Thanks for the information, but I already knew about the conference.
In fact, I am on the organizing committee.
WMB
Warren M. Billings, PhD
Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana 70148
On 24 Sep, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Camille Wells wrote:
> The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in
> cooperation with Historic St. Mary’s City and St. Mary’s College of
> Maryland, with support from Hampden Sydney College and the NcNeil
> Center
> for Early American Studies, will host a conference on November 19-21,
> 2009, to examine prevailing interpretative paradigms of early
> Virginia
> and Maryland. 2009 marks the thirty-year anniversary of the
> publication
> of Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, eds., The Chesapeake in the
> Seventeenth Century (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1979), an essay collection
> that
> advanced interpretations that—in conjunction with Aubrey C. Land,
> Lois
> Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, eds., Law, Society and
> Politics in
> Early Maryland (Baltimore, 1977), and Lois Green Carr, Philip D.
> Morgan, and Jean B. Russo, eds., Colonial Chesapeake Society (Chapel
> Hill, N.C., 1988)—continue to shape understanding of the early
> colonial
> Chesapeake.
>
> The conference will focus on 1630-1730, the
> “century” on
> which most
> historians of the so-called “Chesapeake school” concentrated their
> research. It seeks to bring together a range of established and
> younger
> scholars to reflect on those aspects of the region’s history and
> material culture that might most fruitfully be reexamined or explored
> anew in the light of new directions in early American history.
>
> Appropriate to the 375th anniversary of the
> founding of
> Maryland,
> conference sessions will be held at St. Mary’s City, Maryland’s
> seventeenth-century capital, and nearby Solomon’s Island.
>
> Further information is available in the Call for
> Papers on
> the Institute
> web page:
> http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/cheaspeake/index.html
> <http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/cheaspeake/index.html_>
>
> Please consider coming to the conference yourself,
> and do
> pass on this
> information to colleagues and students who might be interested in
> attending. If you would like to submit a proposal for an individual
> paper or for a panel, the deadline for submissions in November 28,
> 2008.
>
>
>
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