt at the Louvre: Depictions of Women in the Gallery during the Museum's Golden Age, 1870-1900"
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building Media Room,
enter at corner of Fairmount and Pennsylvania Avenues
   
Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 5:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
http://www.mceas.org/atlantic/
   
Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Friday, November 30, 2007, 3:00 PM
Joint MCEAS/PEAES Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
   
DECEMBER 2007
   
Friday, December 7, 2007, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/
   
Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
December 27-30, 2007
MLA Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL)
http://www.mla.org/convention
   
   
JANUARY 2008
   
January 3-5, 2008
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
37th Annual Conference
(St. Hugh's College, Oxford)
http://www.bsecs.org.uk/conference08/conferenceDetail.stm
   
January 3-6, 2008
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
(Washington, DC)
http://www.historians.org/
   
Friday, January 18, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
Tuesday, January 23, 2008, 5:00 PM
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
http://www.mceas.org/atlantic/
   
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Friday, January 25, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
FEBRUARY 2008    
   
Friday, February 1, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
February 14-17, 2008
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference: "The German Atlantic World in
the 18th Century" (Auburn University)
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/societies/seasecs/
   
Friday, February 15, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 5:00 PM
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
http://www.mceas.org/atlantic/
   
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Friday, February 22, 2008
Philadelphia Regional Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine:
"How Does a Risk Society Evolve? Controlling Fire in Early America"
http://www.pachs.net/
   
February 22-23, 2008
The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
(Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~dnm/feegi/conference2008.htm
   
Friday, February 29, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
MARCH 2008
   
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Friday, March 7, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
March 27-30, 2008
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Annual Meeting (Portland, OR )
http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/
   
Friday, March 7, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
Tuesday, March 13, 2008, 5:00 PM
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
http://www.mceas.org/atlantic/
   
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Friday, March 28, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
March 28-31, 2008
OAH Annual Meeting (New York, NY )
http://www.oah.org/meetings/index.html
   
University of Delaware Graduate Student Conference http://www.udel.edu/History/  
   
   
APRIL 2008
   
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Friday, April 4, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
April 10-12, 2008
Atlantic Emancipations Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.mceas.org/emancipations/
   
April 10-13, 2008
OIEAHC Conference: Religion and Violence
in Early America (Yale University, New Haven, CT )
http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/index.html
   
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 5:00 PM
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
http://www.mceas.org/atlantic/
   
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 5:30 PM
Program in Early American Economy and Society Evening Celebration and launch of a new book in the PEAES series by Ann Smart Martin, entitled "Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia" (2008)
http://www.librarycompany.org/economics/index.htm
   
Friday, April 25, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
   
April 25-26, 2008
University of Delaware symposium: Objects in Motion: Art & Material Culture Across Colonial North America
http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/objectsinmotion.html
   
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 12:30 PM
MCEAS Brown-Bag Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/brownbag.htm
   
   
MAY 2008
     
Friday, May 2, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
     
Friday, May 9, 2008, 3:00 PM
MCEAS Seminar
http://www.mceas.org/seminars/sched-s2008.htm
May 22-23, 2008
William and Mary Quarterly
-EMSI Workshop: "Writing Early
American History" (Huntington Library, CA )
http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/index.html
     
     
JUNE 2008
     
June 6-8, 2008
OIEAHC Fourteenth Annual Institute Conference
(Boston, MA )
http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/index.html
     
June 9-13, 2008
NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture
Workshop for Community College:
Revolution to
Republic: Philadelphia'a Place in the Early Republic
(Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.shear.org/nehlandmarks/
     
June 16-20, 2008
NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture
Workshop for Community College:
Revolution to
Republic: Philadelphia'a Place in the Early Republic
(Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.shear.org/nehlandmarks/
     
JULY 2008
   

 
July 17-20, 2008
SHEAR Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA)
http://history.chass.ncsu.edu/shearnext.htm
   

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