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Rather than presenting papers, each participant in this interdisciplinary panel, including Michael Elliott of Emory University, author of _Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer_, will make a four- or five-minute opening statement laying out a specific issue or question related to the book. That round of brief opening statements frees up time for lively, substantive discussion that engages audience members as well as panelists. In organizing and occasionally chairing sessions along these lines (e.g., with Woody Holton on his _Unruly Americans_, at our most recent bienniale; with historian Marcus Rediker on _The Slave Ship_ at the Society of Early Americanists’ sixth biennial conference, in Hamilton, Bermuda; with Stephanie Smallwood on her Frederick Douglass Prize-winning _Salt-Water Slavery_, for the November ‘009 American Studies Association conference, in D.C.; with Joanna Brooks on her _American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures_ at the ASA’s ‘006 conference at Oakland; with Vincent Carretta on _Equiano, the African_ at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ ‘007 conference, at Atlanta; with Joseph Roach on _Cities of the Dead_, at ASECS’s ‘006 conference in Montréal; with Srinivas Aravamudan on _Tropicopolitans_, at the New Orleans ASECS, in ‘001, and so on), the session organizer has learned to work hard at avoiding two extremes: on the one hand, assembling a tablefull of sycophants ready to drool on cue and/or the author, and, on the other, assembling a lineup that would include someone intent on an academic ambush: trashing author over his or her methods, conclusions, and maybe parents. No fan club, then, and no food fights! Dinnertime Monday, Sept 13 firm deadline for contacting Dennis Moore, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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By Dennis Moore, Thu, August 26, 2010 - 3:36 pm
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