Spring 2008 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 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 abaxter@sas.upenn.edu or phone 215-898-9251.

January | February | March | April | May

18 January:	Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University Inheritable Blood *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
25 January:	Heather Miyano Kopelson, University of Iowa and 2006-2007 MCEAS Carpenter Dissertation Fellow Performing Faith: Religious Practice and Identity in the Puritan Atlantic, 1660-1720 *The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street*
1 February:	Jill Lepore, Harvard University The Sword of Rebellion: Revisiting the Revolution *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
15 February:	Simon Finger, Princeton University and MCEAS Consortium Fellow “A Flag of Defyance at the Masthead”: Delaware River Pilots and the Hidden Sinews of Philadelphia’s Atlantic World *Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia, 15 South 7th Street*
29 February:	Joanne Van der Woude, Columbia University and 2006-2007 MCEAS Barra Dissertation Fellow “Greater Hope of Great Heartbreakings”: The Aesthetics of Colonial Adaptation in Puritan and Algonquian Conversion Narratives *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
7 March:	*Anti-Popery and Anti-Anti-Popery in Antebellum Philadelphia* Michael S. Carter, University of Dayton and 2005-2006 Friends of the MCEAS Fellow *“Traiterous subjects, ill Neighbours, and worse Sovereigns”: Indulgences and the Logic of Anti-Catholicism in Early America* *and* Jennifer E. Schaaf, Penn State Abington, and 2006-2007 MCEAS Hamer Dissertation Fellow “Philadelphia Contains the Ashes of Our Fathers”: Gender and the Catholic Campaign for Respectability in the Aftermath of the Nativist Riots of 1844 *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
28 March:	Elaine Foreman Crane, Fordham University A Ghost Story; Or How an Apparition Entered National Politics *In conjunction with the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting* *McMahon Lounge, Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham University, 60th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, New York, N.Y.*
4 April:	Jeffrey Kaja, University of Michigan and PEAES Resident Dissertation Fellow “Shewing the Course”: Producing Knowledge of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800 *Joint Seminar with the Program in Early American Economy and Society* *The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street*
10-12 April:	Atlantic Emancipations Conference
25 April:	David Armitage, Harvard University Locke's Americana *Joint session with the Washington Area Early American History Seminar, sponsored by the Department of History, Johns Hopkins University* *Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore*
2 May:	Noah L. Gelfand, New York University and 2006-2007 MCEAS Quinn Dissertation Fellow A People Within and Without: International Jewish Commerce in the Early Modern Atlantic World *Weigley Room, 9th Floor, Gladfelter Hall, Temple University*
9 May:	Geoffrey Plank, University of Cincinnati and MCEAS Barra Postdoctoral Fellow Sailing with John Woolman *Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia* *The Center's annual end-of-the-year picnic and celebration will follow in the garden of the A.P.S , 104 S. Fifth Street, Philadelphia RSVP to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu*

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