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Society of Early Americanists 7th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 3-5, 2010
As Native groups, colonial empires, and republics vied for portions of North America in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, populations competing for land and autonomy (re)positioned themselves in shifting
constellations of alliance and opposition in local and regional contexts. This panel is interested in ways in which
loyalty and treachery were articulated, negotiated, and gauged in various North American environments and
cultural forums, be they social, racial, material, commercial, martial, colonial, national, or otherwise. Open
to interdisciplinary topics, the panel also welcomes papers that examine manifestations of loyalty and
treachery in complex cross-cultural arenas as well as in literary, historiographical, and visual representations
created to structure memories of a figure, event, or era. Please send 250-word abstract to Keat Murray (kemurr@ptd.net) by September 1, 2010.
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