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Early American Matters Caucus

Good morning, each and all, and here we go! In our recent canvass, a total of 33 members of our Caucus voted to pick the session we’ll designate as the one we’re sponsoring this fall, i.e., the one from among those six early-American-flavored panels that’re all already on the program. Behold:

“K E Y W O R D S IN EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES,”
which Prof. Duncan Faherty organized and
will chair, came in first. Excellent choice!

As for individual early-American-flavored papers, wherever they’ll appear throughout the program, please keep in mind that Karen Salt, tireless member of our Caucus’s petite working committee, has volunteered to compile info from among us to make a list of those papers. Thanks again, Karen.

Meanwhile, as for the five other panels that were on our recent ballot, each one is already an integral part of this fall’s program:

“On the Borders of Crisis: Alarm Aesthetics
and Politics in the Early Americas,”
organized and chaired by Prof. Emily García

“Colloquy on Affiliation, Attachment
and Change in Early America and Beyond,”
organized and chaired by yours truly

“Remembering the Past: Toni Morrison’s
Seventeenth Century in Today’s Classroom,”
organized by Prof. Chiara Cillerai
and chaired by Prof. Lisa Logan—and
including Dr. Carolyn Denard of Emory University
(Founder, Past President and Chair of the
Advisory Board of the Toni Morrison Society)

“Without Chains: Piracy in the New World,”
organized by Prof. Gretchen J. Woertendyke

“The Shock of the Old: History, Knowledge,
and Change in Nineteenth-Century America,”
organized by another tireless member of our
Caucus’s working committee, Paul Erickson,
who points out that this panel will show up
on the program as sponsored by the American
Antiquarian Society

Thanks again to Prof. Peter Reed: as a member of our working committee, he tirelessly encouraged everyone in the Caucus to consider proposing first-rate early-American-flavored panels.

Looking forward,

—Dennis Moore

By Dennis Moore, Mon, May 03, 2010 - 6:47 am
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