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Chair: Monique Allewaert, Duke University (English)Melissa Andrews, Florida State University (American Dance Studies)
“Step in Time: Revisioning Social Dance and Military Drill in the Revolutionary War”Wendy Warren, Yale University (History)
“The Cause of Her Grief: Writing the Lives of African Slaves in 17th Century New England”Nancy Zey, University of Texas at Austin (History)
“Of Age: Using Microhistory to Explore concepts of Childhood and the Experiences of Children in the Early American Republic
Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania (History) and Director, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Chair: Cyrus Mulready, University of Pennsylvania (English)Caroline Frank, Brown University (American Civilization)
“There is No China in Colonial America: Porcelain Pot Shards, Ideology, and the History of America’s East-West Relations”Anthony Galluzzo, University of California at Los Angeles (English)
“Revolutionary Republic of Letters: Anglo-American Radical Literature in the 1790s”Joseph P. Rezek, University of California at Los Angeles (English)
“The Waverly Novels and the Interdisciplinarity of America in the 1820s”
Chair: Aaron Wunsch, University of California at Berkeley (Architectural History)Joanna Frang, Brandeis University (History)
“New York City’s First Mechanics Hall: Reconstructing an Archival and Architectural Ghost”Kyle B. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania (History)
“Creating an Evangelical Space: The John Street Chapels and the Development of Methodist Identity, 1768-1858”Jessica Roney, Johns Hopkins University (History)
“A Complicated Dance: The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly and Urban Social Networks in Philadelphia, 1748”
Chair: Jennifer Schaaf, University of Pennsylvania (History)William Carter, Princeton University (History)
“Misreadings of Marcel Mauss’s The Gift: Gifts and Reciprocity in the Interactions of Indians and Colonists in Early America”Andrew Lipman, University of Pennsylvania (History)
“Heads Changing Hands: The Exchange of Trophies in the Pequot War and Kieft’s War”Jessica Stern Spivey, Johns Hopkins University (History)
“Biography of a Deerskin”
Joyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University (History)
“Scientific American: Reinterpreting Benjamin Franklin”Those attending should read Prof. Chaplin's precirculated paper in advance)
For access to an on-line copy, contact Zelini Hubbard at the McNeil Center
Chair: Sarah Rivett, Washington University in St. Louis (English)Laura Keenan, University of Pennsylvania (History)
“From John Dickinson’s Scrap Heap: Reconstructing Rachel”Joshua Ratner, University of Pennsylvania (English)
“Neal’s ‘Unpublished Preface,’ ‘Otterbag,’ and the Fiction/History of Prejudice”Brian J. Rouleau, University of Pennsylvania (History)
“Mass Produced Memory: The Reminiscences of an American Sailor”
Chair: Justine S. Murison, University of Pennsylvania (English)Richard J. Bell, Harvard University (History)
“Locating an Early American Suicide Rate”Katy L. Chiles, Northwestern University (English)
“These white people was (sic): Reading and Quoting the Native American Archive”Robert Hiliker, Brown University (Comparative Literature)
“Treating Others as Interlocutors: Marie de l’Incarnation’s Mission in America and the Interpretive Act”
Chair: Matt Osborn, University of California at Davis (History)Lana Finley, University of California at Los Angeles (English)
“‘The Stars Incline, But Do Not Compel’: Early American Astrology and the Problem of Evidence”Matthew H. Fisk, University of California at Davis (Art History and Theory)
“Peale’s Mammoth was Peale’s Business: Charles Wilson Peale’s Mammoth Skeleton as Aesthetic Enterprise”
Samuel Otter, University of California at Berkeley (English)
“Three Stories about Evidence (involving a Trip to Barnum’s Museum, an Encounter between Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville, and a Remarkable Literary Supper in Philadelphia)”