Meetings, conferences or symposia

Lehrman American Studies Center Summer Institute
The Lehrman American Studies Center seeks nominations for its annual Summer Institute program hosted each June in partnership with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. More information about the Summer Institute concept and design may be found online at http://lehrman.isi.org/about/programs/ Nominees are accepted from a variety of humanities disciplines, including but not limited to the following fields: history, politics, philosophy, economics, literature, and theology. Nominees should be in the beginning stages of their careers--graduate students at the dissertation phase, post-doctoral fellows, visiting professors and lecturers, as well as assistant professors are encouraged to apply. Newly-tenured faculty members will also be considered. The successful nominee will demonstrate a command of their academic field of inquiry and a dedication to classroom instruction at the collegiate level. Each nomination should be accompanied by a brief cover letter and the candidate's curriculum vitae. While self-nominations are accepted, the application will not be considered without a letter of reference from a peer or mentor. Please direct all nominations and inquiries to the Executive Director of the Lehrman American Studies Center, Ms. Kelly Hanlon at lehrman@isi.org with "Nomination" in the subject line of the message. [2645 | 7]

Reconciliation in America: Getting Beyond Race Riots
The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation announces a call for papers for its inaugural symposium, "Reconciliation in America: Getting Beyond Race Riots" on June 2-4, 2010 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The symposium will gather scholars of the race riot phenomena in the U.S. and the aftermath in communities that suffered from them from the end of the Civil War to the 1920's. In 1921, Tulsa was the scene of the most violent of these episodes, and Dr. Franklin's father was an eyewitness and lawyer for the victims. The Center for Reconciliation has been established to turn the tragedy of the 1921 Race Riot into a triumph of reconciliation. The symposium will honor Dr. Franklin's legacy by attracting the best scholars and practitioners to address racial violence, why it happens and how the wounds can be healed. In addition to scholarly papers and Focus on Progress sessions led by community practitioners of reconciliation, a public town hall will encourage dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and Tulsans about the role the John Hope Franklin Center can play in advancing the work of reconciliation locally and nationally. Sessions will be on video and select papers will be published on the Center's website. The deadline for proposals is January 1, 2010, and they should be sent to the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, 121 North Greenwood Ave, Suite A, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74120, Attention Jeffrey Kos or by e-mail to jkos@jhfcenter.org [2667 | 7]

2010 NCHE National Conference
Each spring, the National Council for History Education holds a national conference. The national conference is a place where everyone who loves to teach and learn history can come together and share. NCHE encourages conference proposals that illustrate collaboration and history education. The 2010 Conference theme is Crossroads of Peoples and Places Over Time and will be held at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego, CA. [2692 | 7]

Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth Century
Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long 18th Century This conference discusses the ways in which people and polities from the Americas, Europe, and Africa assumed, legitimized, rejected and interacted with various forms of authority in the ‘long eighteenth century.’ This period is typically characterized by the dissolution of Atlantic Empires combined with the emergence of the nation state. Yet, historians have begun to argue that even as nation states began to emerge in the colonial Atlantic, empires continued to thrive, reconstructing themselves in the face of changing notions of sovereignty, freedom and territoriality. This conference will explore the affinities, groups and networks that were important to peoples’ thinking and acting politically and examine the ways that nations and empires coexisted and came into conflict during the period of the ‘long eighteenth century.’ 'Forming Nations, Reforming Empires' is sponsored by the Atlantic World Program at New York University, and will be held at New York University's Ireland House, in Greenwich Village, New York, NY. Please see our conference website for further details: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/atlantic/Conference2010.html Program FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH 11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Registration at Ireland House 1:00 – 1:30: Welcome – Dr. Karen Kupperman (NYU) 1:30 – 3:30: Panel 1 – Migration, Emigration and Expulsion Jeffrey Fortin (SUNY Oneonta) – "Unsettling of a nation is easy: the settling is not:" Removal and the construction of empire in the long eighteenth century Mariana Perez (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina) – How to Migrate to the River Plate: migratory strategies of low-income Spaniards during the last few decades of colonial times Andrés Estefane (SUNY Stony Brook) – Scientific Expeditions, Territorial Disputes, and the Forging of a National Historiography: the case of Chile Daniel Papsdorf (Wichita State University) – A Fluid Frontier: the Mississippi during the Revolutionary War 3:30 – 4:00: Coffee Break 4:00 – 6:00: Keynote Address Fredrika Teute (Omohundro Institute, College of William and Mary) - "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive": love and abandon in the 1790s 6:00 – onwards: Conference Dinner SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Coffee and Refreshments 9:00 – 11:00: Panel 2 – The Local in the Atlantic Martha Few (University of Arizona) – The Fetus as Colonial Subject: gender, race, and reproduction in the eighteenth-century Spanish Atlantic Liza Gijanto (Syracuse University) – Commerce, authority, and consumption in Niumi, the Gambia, during the height of the Atlantic trade James Coltrain (Northwestern University) – Fuerte Real: The Castillo San Marcos and provincial identity in the Atlantic world Steve Lenik (Syracuse University) – Moving Beyond the Mission in Frontiers and Borderlands: A Jesuit plantation and church within the cultural landscape of Grand Bay Quarter, Dominica, West Indies, 1748-1763 11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break 11:15 – 1:15: Panel 3 – Negotiating Interstitial Power Ross Newton (Northeastern University) – Networking and Empire: politics and territorial sovereignty in the Bay of Honduras Adrian Finucane (Harvard University) – Anglo-Spanish Imperial Interaction in the Caribbean, 1713-1739 Christopher Ebert (CUNY Brooklyn College) – Maintaining Exclusion: British trade with Brazil after the War of the Spanish Succession: 1714-1750. Luis Granados (University of Chicago) – Crust and Crumb of the U.S.-Mexican War 1:15 – 2:15: Lunch 2:15 – 4:15: Panel 4 – Mechanisms of Imperial Control Karen Racine (University of Guelph) – Coded Anti-colonialism: The use (and misuse) of Napoleon in the rhetoric and practice of late colonial Spanish American patriotism, 1808-1814 Elena Schneider (Princeton) – British Occupation and the Limits of Imperial Sovereignty in 18th-century Havana Pernille Røge (Oxford) – Danish, British and French colonial experimentation on the West African Coast, 1780s - 1790s Akin Ogundiran (UNC Charlotte) – Political Economy and Cultural Works of the Old Oyo Empire 4:15 – 4:30: Coffee Break 4:30 – 5:30: Closing Roundtable – States, Nations, Empires and Polities in the Long 18th Century - Jerusha Westbury (NYU), Anelise Shrout (NYU) 5:30 – 7:30: Refreshments [2699 | 7]

