{"id":3291,"date":"2023-07-17T17:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=3291"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:39:51","slug":"american-origins-past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/american-origins\/american-origins-past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"American Origins Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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2024-2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 5, 2024<\/strong>
\nMichael Block, California State University-Dominguez Hills
\n“Metcalfe’s Massacre: An Incident of Extreme Violence in the Pacific in 1790”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

December 7, 2024\u00a0<\/strong>
\nEric Herschthal, University of Utah
\n“Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 6, 2025
\n<\/strong>Serena Zabin, Carleton College, Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow in Early American History, Huntington Library
\n“Affectionate Authority in the Revolutionary Household: The Marriages of Mary Fish Noyes Silliman Dickinson”
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/p>\n

March 1, 2025<\/strong>
\nBrian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
\n“Belts & Songs: Why the Cherokee went to War against the Colonies in 1776”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 25, 2025<\/strong>
\nMary Beth Norton, Cornell University
\n“‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column”
\nCo-hosted by the Early Modern British History Seminar
\n<\/em>Huntington Library<\/p>\n

April 17, 2025<\/strong>
\nAlejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside, and Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida
\n“‘When the Sky Speaks & the Body Trembles’: Timucua Spiritual Practices in Colonial Florida”
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/p>\n


\n2023-2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 20, 2023<\/strong>
\nAnn Carlos, University of Colorado Boulder
\n“The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492”<\/p>\n

October 19, 2023<\/strong>
\nBrett Rushforth, University of Oregon
\n“Diverse Progenies and Lineages: Africans and Native Americans in Sixteenth-Century France”<\/p>\n

January 27, 2024<\/strong>
\nTrevor Burnard, University of Hull
\nDiscussion of his book Writing Early America<\/em><\/p>\n

February 17, 2024<\/strong>
\nSteven Pincus, University of Chicago
\n“Slave Society and British Imperial Political Economy: The Significance of Governor Edward Trelawny of Jamaica”<\/p>\n

April 6, 2024<\/strong>
\nX\u00f3chitl M. Flores-Marcial, CSU Northridge
\n“Zapotec Consumerism in Colonial Oaxaca: European Goods in Indigenous Markets”<\/p>\n

April 20, 2024<\/b>
\n<\/span>Dissertation Workshop<\/span>
\n<\/span>Mary Casey, University of California, Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Feasting and the Formation of Community: Native Ritual, Power, and Persistence in the Shadow of the California Missions”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Rebecca Simpson-Menzies, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>“From Agawam to Springfield: Society, Culture, and the Environment in a New England Town”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2022-2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 24, 2022<\/strong>
\nCarole Shammas, USC
\n“Colonial Schooling on a Shoestring Budget”<\/p>\n

October 22, 2022<\/strong>
\nKevin Dawson, UC Merced
\n“Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444\u20131888”<\/p>\n

November 19, 2022<\/strong>
\nAlan Malfovan, Washington State University
\n“Afro-insurgents vs Afro-royalists: Early Mexican War of Independence and C\u00e1diz liberalism, 1810\u20131813”<\/p>\n

February 4, 2023<\/strong>
\nMisha Ewen, Historic Royal Palaces
\nThe Virginia Venture: American Colonization & English Society, 1580\u20131600<\/em><\/p>\n

March 9, 2023<\/strong>
\nBenjamin Carp, Brooklyn Center, CUNY Graduate Center
\n“Burning of New York City 1776”<\/p>\n

April 6, 2023<\/strong>
\nAndr\u00e9s Res\u00e9ndez, University of California, Davis
\n“Magellan Exchange: How China and the Americas Made One Another”<\/p>\n

