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ACADEMIC SEMINARS
2010-2011

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

• Monday, November 15, 2010, at 5:00 p.m., at AAS
  Jason Sharples (Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
  A Conspiracy of Ink: News, Memory, and Rebellion Narratives in Black and White
  more information, registration, and paper download

• Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at 5:00 p.m., at AAS
  Kyle Volk (Assistant Professor of History, University of Montana, and AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-term Fellow)
  Jim Crow Travel and Rights-Politics in the mid-19th Century American North
  more information, registration, and paper download

• Thursday, February 24, 2011, at 5:00 p.m., at AAS
  Joshua R. Greenberg (Associate Professor of History, Bridgewater State University)
  Lemons and Diddles: The Culture of Early Republic Paper Money
  more information, registration, and paper download

• Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at 4:30 p.m., at Clark
  Sean P. Harvey (Assistant Professor of History, Seton Hall University and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, American Antiquarian Society)
  Words, Nations, and Race in the Era of Jefferson and Tecumseh
  more information and registration

• Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 5:00 p.m., at UConn
  Lisa Wilson (Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American History, Connecticut College)
  The Rise and Fall of the Wicked Stepmother?: Rethinking the Early American Family
  more information

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, unless otherwise noted.

For more information, please contact Paul Erickson, Director of Academic Programs, at perickson[at]mwa.org.

The seminars include refreshments during discussion.

Academic Seminars 2010-2011
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