Friday Seminars
The Center Seminar
The McNeil Center sponsors a seminar that meets on Friday afternoons at 3 PM approximately twice a month between September and May, with the paper for each session circulated in advance. Over two hundred people attend at least once a year, with an average attendance of 40 to 50 at meetings held at various sites in the Delaware Valley. While most of the regular attendees are graduate students and faculty from institutions in the Philadelphia area, participants come from as far afield as Long Island, New York City, Princeton, Baltimore, Annapolis, and Washington.
Until further notice, seminars will convene via Zoom only. To get access to the seminar papers and Zoom links, or to join our mailing list, please email us at mceas@sas.upenn.edu.
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Spring 2022 Seminar Schedule
14 January: |
Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University Insanity, Race, and Property Rights in the Early Republic |
11 February: |
María Esther Hammack, McNeil Center for Early American Studies |
25 February:
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Kieran O’Keefe, George Washington University and 2021-2022 MCEAS Society of the Cincinnati Fellow As Though he had been a Whig: The Post-War Reintegration of the Hudson Valley Loyalists |
4 March: |
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, Stanford University The Benighted Soul: Africana Religions and the Diabolical in the Time of Revolution |
11 March: |
Emily Gowan, Boston University and 2020-2021 MCEAS Barra Dissertation Fellow ‛Reader, Be Assured This Narrative is No Fiction’: Harriet Jacobs, Sentimental Fiction, and the U.S. Abridgment History of Pamela |
8 April: |
Allison Guess, Williams College ‛For [Being] a Rogue and Because He Lied to His Lord’: The Groundings of Black Rebellion in Hispaniola, the Disremembered and Disavowed History of a Unified and Black Santo Domingo |
22 April: |
Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue University The Sketch Book and the Rise of the Mass-Mediated Image |
6 May: |
Leonard von Morzé, University of Massachusetts Boston and McNeil Center for Early American Studies Alphabets, Typefaces, Grammatologies: Writing and Translation in the German Atlantic |