Virtual Brown Bags
Virtual Brown Bags are open to APS Staff, Fellows, and area scholars. All Virtual Brown Bags meet at 11:00am ET on Zoom. To receive the link to attend, contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at [email protected]
Read more about Brown Bags here.
Spring 2022
January 4: Jennifer Reiss (UPenn) “Pity That So Fine a Man Should Have Lost His Leg”: Gouverneur Morris and the Nuances of Physical Disability in Early America
January 11: Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (UPenn) "Science on the Strait: Data Collection and Ancient Migration,1865-1907"
January 18: Anna Guerrero (APS) Introduction
February 1: Julien Icher (The Lafayette Trail, Inc.) Lafayette's Farewell Tour of the U.S. in 1824-1825
February 8: Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton) Black Eugenics and Struggles for Racial Equality
February 15: Adam McNeil (Rutgers) Black Refugee Women's Survival and Resistance Efforts in Revolutionary Era Portsmouth and Norfolk
February 22: Devin Leigh (APS) In the Footsteps of Bosman: Archibald Dalzel’s Letter from Africa and the Cumulative Tradition of Eighteenth-Century Imperial Ethnography
March 1: Blake Mcgready (CUNY) “Delightful wilds”: The Sullivan Expedition’s Romantic Vision of Nature and the Development of an Environmental Consciousness.
March 8: RevCity Team (APS)
March 15: Emily Merchant (UC Davis) Finding the Eugenic Origins of Sociogenomics in the APS Library
March 22: Brian Carpenter. Curating the Jean Briggs Papers by Following its Relationships
March 29: Meg Roberts. Arenas of Care and the Health Crisis of the American Revolutionary War
April 5: Renee Wolcott
April 12: Francois Regourd and Diego Pirillo
April 19: Meredith Palmer
April 26: Ali Macdonald
May 10: Sylvan Goldeberg
Fall 2021
September 7 – Sean Gallagher (David Center for the American Revolution Postdoctoral Fellow, APS), "Enslaved to the State: Confiscation, Public Labor, and Black Politics in the American Revolution"
September 14 – Rebecca Jackson (University of Indiana, Bloomington/John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellow in History of Science, APS ), “Measuring ‘Well’: Clinical Measuring Practices and Philosophy of Measurement”
September 21 – Anna Antoniou (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Postdoctoral Fellow, APS), "Living Off the Bay, Past & Present: Revitalizing Chinookan and Lower Chehalis Foodways"
September 28 – Anabelle Rodriguez (Rutgers University/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Predoctoral Fellow, APS), "Curating Xunantunich: Conserving Ancient Maya Art & Architecture & Preserving Natural Heritage in an Urban Cultural Landscape of Western Central Belize"
October 6 – Nicole Breault (University of Connecticut, Storrs/David Center for the American Revolution Predoctoral Fellow, APS), "The Night Watch of Boston: Law and Governance in Eighteenth-Century British America"
October 12 – Molly Nebiolo (Northeastern University/Friend of the APS Predoctoral Fellow in Early American History (to 1840), APS), "Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in the Creation of Early Atlantic Cities"
November 2 – Kim Staub (Wyck Historic House, Garden & Farm) and Melissa Clemmer (Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships), "Our Germantown Stories: Building Community and Rethinking the Future of Historic Sites"
November 10 – Valerie Anne-Lutz, Michael Miller, Melanie Rinehart, and Joseph DiLullo, "Manuscript Processing & Reference Staff for Archives Month"
November 17 – Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Michigan), "Mapping Marronage: Enslaved Mobility in the Atlantic World"
November 23 – Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (University of Pennsylvania), "Science on the Strait: Data Collection and Ancient Migration,1865-1907"
November 30 – Katherine McLeod (New York University)
Summer 2021
July 6 – Kristina Poznan (Managing Editor, The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation), " Datasets, Data Articles, and Slavery Studies: The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation"
July 13 – Jarrett Chapin (University of Wisconsin, Madison/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Predoctoral Fellow, APS), " Indian Interiors of the National Imaginary: Industry and Individualism in Nineteenth-Century America"
July 20 – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Undergraduate Interns: Tieranny Keahna (Coe College), ""William Jones: A Fox Anthropologist"; and Dynette Chavez (Whittier College),"Contesting Anthropological Knowledge of the Jicarilla Apache Nations Origin Story"
July 27 – Verónica Mercado Oliveras (Winterthur/University of Delaware), "Journeys, Challenges, and Experiences: Book Conservation through the Eyes of a Puerto Rican"
