The Ohio Seminar in Early American History and
Culture, 2008
This announces the schedule for the Ohio Seminar in Early American History
and Culture for Winter 2008. The seminar will meet three times this winter.
We welcome all faculty and graduate students with an interest in early
American studies.
The papers will be available in printable PDF format
here on the Ohio Seminar website about two weeks prior to each meeting – follow
the prompt below to access the papers. This page is password protected:
please contact John
Brooke for access. A limited number of copies of the
papers will be available at the department front desk in Dulles Hall.
We
would like to invite the Ohio Seminar membership to attend the meetings
of the department’s Center for Historical Research. The center’s
two-year program, “Crossroads of Globalization: ‘Hot Spots’ in
the Early Modern World,” will be of particular interest to anyone
working or teaching in the early modern era. The Center will not meet this
winter, but will have a series of presentations on Charlestown, Quebec,
and Detroit in the Spring Quarter.
For further information ands contacts,
please consult the Center’s Program website at:
http://chr.osu.edu/program.cfm#07
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Ohio Early American Seminar Schedule, Winter, 2008
January 18
Andrew Schocket, Bowling Green State University
Revolutionary Studies: New Approaches to the American Revolution
We as early Americanists recognize a fissure in our overall
conception of the American Revolution between an ideological school
on the one hand and a social conflict school on the other, but increasingly
recognize that neither one exclusively, nor the two of them together,
offer fully satisfactory models. This work-in-progress is an
attempt to transcend current scholarship through by invoking the sociology
of revolutions, considering the intersections of revolutionary ideological
and cultural change with race, class, gender, and ethnicity; employing
revolutionary disorder as a lens of analysis, and recognizing the
continuities and disconnections among different scales of human experience,
thus proposing a new, more interdisciplinary, more comparative, and
chronologically- and geographically-broader framework for the study
of the American Revolution.
February 8
Margaret Sumner, Ohio State University, Marion Campus
“Object of Interest”: College Families and Their Construction
Principle, 1820-1850
As they designed and managed a new generation of college communities
along the borders of the new republic, early American college families
attracted attention by the distinct construction principle they
tried to implement in their communities: a collective refusal to
countenance the public and private divide growing in their wider
culture. My paper explores how these families used their buildings,
their local spaces, and their very selves as working models of this
principle, determined to prove that the reconnection of the public
and private sphere would be, in their opinion, the key to renovating
the republic and saving what was left of its virtue.
February 29
Brian Schoen, Ohio University
"Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton."
Southern planter-politicians commitment to slavery has made them
appear as backward-looking traditionalists. Yet their central
place in a vibrant international cotton trade and support for free
trade theories and policies placed them, in their minds at least,
on the frontline of a modern-looking internationalism. This
chapter explains how national and international developments associated
with the cotton trade informed regional responses to protectionism,
and how, in turn, battles to protect slavery and free trade during
the 1820s reshaped planters’ perceptions of themselves and
the union.
The seminar will meet in 168 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave.,
Ohio State University, Columbus Campus, 4:00-5:45. Papers will be posted
on the seminar website roughly two weeks prior to the seminar meeting,
with a detailed announcement following. We will continue our tradition
of a "Dutch-treat" dinner following the seminar, open to all,
at a restaurant of the presenter's choosing!! Further details
will be distributed prior to each seminar. Anyone with questions
regarding these sessions should contact John Brooke: brooke.10@osu.edu
I f you should have any questions about the presentations,
please feel free to contact either of the co-conveners:
John Brooke 614-292-8757
brooke.10@osu.edu
Margaret Newell 614-292-2495 newell.20@osu.edu
Steering committee:
John Brooke, Ohio State University
Margaret Newell, Ohio State University
Drew Cayton, Miami University
Carla Pestana, Miami University
Mitchell Snay, Denison College
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