Conference Schedule
For Twitter users, we have set up a hashtag for this conference, #mceasstories. We will be live-tweeting certain panels, and encourage other conference attendees to do the same. If you have questions, please contact Rachel Herrmann at rachel.herrmann@gmail.com.
Thursday, 29th September, 2011
| 4.30pm – 5.15pm | Registration |
| 5.15pm – 5.30pm | Welcome and Introductory Comments |
| Daniel K. Richter, Richard S. Dunn Director, McNeil Center for Early American Studies | |
| 5.30pm – 7.30pm | PANEL 1: |
| Courthouse Dramas | |
| Chair: Dael Norwood, Princeton University | |
| Sara Damiano, Johns Hopkins University, "Authority and Vulnerability: Narrating Debt Litigation in 18th-Century New England" | |
| Robert Lee, University of California–Berkeley, "Resurveying Yazoo: The Yazoo Sales and the Policy Origins of Indian Removal in Georgia" | |
| Emily Levitt, Cornell University, "Indian Guest, White Host: Time-Depth and Narrative in Early Federal Indian Law" | |
| Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, University of Chicago, "Storytelling and the Law: New York's Black Children in the Era of Gradual Emancipation" |
Friday, 30th September, 2011
| 8.30am – 9.15am | Coffee & Bagels |
| 9.15am – 10.45am | PANEL 2: |
| Mapping Freedoms | |
| Chair: Glenda Goodman, Harvard University | |
| Amanda Stuckey, The College of William & Mary, "National and Narrative Rupture in the Francophone World of Victor Sejour" | |
| Patricia Lott, Northwestern University, "'Till it Begins to be Put into Practice': 19th-Century Black Performance and Culture and the Politics of Reiteration" | |
| Rita Williams, University of Delaware, "Telling a Transnational Story: Maria Gowen Brooks's Idomen, or, the Vale of Yumuri" | |
| 11.00am – 12.30pm | PANEL 3: |
| Fightin' Words | |
| Chair: Seth Perry, University of Chicago | |
| Christopher Sawula, Emory University, "'A Stain which Ages Cannot Wash Out': Mobocracy, Authority, and the Ursuline Convent Burning of 1834" | |
| Christopher Bouton, University of Delaware, "Delivered over to the tender mercies of the Mob: The Destruction of Pennsylvania Hall and Abolitionist Constructions of Memory" | |
| Amy Torbert, University of Delaware, "Selling the 'New American Suit': Tar and Feathers in Popular Prints, 1772-1842" | |
| 12.30pm – 2.00pm | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2.00pm – 3.30pm | PANEL 4: |
| Authoring Gender | |
| Chair: Aaron Tobiason, University of Maryland | |
| Michael Blaakman, Yale University, "Martha Bradstreet and the 'Dastardly Conspiracy': One Woman's Struggle for Property and Honor in the Early Republic" | |
| Jessica Conrad, University of Delaware, "Picturing Black Hawk" | |
| Kristin Condotta, Tulane University, "'May God protect my dear, dear Husband': Lady Nugent and the Power of Written Femininity" | |
| 4.00pm – 6.00pm | McNeil Center Seminar |
| Hester Blum, Pennsylvania State University, "Polar Imprints: News from the Ends of the Earth." | |
| Professor Blum's paper will be pre-circulated to conference participants and should be read by all who attend. To obtain access to the paper contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. |
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| 6.00pm – 7.00 pm | Reception |
Saturday, 1st October, 2011
| 8.30am – 9.15am | Coffee & Bagels |
| 9.15am – 10.45am | PANEL 5: |
| Doctored Tales | |
| Chair: Sari Altschuler, City University of New York | |
| Cameron Strang, University of Texas at Austin, "Native American Storytelling and Scientific Authority in the 18th-Century Florida Borderlands" | |
| Nicholas Junkerman, University of California–Berkeley, "The (Miraculous?) Cure of Thankfull Fish" | |
| Sarah Schuetze, University of Kentucky, "Medical Memoir/Medical Memory: Narrating a Profession through Memoir" | |
| 11.00am – 12.15pm | PANEL 6: |
| Writing in the Margins | |
| Chair: Rachel Herrmann, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Neal Dugre, Northwestern University, "Narrating Commonwealth: Anglo-Indian Conflict and the Politics of Print" | |
| Ashley Elizabeth Smith, Cornell University, "Contested Space, Contested History: Place-Making and Conflict at Norridgewock Village" | |
| Dave Beyreis, University of Oklahoma, "Mobs, Martyrs, and Memories: Telling Stories about the 'Bloodless Conquest' of New Mexico, 1846-1847" | |
| 12.30pm – 2.00pm: | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2.00pm – 3.30pm | PANEL 7: |
| Structures of Stories | |
| Chair: Mark Mattes, University of Iowa | |
| Catherine Walsh, University of Delaware, "War Stories: Storytelling, Authority, and Age in American Genre Paintings" | |
| Tom Koenigs, Yale University, "Stories about the Power of Stories: The Political Metafictions of the Early Republic" | |
| Matthew Kruer, University of Pennsylvania, "Conspiracy Theory and Narrative Construction During Bacon's Rebellion" | |
| 4.00pm – 5.30pm | Keynote Address |
| Jill Lepore, Harvard University | |
| 5.30pm – 6.30pm | Reception |