recent and upcoming events
5-6 March 2010
Philadelphia
Crossing the Bar: Transatlantic Poetics in the Nineteenth Century
A conference sponsored by the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania

confirmed speakers: Kirstie Blair, Julia Carlson, Max Cavitch, Michael Cohen, Jason Hall,
Virginia Jackson, Charles LaPorte, Tricia Lootens, Meredith Martin, Meredith McGill, Yopie Prins,
Elizabeth Renker, Eliza Richards, Jess Roberts, Catherine Robson, Jason Rudy, Carolyn Williams
1 February 2010
New Brunswick
Rutgers English Department Alumni Lecture
23-24 October 2009
Philadelphia
The Industrious Bee: Francis Daniel Pastorius, His Manuscripts, and His World
A conference co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries

confirmed speakers: Rosalind J. Beiler, Alfred L. Brophy, Sandra Chaff, Jim Duffin, Patrick Erben,
Anthony Grafton, James Green, Amey Hutchins, Margo Lambert, Violet Lutz, Jon Pahl,
Brooke Palmieri, Nancy Shawcross, Peter Stallybrass, Bethany Wiggin, Don Yoder
23 October 2009
Philadelphia
Faculty Seminar on Jewish Masculinities

Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
20-24 July 2009
Philadelphia
Mellon Summer Workshop in Early American Literature and Material Texts

Library Company of Philadelphia, 24 July 2009
15-19 June 2009
Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou
Narratives of Free Trade in Early Sino-American Relations: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium

University of Hong Kong, 15 June 2009 more snaps here
4-7 March 2009
Bermuda
Society of Early Americanists Sixth Biennial Conference

St. George, Bermuda, 3 March 2009