Society of Early Americanists

SEA Archive and Past Meetings

Minutes and Correspondence

Affiliation with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Society of Early Americanists Website, a brief history

Past Meetings:

SEA Conferences

1999
The SEA held its first conference March 4-7, 1999, in Charleston,
South Carolina. To view the program click here: Program.
For a list of people attending the conference, click here: Participants.

2001
The second SEA conference was held in Norfolk, Virginia, March 8-10, 2001.
For a brief description of the conference, click here: Information.
For the Program, click here: Program
For the text of David Shields's Presidential Address at this conference,
click here: Address.

2003
The third SEA conference was held in Providence, Rhode Island, April
10-13, 2003. Program

2005
The fourth SEA conference was held in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia,
March 31-April 2, 2005. Program.
For the text of Zabelle Stodola's Presidential Address, click here: Address

2007
The fifth SEA conference was held in Williamsburg, Virginia,
June 7-10, 2007, jointly with the Thirteenth Annual Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture conference. Program.
For the text of Dennis Moore's Presidential Address, please click here: Address
For comments on the conference from the OIEAHC's Director, please click here

2009
The sixth SEA conference was held in Hamilton, Bermuda, March 4-7, 2009.
For the conference program, please click here.

Affiliated and Other Conferences

First Ibero-Anglo Summit, May 16-19, 2002,
Tucson, Arizona

Second Ibero-Anglo Summit, November 4-6, 2004,
Providence, Rhode Island

Early American Cartographies, March 2-4, 2006,
The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois

Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies,
3-5 April 2008, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Early American Borderlands, May 12-15, 2010,
St. Augustine, Florida

American Literature Association

American Literature Association, May 24-27, 2001,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Panels: 2001

American Literature Association, May 30 - June 2, 2002,
Long Beach, California, Panels: 2002

American Literature Association , May 22-25, 2003,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Panels: 2003

American Literature Association, May 27-30, 2004,
San Francisco, California. Panels: 2004

American Literature Association, May 26-29, 2005,
Boston, Massachusetts. Panels: 2005

American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, 2006,
San Francisco, California. SEA Sponsored Panels 2006

American Literature Association Conference, May 24-27, 2007,
Boston, Massachusetts. SEA Sponsored Panels 2007

American Literature Association Conference, May 22-25, 2008,
San Francisco, California. SEA Sponsored Panels 2008

American Literature Association Conference, May 21-24, 2009,
Boston, Massachusetts. SEA Sponsored Panels 2009

American Literature Association Conference, May 27-30, 2010,
San Francisco, California. SEA Sponsored Panels 2010

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 24-28, 2004,
Boston, Massachusetts

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 31 - April 3, 2005,
Las Vegas, Nevada

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 30-April 2, 2006,
Montreal, Quebec

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 22-25, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 27-30, 2008, Portland, Oregon

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 26-29, 2009, Richmond, Virginia

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 18-21, 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Early-American highlights at the MLA Convention, Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2006

Congratulations to Professor Frank Shuffelton, Recipient of the 2006 MLA Distinguished Scholar of Early American Literature Award.

Early-American highlights, MLA Convention, Chicago, 27-30 December 2007.

Congratulations to Professor Pattie Cowell, Recipient of the 2007 MLA Distinguished Scholar of Early American Literature Award.

Congratulations to Professor Sean X. Goudie, Recipient of the 2007 MLA First Book Award for Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).



	Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), Manuscript for History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, 3 vols. Boston, 1805, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (7A)