The OI holds between three and six colloquia per semester to discuss projects (usually a postdoctoral book chapter or article) in progress. The paper is pre-circulated and available by request. Although only postdoctoral work is presented, graduate students at all levels are warmly encouraged to attend the sessions and participate in the discussions.
We are now accepting applications for the 2023-24 colloquia series. To apply, send a simple write-up or abstract of the chapter or article you intend to discuss (a single page will suffice) and an abbreviated c.v. to us at oieahc@wm.edu by JUNE 15, 2023.
In-person sessions are held in the OI Conference Room in Swem Library. ONLINE sessions require a unique Zoom link. This link will be sent upon registration. All sessions begin at 7:00 pm ET.
To receive copies of the pre-circulated papers you must register in advance. All colloq participants are expected to have read the paper before the discussion and are asked to refrain from sharing the papers with others. We thank you for your observance of this request.
Colloquia presenters for Spring 2023
RESCHEDULED from Fall 2022
February 7, 2023
ONLINE
*If you registered for the Fall 2022 presentation then you do not need to re-register. All registrants will be emailed Zoom information as well as a copy of Professor Pyle’s presentation.
Kai Pyle, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
“Two-Spirit Love and War as Indigenous Diplomacy: Ozaawindib in the Red River Valley, ca. 1800”
March 21, 2023
In person in the OI conference room
Jessica Roney, Temple University
“Separate Creations: Political Community and Loyalty in the 1790s”
March 28, 2023
ONLINE
Emily MacGillivray, Northland College, Canada
“Sally Ainse: An Oneida Woman’s Politics and Property in the Thames River Valley Borderlands, 1790 to 1830”
April 11, 2023
John Marquez, 2020-2022 Omohundro Institute-NEH Postdoctoral Fellow and assistant professor at Colorado College
In person in the OI conference room“Lineages of Freedom: Black Confraternities and the Pursuit of Royal Privileges in Portugal and the Atlantic World”
Colloquia presenters for Fall 2022
September 6, 2022
Nicole Dressler, William & Mary
“‘not to suffer him to be made subject to personal Slavery and Bondage’: Black Convict Transportation and Servitude in the British Atlantic World”
November 29, 2022—ONLINE (REGISTER HERE). POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2023
Kai Pyle, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
“Two-Spirit Love and War as Indigenous Diplomacy: Ozaawindib in the Red River Valley, ca. 1800”
December 6, 2022
Kathryn M. de Luna, Georgetown University
“Toward a History of Palmares in Terms of Africa: the Conceptual Architecture of Marronage and the Enchantment of the Archive”
