Friday, October 24

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Richard S. Newman, Director, Library Company of Philadelphia

Cathy Matson, Director, Program in Early American Economy and Society and Professor of History, University of Delaware

9:30-11:00 a.m.

Economies of Print and Communication

Joseph M. Adelman, Framingham State University
“Reading and Writing: Turning the Interdisciplinary Page in Early America”

Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California-Berkeley
“Counting and Accounting: Numerical Information and Communication in Early America”

Coffee break

11:30-1:00 p.m.

Capitalism and Class

Seth Rockman, Brown University
“From Social History to Political Economy: The Changing Registers of Class and Capitalism in American History: Part I”

Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
“From Social History to Political Economy: The Changing Registers of Class and Capitalism in American History: Part II”

Lunch on your own

2:30-4:00 p.m.

Atlantic and Global Contexts

Michelle Craig McDonald, Stockton College
“Sea Change: Nautical Networks of the Early Atlantic World”

Edward Pompeian, College of William and Mary
“The New World’s Atlantic: Recent Orientations from the Americas”

Coffee break

4:30-6:15 p.m.

Gendered Economies

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of California at Davis
“Bids: The Gendered Work of Value in Early American Markets”

Brian Luskey, West Virginia University and NEH Post-Doctoral Fellow, LCP and PEAES
“Bonds: Gender and the Cultural Economy of Early America”

Linzy Brekke-Aloise, Stonehill College
“Bodies: Fashioning Gender in the Early American Marketplace”

6:15-7:00 p.m.

Reception

Saturday, October 25

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Reconvene with coffee

9:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Material Economies and Consumers

Jane Merritt, Old Dominion University
“Consumer Revolutions and the Politics of Tea”

Danielle Skeehan, Oberlin College
“Texts and Textiles in the Early Atlantic”

Coffee break

11:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Institutions and Political Economy

Dael Norwood, Yale University
“What Counts? Political Economy, or, Ways to Make Early America Add Up”

Hannah Farber, University of California-Berkeley
“Who Acts? Government, Society, and the Elusive American Institution”

1:00 – 1:30

Summing Up

Cathy Matson, Director, Program in Early American Economy and Society and Professor of History, University of Delaware