The Ohio Seminar in Early American History and Culture, 2009

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 Web site 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 Web site at:
http://chr.osu.edu/program.cfm#07

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Ohio Early American Seminar Schedule, Spring 2009

An Ohio Seminar co-sponsored by the SHEAR Regional Program Initiative

April 16:

Jack Rakove, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

The Nexus Between Politics and Political Ideas: Jack Rakove on Writing the History of the Early American Republic
Thursday, 3:30-5:00, Guthrie Seminar Room, 168 Dulles Hall

Professor  Rakove will talk with graduate students, faculty, and regional SHEAR members on his general approach to writing political and constitutional history. He will give special attention to his reasons for avoiding the ideological disputes over republicanism and liberalism, to the hows and whys of taking the lawyers' debate over originalism as posing serious problems for historians to consider; and also to his special interest in Madison.

He recommends that the participants reread the following essays/chapters:
Original Meanings, chapter 1, "The Perils of Originalism"
"Thinking like a Constitution," Journal of the Early Republic, 24 (2004), 1-26
"Confessions of an Ambivalent Originalist," New York Univ. Law Review, 78 (2003), 1346-56

Ohio Early American Seminar Schedule, Winter, 2009

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 Web site 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

If you should have any questions about the presentations, please feel free to contact either of the co-conveners:

Randy Roth 614-292-6843 roth.5@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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