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2011-2012 Seminar Program Coordinators:

Zara Anishanslin and Brian Murphy

All meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 5:30 unless otherwise noted.

September 13: Andrew Shankman (Rutgers University-Camden), "Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Carey's 1819"

October 18: Peter Mancall (University of Southern California and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute) "The Raw and the Cold: Five Abandoned Sailors in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic"

November 8: Jonathan Sassi (College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY), "Religion, Race, and the Founders"

December 13: Joseph Adelman (Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES), The Library Company), "With 'Unanimity, Spirit and Zeal': The Boston Tea Party and the Production of Revolutionary News"

Feb. 14th: Katherine Jorgensen Gray (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rowan University), “Romantic prospect[s]”: Young Philadelphians, Travel, and the Countryside," Images

March 13th: Christina Snyder, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Indiana University, "The Indian Gentlemen and Black Mistresses of Choctaw Academy: Elite People of Color and the Problem of Class in Jacksonian America"

April 10th: Julie Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Fordham, "Caribs in the Atlantic World: Imperial Botany, Indigenous Ecologies, and Revolution on St. Vincent"

April 24th: Jack Crowley, Professor of History, Dalhousie University, "Visual Ethnographies of Early European Colonization: Indigenous Artists as Informants"

May 8th: Evan Haefeli, Professor of History, Columbia University, "Breaking the Christian Atlantic: The Legacy of Dutch Tolerance in Brazil"