The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in
 cooperation with Historic St. Mary¹s City and St. Mary¹s 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 ³century² on
which most 
 historians of the so-called ³Chesapeake school² concentrated their
 research. It seeks to bring together a range of established and younger
 scholars to reflect on those aspects of the region¹s 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. Mary¹s City, Maryland¹s
 seventeenth-century capital, and nearby Solomon¹s 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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