Mary Rowlandson (c. 1635-1711), A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, a Minister's Wife in New-England. London: Joseph Poole, 1682. CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas, Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library

Upcoming Conferences

The Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 18-21, 2010

The Society of Early Americanists will sponsor the following two panels at The Annual Meeting of the ASECS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 18-21, 2010. Thank you to Professor Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa) the SEA's liaison to ASECS for organizing these panels. Additional information about the conference is available on the ASECS website.

Saturday, March 20, 2010, SESSIONS XI 9:45-11:15 a.m.
171. “Slavery and Feeling: The State of the Field” (Society of Early Americanists) (Roundtable)
Chair: George BOULUKOS, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
1. Roxann WHEELER, Ohio State University
2. Margaret ABRUZZO, University of Alabama
3. Ramesh MALLIPEDDI, Hunter College, City University of New York
4. Stephanie SPADARO, University of Wisconsin, Madison
5. Maureen TUTHILL, Westminster College

Saturday, March 20, 2010, SESSIONS XII 2:00-3:30 p.m.
188. “The Feelings of Slaves” (Society of Early Americanists)
Chair: Laura M. STEVENS, University of Tulsa
1. Brycchan CAREY, Kingston University, “‘These poor afflicted, tormented miserable Slaves!’: Quaker Discussions of the Feelings of Slaves in Early Philadelphia”
2. Sarah NICOLAZZO, University of Pennsylvania, “Bodies that Suffer: Affects and Aesthetics of Slavery in James Grainger’s The Sugar Cane”
3. Lindsey PHILLIPS, Florida State University, “‘We are all dust and dirt’: Geophagy, Sensibility, and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Medical and Colonial Writings
4. Vincent CARRETTA, University of Maryland, “Phillis Wheatley’s First Effort”

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

Continuing in the tradition of the “First Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit” (Tucson, AZ, 2002) and “Beyond Colonial Studies” (Providence, RI, 2004), this event will bring together scholars of the early Americas working in various languages and disciplines in order to exchange questions, ideas, research and teaching methods, as well as to promote comparative perspectives and cross-disciplinary dialogue in the study of the early Americas.The thematic focus of this event will be on early American borderlands. Various concepts have been invoked to theorize cultural formations on early American borderlands—frontier, limit, border, contact zone, encounter, as well as syncretism, mestizaje/métissage, mulataje, transculturation, and inter-culturalism. We are inviting proposals for panels and papers on any aspect of early American borderlands throughout the Western hemisphere as spaces for the many forms of encounters that took place between various Native American, African, and European peoples from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European conquest of the Atlantic through the formation of early American nation states in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The event will be hosted by Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida, and is co-sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists (SEA).

Program Chairs: Santa Arias (U Kansas) and Ralph Bauer (U Maryland).

Program Committee: David Boruchoff (McGill), Thomas Hallock (U South Florida), Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel (U Pennsylvania), Dennis Moore (Florida SU), Luis Fernando Restrepo (U Arkansas), Gordon Sayre (U Oregon), Teresa Toulouse (U Colorado), Lisa Voigt (OSU), Ed White (U Florida).

Local Arrangements: John Diviney, Jr. (Flagler College), María José Maguire (Flagler College).

For the conference website, please click here.

For the SEA mini-grant to assist Graduate Students, Secondary School Teachers, and Independent Scholars with travel to the “Early American Borderlands” conference, please click here.

American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010

The Society of Early Americanists will sponsor four panels at the next American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010. For more information about the panels and the conference itself, please click here.

Society of Early Americanists’ Seventh Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, March 3-5, 2011

The Society of Early Americanists’ Seventh Biennial Conference will take place in Philadelphia, March 3-5, 2011. Proposals for Panel Topics will be due on Friday, March 5, 2010. For more information about submitting a Panel Topic Proposal, please visit the SEA Seventh Biennial Conference website! Thank you.

Recent Conferences

The Society of Early Americanists sponsored 4 panels at the American Literature Association’s 20th Annual Conference, Boston, May 21-24, 2009. For more information, please click here.
The Society of Early Americanists sponsored 2 panels at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Richmond, Virginia, March 26-29, 2009: “Eighteenth-Century Virginia” and “Technologies of Eighteenth-Century America.” Conference details are available on the ASECS website.

The Society of Early Americanists’ 6th Biennial Conference was held 4-7 March 2009 in Hamilton, Bermuda, to mark the 400th anniversary of the wreck of the Sea Venture, flagship of the Jamestown Third Supply voyage, which initiated the permanent settlement of Bermuda--the second permanent English colony in the Americas. For more information and a special note from SEA President, Tom Krise, please visit the SEA’ 6th Biennial Conference website!

Past Conferences