Society for Historical Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology 2010 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology January 6-9, 2010 Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, Florida For conference information, please visit the SHA website at www.sha.org or contact the SHA at hq@sha.org. [2702 | 7]

Deism and the Founding of the United States
During the 17th and 18th centuries, many “freethinking” Europeans embraced Deism, a theology that subjected religious truth to the authority of human reason. In colonial America, Deism found few adherents, but those who were attracted to it tended to be wealthy and educated, leaders in colonial society and politics. Today, debate swirls around the role deism played in the founding of the nation. What was this “religion of nature”? How can we explain it to students? Who among the Founders were Deists? What influence did Deism have on the culture of the new nation? Leader: Ryan Smith, Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University Date and Time: Thursday Jan. 28, 2010; 7:00 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Jan. 21, 2010 [2704 | 7]

Deism and the Founding of the United States
During the 17th and 18th centuries, many “freethinking” Europeans embraced Deism, a theology that subjected religious truth to the authority of human reason. In colonial America, Deism found few adherents, but those who were attracted to it tended to be wealthy and educated, leaders in colonial society and politics. Today, debate swirls around the role deism played in the founding of the nation. What was this “religion of nature”? How can we explain it to students? Who among the Founders were Deists? What influence did Deism have on the culture of the new nation? Leader: Ryan Smith, Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University Date and Time: Thursday Jan. 28, 2010; 7:00 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Jan. 21, 2010 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm [2705 | 7]

The Role of the West in the Reunification of the US after the Civil War
When we teach Reconstruction, we typically focus on the struggle to reunite the North and the South. But what of the West? What role did it play in national reunification? The late nineteenth century was the zenith of westward expansion. Western images dominated American culture. What did the wide-open spaces of the West represent to the Americans who were crowding into the cities of the Northeast? What did they represent to the ex-Confederates who resented the imposition of federal power in the South? How did the West shape the nation that emerged from the Civil War? Leader: Heather Cox Richardson, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Date and Time: Feb. 10, 2010; 7:00 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Feb. 3, 2010 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm [2706 | 7]

The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century
The United States marked its 100th anniversary in 1876 with the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, a birthday party that celebrated mechanical progress. But in late nineteenth-century America, progress did not simply mean generating more horsepower. It meant cleaning up cities, reforming government, improving the efficiency of workers, and professionalizing endeavors like playing baseball and studying history. The idea of progress reached into every corner of American life. How did Americans define progress at that time? How did progress manifest itself? And how did it shape America? Leader: Henry Binford, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University Date and Time: Thursday Feb. 18, 2010; 7:00 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Feb. 11, 2010 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm [2707 | 7]

Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency founded to combat rural poverty. While it spent millions of dollars between 1935 and 1946 to improve the lives of poor farmers, it is remembered today for its documentary photography program. The photographs of rural America taken by FSA photographers in the 1930s have assumed iconic status and have come to define the look of the Great Depression. What can they teach about America in the 1930s? What can they tell us about the truth of documentary photography? How can we read them as images? Leader: Anthony W. Lee, Associate Professor of Art, Mount Holyoke College Date and Time: Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010; 7:00 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Feb. 16, 2010 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm [2708 | 7]

Walt Whitman’s Civil War Poetry - An American Experience Workshop
Reflecting on the Civil War in 1892, Walt Whitman concluded, “The real war will never get in the books.” But Whitman did try to bring the real war into his poems. An anti-slavery Democrat, who dressed the wounds of both Northern and Southern soldiers, Whitman wrote poems that describe the circumstances of war—from the exuberant optimism of 1861 to the blood-soaked exhaustion of 1865. How did he interpret the slaughter and sacrifice of the Civil War? How can we bring students to the “the real war” through his poems? This workshop is a collaboration between the National Humanities Center and public television’s historical documentary film series American Experience. Participants will view the American Experience film Walt Whitman and explore how to use it in the classroom. Leader: Franny Nudelman, Associate Professor of English, Carleton University Date and Time: Thursday Mar. 18, 2010; 7:00 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Mar. 11, 2010 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm [2709 | 7]

Hamilton’s America-Jefferson’s America - An American Experience Workshop
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson offered distinct visions for the nation they were founding—one urban and industrial, the other rural and agrarian. In twenty-first- century America, a nation of cities and commerce, it is easy to think Hamilton won. But did he? How did the two visions clash in eighteenth-century America? What were their origins, and what have they meant for the United States? This workshop is a collaboration between the National Humanities Center and public television’s historical documentary series American Experience. Participants will view the American Experience film Alexander Hamilton and explore how to use it in the classroom. Leader: Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Professor of History, University of Virginia Date and Time: Wednesday Mar. 24, 2010; 7:00 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Mar. 17, 2010 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm [2710 | 7]