Sessions convene with refreshments at 5:15 p.m.

An informal talk and discussion begins at 5:45, followed by a complementary buffet supper.

Schedule for Summer 2009

18 June:	Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School Richard Beeman, University of Pennsylvania David Waldstreicher, Temple University Slavery and the U.S. Constitution: New Interpretations A discussion of Richard Beeman, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution and David Waldstreicher, Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
25 June:	Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah The Land Beneath Their Feet: Understanding Indian Property Transfers in Early American History
9 July:	Elizabeth Milroy, Wesleyan University Nurseries of National Virtue: Planting the Federalist Landscape
23 July:	Patricia Crain, New York University "The Children in the Wood" in America: Literacy, Orality, Canonicity
6 August:	Colin Calloway, Dartmouth College “A School in the Heart of the Indian Country”: Native Americans and Dartmouth's Creation Story
20 August:	Wayne Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Rebels or Barbarians?: Alliance, Subjecthood, and Violence in Ireland and North America

All sessions will be held at 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets) on the University of Pennsylvania campus
(map 1 | map 2 | building view).

Supper reservations are appreciated. Phone 215-898-9251 or e-mail mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu by noon on Tuesday.

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