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URR NEWS: PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE, FEBRUARY 9-10, 2006 | TALKS IN PHILADELPHIA IN JANUARY FEBRARY, 2006 | SUGAR GROVE (WARREN COUNTY, PA) EVENTS, MAY JUNE 2006 | ABOLITIONIST PLACES CFP
CONFERENCE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 10-11, 2006
Program and registration information for the "City of Brotherly Love at War" conference at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is now available. The conference includes a dinner on Friday, February 10, 2006, with keynote address by Margaret Hope Bacon, "But One Race: Robert Purvis and the Struggle for Equal Rights."
Sessions on Saturday include civil rights in Philadelphia in the 1860s, Underground Railroad research, African-Americans in the Civil War and a presentation on Harriet Tubman.
There is a fee for the Friday night dinner and keynote address; the symposium on Saturday is free.
For more information, go the the following website:
http://www.temple.edu/humanities/UGGR2006/
Or contact: [email protected] 215-204-5452 or [email protected]
PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, 2006
Robert C. Smedley's History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania is the subject of a talk by Christopher Densmore at the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum in Philadelphia on Saturday, January 28, 2006, at 1 p.m. There is a charge for admission to the Museum. For more information, call the Museum at 215-735-8196.
Christopher Densmore will also give brief talks on Smedley's History at the Barnes and Noble Bookstores, Willow Grove, on Monday, February 6, 2006, at 7 p.m. and at Bryn Mawr on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 7:30.
SUGAR GROVE (WARREN COUNTY, PA), MAY- JUNE 2006: CALL FOR PRESENTERS
A number of events related to the Underground Railroad in Warren County, Pennsylvania, including tours (May 23-25), an Underground Railroad Teacher's Conference (June 15-16) and a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the 14th amendment (June 17-18) are being offered the year.
The updated website for the 2006 Sugar Grove Convention, Underground Railroad Field Trips and Teacher's Conference is now online at www.paundergroundrailroad.com
The Warren County Historical Society is also looking for presenters for the Teacher's Conference on June 15-16. Those interested should contact the Warren County Historical Society at 814.723.1795 or by email at [email protected].
ABOLITIONIST PLACES: CALL FOR PAPERS
[The following is copied from the H-Slavery list.]
I'm inviting papers for a panel on "Abolitionist Places" to be proposed for the American Studies Association 2006 meeting in Oakland, CA, October 12-15, 2006.
Traditional literary and historical approaches to US abolitionism have emphasized its teleologically national character as a movement devoted to the fulfillment of the promise of American revolutionary thought. More recent work has shifted attention toward abolition's broader transnational context in the Atlantic world. This panel seeks proposals for papers working at the intersection of notions of local particularity and unbounded circulation. How did particular places, especially particular extra-national places, gain significance for abolitionist activists and artists? How were the revolutionary histories of particular sites represented in abolitionist discourse?
Were particular places invoked for unexpectedly reformist, revolutionary, or quietist purposes? Did the tendency of abolitionists to congregate in Europe for the purpose of discussing Africa and the Caribbean yield unintended or unexpected consequences?
Possible "abolitionist places" may include Haiti, Guiana, Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, Liberia, Sierra Leone, France, England, Ireland, Hungary and Italy. Send one-page abstracts and CVs by 1/15/06 to Martha Schoolman at [email protected], or Department of English, Miami University, 356 Bachelor Hall, Oxford, OH 45056.
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
January 10, 2006
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