American Conversations Series
Our annual lecture series featuring scholars from around the country.
UPCOMING
Please see our Events page for upcoming American Conversation Series.
PAST EVENTS
2013-2014
Please see our Cultural Politics/Political Culture page for last year’s American Conversations Series.
2012-2013
Please see our Material Culture Symposium page for this American Conversation Series events.
2011-2012
Please see our Contact Zone Series page for this American Conversations Series schedule of events.
2010-2011:
Please see our House and Home in American Culture page for this American Conversations Series events.
2009-2010:
Elizabeth Reis, “Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex”
Louisa Wood Ruby, “Collecting Dutch Art in Colonial America”
Ashley Mears, “Size Zero High-End Ethnic: The Production of Culture in Fashion Modeling Markets”
2008-2009:
Robert Chodat, “No Things But in Ideas: Philosophy and 20th Century American Fiction”
Richard Candee, “Researching Russell Cheney (1881-1945): Sex, Alcohol, and Yankee Modernism”
Masse Ndiaye and Chris Walsh, “Against Exchange: Africa’s America, America’s Africa”
2007-2008:
Warren Belasco, “Meals to Come”
Mary Louise Kete, “’Our Nig’: The Surprising Narrative of a White Boy Indentured to a Black Family In 1820s New Hampshire”
Edward S. Cooke, Jr., “Musings on Material Culture in South Asia”
2006-2007:
Adrian Pablé and Radoslaw Dylewski, “The New England Dialect in Historical Perspective: The Use and Utility of ‘Colloquial’ Documents”
Martha Hodes, “The Sea Captain’s Wife: Reflections on Writing a True Story of Love, Race and War in the Nineteenth Century”
Cheryl Boots, “Singing and Shouting: Music and Rhetoric in Antebellum Civil Rights Activism”
Bryan Waterman, “Looking for Elizabeth Whitman”
Jon Vogels, “Searching for the ‘Really Real’: Authenticity and Direct Cinema”
Violet Showers Johnson, “Cricket, Tea Parties, and Crispus Attucks Day: Negotiating Identity and Culture in Boston’s West Indian Community, 1910-1950”
Chris Walsh, “Cowardice”