American Origins 2012-2013

Seminar Leader:
Carole Shammas
, University of Southern California

Max Edelson, University of Virginia

"Where was the Proclamation Line?:  How Britain Mapped the North American Indian Boundary, 1758-1774"

Saturday, September 15, 2012
Huntington Library, Overseers' Room
10:30am-12pm


Sophie LeMercier-Goddard,École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

"Mirror Images in the Arctic: Fashioning National Identity in the Martin Frobisher Voyages 1576-1578"

Saturday, October 20, 2012
Huntington Library
Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2
10:30am-12pm

 


Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne

"Murder on the High Seas: the Slave Ship Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution"


Albane Forestier, Independent Scholar

"Raising Capital in the French West Indian trade: the role of ethnicity and religion, 1783-1793"

Friday, November 2, 2012
Huntington Library, Overseers' Room
11:45am

Lunch will be provided to those who rsvp to emsi@usc.edu by Monday, October 29, 2012.


Katherine E. Paugh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"The Politics of Reproduction in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition"

Monday, November 12, 2012
USC, University Park Campus
Social Sciences Buidling (SOS) 250
4pm-6pm

Please contact emsi@usc.edu for information about parking and directions for this event.


Jason Sharples, Catholic University of America

"Mastering Fear: Imagination, Rebellion, and Race in Early America"

Thursday, January 24, 2013
USC, University Park Campus
Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
4-6pm

Please contact emsi@usc.edu for information about parking and directions for this event.


Carla Pestana, UCLA

"Religion, Empire, Innovation: The Spanish and English on the Western Design"

Saturday, February 23, 2013
Huntington Library
Seaver Classroom 3
10:30am-12pm


Adrian Finucane, University of Southern California

"Imperial Entanglements: England, Spain, and the Colonial Trade in the Early 18th c."

Saturday, March 9, 2013
Huntington Library
Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2
10:30am-12pm


Timothy Breen, Northwestern University and University of Vermont

"Violence and Revenge on the Scotch-Irish Frontier: The American Legacy of the Siege of Londonderry"

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Huntington Library
Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2
10:30am-12pm


David Hancock, University of Michigan

"Surviving the City of London, 1650-1850"

Monday, April 29, 2013
Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
4-6pm

Contact Carolyn Powell at cpowell@huntington.org to receive the pre-circulated paper. Contact emsi@usc.edu for information about parking and directions for this event.


Michael Carter, University of Dayton

"Enlightenment Catholicism: Mathew Carey and the Emergence of the Church in America, 1784-1839"

Saturday, April 20, 2013
Huntington Library
Seaver Classroom 3
10:30-12pm

Contact Carolyn Powell at cpowell@huntington.org to receive the pre-circulated paper.