Conference Program
Thursday, November 8 |
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| McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets) | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Registration |
| 4:00-4:30 | Wecoming Remarks |
| Daniel K. Richter (University of Pennsylvania and MCEAS) | |
| Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary University of London) | |
| 4:30-6:00 | Opening Plenary: Boundaries & Crossings |
| Christian Ayne Crouch (Bard College) | |
| François Furstenberg (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta) | |
| Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University) | |
| Chair: Zara Anishanslin (University of Delaware) | |
| 6:00-7:00 | Opening Reception |
| Sponsored by Queen Mary University of London | |
Friday, November 9 |
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Winterthur Museum, 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware When you register to attend the conference you will also have the opportunity to reserve yourself a place on the bus that will transport participants between the Warwick Hotel-Rittenhouse Square (220 South 17th Street, Philadelphia) and Winterthur. We regret that if you have not properly registered we will not be able to provide you with transportation. |
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| 9:00 | Bus transportation leaves The Warwick Hotel-Rittenhouse Square for Winterthur Museum |
| 10:15 | Coffee |
| 10:30-12:00 | Panel 1: Bringing War Home |
| Whitney Martinko (Villanova University) “The Man of the House: Domestic Masculinity and American Imperialism” |
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| Kimberly Nath (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) “Goods Believed to be Plundered: Restoring Order and Material Goods in Post-Occupation Philadelphia” |
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| Jennifer Van Horn (University of Delaware) “At War Within the Plantation: Reclaiming Portraits in the Civil War South” |
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| Chair/Comment: Benjamin Irvin (Indiana University and Editor, Journal of American History) | |
| 12:00-1:15 | Lunch, Winterthur Visitor Center Cafe |
Material and Visual Culture Workshop |
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| 1:15-2:30 | Collections Open House, Winterthur Library |
| 2:30-3:30 | Group Discussion, Copeland Hall, Winterthur Visitor Center |
| Discussion Leaders: Catharine Dann Roeber (Winterthur Program in American Material Culture) Anna Marley (Curator of Historical American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art) |
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| 3:45 | Departure |
Saturday, November 10 |
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| McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets) | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcoming Remarks and Coffee |
| Laura Keenan Spero (MCEAS) | |
| 9:15-10:45 | Panel 2: Property, Capital, and War |
| Alexander Dubé (Washington University) “The Dyes that Bind” |
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| Hannah Farber (Columbia University) “The Marks of War” |
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| Julia Lewandoski (University of California, Berkley) “Making Peace with Property: Regime Change, Property Maps, and Indigenous Land in North America” |
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| Chair/Comment: Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary University of London) | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:45 | Teaching with Material and Visual Culture Workshop |
| Amanda Moniz (David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy, National Museum of American History) | |
| Philip Mead (Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Historian, the Museum of the American Revolution) | |
| Discussion Leader: Bronwen Everill (Cambridge University) | |
| 12:45-2:15 | Lunch (on own) |
| 2:15-3:45 | Panel 3: Producing Memories of War |
| Jean-François Lozier (University of Ottawa) “Commemorating War and Peace in French North America, 1600-1763” |
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| Mairin Odle (University of Alabama) “‘A box of scalps and some Indian arms’: Bringing the War Home” |
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| Ruthie Dibble (Yale University) “Whittling Away the Days: Craft and Time in the Civil War Prison” |
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| Chair/Comment: Ignacio Gallup-Díaz (Bryn Mawr College) | |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:30 | Keynote Address |
Leora Auslander (Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization in the College and the Department of History, University of Chicago) “Things and Images as Witnesses and Weapons of War” |
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| 5:30-5:45 | Closing Remarks |
| Zara Anishanslin (University of Delaware) | |
| 5:45-7:00 | Closing Reception |
| Sponsored by the Departments of History and Art History, and the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware | |
