Onward, Philadelphia (and SHEAR 2014)
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| Philadelphia postcard, 1900s (via SHEAR website) |
The lazy, hazy days of summer aren't too lazy for those of us in the middle of moving boxes! I'm getting settled into Philadelphia this weekend, where I'll begin a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries as Director of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education at Bryn Mawr College, on July 1. There's a rich history of Catholic women's education in and around Philly, and I'm also excited to look into the history of Catholic women at the Seven Sisters while I'm exploring Bryn Mawr's College Archives and working on my book manuscript.
The move is especially well-timed for a summer conference of interest to many of us on this blog. SHEAR, the Society for Historians of the Early Republic, will hold its 36th Annual Meeting at the Doubletree Philadelphia July 17-20, 2014. For historians of American religion, there's much to recommend.
A full conference program has been posted online, and I've highlighted sessions of particular interest for RiAH readers, including presentations by blog contributors past and present:
FRIDAY, JULY 18 8:30-10:15 AM
BEYOND THE “EVANGELICAL THESIS”: RADICAL RELIGION IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
PRESIDING
Susan Juster, University of Michigan
Joseph Smith: The Anti-”sectarian” Crusader
Max Mueller, Harvard University,
Domestic Order and Spiritual Authority in the Society of Universal Friends
Paul B. Moyer, The College at Brockport: State University of New York
Native Spirits, Shaker Visions: Speaking with the Dead in the Early Republic
Erik R. Seeman, University at Buffalo
COMMENT: Johann N. Neem, Western Washington University, and Susan Juster
FRIDAY, JULY 18 10:30 AM-12:15 PM
FAITH, POLITICS, AND LAW AFTER THE FOUNDING
PRESIDING
Christopher Grasso, College of William and Mary
The African Supplement: Corporate Law, Race, and Religion in Early National Philadelphia
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
The Founders Speak: Spiritualist Visitations from the Revolutionary Generation in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Ryan K. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Myth of American Religious Coercion: The New Nation’s Un-official Religious Establishment and Its Paradoxes
Chris Beneke, Bentley University
COMMENT: Mary Kupiec Cayton, Miami University, and Christopher Grasso
FRIDAY, JULY 18 12:15-2:00 PM
FOR GOD AND MAMMON: MISSIONARIES AND CONSULS IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
PRESIDING
Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University
Citizens of the World? American Consuls and the Problem of Citizenship, 1789-1832
Lawrence A. Peskin, Morgan State University
Creating a Hierarchy of Heathenism: American Missionaries Map the World, 1790-1840
Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University
Commercially Informed: The Political Consequences of the Early American Consular Network in Asia
Dael Norwood, Yale University
COMMENT: Christine Heyrman, University of Delaware, and Rosemarie Zagarri
SATURDAY, JULY 19 8:15-10:00 AM
EARLY AMERICAN CONTACT WITH THE MUSLIM WORLD
PRESIDING
Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado, Denver
The Ideological Origins of U.S. Orientalism as an Antebellum Phenomenon
Christopher L. Miller, University of Texas-Pan American
“Depart from that Retired Circle”: Women’s Support of the Greek War for Independence and Antebellum Reform
Maureen Connors Santelli, George Mason University
American Muslim or Anti-Zionist Jew? George Bethune English in the Ottoman World
Eric Covey, University of Texas at Austin
COMMENT: Robert J. Allison, Suffolk University, and Kariann Akemi Yokota
SATURDAY, JULY 19 8:15-10:00 AM
MOBILITY AND THE MAKING OF EARLY NATIONAL RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
PRESIDING
Dee Andrews, California State University, East Bay
A Nation of Circuits: Methodist Mobility and the Winning of the Frontier
Charlie McCray, Florida State University
Political Movement: Jews, Citizenship, and Difference in 1850s Europe and America
Shari Rabin, Yale University
To “become the pride of your patrons and the boast of religion”: Reputation, Law, and Gender in Ministerial Recruitment in the Early National Chesapeake
Roy Rogers, The Graduate Center, CUNY
COMMENT: Eric R. Schlereth, University of Texas, Dallas, and Dee Andrews
SATURDAY, JULY 19 10:15 AM -12:00 PM
RELIGION, RACE, AND THE LIMITS OF REFORM
PRESIDING
Ruth Alden Doan, Hollins University
Integrated Churches and the Politics of Race in the North, 1790-1820
Richard Boles, City College of New York
Gospel Bonds, Gospel Boundaries: Missionaries Grapple with Class, Race, and Cultural Difference on the Antebellum Prairie
Joshua Rice, University of Missouri
Subversive Geographies: Space and the Sacred in American Protestant Missions
Andrew Witmer, James Madison University
COMMENT: Jewel Spangler, University of Calgary, and Ruth Alden Doan
SUNDAY, JULY 20 10:30 -12:15 AM
THE USES AND MISUSES OF ANTI-CATHOLICISM: ABOLITIONISM, NUNNERIES, AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC AND ANTEBELLUM ERA
PRESIDING
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame
Elijah Lovejoy: Publishing, Faith, and Abolitionism in Early Nineteenth Century St. Louis
Paula Hunt, University of Missouri
Our Country, Our Women: Anti-Convent Propaganda and the Massachusetts Know-Nothing Party
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi, University of Missouri
“Reviving a Spirit of Controversy”: Anti-Catholic Origins of American Religious Freedom, 1787-1792
Nicholas Pellegrino, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
COMMENT: Katie Oxx, St. Joseph’s University, and Kathleen Sprows Cummings
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Additionally, for graduate students, journal editors Dallett Hemphill (Ursinus College) and David Waldstreicher (Temple University) will be offering a session on submitting your first article.
For complete conference details, visit the SHEAR website and follow SHEAR on twitter.
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