Wonderful! Then perhaps Frederika Teute will not be able to block my paper
proposal. She's been pointedly avoiding me all summer. Can you guess why?
Love, Camille.
> 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. Maryıs City and St. Maryıs 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 thatin 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 regionıs 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. Maryıs City, Marylandıs
>> seventeenth-century capital, and nearby Solomonıs 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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