May 6, 2023<\/strong>
\nEric Hinderaker, University of Utah
\n“The Americas in the Age of Revolution: Structures, Comparisons, Continuities”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2021-2022<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 11, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/span>Keith Pluymers, Illinois State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic <\/span><\/em>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 9, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/b>Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego<\/span>
\n<\/span>“New Spain\u2019s Nomadic Leaders and the Origins of Early America, 1580-1595”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 4, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/span>Gary Nash and Early American History<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library and online<\/span>
\n<\/span>Speakers:<\/span>
\n<\/b>Christopher Brown, Columbia University<\/span>
\n<\/span>Susan Juster, University of Michigan<\/span>
\n<\/span>Carla Pestana, University of California, Los Angeles<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 15, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>Elena A. Schneider, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Marronage in the Caribbean”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 5, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>Karin Amundsen, Huntington Fellow<\/span>
\n<\/span>“From Brass I Will Bring Gold: Metals, Mad Exchanges, and the Dissolution of the Virginia Company”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, May 7, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>Elizabeth Schmidt, University of California Santa Barbara<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Food Anxieties and the Making and Unmaking of Colonial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lydia Sigismondi, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Friendly Rivals: Empire, Commerce, and Creole Identity in the Early Modern Caribbean”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2020-2021<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 26, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Steven Hackel, University of California Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Pobladores Project: California Settlers, pre-1850”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 24, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>Saturday, December 5, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Amy Watson, University of Alabama<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Patriot Colony: Party Politics in the Origins of Georgia, 1729-1743”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 30, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/b>Christopher Blakley, Loyola Marymount University and Occidental College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘Showing Their Slaves How to Collect’: Enslaved People and the Foundations of Animal Knowledge”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 27, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/span>Harrison Diskin, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cMaking Manhattan: Architecture, Constitutionalism, and the Politics of Place, 1614-1701″<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 27, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/span>Graeme Mack, University of California San Diego<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Maritime Origins of American Empire: Commercial Waterways, Ports of Trade, and the United States’ Expansion to the Pacific, 1787-1848”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

2019\u20132020<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, September 20, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/span>EMSI Annual Conference: Virginia 1619: A California Conversation<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, October 28, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/span>Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Geographies of Reproduction: Race, Gender, and Labor in the Early Atlantic World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 7, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/span>Emily Berquist Soule, California State University, Long Beach<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Slave Islands: Spain’s Slave Trade Expedition to the Bight of Biafra, 1777-1785”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 8, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Katie Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Early America’s Fiscal Revolution”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 27, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Dividing the Spoils: The Peace of Paris (1783) and the Partition of North America”<\/span>
\n<\/b>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 26, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Canceled (COVID)<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 4, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Amy Watson, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Patriot Colony: Party Politics in the Origins of Georgia, 1729-43”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Canceled (COVID)<\/span><\/p>\n

2018-2019<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 29, 2018<\/strong>
\nAlejandra Dubcovsky, UC Riverside
\n“Class, War, and Gender: Juan de Florencia’s Trials during Queen Anne’s War”<\/p>\n

Monday, October 15, 2018<\/strong>
\nJoyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University
\n“The Franklin Stove: Head and Life in the Little Ice Age”<\/p>\n

Saturday, December 15, 2018<\/strong>
\nCaitlin Fitz, Northwestern University
\n“The United States and the Americas, 1775-1825”<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 19, 2019<\/strong>
\nJoshua Jeffers, CSU-Dominguez Hills
\n“From Invaders to Indigenes: Settler-Colonial Place Making, Ohio’s Ancient Landscape, & the Colonization of the Indigenous Past, 1775-1850”<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 16, 2019<\/strong>
\nCamilla Townsend, Rutgers University
\n“Records of Conversations between Indians and Friars”<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 23, 2019<\/strong>
\nPanel on Early American Historians and Collaboration
\nSharon Block, UC Irvine
\n“Digital Data Mining with Computer Scientists”
\nEric Hinderaker and Rebecca Horn, University of Utah
\n“Across Empires”
\nSam White, Ohio State University
\n“Natural Scientists and Environmental History”<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 13, 2019<\/strong>
\nGregory Nobles, Georgia Tech
\n“Noticing Nature: Ordinary Americans and the Pursuit of Science, 1790-1860”<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 4, 2019<\/strong>
\nMax Edelson, University of Virginia
\n“Geo-locating and Dating Cartier’s 1534 voyage”<\/p>\n

