| Friday, June 8 (Sessions: 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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| 8:00–9:15 a.m. | Society of Early Americanists, Women’s Caucus Breakfast, The Williamsburg Hospitality House, Empire Room C. All are welcome, but advance registration and payment are required. For details, see Special Events. You may reserve a place and arrange payment by using the Conference Registration Form in the printed brochure or online at http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/Annual/index.cfm |
| 8:30 | Registration opens * Lobby, Level 2, University Center |
| 9:00 | Book exhibits open * Chesapeake A, Level 3 |
| 9:30–11:00 | |
* Session 20 * An Anthropological Perspective on the Culture of Slavery in Early America Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Kevin Kelly, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Working Out Their Differences in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Julia A. King, St. Mary’s College of Maryland “Shelter in a time of storm”: Interpreting Early African American Home Grounds Jason Boroughs, College of William and Mary An Interdisciplinary Look at the Community Life of South Carolina Lowcountry Slaves Amy C. Kowal, Florida State University Comment: Kevin Kelly |
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* Session 21 * Spatial Reckoning Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Susan M. Stabile, Texas A&M University Charlotte Temple’s Grave: Sentimental Novels and Geographies of Mourning Lauren Coats, Duke University Keeping Watch over Boston: Race, Anxiety, and the Rise of a Colonial City Kathryn Koo, St. Mary’s College of California From Jumping Jack to Jump Jim Crow: Lessons from a French Pantin Barbara Burlison Mooney, University of Iowa Comment: Susan M. Stabile |
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| Top | * Session 22 * Fears and Transformations in Early America Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: John Demos, Yale University The Gunpowder Plot as Colonial Touchstone Cynthia J. Van Zandt, University of New Hampshire From Jamestown to Fort Mystic: Victimhood and English Masculinity Michael Householder, Southern Methodist University Bodily Pain and Mourning in Cotton Mather’s Representations of War Kathleen Kennedy, Western Washington University Apprehending Slave Conspiracies: Credulity and Incredulity during Anticipated Insurrection Jason Sharples, Princeton University Comment: John Demos |
* Session 23 * Natural Philosophy and the Early American Novel James Room, Level 2 Chair: William Huntting Howell, McNeil Center for Early American Studies The Anatomy of Charlotte Temple Maureen Tuthill, University of Connecticut “Suspicion was impossible”: Lavater, Brown, and the Irresistible Face Peter Jaros, Northwestern University Picturing the Nature of Cooper’s The Pioneers Yvette Piggush, University of Chicago Comment: Justine Murison, University of Illinois |
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| Top | * Session 24 * Signatures and the Self: Material Marks of Identity York Room, Level 2 Chair: Amy Qualls, University of Arkansas, Batesville Indians, Images, and Identity: The Massachusetts Bay Colony Seal Cathy Rex, Auburn University The Forgeries in Arthur Mervyn and Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and the “Customary Sophistries” of the Early United States Derrick Spradlin, Freed-Hardeman University Tribes, Bands, and Nations: Reading Anishinaabe Pictographs and Rethinking Political Categories in Colonial North America Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto Comment: Amy Qualls |
* Session 25 * “Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience”: Editing and Researching Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana, ca. 1693–1728 Tidewater A, Level 3 Chair: Reiner Smolinski, Georgia State University Robert E. Brown, College of Wooster Michael P. Clark, University of California, Irvine Lisa M. Gordis, Barnard College Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University Harry Clark Maddux, Tennessee State University Kenneth P. Minkema, Yale University Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 26 * Moving People, Making Peoples: Coerced Migration in Early America Tidewater B, Level 3 Chair: Alison Games, Georgetown University Herding Seamen: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Denver Brunsman, Wayne State University Ethnic Cleansing with a Touch of Class: Reordering the Wartime Borderlands in Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia and Twentieth-Century Arizona Christopher Hodson, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Coerced Migration and the Making of New Orleans Adam Rothman, Georgetown University Rocks and Hard Places: Choice and Indian Removal in the Great Lakes John Bowes, Eastern Kentucky University Migration and Identity in the English Black Atlantic, ca. 1750–1820 James Sidbury, University of Texas, Austin Refuge during Revolutions Ashli White, University of Miami Comment: The Audience |
