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Where is Early America? | 1-3 May 2025

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies is pleased to announce a state of the field conference, to be held in May of 2025.

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Upcoming Events



Opera, Pantomime, and Circus in late 18th-century Montréal

Brown Bag Session
Elizabeth Rouget, Princeton University
Oct 23, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Elizabeth Rouget is a PhD candidate at Princeton University completing her dissertation titled “Dance as Translation: Establishing French Opéra-Comique, Ballet, and Circus in Early North America, 1780-1810.” Following…



Telling Time and Tracing Trade: Locating Indigenous and European Exchange Networks in 16th Century Ontario

Friday Seminar
Megan Anne Conger, University of Georgia
Oct 25, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

Megan Anne Conger is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia in 2022. An archaeologist by training, Megan’s…



The Problems of Slavery in an Age of History Wars: Looking back at 2019/1619

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures
David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York
Nov 4, 2024 at - | Penn Carey Law
3501 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will inaugurate the new Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures series November 4-7 on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus.…

About the McNeil Center

Established as the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies in 1978, and renamed in honor of its benefactor Robert L. McNeil, Jr., in 1998, the McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850, with a particular but by no means exclusive emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region.

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