Programs > Academic Programs

ACADEMIC SEMINARS
2007-2008

American Antiquarian Society Seminars in association with the history departments of Clark University and the University of Connecticut

• Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Jeannine DeLombard (AAS-NEH Fellow and University of Toronto)
  Reading in the Shadow of the Gallows
  more information

• Friday, October 5, 2007, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Yonatan Eyal
  Young America and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861
  more information

• Thursday, November 29, 2007, at 4:30 p.m., at Clark University
  Mark Thompson (Louisiana State University)
  The Creation of a Contested Space: The Delaware Valley ca. 1600
  more information

• Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Peter Leavenworth (AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellow)
  Musical Episodes from "Accounting for Taste: The Early American Music Business and Secularization in Music Aesthetics, 1720-1825"
  more information

• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Kyle Roberts (Hench Post-Dissertation Fellow)
  Ezra Stiles Ely and the Transformation of Urban Evangelicalism
  more information

• Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Stephen Marini (AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellow, and Professor of Christian Studies and American Religion and Ethics, Wellesley College)
  Religious Change in Revolutionary America: Conflict, Competition, Consolidation
  more information

• Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  James McWilliams (Associate Professor of History, Southwest Texas State University)
  The Pen and the Plow: The Agricultural Origins of Economic Entomology
  more information

• Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., at UConn
  Margaretta Lovell (AAS Mellon Distinguished Scholar, and Professor of the History of Art, University of California-Berkeley)
  Fitz Henry Lane: Time, Memory, Canvas, and Lumber in Antebellum New England
  more information

• Thursday, May 15, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Dan Cohen (AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellow, and Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University)
  Fanatical Protestants, Treacherous Catholics, Faithful Muslims: Political Re-Visions of the Charlestown Convent Riot, 1835-1855

The series focuses on pre-twentieth-century American history broadly speaking, as well as on such specializations as American literary history, art history, visual culture, music history, and bibliography and book trade history. Many of the presentations are interdisciplinary in nature.

Schedule subject to change.

The seminars at AAS are held in the Elmarion Room at the Goddard-Daniels House, 190 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.

The seminars include refreshments during discussion.