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The Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, 5-8 June 2025
The Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists will convene on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, 5-8 June 2025. Along with wide-ranging panels on various early Americanist topics, the conference will include:
Keynote Presentations from Sara E. Johnson (Literature, UC San Diego; author of Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World) and Zada Ballew (History, UW-Madison; historical consultant for Native American and Indigenous Initiatives at U of Notre Dame; citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians).
Common Read Events on As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts, organized by Blaire Morseau (Religious Studies and American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Michigan State U; citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians) and Kelly Wisecup (English, Northwestern U).
Plenary Panels on “1776 and the Age of Revolutions,” chaired by Sandra M. Gustafson (English, U of Notre Dame), with Eliga Gould (History, U of New Hampshire), Philip Gould (English, Brown U), Steve Sarson (English, U Jean Moulin, Lyon), and Lenora Warren (English, Cornell U); and “Religious Poetry and Biblical Interpretation” chaired by Jan Stieverman (American Studies, U of Heidelberg), with Catalina Andrango-Walker (Modern & Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech), April Langley (African American Studies and English, U of South Carolina), Wendy Roberts (English, U of Albany) and Abram Van Engen (English, Washington U).