[nativestudies-l] CFP: British Group in Early American History Annual Conference, Manchester, England

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For folks interested in Indians in the Atlantic World, or Indians-colonial relations:


From: Natalie Zacek [mailto:natalie.a.zacek at manchester.ac.uk]=20
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:11 AM
Subject: CFP: Reminder: CFP for British Group in Early American History

Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the British Group in Early American History =
(BGEAH),
University of Manchester, September 12-14, 2008
Co-Sponsored by the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and =
Culture


The Conference
Departing from tradition, this year's annual conference has no =20
specific theme, and welcomes proposals, both of complete panels (two =20
or three papers with a chair and/or commentator) and of individual =20
papers, on all topics related to the history and culture of colonial =20
and early national America and the Atlantic world. Submissions are =20
welcome from scholars at all levels, from senior scholars to those at =20
an early stage in postgraduate study, and from those working in =20
literary and cultural studies, historical geography and sociology, and =20
visual studies, as well as from historians.

The following events have been confirmed:
*Keynote address by Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation =20
Professor of History, University of Virginia, and Harmsworth Visiting =20
Professor of History, Oxford
*'Book Club' session with Sarah Knott, Indiana University, on her new =20
monograph, Sensibility and the American Revolution (forthcoming from =20
the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture);
*Roundtable discussion on 'Gender, Poverty, and Charity in the =20
Colonial and Antebellum South,' centering on Ben Marsh's (University of  =

Stirling) Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern =20
Colony (University of Georgia Press, 2007; winner of the Malcolm and =20
Muriel Barrow Bell Award) and Tim Lockley's (University of Warwick) =20
Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South (University Press of =20
Florida, 2007)
*Dedicated session for postgraduate paper presenters, and luncheon =20
meeting to discuss creation of a network of postgraduates working in =20
early American studies

Please send proposals, by March 15, 2008, preferably by email =20
attachment, to Natalie Zacek at natalie.a.zacek at manchester.ac.uk
or on disk to:

Dr Natalie Zacek=20
Department of History=20
School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures=20
University of Manchester=20
Oxford Road=20
Manchester M13 9PL UK

The City

Manchester, the third-largest city in England, is a vibrant, =20
multicultural metropolis, noted for its music and visual arts scenes, =20
diversity of ethnic communities, and large student population. It has =20
excellent rail links to most British cities, and its international =20
airport receives direct flights from many European and North American =20
cities. The John Rylands Library on Deansgate in the city centre, =20
recently reopened after a =A316 million-pound refurbishment, and its =20
sister institution, the John Rylands University Library on the =20
Manchester campus, hold a number of collections of particular interest =20
to early Americanists, including the Stapleton Manuscripts (on the =20
history of the Leeward Islands in the late seventeenth and early =20
eighteenth centuries), the Brooke of Mere Muniments (records of =20
Antiguan plantations in the early nineteenth century), the Thomas Coke =20
Papers (on missionary endeavours in colonial British America), the =20
Raymond Anti-Slavery Collection, the Voyages and Travel Collection, =20
the Manchester Geographical Society Collection, and numerous sources =20
on the global/transatlantic textile industry. Conference-goers might =20
also wish to visit the newly opened International Slavery Museum in =20
Liverpool, a forty-five-minute train ride from Manchester?s Piccadilly =20
Station.

Conference Committee:
Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester, programme chair
Steve Sarson, University of Wales Swansea
Simon Middleton, University of Sheffield
Tom Rodgers, University of Warwick (postgraduate representative)

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