| Thursday, June 7 (Sessions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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| 8:00 a.m. | Registration opens * Lobby, Level 2, University Center, College of William and Mary. All sessions of the conference will take place in the University Center. Coffee will be available in Chesapeake A, Level 3, and at The Daily Grind, located on Gooch Drive, in one of the small brick buildings near the Conference Services Duty Office. |
| 8:00–9:15 | Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2, University Center Society of Early Americanists, Presidential Address and Business Meeting Dennis Moore |
| 10:00 | Book exhibits open * Chesapeake A, Level 3, University Center |
| 9:30–11:00 | |
* Session I * Indian Performance in Early America Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Joshua D. Bellin, La Roche College The Voice of Prophecy Olivia Bloechl, University of California, Los Angeles Playing John White: John Wompas between Two Worlds Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Brigham Young University Performing Indian Publics in Early America Phillip Round, University of Iowa Catharine Brown’s Epistolary Performances Theresa Strouth Gaul, Texas Christian University Comment: The Audience |
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* Session 2 * Print and Culture in the Atlantic World Chesapeake B, Level 3, University Center Chair: Elizabeth Jackson Vincelette, Old Dominion University Religion in American Almanacs, 1730–1820 Troy Tomlin, University of Missouri Newspapers and National Identity in the Post-Revolutionary Republic Abigail Davis, University of Minnesota Slavery, Print, and the Atlantic Community in Eighteenth-Century New England Robert Desrochers, Emory University Comment: John Saillant, Western Michigan University |
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| Top | * Session 3 * Puritan Promiscuities: Transnational, Transhistorical, and Interdisciplary Dimensions of Contempory Puritan Scholarship Chesapeake C, Level 3, University Center Chair: Sarah Rivett, Washington University The Curse of Cowardice Lorrayne Carroll, University of Southern Maine Seeing and Believing in Pequot Country Matt Cohen, Duke University Fundamentalism: A Puritan Perspective Meredith Neuman, Clark University The Great New York Conspiracy Bryce Traister, University of Western Ontario “Her Children Arise up, and Call her Blessed”: Female Conduct and Puritan Theology in Funeral Sermons Laura Stevens, University of Tulsa Comment: Sally Promey, Yale University |
* Session 4 * The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition James Room, Level 2, University Center Chair: Mark L. Kamrath, University of Central Florida Brown’s Letters and Poetry John Holmes, Franciscan University of Steubenville The Literary Magazine, and American Register (1803–1807) Michael Cody, East Tennessee State University The Historical Sketches Philip Barnard, University of Kansas Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 5 * Things Creole: Material Cultures of Interaction in the Early American South and Greater Caribbean York Room, Level 2, University Center Chair: Maurie McInnis, University of Virginia Things Creole: Interdisciplinary Discoveries in Culinary Manuscripts Katharine Harbury, Library of Virginia “Excessively Fond of Pleasure and Amusement”: Material Culture and Domestic Economy of White Women in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica Douglas Mann, Liberty University Down-River: HABS Looks at the Creole in Natchitoches Virginia Price, Historic American Buildings Survey Comment: Maurie McInnis |
| 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | |
* Session 6 * Theater and Class in the New Republic Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Jeffrey H. Richards, Old Dominion University “The most effective means to establish a precedency”: Negotiating Class and National Identity in Sans Souci Phil Howard, University of California, San Diego An Economic Approach to Social Authority in the American Theatre, 1790–1820 Kenneth Cohen, University of Delaware “Let Feds and Antis to Our Temples Come”: Public Performance and Class in the Early Republic Douglas Harvey, University of Kansas Sinking Fortunes and Ruined Reputations in Crocker’s “Midnight Beau” Constance Post, Iowa State University Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 7 * Continental Epistemologies of Race Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Shevaun Watson, University of South Carolina Racial Policing after King Philip’s War Joyce Green MacDonald, University of Kentucky Manifesting Color: Samson Occom, Phillis Wheatley, and Transformations of Race Katy L. Chiles, Northwestern University Spaces of Racialization in Jefferson and Crévecoeur’s Geopolitics Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University Sacred and Secular Epistemologies of Race in the Age of Democratic Revolution Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame Comment: The Audience |
* Session 8 * Transatlantic Negotiations of the English Nation Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University Re-mapping British America: Loyalists Respond to Common Sense Philip Gould, Brown University Governor Nicholls, English Law, and the Story of John Binkson Christopher Fritsch, University of Oxford Banished Like Me: Roger Williams and the Law, Logic, and Feeling of Separation Nan Goodman, University of Colorado, Boulder The Law in Flux: Anti-Loyalist Legislation, the Command of the Sovereign, and Popular Sovereignty, 1774–1783 Aaron Coleman, University of Kentucky Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 9 * Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier and the Frontiers of Early America James Room, Level 2 Chair: Larry F. Kutchen, Trinity University Creating “Free Citizens” on the Early National Frontier: Negotiating the Political Privilege of Race in Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Honor R. Sachs, Yale University Binding Imperialism: The Limits of Political Exchange in Frontier Historiography William H. Bergmann, Northern Michigan University “The Monster at the End of the Book”: The Limits of the Frontier as a Narrative Construct Robert Paulett, College of William and Mary Looking for Kettle Island: The Peripheries of Spanish Florida and Possibilities of America Thomas Hallock, University of South Florida Comment: The Audience |
