6th Biennial Conference

Society of Early Americanists 6th Biennial Conference
Hamilton, Bermuda, March 4-7, 2009


For Conference Program (03/02/09) Please click here

Registration, Program, and Conference Information

Please see below a schedule for the conference as of 2 March 2009. If any information still needs correction, please let Tom Krise (tkrise@pacific.edu) know as soon as possible. Here are a few friendly reminders:

  • everyone on the program—and everyone wishing to take advantage of the $200 room credit at the hotel—needs to be registered for the conference by the time we turn over the list of registrants to the hotel (probably by Thursday 5 March). https://appserv.mnstate.edu/sea/conference/conference.php

  • a person only needs to Register for the conference in order to receive the room credit, but does not need to be an SEA member, unless presenting or chairing.

  • all presenters and chairs need to be both Registered for the conference and to be current SEA members. 

Please make sure that your SEA membership is current. You can join or renew your membership online at: https://appserv.mnstate.edu/sea/seajoin.php

SEA Panel Guidelines:

Please remember to keep your papers short enough to fit into the time allotted. For instance, a paper that is 10-pages, double-spaced, 12-point, with the font Courier New will take about 20 minutes to read. If you plan to make extemporaneous remarks during the reading of the paper, then please limit your typed paper accordingly.

Panel Sessions will be one hour and a half, which will allow for brief introductions, 3 papers of 20 minutes each; 4 papers of 15 minutes each; or a Roundtable with 5 speakers of 10 minutes each, followed by 15 minutes for discussion.

Panels work best when we can hear all the papers and then have enough time for discussion. Thanks for your help in making the sessions rewarding experiences for all.

Conference Schedule:

Wednesday, 4 March 2009:
Registration Table Open: 5:00-8:00 pm
Special Events:  Transportation between the Hamilton Princess Hotel and St George’s. Bus transportation to St George’s: those with last names beginning with the letters A through H: 9:00 am departure from the lobby of the Hamilton Princess; for those with last names beginning with the letters I through Z: 10:15 departure, also from the lobby of the Hamilton Princess.  Each bus will be met by a guide for a tour of St George’s.  At 1 pm, Michael Jarvis will introduce a presentation by Lorri Glover on the Sea Venture (ending by 2:30).  The returning buses (leaving St George’s at 2:45 and 4:00) will stop at Orange Valley, an 1802 house not normally open to the public.  It is owned and occupied by a 6th-generation descendant of the first owner.
*Walking Tour of St. George’s available
*Presentation entitled “A Shipwrecked Founding: Bermuda and the English Atlantic” by Dr. Lorri Glover, Professor of History at the University of Tennessee and author (with Daniel Blake Smith) of The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America (New York: Henry Holt Publishers, 2008). Panel hosted by Dr. Michael Jarvis, Associate Professor of History, University of Rochester. World Heritage Center in St. George’s, 1:00-2:30 pm.
*Optional side trip to Orange Valley, an early 19th-century house, available for a limited number of participants; information provided at the Lorri Glover Presentation at the World Heritage Center (noted above)
*Dessert Reception & Cash Bar, Tribute to J. A. Leo Lemay, 8:00-9:00 pm

Thursday, 5 March 2009:
Registration Table Open: 8:00 am-5:00 pm
SEA President’s Welcome Address & SEA Business Meeting: 8:00 am-9:00 am
Panel Sessions: 9:00 am-6:15 pm
Book Exhibit: 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Special Event: Reception and Presentation on “The Memory and Legacy of the Pequot War,” by Dr. Kevin McBride, University of Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, and Stephen Tucker, St. David’s Community, Hamilton City Hall, 6:30-8:30 pm. Please click here for the abstract of their presentation.

Friday, 6 March 2009:                       
Registration Table Open: 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Women’s Caucus Breakfast: 8:00 am-9 :00 am
Panel Sessions: 9:00 am-4:30 pm
Book Exhibit: 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Special Event: Bermuda Maritime Museum at the Royal Naval Dockyard for a reception and time to tour the exhibits, 5:00-7:30 pm

Saturday, 7 March 2009:                        
Registration Table Open: 8:00 am-12:00 pm
Graduate Student Breakfast: 8:00 am-9 :00 am
Panel Sessions: 9:00 am-6:15 pm
Book Exhibit:  8:00 am-12:00 pm
Closing Reception, Bacardi Limited Headquarters Building, 5:30-7:30 pm.

Book Exhibit:                        
Publishers will be able to exhibit books on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the conference (5-7 March 2009). Publishers should direct questions to Tom Krise (tkrise@pacific.edu). Authors should ask their publishers to ensure that their books are exhibited.



Society of Early Americanists 6th Biennial Conference
Hamilton, Bermuda, March 4-7, 2009

For Conference Program (03/02/09) Please click here

Thank you!