Spring 2009 Schedule

Wed., Jan. 28: Demetri Debe, "Barbados: The Importance and Persistence of the Empty Island."

Wed., Feb. 11: Kathy Vandevoorde, "Representations of Native American Alcohol Consumption and the Construction of the Meaner Sort in Travel Narratives."

Wed., Feb. 25: Special Session—"Olaudah Equiano, African or American?: The Lovejoy-Carretta Debate."

Wed., Mar. 11: Eric Otremba, "Observing Ingenios: Experimental Philosophy and the Secret Sugarmakers of the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic."

Wed., Mar. 25: Demetri Debe & Rus Menard, "The Transition to African Slavery in Maryland: A Note on the Barbados Connection."

Wed., Apr. 8: Herb Merrill, "From Church and State to Church of State: The Independence Movement and the Transformation of the Congregational Pulpit in Revolutionary Massachusetts."

Wed., Apr. 22: Jennie Goloboy, TBA

Wed., May 6: Jeff Mullins, TBA