>X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1361980105-04dc7a38d11298a0001-EQOGat >X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: [log in to unmask] >X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 129.219.19.183 >X-ASG-Whitelist: Client >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:46:16 -0600 >Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]> >From: Carl Drexler <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: Traces of Early America >X-To: [log in to unmask] >X-ASG-Orig-Subj: CFP: Traces of Early America >To: [log in to unmask] >List-Help: <https://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=HISTARCH>, > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >List-Subscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >List-Owner: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >List-Archive: <https://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=HISTARCH> >X-Barracuda-Connect: lists.asu.edu[129.219.19.183] >X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1361980105 >X-Barracuda-URL: http://129.219.117.222:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi >X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at asu.edu >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD >X-Spam-Level: >X-Scanned-By-SAS: ScannedBySAS >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.91.234.86 >X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure >engine=2.50.10432:5.9.8327,1.0.431,0.0.0000 > definitions=2013-02-27_02:2013-02-27,2013-02-26,1970-01-01 signatures=0 >X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=facstaff_filter_notspam >policy=facstaff_filter score=0 spamscore=0 > ipscore=0 suspectscore=3 phishscore=0 bulkscore=4 adultscore=0 > classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1211240000 > definitions=main-1302270101 >X-Loop: [log in to unmask] > >Call for Papers > >Traces of Early America > >An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference > > > >Hosted by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of >Pennsylvania September 26 to 28, 2013 > > > >Scholars encounter early America through its traces, the vestiges and >fragments left behind. And in reconstructing the fleeting and ephemeral, >scholars also attempt to trace early American encounters. > >This conference will bring together graduate students from a wide variety >of disciplines to explore the various meanings of traces=97as material >objects, cultural representations, and academic practices. > >Papers might consider how people deliberately and unwittingly left traces >as they moved through space and time; what traces or remnants of the past >get privileged while others are marginalized or occluded; how written, >visual, and other texts are both material objects and traces of lives and >experiences; and where we look for the traces of different communities and >conflicts in early America. More generally, papers might address tracing as >a method of historical inquiry, one that both uncovers and constitutes >objects and archives, as well as the methodological traces that have >reconfigured early American studies, such as Atlantic history, diaspora >studies, hemispheric studies, and circum-Caribbean and Latin American >studies. > > > >We welcome applicants from a wide variety of disciplines=97among them >history, literature, gender studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, >archeology, geography, art history, material culture, religious studies, >and political science=97whose work deals with the histories and cultures of >North American and the Atlantic world before 1850. > >Applicants should email their proposals to [log in to unmask] by >March 15, 2013. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 >words along with a one-page c.v. Paper presentations should be no more than >20 minutes. Limited financial support is available for participants=92 trav= >el >expenses. Decisions will be announced by May 15, 2013. > > > >Any conference-related questions can be directed to: > >[log in to unmask] > > > >-- > >Sarah Chesney, MA > >PhD Candidate > >Historical Archaeology Program > >Department of Anthropology > >College of William and Mary > >P.O. Box 8795 > >Williamsburg, VA 23187 > >[log in to unmask] > > > > > >Carl G. Drexler, MA (ABD) > >Arkansas Archeological Survey =96 SAU Research Station > >College of William & Mary > >U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center > > > >P.O. Box 9381 > >Magnolia, Arkansas 71754 > >[log in to unmask] > >870-235-4230 > > > >=93Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And >ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place.=94 =96 Longfellow, = >=93The >Builders=94