2017-2018<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 9, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/span>Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Recovering Aboriginal Place: Ethnographic Groundwork in 19th-century New England”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, October 23, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/b>James Sidbury, Rice University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Tribal Identities in Seventeenth-Century North America”<\/span>
\n<\/b>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 4, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/span>Simon Newman, University of Glasgow<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Late-Eighteenth Century Jamaica”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 2, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/span>Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Nature and Visual Culture in the Americas”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Nature and Visual Culture in the Americas”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, January 22, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Last Days of Massachusetts Bay Company, Revisited”<\/span>
\n<\/b>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 3, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Mark Boonshoft, Norwich University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Education and the Struggle Over Who Should Rule at Home in the Early Republic”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 22, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Sarah M.S. Pearsall, Cambridge University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Christians Have Kept 3 Wives”<\/span>
\n<\/b>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 3, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Dissertation Workshop<\/span>
\n<\/span>Randall Meissen, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Religious Controversies and Ibero-American Science (1580-1640): Monks, Missionaries, and the Empirical Study of American Nature”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Nicole Gulhuis, UCLA<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Settler, Acadian, Cajun: French Routes in Atlantic Borderlands”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>Matthijs Tieleman, UCLA<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Revolutionary Wave: Dutch and American Patriots in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, March 26, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Sebasti\u00e1n G\u00f3mez Gonz\u00e1lez, Universidad de Antioquia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The First ‘Panama Papers’: Smuggling and Organized Crime in the Atlantic World, 1739-1760”<\/span>
\n<\/b>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 7, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Linford Fisher, Brown University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Indian Slave Trade in the English Caribbean, 1650-1700”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2016-2017<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, August 27, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/span>Nathalie Caron, Universit\u00e9 Paris Sorbonne<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Science and Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Volney’s Ambivalent Indian in Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d’Am\u00e9rique (1803)”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 24, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/span>Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Brigham Young University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Indians and The Uses and Abuses of the Land Market”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 22, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/span>Joseph M. Adelman, Framingham State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Digital Humanities and Early American History”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Liz Covart, Ben Franklin’s World<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Digital Humanities and Early American History”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, November 7, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/span>Andrew Lipman, Barnard College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Finding the Ocean’s Colonial Spaces: The Maritime and Global Turn in Native American History”<\/span>
\n<\/b>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 10, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/span>Stewart Davenport, Pepperdine University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Re-Defining Marriage, the Mormons, the Shakers, and Oneida Perfectionists”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 21, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/span>Nicholas Radburn, University of Southern California, EMSI Mellon Fellow in the Humanities<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Ship Crowding on the Middle Passage”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, February 13, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/b>Woody Holton, University of South Carolina<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The New Battlefield History of the American War of Independence”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 4, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/span>Dissertation Workshop<\/span>
\n<\/span>Karin Amundsen, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 1, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/span>Christopher Grasso, College of William & Mary<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Rise and Fall of Organized Deism, 1790-1812”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2015-2016<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 3, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/span>Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Townshend Brothers and Provincial Politicization”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, October 22, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>James Brooks, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat’ovi Pueblo”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 21, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Max Edling, University of London<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 16, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Katherine Grandjean, Wellesley College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Paper Pilgrims: Letter Writing and Communication in the Early Modern British World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lindsay O’Neill, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Paper Pilgrims: Letter Writing and Communication in the Early Modern British World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 6, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“American Exceptionalism: A Talk with one of NPR’s ‘History Guys’”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, March 7, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Caitlin C. Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Calculating Atlantic: Numbers and Moral Reckoning in the Slaveholding Atlantic World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 26, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Anticipating Emancipation: Mixed-Race Elites and Jamaica’s Transition to Freedom, 1813-1834”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 9, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Susan Lim, Biola University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“John Rogers and His ‘Crew’: Religious Dissent in Colonial New England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 30, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Alexandre Dub\u00e9, Washington University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Supplying Arguments: Governing French Louisiana in the Ancien R\u00e9gime”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2014-2015<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 27, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Strother Roberts, Huntington Fellow<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Beaver Ecology and the Global Fur Trade’s Transformation of New England<\/span>“<\/b>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 27, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>David Armitage, Harvard University<\/span>
\n<\/span>The History Manifesto<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 18, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>John Demos, Yale University, with Catherine Allgor, Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Conversation: The new book ‘Heathen School,’ and American Colonial History since 1970”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 1, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Allan Kulikoff, University of Georgia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Many Masks of Benjamin Franklin: A World of Virtuous Strivers, 1729-1757”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, November 24, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Christopher Magra, University of Tennessee<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Press Gangs and Profits: The Cost of Doing Business in the Atlantic World”<\/span>
\n<\/b>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 17, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jessica Stern, California State University, Fullerton<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘The same cloth he saw making’: Southeastern Indian and Anglo-American Cultures of Production in the Eighteenth Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, February 9, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Juliana Barr, University of Florida<\/span>
\n<\/span>“How Might an Origin Story for the Colonial Southwest be Told, if It Were Told from an Indian Perspective?”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 28, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Dissertation Workshop<\/span>
\n<\/span>Keith Pluymers<\/span>, <\/b>‘Colonizing lands and landscapes in the English Atlantic, c. 1580-c.1640’<\/span>
\n<\/b>John Fanestil, ‘The Martyrological Origins of the American Revolution’<\/span>
\n<\/span>Max Flomen,<\/span> ‘Of Dogs and Chattel: The Nature of Bondage in Texarkana, 1760-1840’<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, April 10, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Glenda Goodman, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Becoming Literate”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2013-2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, September 23, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>John Brooke, The Ohio State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Rising Tide: Climate, Population and Economy in the Global Late Medieval-Early Modern World 1350-1700”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 19, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Douglas Bradburn, The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Rise of the States: Governance, Order and the Causes of American Independence”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, November 4, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Alison Games, Georgetown University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Cohabitation Surinam Style: English Inhabitants in Dutch Surinam after 1667”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 16, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Steven W. Hackel, UCR, and Catherine Gudis, UCR<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Public History: Junipero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions Exhibit”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 18, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Ruth Wallis Herndon, Bowling Green State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“What Happened to Old Pat’s Children? : Growing Up Poor in Early America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, February 10, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Richard Samuelson, California State University, San Bernardino<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Resistance is not Feudal: John Adams, Rex v. Corbet, and the Right to Resist”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 1, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/span>Dissertation Workshop<\/span>
\n<\/span>Nicholas Gliserman, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cLandscapes of War: A Reconsideration of Geopolitics in Northeastern America 1688-1713\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jeffrey Muir, University of California, Irvine<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cFatherhood in Early America\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Samantha Seeley, New York University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cFreedom, Race and Forced Migration in the Early American Republic\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 12, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Kathleen S. Murphy, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Asiento Science: Natural History and the British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1713-1739”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2012-2013<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 15, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Max Edelson, University of Virginia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Where was the Proclamation Line?:\u00a0 How Britain Mapped the North American Indian Boundary, 1758-1774”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 20, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Sophie LeMercier-Goddard,\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Mirror Images in the Arctic: Fashioning National Identity in the Martin Frobisher Voyages 1576-1578”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 2, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Murder on the High Seas: the Slave Ship Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Albane Forestier, Independent Scholar<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Raising Capital in the French West Indian trade: the role of ethnicity and religion, 1783-1793”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, November 12, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Katherine E. Paugh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Politics of Reproduction in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, January 24, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jason Sharples, Catholic University of America<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Mastering Fear: Imagination, Rebellion, and Race in Early America”<\/span>
\n<\/b>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 23, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Carla Pestana, UCLA<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Religion, Empire, Innovation: The Spanish and English on the Western Design”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 9, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Adrian Finucane, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Imperial Entanglements: England, Spain, and the Colonial Trade in the Early 18th c.”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 16, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Timothy Breen, Northwestern University and University of Vermont<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Violence and Revenge on the Scotch-Irish Frontier: The American Legacy of the Siege of Londonderry<\/span>“<\/b>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, April 29, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>David Hancock, University of Michigan<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Surviving the City of London, 1650-1850”<\/span>
\n<\/b>USC<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 20, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Michael Carter, University of Dayton<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Enlightenment Catholicism: Mathew Carey and the Emergence of the Church in America, 1784-1839”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2011-2012<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, September 19, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Nathalie Caron<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Literary Aspects of Franco-American Relations in the Early Years of the Republic: The Jefferson-Barlow Translation of Volney’s Ruines (Paris, 1802)”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 29, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Kate Fawver, CSU Dominguez Hills<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Neolocality and Household Structure in Early America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday-Saturday, November 11-12, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Celebration of Roy Ritchie<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 14, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jonathan Eacott, UC Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“In an Imperial Orbit: The Rise of American Trade to India, 1784-1796”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 21, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Michael Block, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>“American Seal Hunters in the Pacific, 1790-1810”<\/span>
\n<\/b>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 11, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Presenting Slavery: A Study in Public History<\/span>
\n<\/span>Ann Lindsay, University of Central Florida\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>
\n<\/span>“Slavery can be found outside: Race, Memory, and Residential Interpretation”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Michael Quinn, James Madison’s Montpeller,<\/span>
\n<\/span>“At home with James Madison: the Father of the Constitution as Slaveowner”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Catherine Allgor, UCR<\/span>
\n<\/span>Moderator<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 6, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jennifer Morgan, NYU<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘Other Merchandises:’ Ideology, Commodity and the African Trades in the 17th Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 24, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amy Turner Bushnell, Independent Scholar<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Freedom from Want: The Quest for Food Security in the Americas before the Columbian Exchange”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, March 26, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jack P. Greene, John Hopkins University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Britain and the American Revolution: A Reconsideration”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, April 20, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Bianca Premo, Florida International University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire: Possession, Position, Period”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC, University Park Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

