Fall 2009 Friday Seminar Schedule

The McNeil Center invites graduate students, faculty members, independent scholars, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to its Friday afternoon seminar series. Meetings are held at various locations and usually convene at 3:00 pm on Friday afternoons. 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 mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu or phone 215-898-9251.

September | October | November | December


11 September:	Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina The Gulf Coast and the Coming of the American Revolution
	*Opening MCEAS Friday Seminar session, followed by a welcome-back picnic* *R.S.V.P. to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu or 215-898-9251* *The David Library of the American Revolution* *1201 River Road,, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania*
18 September:	Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden Neither Infinite Wretchedness Nor Positive Good: Mathew Carey and Henry Clay on Political Economy and Slavery During the Long 1820s
	*Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
25 September *4:00-6:00 p.m.:*	Bryan Waterman, New York University Coquetry and Correspondence in Revolutionary-Era Connecticut: Elizabeth Whitman's Letters to Joel Barlow
	*In conjunction with the McNeil Center's 2009 Graduate Student Conference:* *Fear and Desire: Early America and its Discontents* *Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Early American Literature and Material Texts Initiative* *4:00 p.m, Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia*
2 October:	Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University The Odd Couple: The Unlikely Partnership of Madison and Jefferson
	*The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia*
9 October:	Nan Goodman, University of Colorado “To Look Your Bloody Laws in the Face”: The Banishment of the Quakers in Early New England
	*Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
16 October:	Jessica Choppin Roney, Ohio University A Borrower and a Lender Be: Philadelphia's Voluntary Associations and the Evolution of Commercial Credit, 1750-1775
	*The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street*
6 November:	Eleanor McConnell, Library of Congress The Persistence of Scarcity: Controlling Property and Economic Opportunity in New Jersey, 1780-1820
	*Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
13 November:	Brian Phillips Murphy, Baruch College and 2007-2008 Monticello-McNeil Dissertation Fellow A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Erie
	*The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street*
4 December:	Sarah Dennis, University of Illinois and 2007-2008 MCEAS Barra Foundation Fellow "The Standard of Taste": Disseminating Aesthetics in the Early Republic
	*Auditorium, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118 N. Broad Street* *(Guided tour of the main galleries offered at 2:00 pm)*
11 December:	Kenneth Cohen, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and 2007-2008 MCEAS Consortium Fellow “The Entreaties and Perswasions of Our Friends”: Gambling on Sports and Politics in Early America
	*Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*