JOIN US for the next “For 2026” meeting (October 24-25, 2025). REGISTER HERE PROGRAM DRAFT Hotel Information The hotel blocks we reserved are now closed. Attendees should have no problem though finding places to stay at comparable prices. Williamsburg welcomes thousands of tourists each year and has a lot of great places to… Read More
Join us for “Currents and Exchanges in Vast Early America” — the OI 28th Annual Conference at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Co-sponsored with the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program at the College of Charleston, the… Read More
“Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and the Digital in Vast Early America” June 17-19, 2021 Read the full program and REGISTER here. Program for Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:00 Registration Zoom Room opens. (Stop by and say Hello to Conference Registrar Beverly Smith, ask questions, and get help here.) 10:00-11:00 Session 15:… Read More
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“Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and the Digital in Vast Early America” June 17-19, 2021 Read the full program and REGISTER here. Program for Friday, June 18, 2021 9:00 Registration Zoom Room opens. (Stop by and say Hello to Conference Registrar Beverly Smith, ask questions, and get help here.) 10:00-11:00 Session 7 :… Read More
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My first “update” email to the OI staff about COVID-19 was on Friday, March 13th. Over the last two months I’ve added to that email regularly in what is now an absurdly long thread, but which I keep going as a reminder of how little time has passed while so much has changed. We also opened a dedicated Trello… Read More
We are delighted to announce that the Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists (VCEA) will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, January 25th, 2020. Our good friends at the University of Richmond will serve as our hosts for what promises to be another exciting day of conversation and scholarship. Please find below the program for this year’s meeting: 9:00am – 10:30am… Read More
Adopt these strategies when attending the OI 25th annual conference next week (June 13-15) at the University of Pittsburgh and remember to join us on Twitter at #OIAnnual2019. by Carl Keyes (Assumption College) Are you attending your first Omohundro Institute conference and want to get the most out of it? Here are some… Read More
Join Jessica M. Parr for the 2019 THis Camp, “Digital Management for Historians: a system for keeping track of data including syllabi, projects, and research” on Thursday, June 13, 2:00 pm, at the 25th annual OI conference at the University of Pittsburgh. by Jessica M. Parr, Simmons University Like so many things these… Read More
In October 2018, I participated in the WMQ-UCI Digital Research in Early America workshop hosted by Sharon Block and Josh Piker at University of California-Irvine. This post aims to give those who weren’t able to attend an idea of the conversations and common themes of the new scholarship presented. Most broadly, the workshop was a productive forum to think… Read More
This post comes to us from James Rice (Tufts University), author of “Early American Environmental Histories” in the July 2018 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. In a recent series of Uncommon Sense posts, Karin Wulf, Ann Little, Anna Mae Duane, and Lynne Withey celebrated the 75th anniversary year of the Omohundro Institute by writing about the… Read More
The following post is the result of questions raised during a panel (#33) at the OI’s 24th annual conference, June 14–17, 2018. If you have a conversation you would like to continue post-conference, or materials to share (such as a bibliography), please send them to the OI at oieahc@wm.edu. And be sure to join us for the 25th… Read More
The Omohundro Institute thanks the many scholars who made #OIAnnual2018 such a success. If you have a blog post, bibliography, or other materials related to the conference that you would like to share please contact Martha Howard. The OI’s 24th annual conference this past weekend, in honor of our 75th anniversary, will get its own… Read More