Spring 2012
Jeffersonian Democracy: From Theory to Practice
Princeton University
May 17-19, 2012
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Colonial Americas Workshop, the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the History Department, the Program in Law and Public Affairs, the Program in American Studies, and the University Center for Human Values.
Co-organized by Lo Faber (Princeton) and Jessica Lowe (Princeton),
and by Barbara Oberg (Princeton/Editor, the Papers of Thomas Jefferson)
Thursday, May 17
Keynote Session
4:30pm, 211 Dickinson Hall
Peter Onuf (Virginia) and Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard)
“Most Blessed of Patriarchs”
Friday, May 18
9-10:30
Panel 1, "Democratic Foundations"
Rob Forbes, (UConn/Gilder Lehrman) “Secular Damnation: Thomas Jefferson and the Imperative of Race”
Matthew Hale (Goucher), “‘I am a Democrat:’ The French Revolution and the Emergence of Jeffersonian Democracy”
Chair/Commentator: Lo Faber (Princeton)
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-12:30
Panel 2, "Popular Mobilizations"
Gerry Leonard (Boston Univ. Law School), “Jefferson's Constitutions: Law and Democratic Mobilization”
Marion Nelson (Independent Scholar), “Episodes of Jeffersonian Opposition, 1798-99: Political Men Restored to the Scene (Rethinking “Grass Roots Origins”)”
Andrew Robertson (CUNY), “How Revolutionary was the Election of Thomas Jefferson?”
James McClure (Princeton/Papers of Thomas Jefferson)
12:30-2 Lunch break
2-3:45
Panel 3, "Legal Implementations"
Christopher Curtis (Clafin), “Thomas Jefferson the Republican Revisions, and the Modernization of the Common Law”
Matthew Crow (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), “Equity and Usage: Reading Law in Jeffersonian Democracy”
Mark Schmeller, (Northeastern Illinois) “Filling the Box: Jury Selection and the Politics of Jeffersonian Judicial Reform”
Chair/Commentator: Hendrik Hartog (Princeton)
3:45-4:00 break
4:00-5:45
Panel 4, "Republican Administration"
Andrew Fagal (SUNY Binghamton), “Thomas Jefferson, Tench Coxe, and the Republican Political Economy of War”
Brian Murphy (CUNY), "The Chase Impeachment and Republican Vigilance against the Federalist Corps of 'Sappers and Miners'"
Dael Norwood (MCEAS/Princeton), “The Strange Influence of Asian Commerce on Jeffersonian Governance”
Saturday, May 19
9-10:30
Panel 5, "Democratic Geographies"
Craig Hammond (Penn State), “Slavery, States, and Empires”
Padriag Riley, (Dalhousie), "Slaveholder Power and the Democratic Imagination: Jeffersonian
Political Culture in the North"
Chair/Commentator: Alec Dun (Princeton)
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-12:00
Panel 6, "Popular Legacies"
Reeve Huston (Duke) "The Afterlife of Jeffersonian Democracy: Rethinking the Development of Popular Partisan Politics, 1793-1840”
Chair/Commentator/Closing Remarks: Sean Wilentz (Princeton)
Spring 2013
The next AMS Graduate Student Conference, tentatively titled "Disrobing the Law in American Culture" will be held in the spring of 2013. If you are interested in helping, please contact the conference organizers, Kameron Collins (kacollin@princeton.edu) and Alix Lerner (allerner@princeton.edu). More information to follow as it becomes available.
Fall 2011
Science and Religion
in America:
The 2011 American Studies
Graduate Student
Conference
September 23-24, 2011
Princeton University
Princeton University
With Funding and Support from
The American Studies Program
The Department of English
The Department of History
The Program in the History of Science
The Davis Center for Historical Studies
The Graduate School at Princeton University
The Center for the Study of Religion
The Center for the Study of Religion
From left: Henry Cowles, David Hollinger, Priscilla Wald, Rebecca Rosen
From left: George Laufenberg (Speaking), Kristoffer Shields, Sean McElroy, Bill Gleason
Priscilla Wald (Speaking)
Fall 2010
The second annual American Studies Graduate Student Conference, Southern Nation, organized by Anne Twitty, Sarah Milov, and Jessica Lowe, all of the History Department, was held on April 23 and 24, 2010. The keynote speaker was Professor Grace Hale of the History Department at the University of Virginia.
From left: Professor Kevin Kruse, AJ Bauer, Mike D'Alessandro, John Reuland, Julia Gunn, and Lacey Baradel
From left: Lacey Baradel and Julia Gunn
Breakfast on the second day of the conference.
From left: Panelist John Claborn, Commenter John Reuland, and Panelist Julia Gunn.
From left: Jessica Lowe, Sarah Milov, Professor Grace Hale, and Annie Twitty
Panel 5: Southern Labor: Past and Present. Panelists Tore Olsson and Scott Alves Barton. Commenter John Reuland.
The first annual American Studies Graduate Student Conference, The Complex, organized by Lindsay Reckson, English and Nika Elder, Art & Archaeology, was held on May 2, 2009. The conference explored the various “complexes” that inform American Studies, and asked how American Studies can help us understand the strategies and subjects of “the complex”. The keynote speaker was Asst. Professor Mark Goble of the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.