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

An informal talk and discussion begins at 5:45, followed by a complementary buffet supper at 7:15.

Schedule for Summer 2010

10 June: Andrew R.L. Cayton, Miami University of Ohio
“The Most Important of All Revolutions”: Sociability and the Cultural Crisis of the 1790s
14 June
(Monday):
Cassandra Good, University of Pennsylvania 
C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College 
John M. Murrin, Princeton University 
Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University 
Revolutionary Backlash: A Roundtable
1 July: Barbara Oberg, Princeton University
“What is it to be a Member of this Nation?”: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Defining Citizenship
15 July: Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers University
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Early American Literature and Material Texts Inititative
29 July:  Judith Ridner, Muhlenberg College
John Smolenski, University of California, Davis
Friends and Strangers In-Between: New Studies of Early Pennsylvania
Book Signing to Follow
12 August: Sue Peabody, Washington State University
Madeleine of Chandernagor: Race, Slavery, Women and Children under French Law


All sessions will be held at 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets) on the University of Pennsylvania campus

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


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