recent and upcoming events


23-24 March 2012
Aix-en-Provence

Phillis Wheatley and the History of the Book as the History of Recollection
Race, Ethnicity, and Publishing conference, Aix-Marseille Université



8 February 2012
Philadelphia

No One Voice
Penn Cinema Studies Colloquium
330 Fisher Bennet Hall



27-29 October 2011
Philadelphia

Refusing Privacy


Critical Refusals: Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, University of Pennsylvania



exhibit opening 26 October 2011
New York

Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place



20-23 October 2011
Baltimore

Session chair, AIDS in America: Memory, Performance, Politics


American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hilton Baltimore


19 January 2011
Philadelphia

Privacy? Sensation! A Panel on Celebrity Patients and Psychoanalysis
Slought Foundation Gallery, University of Pennsylvania

panelists: Arthur Caplan, Max Cavitch, Frederick Fisher, Sharrona Pearl, Jean-Michel Rabaté (moderator), Katherine Sender



9-11 December 2010
Paris

Early American Historiography and Private Life


EEASA Biennial conference, Université Paris-Diderot



29 March 2010
Philadelphia

Touching the Matter of Privacy
Material Texts Seminar, University of Pennsylvania



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

The Pornography of Migration: Sex, Cinema, and Unsettlement in Israel and Palestine
Rutgers English Department Annual 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