AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
ACADEMIC SEMINARS
2000-2001
New England Seminar
in American History co-sponsored with the
history
departments of Clark University and the University of Connecticut
- Thursday, October 26, 2000,
at
4:30 p.m.
at AAS
Bonds of War, Paths of Migration: Southern Black Migration and
Community
Building in Worcester County in the Era of the Civil War
Janette Greenwood (Clark University)
- Wednesday, November 1,
2000,
at 4:30 p.m.
at AAS
Newsboy Funerals: Tales of Sorrow and Solidarity in Early
America
Vincent DiGirolamo (Colgate University)
- Thursday, November 30, 2000, at
4:30
p.m. at
AAS
Secular Devotion to Jesus in Nineteenth-Century America
Richard Wightman Fox (University of Southern California)
- Friday, March 2, 2001, at 4:30
p.m.
at
UConn
The Late Loyalists:
The Legacies of the American Revolution in Upper Canada,
1783-1815
Alan Taylor (University of California at Davis)
- Friday, April 6, 2001, at 4:30 p.m. at
Clark University
Women of Influence: Dolley Payne Todd Madison and the Problem of
Patronage
Catherine Allgor (Simmons College)
- Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 4:30 p.m. at
AAS
Land and Nationality; The Fenians, African Americans, and
Southern Whites in the Age of Emancipation
Mitchell Snay
(Denison University)
- Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 4:30 p.m.
at AAS
From
Sand Creek to Boston: The Journey of a Cheyenne Child
Ann
Braude (Harvard Divinity School)
AAS Seminar in American Literary History
- Tuesday, November 21, 2000,
at 4:30 p.m.
at AAS
All in the Family: Catharine Maria Sedgwick's
Indian 'Connexions' and the Origins of Hope Leslie
Karen Woods Weierman (AAS-NEH Fellow and Worcester State College)
- Thursday, February 22, 2001, at
4:30 p.m. at
AAS
"Barbaric Traffic": Commerce and Antislavery in the Atlantic World,
1750-1810
Philip Gould (Brown University)
AAS Seminar in Bibliography and Book Trade History
- Tuesday, October 3, 2000, at
4:30
p.m. at
AAS
Periodical Nation: Early American Magazines and the Editorial
Function
Jared Gardner (Ohio State University)
- Wednesday, April 4, 2001, at
4:30 p.m. at
AAS
"Imperfect Title":
Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property
Melissa Homestead (AAS Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow)
AAS Seminar in American Music History
- Thursday, September 28, 2000, at 4:30 p.m. at
AAS
Towards Exclusion: American Popular Songs on Chinese
Immigration
Krystyn Moon (Johns Hopkins University)
- Thursday, March 15, 2001, at
4:30 p.m. at
AAS
Confusing
Evidence: Primary and Secondary Sources in Nineteenth-Century Theater
Music
Michael V. Pisani (Vassar College)
AAS Seminar in Visual and Material Culture
- Wednesday, November 8, 2000, at
4:30 p.m. at
AAS
Crafting Consumerism in the Countryside, 1790-1820
David Jaffee (City University of New York)
- Monday, May 7, 2001, at 4:30
p.m. at AAS
Looking Again at Winslow Homer:
Art History and Biography
Elizabeth Johns (University of Pennsylvania)
THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL JAMES RUSSELL WIGGINS
LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF THE
BOOK IN AMERICAN CULTURE
- Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 5:30
p.m. at
AAS
Prophets, Publics, and Publication: A History of the Book from
One Cultural Margin
Richard Brodhead (Yale University)
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For further information on seminars, contact John Hench at
jhench[at]mwa.org or (508) 755-5221.
Detailed seminar announcements -- including information on the suppers
that follow -- are posted on this web site at least
two weeks in advance.
Previous Academic Seminar schedules
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