*NEH Information Session and Grants Workshop * Colony Room, Level 2 Douglas M. Arnold, Senior Program Officer, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities For details, see Special Events. |
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| 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | |
| Top | * Session 27 * Stage and Page in Early United States Culture Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Edward Larkin, University of Delaware Obscuring Class: She Would Be a Soldier and the Work of Mordecai Noah Ross J. Pudaloff, Wayne State University The First British Music Invasion: Europeanization in the Music of American Theaters, 1790–1825 Peter Leavenworth, University of New Hampshire Yeoman Stage History: Dunlap’s André and Popular Performance Peter Reed, Florida State University Comment: Jeffrey H. Richards, Old Dominion University |
* Session 28 * Technologies of Exchange in the Early Americas Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Jennifer J. Baker, New York University Distributing Risk and Exchanging Value in Brockden Brown’s America Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University Ciphering the World of Trade: Training a Generation of Early American Merchants Jane T. Merritt, Old Dominion University Thomas Lechford’s Plain Dealing: Transatlantic Letter Writing and Reformation Print Culture in the English Atlantic Jeffrey Glover, Yale University Intermediaries and Identity in Early American Consumer Networks Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, San José State University Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 29 * Death in History and Literature Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: Erik R. Seeman, State University of New York, Buffalo Tokenography: Narration, Theology, and the Science of Dying in Puritan Deathbed Testimonies Sarah Rivett, Washington University “Not Too Little to Dye, Not Too Little to Go to Hell”: Janeway’s Token for Children and Literatures of Death Julie Sievers, University of Texas, Austin Love and Death in Transatlantic Methodism Anna M. Lawrence, Florida Atlantic University Comment: Erik R. Seeman |
* Session 30 * Indians, Missionaries, Christianity, Contact James Room, Level 2 Chair: Hilary E. Wyss, Auburn University From Stockbridge to Brotherton: Jonathan Edwards, Samson Occom, and Religious Transculturation in Early America John Kucich, Bridgewater State College Lamb, Lamm, Tegauwontowit: Spiritual Correspondence and Translation in David Zeisberger’s Delaware-English Spelling Book and Grammar Patrick Erben, University of West Georgia Methodism, Reform, and the Wilderness: William Apess’s Native American Conversion Narratives Harry Brown, DePauw University Comment: Dan Mandell, Truman State University |
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| Top | * Session 31 * Transnational Pressures, Expedient Moves York Room, Level 2 Chair: Amy Turner Bushnell, John Carter Brown Library Shared Strategies, Common Tragedies: Mortgaging Slaves in Spanish Louisiana and British Virginia Bonnie Martin, Southern Methodist University Spanish Ambitions and the Revolution in the West Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Food and Fandangos: Culture, Gender, and Nationalism in the Texas Borderlands Carla Gerona, University of Texas, Dallas Comment: Amy Turner Bushnel |
* Session 32 * Object Lessons in Early America Tidewater A, Level 3 Chair: Kevin D. Murphy, Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Brooklyn College Pots and Pans Politics? Susan Kern, College of William and Mary Quilt by Association: Gender, Political Discourse, and Homespun Rhetoric in Prerevolutionary Chester County, Pennsylvania Patricia J. Keller, University of Delaware Testifying Spaces Bernard L. Herman, University of Delaware Comment: David Jaffee, City College of New York and Graduate Center of the City University of New York |
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| Top | * Session 33 * Representing War in Early America Tidewater B, Level 3 Chair: Martin Brückner, University of Delaware Objective Wounds: Rhetorics of Representation in Early New England Narratives Raymond Craig, Kent State University Representations of Violence in the Writings of Continental Army Officers during the “Iroquois Campaign” of 1779 Philip Mead, Harvard University Crévecoeur and the War in Wyoming Edward White, University of Florida Broadsides on Land and Sea: Naval Battles as Contested Symbols of American Nationality Dan Hicks, Pennsylvania State University Comment: The Audience |