2010-2011<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 25, 2010<\/b>
\n<\/b>Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Slavery, Sovereignty, and ‘Inheritable Blood’: The Struggle Over Locke’s Virginia Plan of 1698 in the Wake of the Glorious Revolution”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, October 11, 2010<\/b>
\n<\/span>Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Representing Slave Revolt in a Slave Society:\u00a0 Images of the Amistad Rebellion”<\/span>
\n<\/b>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 13, 2010<\/b>
\n<\/b>Mark Hanna, UC San Diego<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Boston Buccaneers: The South Sea Pirates Come North 1674-1689”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 29, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Alan Taylor, UC Davis<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Civil War of 1812”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 12, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Marcia Norton, George Washington University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“People and Animals in the Early Modern World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 26, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Seth Rockman, Brown University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Plantation Goods and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, April 11, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 30, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Sharon Block, UCI<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Describing Bodies in Colonial America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2009-2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 26, 2009
\nAlexander Haskell, UC Riverside
\n“Marshland or Commonwealth? Virginia 1577 to 1622”<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 17, 2009<\/strong>
\nAnn Plane, UC Santa Barbara
\n“‘When I Awaked’: Colonialism and the Cultural Meaning of Dreams in 17th-Century New England”<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 5, 2009<\/strong>
\nDavid Hall, Harvard University
\n“The Political Culture of Early New England”<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 14, 2009<\/strong>
\nTrevor Burnard, University of Warwick
\n“Early American History in the 21st Century”<\/p>\n

