Friday Seminars

The Center Seminar

The McNeil Center sponsors a seminar that meets on Friday afternoons approximately twice a month between September and May, with the paper for each session circulated in advance. Over two hundred people attend at least once a year, with an average attendance of 40 to 50 at meetings held at various sites in the Delaware Valley. While most of the regular attendees are graduate students and faculty from institutions in the Philadelphia area, participants come from as far afield as Long Island, New York City, Princeton, Baltimore, Annapolis, and Washington. Seminars convene at 3:00 PM (exceptions are noted on the schedule), and a social hour follows at 5:00 PM. Requests to receive access to seminar papers on-line should be sent to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu.

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Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule

13 January:	Marcy Norton, George Washington University Predation, Adoption, and Transformation: Humans and Animals in South America and Mesoamerica Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania
20 January:	Alejandra Dubcovsky, Yale University Maps, Sacra, and Entradas: Communication Networks in Southeastern North America from Cahokia to De Soto The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street
3 February:	Christopher M. Parsons, McNeil Center Barra Postdoctoral Fellow Botany in the Borderlands: The Circulation of Ecological Knowledge in the pays d'en haut Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania
17 February:	Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California and 2009-2010 McNeil Center Society of the Cincinnati Fellow Seaman, Privateering and the Fall of Atlantic Maritime Cosmopolitanism Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania
24 February:	Joseph Adelman, Library Company PEAES Postdoctoral Fellow "Extracts from Some Rebel Papers": Patriots, Loyalists, and the Perils of Wartime Printing The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street
2 March:	Christopher Brown, Columbia University The English in Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade 132 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles, Baltimore, MD 21218 Link for DRIVING DIRECTIONS http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/visitor_information/how_to_get_here/homewood_campus/index.cfm For GUEST PARKING: Best bets are San Martin Garage or South Garage. Both are convenient to Gilman Hall. Link for Parking MAP: http://www.parking.jhu.edu/images/JHU_Homewood_Parking_Map_070828_1.pdf
16 March:	Michael Goode, University of Illinois, Chicago, and 2010-2011 Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow Filthy Lucre: Indians, Alcohol, and Symbolic Violence in Early Quaker Pennsylvania The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia
23 March:	Nic Wood, University of Virginia and Monticello-McNeil and Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow Barbary Slavery, American Freedom: Race, National Power, and Natural Rights in the New Nation Rutgers University, Camden, (Room T.B.A.)
30 March:	Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California Secota: The Landscape of the End of History Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania
20 April:	Carrie Hyde, UCLA and 2009-2010 McNeil Center Consortium Dissertation Fellow Speculative Evidence: Denmark Vesey and the Historical Subjunctive Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania
27 April:	Nicole Ivy, Yale University and 2010-2011 McNeil Center Richard S. Dunn Dissertation Fellow "Do You Call that Thing a Doctor?" J. Marion Sims and the First Anarcha Weigley Room, 9th Floor, Gladfelter Hall, Temple University
11 May:	Laura Keenan Spero, Williams College and 2008-2009 McNeil Hamer Dissertation Fellow "The Obscure Problem of Their History": The Shawnee Diaspora in Early America The Center's annual end-of-the-year picnic and celebration will follow, weather permitting, in the courtyard of the American Revolution Center, 101 S. Third Street, Philadelphia. RSVP to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu The American Revolution Center, 101 S. Third Street (3rd and Chestnut), Philadelphia