July 28 – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Undergraduate Interns: Nancy Mendoza Ruiz (University of Washington), “la mexicanización del indio”
August 3 – CV Starr Interns: Kaitlin Dunn and Alex Trabold (Washington College), on Zora Neale Hurston and Louis E. King with Franz Boas
August 10 – Museum Interns: Anna Shuff and Elinor Berger (Bryn Mawr College), on Climate Science and "Bas-Relief with Portrait of Emma Diruff Seiler: Recontextualizing a portrait of a woman scientist"
August 17 – CDS Interns: Bria Paige (Rutgers University) and Lauren Kennedy (Temple University), "Incarcerated and Indentured: Early Experiences of Childhood in Philadelphia"
August 24 – Peter Kastor (Washington University, St. Louis), "Jefferson’s Bag of Words: Computing the Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson"
August 31 – Caroline Johnson (2021-2023The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Postdoctoral Fellow, APS), " Pilots & Prize Winners: The Interconnected History of Women in STEM"
Spring 2021
January 5 – Renee Wolcott (Associate Conservator, American Philosophical Society), "Restoration, Rebinding, Conservation: Changes in Collections Care over 275 years at the APS Library"
January 12 – Ezelle Sanford III (University of Pennsylvania), "Segregated Medicine: How Racial Politics Shaped American Healthcare"
January 19 – Brian Carpenter (Curator of Native American Materials, American Philosophical Society), "Creating the Indigenous Languages Manuscript Interface through the Tunica Language Transcription Project"
January 26 – Max Flomen (West Virginia University), "Mountains beyond Mountains: War, Revolution, & Alternative Emancipations in the Borderlands, 1650-1850"
February 2 – Meg Roberts (University of Cambridge), “Domestic Caregiving in the American Revolution”
February 9 – Jenna Tonn (Boston College), "Alexander Agassiz’s Newport Marine Laboratory: Collecting Invertebrates, Romantic Partners, and Gilded-Age Gossip in the Field"
February 16 – Ashton Dunkley (University of Minnesota), “What are you?: Refusal, Recognition, and Reckoning with Granny’s Quietness”
February 26 – Sonia Tycko (University of Oxford), "Reflecting on Collaborative Bibliography: "America & Race: A Bibliography for UK History Undergraduates""
March 2 – Cody Nager (Graduate Center, City University of New York), "Slavery’s Influence on Migration Policy in the Federalist Era, 1789-1800"
March 9 – Joanna Behrman (American Institute of Physics), " The Other Physicists: A Collective Biography of Women in Physics Before WWII"
March 16 – Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (University of Pennsylvania), " Specimen Exchange as an Agent of Scientific Transfer and Transformation"
March 23 – Tracie Canada (University of Notre Dame), "Black Intellectual Ancestors and the Various Histories of Anthropology"
March 30 – Gina Surita (Princeton University)
April 20 – Laura Furlan (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), “The Archival Turn in Native American Literature”
April 27 – Tess Lanzarotta (University of Toronto), "Never-ending Trials: Recursive Research in Baruch Blumberg's Alaska"
May 4 – Derek Litvak (University of Maryland-College Park), "A Nation of Freemen, Devoid of Freedmen: The Idea of Black Citizenship in the Revolutionary Era"
May 12 – Kat Antonelli (APS), " Bits and Bobs: an Intro to the Digital Archivist"
May 18 – Sarah Carmen Moritz (McGill University), “'Research as Reciprocity!': (Boasian) Action Anthropology and Learning from the Elders, the Land and the Archive"
May 25 – Patrícia Martin Marcos (University of California, San Diego), “Skeletons of Knowledge: Race-Making, the Accumulation of Bodies, and the Sciences of Humankinds”
June 1: Fellows Showcase: "Universal Health Care, U.S. Activism, and the British National Health Service" with Andrew Seaton [please register to attend]
June 8: Fellows Showcase: "Emotional Zapotec Epistemologies: The Relevance of Physical Space, Cosmic time, and Interconnectivity when Discussing Zapotec Emotional Injuries" with Candy Martínez [please register to attend]
June 15: Fellows Showcase: "Catawba Women: Humor and Violence in the Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1840" with Brooke Bauer [please register to attend]
June 22: Fellows Showcase: "Mineral Lands, Mineral Empire: Mapping the Raw Materials of U.S. Industrial Capitalism" with Gustave Lester [please register to attend]
Indigenous Studies Seminar
Inspired by the work of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), the APS Library & Museum's Indigenous Studies Seminar Series serves scholars and researchers in the Greater Philadelphia area working on projects in or aligned with Native American and Indigenous Studies.
