Upstate Early American History Workshop

02/01/2017

Hello! We will have the first session of the Spring 2017 Upstate Early American Workshop next Friday, 2/10 at 4:00 on the Binghamton University campus.

Our first presenter is Matt Hollis, a PhD candidate at Binghamton Univ., giving a chapter from his dissertation. This paper is entitled "An Empire of Liberty, and Labor: Old Ways by New Means in the Sullivan Expedition of 1779."

Our special commentator is Jennifer Dorsey, associate professor of history at Siena College.

All are welcome and invited to join us in the IASH conference room on the first floor of the Library Tower at Binghamton University.

If you require driving or parking directions, please email me at [email protected]

Hope to see you there! Our next session will be on 10 March.

Yours,
Rob Parkinson

02/01/2017

09/24/2016

Honor Sachs discussing her excellent paper "Slaves and Lawyers." If you missed it, you missed out.

08/26/2016

The Upstate Early American Workshop is back! See the poster for more on our excellent presentations this fall! Hope you can join us!

01/18/2016

Here's the schedule for the spring semester at the Upstate! Put it on your calendars! Hope to see you there.

10/31/2015

The next session of the Upstate Workshop will be Friday, 6 November. Rachel Walker, PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, will present a chapter from her dissertation. Her paper is entitled "The Face of Freedom: Abolitionism and the Politics of Appearance." Our own Diane Miller Sommerville will offer a special opening comment. Come one, come all. 3:30 in the IASH conference room of the Library Tower. See you there! Email me for a copy of Rachel's paper.

10/10/2015

You are invited to the next session of the Upstate Early American Workshop, next Friday 10/16, at Binghamton University. We will meet in the IASH conference room on the first floor of the Library Tower at 3:30.

Chris Pastore, assistant professor of history at SUNY-Albany, will present a work-in-progress entitled "The Shores of Enlightenment: George Berkeley and the Construction of Hybrid Nature."

James Rice, professor of history at SUNY-Plattsburg, has graciously agreed to drive clear across New York state to offer a special comment.

If you have questions or request directions or parking information, please contact me at [email protected].

Hope to see you next Friday afternoon!

08/27/2015

Hello! I hope you are clutching onto the last hours of summer. As you are planning your fall calendars, you should keep the Upstate Early American Workshop in mind. We have an excellent slate of presenters and commentators lined up, as you'll see on the schedule below.

As a reminder, the Upstate Early American Workshop is a seminar for graduate students and professors to present works-in-progress. It meets on four Fridays each term at Binghamton University. For a greater experience for the presenter, we invite someone with particular expertise on the paper topic to offer a special comment to open the session.

The Upstate Workshop is open to all interested in participating in a scholarly conversation about writing and researching early American history framed broadly. Presenters have gone on to publish prize-winning works they have first given at the Upstate. If you aren't ready to present your own work, we encourage you to attend nonetheless.

So, mark your calendars. The Workshop convenes in the Institute of Advanced Study of the Humanities (IASH) conference room on the first floor of the Library Tower at BU.

If you would like to participate in a future session of the Upstate workshop, either as a presenter or a commentator, please email me at [email protected].

Cheers,
Robert Parkinson
History Department, Binghamton University
Convener, Upstate Early American Workshop

Workshop Fall 2015 schedule

1. Brad Jones – Associate Professor, Fresno State University
"'Common Happiness': Patriotism and the Politics of Economy, 1766-1773"
Comment: Robert Parkinson, Binghamton University

Friday 19 September, 3:30, IASH conference room, Library Tower




2. Chris Pastore – Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany
"Nature Between the Tides: George Berkeley and the Watery Rhetoric of Imperial Redemption"
Comment: James Rice, SUNY, Plattsburgh

Friday 16 October, IASH conference room, Library Tower




3. Rachel Walker, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland
"The Face of Freedom: Gender, Abolition, and the Politics of Beauty"
Comment: Diane Miller Sommerville, Binghamton University

Friday 6 November, 3:30, IASH conference room, Library Tower



4. Ken Lane, PhD candidate, Binghamton University
"An Empire of Interests: The Promise of the Ohio"
Comment: Christopher Pearl, Lycoming College

Friday 4 December, 4:30, IASH conference room, Library Tower
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05/08/2015

Our last workshop of the spring '15 semester was a phenomenal session, with Brett Rushforth giving us a chance to read a chapter from his forthcoming book (with Chris Hodson) _Discovering Empire_. Thank you Ernesto Bassi for your insightful comment, as well as other folks from further upstate for coming down!

The schedule for the fall is almost finalized. Stay tuned for more stimulating Friday afternoons at the Upstate Early American Workshop starting in September!

05/03/2015

Received the great news that James Rice's article "Bacon's Rebellion in Indian Country" just won the Binkley-Stephenson award for the best article published in the Journal of American History for 2014! He had presented an earlier version of this piece to the Upstate Workshop. Congratulations, Jim!

05/01/2015

Our final installment of the spring 2015 Upstate Early American Workshop will be an excellent one. It is a bit outside our usual offerings, in a really great way. Brett Rushforth, assoc. professor at the College of William & Mary, has given us a draft chapter of a book he is writing with Christopher Hodson entitled _Discovering Empire: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolution_. We will be reading chapter 2 of that manuscript, 'Our Interest was Considerable there Once: France, West Africa, and the Atlantic to 1600." This session is co-sponsored by the Ithaca and Central New York Early Modernists Group.

You certainly know Brett's work already from his multiple prize-winning first book _Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France_ (UNC Press, 2012). In fact, he is in Binghamton not just for the workshop but also to receive another prize from the French Colonial Historical Society, which is holding its annual conference in town this weekend.

We are also lucky to have Ernesto Bassi, asst. professor at Cornell Univ., who has graciously agreed to give a special comment to open our session.

This is one you don't want to miss.

The session will be next Thursday, 7 May at 4:00 in the IASH conference room, on the first floor of the Library Tower at Binghamton University.

Please email [email protected] for more details and a copy of Brett's paper.

04/13/2015

Calling an audible at the Upstate workshop session for this Friday. Our scheduled presenter couldn't make it, but Andrew Fagal (recent BU PhD and current asst. editor at Papers of TJ) has graciously agreed to step in.

So come this Friday 4/17 at 5:00 at the University Union (UUW 325) for Fagal. Email [email protected] for a copy of the paper if you aren't on the email list.

And, don't forget we're going back-to-back in April, with Katy Walker (NYU PhD candidate) presenting next Friday 4/24.