Washington Early American Seminar Series
The Washington Early American Seminar Series brings senior scholars, junior faculty, and advanced graduate students to College Park to discuss their work in progress. The seminar is composed of graduate students and faculty from the University of Maryland and a host of other area institutions and is convened by Professors Rick Bell, Christopher Bonner, Holly Brewer, Clare Lyons.
The seminar meets at regular intervals throughout the academic year on Fridays at 4pm in Taliaferro Hall 2110. Papers (typically 30-40 pages) are pre-circulated among seminar participants seven days in advance of each meeting. The ninety-minute workshop is followed by dinner with the presenter at a local restaurant.
To join the seminar email list or to apply to present a work in progress in future cycles, please contact Prof. Rick Bell (rjbell@umd.edu) or Prof. Holly Brewer (hbrewer@umd.edu). We usually issue a call for papers in April.
Schedule of Events
Schedule of Events, Spring 2020
February 7: 4pm, TLF 2110. William Thomas (University of Nebraska): “Maryland Freedom Suits: African American Families Who Challenged Slavery.” Respondent: Holly Hynson (Maryland)
March 6: 4pm, TLF 2110. Adrian Chastain Weimer (Providence College): “Subjecthood and Sovereignty in Restoration Massachusetts Bay." Respondent: Joe Rooney (Maryland)
April 10: 4pm, TLF 2110. Marcus P. Nevius (University of Rhode Island): “'An Intire Tax': Dismal Plantation and the Question of Petit Marronage, 1760s to the 1790s." Respondent: Taylor Kocher (Maryland)
May 8: 4pm. Special Location: Fred W. Smith Library at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Travis Glasson (Temple University): “'A ‘Neutral and Equivocal Character’: Peter Van Schaack and the Price of Conscience in the American Revolution." Respondent: Derek Litvak (Maryland)
Other DC-area seminars of interest to scholars of Early American history include:
The Slavery, Memory and African Diasporas Seminar hosted by Howard University
The Early Modern Global History Seminar hosted by Georgetown University
The 19th-Century U.S. History Workshop hosted by Georgetown University