The seminar meets monthly from 3:30-5:00pm ET via Zoom. Most meetings center around a pre-circulated paper, which will be made available for download two weeks prior to the event. To attend, please contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at [email protected]
Spring 2022:
January 21: Blake Grindon (Princeton University) The Mohawk Atlantic in the Age of Revolution: Cultural Brokerage and the Politics of Alliance, 1775-76.
February 18: Eli Nelson (Williams) Transing the first Native American Doctor.
April 22: Alejandra Dubcovsky and George Aaron Broadwell. Cumenatimococo, With all our Heart: Native Literacy and Power in Colonial Florida. Register here to attend.
May 13: Robert Caldwell. Albert Gallatin, philology and the emergence of ethnological mapping in the United States: Natural Sciences and Republican Ideals.
Fall 2021:
November 19: Mary McNeil (Harvard University), "Black Power/Red Power: Convergences and Divergences."
December 10: Mack Scott, ""The Progenitors of Providence: The Narragansett and the Making of Rhode Island."
Spring 2021:
January 22: Patrick Lozar (University of Victoria), “'Home was, part of the time, north of the line, and part of the time south of it': Belonging, Status, and Division in the Borderlands."
February 12: Mary McNeil (Harvard University), "The Factory of Genocide: Deer Island’s Carceral Geography"
March 19: Elizabeth Ellis (New York University), "Remembering, Forgetting, and Mythologizing the Petites Nations."
April 16: Thompson Smith (Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture Committee, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, Flathead Indian Reservation), "Sk͏ʷsk͏ʷstúlex͏ʷ | Names Upon the Land: The Salish-Kalispel Ethnogeography Project."
May 21:
Katrina Srigley (Nipissing University) and Glenna Beaucage (Culture and Heritage Department, Nipissing First Nation),
"Contributions to Ngodweyaan (Family) and Ezhidaayang (Community) on and beyond Nbisiing Nishnaabeg Territory."
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar
Inspired by the work of the David Library of the American Revolution at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania and its new incarnation as the David Center for the American Revolution at the APS, this seminar will provide a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in the era of the American Revolution (1750-1820).
To maximize time for discussion, papers are circulated electronically in advance to registered participants. Requests to receive access to the paper or to present work-in-progress should be sent to Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at [email protected]
Spring 2022:
April 13: Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Duke University), "The Pursuit of Happiness: Enslaved Children’s Notions of Freedom in the Age of Revolution."
May 25: Samuel Wells (Southern Utah University & Dixie State University), "Dr. Miner’s Heresy: Freedom of Conscience, Polygamy, and the American Revolution." Register here to attend.
June 6: Grant Kleiser (Columbia University), "'To Have America a Free Port:' Revolutionary Responses to British Caribbean Free Ports, 1766-1784." Register here to attend.
Past Seminars:
2022
February 23: James M. Banner, Jr. (Independent Scholar), “The Election of 1801 and Marbury v. Madison." This event is now passed.
March 16: Wolfgang Hochbruck (Albert-Ludwigs-University), "A Colonial Gentleman's Pastimes on the Brink of a Revolution." This event is now passed.
2021
March 24: Jonathan D. Sassi (College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York), “The New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery: A Reappraisal." This event is now passed.
May 26: Alexi Garrett (Iona College), “Rhetorical Strategies and Enslaved Property in the Loyalist Claims of Virginia’s Feme Soles.” This event is now passed.
June 23: Donovan Fifield (University of Virginia), "Credit and Imperial Crises in the American Urban Northeast, 1739-1775.” This event is now passed.
October 27: Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University), “Metawney of Coweta, Muscogee Women, & Historical Erasure in the Eighteenth-Century Past and Our Present." This event is now passed.
November 16: Matthew Mason (Brigham Young University), “Slavery and the Politics of Honor in the American Revolutionary Era.” This event is now passed.
December 15: Sarah Naramore (Northwest Missouri State University), “Finding American Medicine on the Battlefield: Doctors in Uniform and in the Classroom.” This event is now passed.
