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 alink@amphilsoc.org.
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), TBA
April 13 – Derek Litvak (University of Maryland-College Park), "A Nation of Freemen, Devoid of Freedmen: The Idea of Black Citizenship in the Revolutionary Era"
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 18 – Sarah Carmen Moritz (McGill University), TBA
May 25 – Patrícia Martin Marcos (University of California, San Diego), “Political Medicine: The Body Politic and the Sciences of Power, Prosperity, and the Population in the Portuguese Atlantic (1715-1808)”
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 alink@amphilsoc.org
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." Register here to attend.
April 16: Thompson Smith (Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture Committee, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, Flathead Indian Reservation)
May 14:
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 alink@amphilsoc.org.
Spring 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." Register here to attend.
May 26: Alexi Garrett (Iona College), “Rhetorical Strategies and Enslaved Property in the Loyalist Claims of Virginia’s Feme Soles.” Register here to attend.
June 23: Donovan Fifield (University of Virginia), "Credit and Imperial Crises in the American Urban Northeast, 1739-1775.” Register here to attend.
