MCEAS Biennial Graduate Student Conference:
Conflict & Community in Early America
Thursday, September 27, 2007
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk
4:30-5:15
Coffee and Refreshments
Welcome and Introductory Comments
5:15-5:30
Daniel K. Richter, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, Richard S. Dunn Director, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Session 1: Race and Reform
5:30-7:00
Chair: Simon Finger, Princeton University
Papers: Natalie Joy, University of California, Los Angeles
“‘An Indelible Stigma: Opposition to Indian Removal in the Early Republic, 1829-1838”
Julie Holcomb, University of Texas, Arlington
“Conflict and Community in the Trans-Atlantic Free Produce Movement”
Elizabeth J. Thompson, University of Tulsa
“From Princess to Schoolgirl: American Indian Girls and Anglo Depictions of their Conversions”
Friday, September 28, 2007
Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Sreet
8:30-9:15 Coffee and Bagels
Session 2: Inventing Community
9:15-10:45
Chair: William Huntting Howell, MCEAS
Papers: Jonathan DeCoster, Brandeis
“‘To Kill the Whelp Ere Its Teeth and Claws Became Stronger’: Abenaki Usage of the Memory of the 1607 English Colony, Sagadahoc”
Megan Hughes, Purdue University
“Executing Indianness: Deliberation and Conflict Mediation in English and Indian Identities in the 1640s”
Lawrence B. A. Hatter, University of Virginia
“‘Shopkeeper Aristocracy’: The Indian Trade and Community in the Northern Borderland, 1780-1800”
Session 3: Constructing Race
11:00-12:30
Chair: Yvonne Fabella, SUNY Stony Brook
Papers: Marcela Echeverri, New York University
“‘Enraged to the Limit of Despair’: Judicial Contexts, Infanticide, and Slave Community in Barbacoas, 1788-1798”
Hugh Cagle, Rutgers University
“Body of Labor: How Antonio Vieira Made Race in Seventeenth-Century Brazil”
Michelle Granshaw, University of Maryland
“‘General Creole’: Alexander Hamilton and the ‘Stage Creole’ in the Political Plays of the Early American Republic”
12:30-2:00 Lunch (on own)
Session 4:
Bodies of Knowledge
2:00-3:30
Chair: Katherine Paugh, University of Pennsylvania
Papers: Kelly Wisecup, University of Maryland
“‘The Communication Commonly Call’d, Inoculation of the Small-Pox’: Print, Medicine, and the Politics of Scientific Knowledge in the Boston Inoculation Controversy”
Kathryn A. Ostrofsky, University of Pennsylvania
“‘All Things Righted’: Race and the Haitian Revolution During Philadelphia’s 1793
Yellow Fever Epidemic”
Eric Otremba, University of Minnesota
“Representations of Sugar Production in the Atlantic World”
MCEAS Seminar
4-6 pm
Elizabeth Dillon, Department of English, Northeastern University
“‘Lost, Stolen or Strayed’: Performing Order and Disorder in the Atlantic Colonial World”
Professor Dillon’s paper will be pre-circulated to conference registrants and should be read by all who attend.
Reception
6-7 pm
Saturday, September 29, 2007
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk
8:30-9:15
Coffee and Bagels
Session 5: Atlantic Trade Networks
9:15-10:45
Chair: Charles R. Foy, Eastern Illinois University
Papers: Adam Mendelsohn, Brandeis University
“Tongue Ties: The Transformation of the Jewish Diaspora in the Atlantic World, 1800-1850”
Michelle M. Mormul, University of Delaware
“Ethnicity and Commerce: Philadelphia’s German Linen Merchant Community during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”
Caitlin A. Fitz, Yale University
“U.S. Merchants and Brazilian Independence”
Session 6: Embattled Borderlands
11:00-12:30
Chair: Alison Olson, University of Maryland
Papers: Patrick Spero, University of Pennsylvania
“Crafting Opportunity out of Conflict: The Conojocular War, 1732-1736”
Elizabeth Hornor, SUNY Stony Brook
“‘The Distraction of the Poor Women:’ Empire and Community at Fort Cumberland during the summer of 1755”
Michael Bradley McCoy, University of Pittsburgh/SUNY Orange
“Monsters and Money-Making Machines: Civilization, Barbarism, and the Transition to Capitalism in the Pennsylvania Borderlands, 1750-1800”
12:30-2:00 Lunch (on own)
Session 7: Consuming Communities
2:00-3:30
Chair: Robb Haberman, University of Connecticut
Papers: Joshua Calhoun, University of Delaware
“Biography and the Sociology of Fibers: Rags, Paper, and Reading in Early America”
Sandy Perot, University of Massachusetts
“‘Till God awoke Thee’: The Commodification of Death and Community Building in Eighteenth-Century Rural New England”
Samantha Dorsey, University of Delaware
“What May then the Reason Be”
Keynote Speaker
4:00-6:00 pm
Karen Kupperman, Silver Professor, Department of History, New York University “Achieving Community in Early English Colonization”
6:00-7:00 pm
Reception
All panels are free and open to the public. For more information or to register, call MCEAS at 215-898-9251.
Conference mail can be directed to MCEAS Conflict and Community in Early America Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531. For more information or to register, visit the conference website at: www.mceas.org/gradconference07/
3355 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531
215-898-9251
http://www.mceas.org/gradconference07
