Dear HISTARCH Members,

 

Whether your work focuses primarily on the Chesapeake or on the greater Atlantic World, please consider submitting a paper proposal for this upcoming conference.  Program chairs are especially interested in casting a wide disciplinary net, and that includes archaeologists, architectural historians, and other material culture scholars.    

 

The deadline for proposal submissions is November 28, 2008.  See below for more information on the conference and links to conference notices.

 

Julie King

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The Early Chesapeake: Reflecting Back, Looking Forward

 

Next fall, 2009, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in cooperation with Historic St. Mary's City and St. Mary's College of Maryland, and with support from Hampden Sydney College and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will host a conference to examine prevailing interpretative paradigms of early Virginia and Maryland.  

 

The conference will take place in Solomons and in St. Mary's City, MD.

 

This conference 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. 

 

Paper submissions are solicited not only from scholars who identify themselves primarily as students of one or both of the two Chesapeake colonies but also from those who examine this region, among others, in the wider context of the Atlantic world. It also seeks to cross disciplinary as well as imperial boundaries and hence welcomes paper proposals from a variety of disciplines.

 

More information about the conference and call for papers can be found at http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/cheaspeake/index.html.