MCEAS Fall 2001 Seminar Schedule

Revised Fall 2001 Seminar Schedule

MCEAS invites graduate students, faculty members, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to its Friday afternoon seminar series for Fall 2001. Meetings are held at various locations, and, unless otherwise noted below, convene at 3:00 pm. A social hour follows at 5:00 pm. Papers are circulated in advance and should be read by those planning to attend. To obtain copies via listserv, or for more information, e-mail abaxter@sas.upenn.edu or phone 215-898-9251.

7 September:	C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College “Isabella Segunda's Revenge: Courtship and Conflict in an Antebellum Circle of Friends” (4:00-6:00 p.m., Fort Mifflin on the Delaware, Fort Mifflin Road, Philadelphia)
21 September:	Martin Brueckner, University of Delaware “The Continent Speaks: Geography, Oratory, and the Figuration of Identity in Revolutionary America” (4:00-6:00 p.m., Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street) Keynote for "Spaces and Places in Early America" Conference
5 October:	Colleen Terrell, University of Pennsylvania and 2000-2001 MCEAS Barra Dissertation Fellow “‘Republican Machines’: Franklin, Rush, and the Manufacture of Civic Virtue" (American Philosophical Society Library, 105 S. 5th Street)
19 October:	New World Orders Conference (no seminar)
2 November:	Kathleen DuVal, MCEAS Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow “‘A Good Relationship, & Commerce’: The Native Political Economy of the Arkansas River Valley” (Presidential Lounge, Campion Center, St. Joseph's University)
16 November:	Hester Blum, University of Pennsylvania and MCEAS Hamer Dissertation Fellow “Pirated Tars, Piratical Texts” (MCEAS, 3619 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania) *(Mary Beth Norton's paper has been rescheduled for 8 February 2002)*
30 November:	Seth Rockman, Occidental College and PEAES Postdoctoral Fellow “Unskilled Labor in Uncertain Times: The Experiences of Wage Work in the Early Republic” (Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street) Joint seminar with the Program in Early American Economy and Society
14 December:	Peter Silver, Princeton University "Seven Types of Murder in the Mid-Atlantic Countryside, 17281764" (MCEAS, 3619 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania)

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