The McNeil Center for Early American Studies is pleased to announce its upcoming biennial graduate student conference, Bustle and Stir: Movement and Exchange in Early America, 8-10 October 2015 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

PROGRAM: The three-day conference includes paper presentations by twenty-two graduate students from institutions across the country, as well as a Friday afternoon McNeil Seminar featuring Kellie Carter Jackson, assistant professor in the Department of History at Hunter College, CUNY. Professor Jackson’s paper will be precirculated and should be read by all who attend. For access, contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. The full conference program is available here.

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place at the McNeil Center, 3355 Woodland Walk (Sansom and 34th Streets), on the University of Pennsylvania campus.

KEYNOTE: The conference’s keynote speaker will be François Furstenberg, associate professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins and author of In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation (2006) and When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation (2014). The Keynote Address will be Saturday afternoon, October 10, at 3:30 pm.

The conference is free and open to all, but prior registration is required. Please refer to the following website for further registration, accommodation, and program information: http://www.mceas.org/bustleandstir/

Contact Email: mceas2015conference@gmail.com