| 12:45–2:00 | Lunch break * If you wish to have lunch in the University Center Dining Hall on Level 2, you must sign up and pay for a meal ticket in advance. The Dining Hall is not set up to accept cash from conference groups. Use the Conference Registration Form in the printed brochure or online to reserve a meal ticket. You will find a list of other places to dine in your conference packet. |
| 2:15–3:45 | Session 34 * Interdisciplinary Approaches to Malick’s The New World Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson University Seeing The New World through the Eyes of Terrence Malick Robert Arnett, Old Dominion University Translating the Go-between: Pocahontas and Henry Spelman in the Atlantic World Michael LaCombe, Adelphi University Voices Off: Text, Language and Authority in The New World Amy Monaghan, Clemson University Comment: Arthur Knight, College of William and Mary |
| Top | * Session 35 * Indigenous Literacies Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Jeffrey Glover, Yale University Early Americanist Grammatology: Definitions of Writing and Literacy Andrew Newman, State University of New York, Stony Brook Broken Paper Trails: Reading the Wheelock Archive Hilary E. Wyss, Auburn University Indigenous Linguistics in Southern New England Kathleen Bragdon, College of William and Mary Comment: The Audience |
| Session 36 * Eating Early America Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: Karen Weyler, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for the Cure: The Quest for the Superlative New World Ham David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Indian Corn Cooked in Dutch Pots: Sapaen as a Dutch-American Dietary Staple Meta Janowitz, URS Corporation Assessing the Habits of the Table: Archaeology and Interpretation at Monticello Elizabeth Chew, Monticello, and Sara Bon-Harper, Monticello Slave Testimony and the Production of Authority: Count Rumford’s Essays and the Emergence of an Atlantic Science of Nutrition Julie Kim, University of Florida Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 37 * Legality and Power James Room, Level 2 Chair: Kirsten Sword, Indiana University “Transgressing the Law of God & Man”: Regulating Sexual Intimacy in Seventeenth-Century Bermuda Heather Kopelson, University of Iowa Before the Bar: Indians and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Margaret Newell, Ohio State University Criminally Impolite: Law, Speech, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts Kristin Olbertson, Alma College Comment: Kirsten Sword |
* Session 38 * Depiction of Pirates and Piracy in the Print Culture of Early America York Room, Level 2 Chair: Daniel E. Williams, Texas Christian University From the Pen of a Tripolitan Pirate: Washington Irving’s Salmagundi Satires Megan Jenison Griffin, Texas Christian University “Remember Lafitte”: Piracy and Heroic Masculinity in the American Historical Romance Rowland Hughes, University of Hertfordshire The Genders of Piracy in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1720–1820 James Crane, Loyola University Captain Bartolomew Sharpe and the “Sacred Hunger of Gold” Richard Frohock, Oklahoma State University Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 39 * Representation, Sexualities, and the Politics of Seduction Tidewater A, Level 3 Chair: Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles Narrating Revolutions: The Politics and Economics of Futurity in Ormond Michelle Burnham, Santa Clara University Seduction from a Man’s Perspective: The Diaries of Two Virginia Bachelors from the 1790s John Gilbert McCurdy, Eastern Michigan University Re-fashioning the Sexual Self: White Women’s Seduction Narratives in Massachusetts, 1786–1800 Kelly A. Ryan, University of Maryland, College Park Unraveling the Seduction Plot in the Age of Revolutions Bryan Waterman, New York University Comment: The Audience |
* Session 40 * Discourses of Commonwealth Tidewater B, Level 3 Chair: Patrick Erben, University of West Georgia Colonization as Commonwealth-Building: The Intellectual and Experiential Roots of Seventeenth-Century Virginia Politics Alexander B. Haskell, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture “Incorporated, as it were, in one body”: Civic Republicanism in New Netherland, 1644–1664 Simon Middleton, University of Sheffield Heavenly Commonwealth in the Spanish Empire Cornelius Conover, University of Texas, Austin Commonwealth and Common Sense: John Milton, Tom Paine, and the Early American Republic Anne McLaren, University of Liverpool Comment: The Audience |
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| 4:00–5:15 | * Plenary 1 * Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Rethinking Providentialism: Captivity and the City Teresa Toulouse, Tulane University and University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 5:30–7:00 | Reception * Christopher Wren Building, College of William and Mary |
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