Saturday, December 5, 2009<\/strong>
\nFran\u00e7ois Furstenberg, University of Montreal
\n“French Land Speculators in the U.S.: A New Perspective on the 18th-Century American Dream”<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 23, 2010<\/strong>
\nEmily Berquist, CSU Long Beach
\n“The Science of Empire: Local Botany in Late Bourbon Peru”<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 13, 2010<\/strong>
\nJohn Wallis, University of Maryland
\n“Founding Errors: Making Democracy Safe for America”<\/p>\n

Monday, March 1, 2010<\/strong>
\nMargaretta Lovell, UC Berkeley
\n“Fitz Henry Lane: Time, Memory, Canvas, and Lumber in 19th-Century New England”<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 17, 2010<\/strong>
\nSteven Hackel, UC Riverside
\n“New Directions in Early American Indian History”<\/p>\n

2008-2009<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 13, 2008
\nDenise MacNeil, University of Redlands
\n“Two Early American Heroines and the Roots of the American Frontier Hero”<\/p>\n

Friday & Saturday, October 3 & 4, 2008<\/strong>
\nConference: “Permanence & the Built Environment in the 18th-Century Atlantic World”<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 20, 2008<\/strong>
\nMary Beth Norton, Cornell University
\n“Lady Frances Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon & the Politics of Gendered Power in 17th-Century Virginia”<\/p>\n

Saturday, December 6, 2008<\/strong>
\nTravis Glasson, Temple University
\n“Codrington Plantation, Anglican Missionaries, and Anti-Slavery Debates”<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 24, 2009<\/strong>
\nFredrika Teute, College of William & Mary
\n“The Spectacle of Washington: Envisioning a New Nation in Margaret Bayard Smith’s Federal City”<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 14, 2009<\/strong>
\nJulie Kim, Fordham University
\n“Appetite and Affiliation: Race between Empires in the Early Atlantic World”<\/p>\n

Monday, March 23, 2009<\/strong>
\nLaurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
\n“Learning from Quilts”<\/p>\n