* Session 10 * Itinerant Preaching in Early America York Room, Level 2 Chair: Thomas S. Kidd, Baylor University From the Holy Land to New England Canaan: Rabbi Carigal and Sephardic Itinerant Preaching in the Eighteenth Century Laura Arnold Leibman, Reed College “Christian Indian Brethren”: Race and Religion in the Preaching of Samson Occom David Silverman, George Washington University Inventing America: Itinerancy and Textual Community in the Writings of Lorenzo Dow Kathryn Lofton, Indiana University Comment: Thomas S. Kidd |
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| 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 purchase meal tickets. You will find a list of other places to dine in your conference packet. |
| 2:15–3:45 | |
| Top | * Session 11 * Presidential Panel: Colloquy with Elizabeth Maddock Dillon on The Gender of Freedom Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Dennis Moore, Florida State University Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale University Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut Ivy Schweitzer, Dartmouth College William Beatty Warner, University of California, Santa Barbara Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University Comment: The Audience |
* Session 12 * The Animal in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis Domesticated Dangers: The Failure to Subdue the Animals of Early America Catherine Mary Armstrong, University of Warwick Improving Idle Time: Benjamin Rush, Charles Willson Peale, and the Culture of the Animal Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds, State University of New York, Brockport The Natural History of Extinction Timothy Sweet, West Virginia University Comment: Michael Ziser |
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| Top | * Session 13 * American and Transatlantic Artifacts Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: Dennis Carr, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston “To model, not merely statues, but artists”: Eupraxia and Art in Puritanism Jason LaFountain, Harvard University The Short Life of Neoclassical Chairs Ethan Lasser, Yale University American Women and Neoclassicism Caroline Winterer, Stanford University Comment: The Audience |
* Session 14 * The Local in the Colonial James Room, Level 2 Chair: Fredrika J. Teute, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Can Rocks Recall the Local? Monique Allewaert, Emory University Alexander Cumming—King or Pawn? An Englishman on the Colonial Chessboard of the Eighteenth-Century American Southeast Ian Chambers, University of California, Riverside The Household Politics of Agrarian Resistance Paul Moyer, State University of New York, Brockport Interactions among Black and White Members of Peyton Randolph’s Williamsburg Household Julie Richter, College of William and Mary Comment: The Audience |
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| Top | * Session 15 * Charlotte Temple and Beyond: The State of Rowson Studies Commonwealth Auditorium, Level 2 Chair: Desiree Henderson, University of Texas, Arlington Jennifer Desiderio, Canisius College Granville Ganter, St. John’s University Jared Gardner, Ohio State University Marion Rust, University of Virginia Angela Vietto, Eastern Illinois University Comment: Desiree Henderson |
* Session 16 * Rediscovering a Lost Algonquian Prophecy Text About First Contacts: The Ethics of Cross-Cultural Collaboration Chesapeake B, Level 3 Chair: Dennis Moore, Florida State University Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona Patricia Clark Smith, University of New Mexico Comment: Rosemary Guruswamy, Radford University |
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| Top | * Session 17 * Presentations and Places of Sociability Chesapeake C, Level 3 Chair: Chris McDaid, U.S. Army Installation Management Command, Northeast Region, and the University of Leicester The Princess and the Pinckneys: Sociability, Politeness, and Power in the Provinces Steven C. Bullock, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Feting the Republican Court: The Pleasures and Pains of the Drawing Room Amy H. Henderson, University of Delaware Silk in the Age of Homespun: Fashionable Performance and Republican Politics Zara Anishanslin Bernhardt, University of Delaware Family Ties: The Place of Adult Sibling Relations in Early American Conviviality C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College Comment: The Audience |
* Session 18 * Richard Hakluyt and Religious History James Room, Level 2 Chair: Carla Gardina Pestana, Miami University Rebuilding Solomon’s Temple: Richard Hakluyt’s Great Instauration David Harris Sacks, Reed College Richard Hakluyt and the Politics of Providence David A. Boruchoff, McGill University Comment: Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University |
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| Top | * Session 19 * Racializing Strategies York Room, Level 2 Chair: James C. David, College of William and Mary Race and African Ethnicity in the Slave Trading Correspondence of Henry Laurens Sean Kelley, Hartwick College “A Corruption of Morals”: Standing Armies, Masculine Nationalism, and Memory of the Boston Massacre Ryan Tripp, University of California, Davis The Most Inhuman and Barbarous Cruelties That Were Ever Recorded: Race, Rhetoric, and the Demonization of Cuban Pirates in Early National Print Culture Daniel E. Williams, Texas Christian University Comment: Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky |
| 5:30–7:00 | Reception * Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Hosted by Carl Strikwerda, Dean of Arts and Sciences, College of William and Mary, and James Horn, Vice President for Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. |
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