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“Liberty on the Anvil,” a free symposium to mark the 300th anniversary of the charters granted by William Penn to the Pennsylvania Assembly and the city of Philadelphia, will be held Monday, October 22, 2001 at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration begins at 8:45 a.m. Call or email us to reserve a seat.
The agenda:
9-11 a.m., Liberty for Ourselves
Craig Horle, Temple University—“William Penn and the 1701 Charters”
Jane E. Calvert, University of Chicago—“The 1701 Charter and the Culture of Quaker Dissent”
David Waldstreicher, Notre Dame University—“The End of Penn’s Dream: Ben Franklin and American Identities”
Susan Klepp, Temple University, commentator
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Liberty and the Other
François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University —“Revolutionary Agency and American Slavery”
Nancy Isenberg, University of Tulsa—“To Stand Out in Heresy: Lucretia Mott, and Gender”
Sergei I. Zhuk, Johns Hopkins University—“Pennsylvania and the Ukraine: Peripheries of the Radical Reformation”
Nicole Eustace, Rutgers University, Camden, commentator
2:45-4:45 p.m., Liberty and National Ambition
Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania—“Liberty and Deference”
Ric Caric, Morehead State University—“John Fitch as a Study in Cultural Failure”
Jeffrey W. Howe, Boston College—“A Monster Edifice: Identity at the Centennial Exhibition”
Stephanie G. Wolf, Senior Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, commentator
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