Friday & Saturday, April 17 & 18, 2009<\/strong>
\nConference: “Permanence & the Built Environment in the Pacific Basin, 1700-1820”<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 16, 2009<\/strong>
\nJames Spady, Soka University
\n“Conversion and Conspiracy as Evidence of Subaltern Learning Strategies in Early America”<\/p>\n

2007-2008<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 8, 2007<\/strong>
\nConference: “Jamestown at 400: Natives and Newcomers in Early Virginia”
\nPresenters:
\nAllison Games, Georgetown
\nJames Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
\nKaren Kupperman, NYU
\nPeter Mancall, USC
\nCamilla Townsend, Colgate<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 20, 2007<\/strong>
\nSusanah Romney, Whittier College
\n“Intimate Networks on the New Netherland Frontier in the 17th Century”<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2007<\/strong>
\nDavid Walker, UCLA
\nwith comments by Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas
\ndiscussion of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 17, 2007<\/strong>
\nJorge Ca\u00f1izares-Esguerra, University of Texas-Austin
\nDiscussion of Puritan Conquistadors\u00a0<\/em>
\nCo-sponsored with the EMSI Colonial Latin America Seminar<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 6, 2007<\/strong>
\nRichard Bushman, Columbia University
\n“The American Farmer”<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 19, 2008<\/strong>
\nChristopher Leslie Brown, Rutgers University
\n“The Rise and Fall of British Liberty in the West Indies”<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 23, 2008<\/strong>
\nGregory O’Malley, California Institute of Technology
\n“Final Passages: Intercolonial Slave Trading in 18th-century British America”<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 15, 2008<\/strong>
\nAllan Greer, University of Toronto
\n“Property in Early America”<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 15, 2008<\/strong>
\nA Roundtable on New Research in Early American Indian History
\nParticipants:
\nMathew Dennis, University of Oregon
\nJoseph Hall, Bates College
\nEric Hinderaker, University of Utah
\nKeith Swinehart, Wesleyan University<\/p>\n

2006-2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 9, 2006<\/strong>
\nEve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma
\n“Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals & Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680\u20131820”<\/p>\n

October 21, 2006<\/strong>
\nSharon Salinger, University of California, Irvine & Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
\n“Whom did Mr. Love Warn Out of Boston?”<\/p>\n

November 27, 2006<\/strong>
\nGary Nash, UCLA
\n“Jefferson, Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hall”<\/p>\n

December 9, 2006<\/strong>
\nVincent Brown, Harvard University
\n“The Reaper’s Garden: Last Rites & First Principles in Jamaican Slave Society”<\/p>\n

January 20, 2007<\/strong>
\nDavid Hancock, University of Michigan
\n“How Wide is the Ocean? Atlantic Ties to Backcountry American Enterprise”<\/p>\n

February 8, 2007<\/strong>
\nPhilip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
\n“Slavery & Freedom: Black Experiences in Britain’s Maritime World, 1763\u20131833”<\/p>\n

March 3, 2007<\/strong>
\nMark Peterson, University of Iowa
\n“Boston and the Atlantic World”<\/p>\n

March 24, 2007<\/strong>
\nDenise Bossy, Trinity College
\n“A Slave or a Wife?: Gender & Enslavement of Indians in the Colonial Southeast”<\/p>\n

April 14, 2007<\/strong>
\nPeter C. Mancall, University of Southern California
\n“The Revolutionary Origins of Indian Removal”<\/p>\n

May 12, 2007<\/strong>
\nHolly Shulman, University of Virginia, with comment by Catherine Allgor, UC Riverside
\n“Dolley Madison and the Early Republic”<\/p>\n

2004\u20132005<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

January 2005<\/strong>
\nThomas Weiss, University of Kansas
\n“Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region”<\/p>\n

March 12, 2005<\/strong>
\nStewart Davenport, Pepperdine University
\n“Liberal America\/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus”<\/p>\n

2003\u20132004<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 11, 2003<\/strong>
\nJennifer M. Spear, University of California, Berkeley
\n“Manumission, Metissage, and Limpieza de Sangra in Spanish Louisiana”<\/p>\n

November 8, 2003<\/strong>
\nJon Butler, Yale University<\/p>\n

March 7, 2004<\/strong>
\nTrevor Burnard, University of Sussex
\n“The Slave Owners of Jamaica, 1724\u201384”<\/p>\n

March 8, 2004<\/strong>
\nTrevor Burnard, University of Sussex
\n“Sex, Slavery, and Film”<\/p>\n

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