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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Camille Wells <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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. 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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