The American Antiquarian Society, in association with the history departments of Clark University and the University of Connecticut, announces its 2003-2004 seminar series. This seminar series brings area and transient scholars, graduate students, and other interested individuals together several times a year to hear and to discuss papers on a wide variety of topics germane to the interests and collections of the Society. The series focuses on pre-twentieth-century American history broadly speaking, as well as on such specializations as American literary history, art history, music history, and bibliography and book trade history.

The seminars usually begin at 4:30 and include refreshments during discussion. Many of those attending stay for a dinner in the Society's Goddard-Daniels House afterwards. The series' calendar consists of a dozen seminars between September and May.

Upcoming seminars include:

• Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  The Black Bard and the Black Market: Slave Culture, Print Culture, and Authorial Economies in Jacksonian America
  Leon Jackson (University of South Carolina)
• Friday, December 5, 2003, at 4:30 p.m., at Clark
  No Day Without a Line: The Diary as Universal Necessity in Antebellum America
  Molly McCarthy (Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow at AAS)
• Friday, February 13, 2004, at 2:00 p.m., at AAS [note different starting time]
  Poetry and History: Approaches to the Study of Nineteenth-Century American Poets, Poems, and Poetic Culture
  Meredith McGill (Rutgers University), organizer, with the following panelists:
  • Jill Anderson (Peterson Fellow, American Antiquarian Society)
  • Lawrence Buell (Harvard University)
  • Virginia Jackson (New York University)
  • Mary Leoffelholz (Northeastern University)
  • Eliza Richards (Boston University)
  • Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester)
  • Karen Sanchez-Eppler (Amherst College)
• Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Circulating Ballads in the Antebellum United States
  Meredith McGill (Rutgers University)
• Friday, March 12, 2004, at 4:30 p.m., at the University of Connecticut
  The Founding of Jamestown in its Atlantic Context
  Karen Kupperman (New York University)
• Thursday, April 8, 2004, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  Representing the Black Subject and the Problem of Freedom
  John Stauffer (Harvard University)
• Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 4:30 p.m., at AAS
  The Economy of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
  David Hancock (University of Michigan), Michael Jarvis (University of Rochester), and Mark Peterson (University of Iowa), panelists; Karen Kupperman (New York University), moderator

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE