Events

September 27, 2024: University of Texas at Austin/ Austin, TX

Beyond the Page: Intercultural Encounters and the Material Future of the Book

Speakers: Rhae Lynn Barnes, Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, Cristina Soriano, Marlena Petra Cravens, Barbara E. Mundy, Lori Boornazian Diel, Alex Hidalgo

Sponsored by: Institute for Historical StudiesInstitute for Historical Studies Mini-conference

Please RSVP to CMeador@Austin.UTexas.edu

Friday, 12.00 – 4.00 pm

October 4, 2024: Harvard University / Cambridge and Boston, MA

Roundtable book launch with Rhae Lynn Barnes, Glenda Goodman, Germaine Warkentin, Xine Yao, Nancy Caronia, Rachel Linnea Brown

Sponsored by: History of the Book Seminar; Mahindra Humanities Center

Friday, 12.00-1:30 PM

Location: Barker Center 133

Please RSVP to histbook@fas.harvard.edu

October 21, 2024: Emory University / Atlanta, GA

Speakers: Rhae Lynn Barnes, Glenda Goodman, Megan E. O’Neil, Molly H. Bassett, Nathan Rees, Chris Suh

November 12-14, 2020

Contributors to American Contact participated in a series of closed workshops with fellow participants.

Chair: David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania)
Elizabeth A. Dolan (Lehigh University) and Ahmed Idrissi Alami (Purdue University) | Resisting Erasure: Kabā Saghanughu’s Arabic Address on the Occasion of Emancipation
Rachel Linnea Brown (University of Kansas) | “I Prefer Not to Answer”: Chauncy Yellow Robe’s Institutional Resistance
Isadora Mota (Princeton University) | A Letter from Afro-Brazil
Agnieszka Czeblakow (Tulane University) | “…And their statements have been reduced to writing”: The Materiality of Torture Transcripts in Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador), 1724-1730
Joanne van der Woude (University of Groningen) | Versified Wishes from Surinamese Slaves

Chair: Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania)
Emily Moore (Colorado State University) | The Chief-of-All-Women pole
Daniel Radus (SUNY-Cortland) | “Quills, Hides, Hymns: Indigenous Materialisms and Book Historical Methods”
Christine (Xine) Yao (University College London) | Afong Moy Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Early Asian American Archive
Laura Helton (University of Delaware) | Historical Form(s)
Anne Ricculli (Drew University) | Complicating the Oral History Narratives: Ophelia Settle Egypt, Jitsuichi Masuoka, and the Creation of Unwritten History of Slavery (1945)

Chair: Jairo Moreno (University of Pennsylvania)
Martin Tsang (University of Miami) | Write into Being: The Production of the Self and Circulation of Ritual Knowledge in Afro-Cuban Religious Libretas
Alejandra Dubcovsky (University of California – Riverside) | The Timucua Letter
Amy Stillman (University of Michigan) | Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Multiple Literacies in Hawaiian Sheet Music: Applying Tune Itinerary Methodologies to “Ipo Lei Manu” & “Pua Melekule” (1892)
John Pollack (University of Pennsylvania) | “dio de ïa aa8ahonichien / maîtres du canot que nous avons fait canot”: Rereading the printed words of Joseph Chiwatenhwa

Chair: Bethany Wiggin (University of Pennsylvania)
Megan O’Neil (Emory University) | Encounters Across Time: Stela 14 from Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Chadwick Allen (University of Washington) | Through the Medium of the Land: Serpent Mound Within and Without Ohio
Germaine Warkentin (University of Toronto) | “Writing-On-Stone” and its Invitation to Book History”

Chair: Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Marcy Dinius (DePaul University) | Circulating David Walker’s Appeal: A Revised History of Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Controversial Text
Maria Ryan (University of Pennsylvania) | “…Paper which had once been white”: interacting invitation practices in colonial Antigua
Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis (New York City Department of Education) | Kykunkor: Early American Encounters with Sierra Leonean Dance Dramas
Julia McHugh (Duke University) | The “Nous Sommes Sept” Tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Devin Fitzgerald (University of California – Los Angeles) | The Chinese Book in Early California

Chair: Seth Perry (Princeton University)
Jessica Herdman (University of Manitoba) | Songs of Survival: the Cantiques Hurons in 17th-century Wendake
Alexandra Kaloyanides (University of North Carolina – Charlotte) | Monk on Fire: Imag(in)ing Buddhism in the Americas
Diane Oliva (Harvard University) | Reglas y Estatutos: Eighteenth-Century Guatemalan Liturgical Practices and the Colonial Politics of the Printed Book
Alex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University) | Ethnography After the Apocalypse: Bookmaking in Mexico, c. 1601
Marie Taylor (University of Minnesota) | “A Small Brass Image of a Man”: The Role of Intercultural Contact in New England Missionary Writings
Nathan K. Rees (University of West Georgia) | Redeeming the “Lamanites”: Framing Colonization for Mormon Youth in The Juvenile Instructor
Adrian Chastain Weimer (Providence College) and David D. Hall (Harvard University) | Daniel Gookin, An Hy[s]torical [acco]unt of the Doing[s] & Sufferings of [the] Christian Indians in New England

12-1 PM | Lunch Break

1 -3 PM | Representation, Nation, Race, Self-Fashioning

Chair: Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton University)
Chris Suh (Emory University) | Yun Ch’i-ho’s Diary and Asian-American Encounters in the American South, 1888-1893
Alvita Akiboh (University of Michigan) | Freedom from the Flag: Native Hawaiian Destruction of the Stars and Stripes
Brian Bockelman (Ripon College) | “A Nation of Nomads: The Embodiment of Indigenous Geographies in the First Atlas of Argentina”
Rachel Herrmann (Cardiff University) | “Pineapples, Provisioning, and a Third Maroon Treaty”
Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University of America) | Subverting Pro-Colonial discourse in Postcolonial Vindicationist Haitian Pamphlets
Corinna Zeltsman (Georgia Southern University) | Cataloguing Mexican History in the Age of Panamericanism

Postponed papers:

Edrik Lopez (Choate Rosemary Hall) | Hammerin’ Hank Aaron’s Time Travel: A Puerto Rican Baseball Jersey in 1954
Susanna Ashton (Clemson University) | 28 years a Slave

“Where is ‘The Negro’ in Quaker Abolitionism?” UC-HBCU Initiative Ballitore Project