Seminar sessions are held on Thursdays from 5:30 pm – 7 pm at the Newberry, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Please see the Call for Papers for information on submitting a proposal for the 2012-13 academic year. Proposals for this seminar are due April 25.
This seminar provides a forum for works in progress that explore any aspect of early American life, politics, and culture, broadly conceived. We welcome papers on early North American or Caribbean history, from roughly 1500 to 1830, as well as papers treating the Americas from comparative, Atlantic, and global perspectives.
The seminar’s co-sponsors are the history departments of DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago, Northern Illinois University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the English department of Northwestern University, and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.
Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University, and Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are the coordinators for the 2011-12 seminar.
To attend, please read our Registration Information.
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Seminar Schedule
“‘Awake, Awake’: The Richmond Theater Fire of 1811 and the Renewal of Religiosity in America”
Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Present-Past: Thomas Jefferson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Times of Slavery and Democracy”
Gregory Laski, Northwestern University