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12TH ANNUAL EARG GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
APRIL 6-7, 2018

EARG's 12th annual graduate student colloquium was organized by Daniel Froid and hosted on April 6-7, 2018.

We'd like to thank Professors Robert Markley and Lucinda Cole for their keynote and plenary presentations. We'd also like to express gratitude to our presenters for sharing their work with us and to the EARG faculty for their continued support. 

See below for a 2018 Colloquium program.
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11TH ANNUAL EARG GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
April 7-8, 2017

EARG's 11th annual graduate student colloquium was organized by Amy Elliot and hosted on April 7-8, 2017. Thanks to Professor Kelly Wisecup for her keynote presentation, to our presenters for sharing their intriguing research, and to the EARG faculty for their continued support!

​As part of her visit with us, Professor Kelly Wisecup led a workshop on April 6 that was titled "Mapping Disease, Mapping Bodies: Narratives of Disease and Colonialism in Representations of the Zika Virus." Professor Wisecup's workshop examined media representations of the Zika virus and public health responses in Puerto Rico and Brazil to consider how these representations, both textual and visual, created relationships among places, bodies, and behavior.
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1oth annual earg graduate student colloquium
April 8-9, 2016

EARG's 10th annual graduate student colloquium, organized by Brittany Biesiada, was held on April 8-9, 2016. Many thanks to Dr. Melissa Homestead for her keynote presentation, and to the EARG faculty for their support and service!

Writing retreat 2016

Over spring break 2016, 3 EARG members went to lovely Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, for a writing retreat. We stayed at the Grandstay hotel, which is currently managed by an EARG Alumna! The retreat was a great success, and we hope to make it an annual tradition.

9th Annual earg graduate student colloquium
April 10-11, 2015

EARG's 9th annual graduate student colloquium, organized by Stacey Dearing and Kim Hunter-Perkins, was held April 10-11, 2015. Thanks to Dr. Wendy Belcher for her keynote presentation, and to the English Department faculty for their support and service!

See below for a 2015 Colloquium program.
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8th annual earg graduate
student colloquium
april 11-12, 2014

EARG's 8th annual graduate student colloquium, organized by Mary Beth Harris, was held April 11-12, 2014. Thanks to Dr. Christopher Loar, our keynote speaker, and to the English department faculty for serving as panel chairs.

See below for a 2014 Colloquium program.


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7th Annual EARG Graduate Student Colloquium 
April 18-19, 2013

EARG's 7th annual Graduate Student Colloquium was held on April 18th and 19th, 2013. Thanks to our guest speaker, Dr. Nicole Horejsi from Columbia University, and to our own English department faculty for serving as panel chairs. And a special thanks to the English department, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Graduate Student Government for funding. And finally, thanks to Dr. Kristina Bross, our faculty advisor.

See below for a 2013 Colloquium program. 
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6th Annual EARG Graduate Student Colloquium 
April 6-7, 2012

2012 was the tenth anniversary of the Early Atlantic Reading Group at Purdue.  A special graduate student conference was organized to celebrate this milestone.  Alumni and graduate students from Purdue and across the country came together to share their work on early Atlantic culture and history.  Dr. Laura Stevens of the University of Tulsa gave the keynote.  See below for the colloquium program.

5th Annual EARG Graduate Student Colloquium 
April 5, 2011

EARG's fifth annual colloquium, organized by Helen Hunt Knight and Rebecca Bossie, took place from 9:00 to 4:00 pm in the Stewart Center at Purdue University.  See below for colloquium program.

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American Literature Association, 22nd Annual Meeting, Boston

EARG was also present at the 2011 meeting of the American Literature Association.  Among the presentations by EARG members past and present were:

Nicole Livengood: “The Hermaphrodite, Queer Theory, and the Undergraduate Classroom”

Christopher Lukasik: “Breaking and Entering” (Beyond Conventional Narratives of the Archive)

Nicholas Mohlmann: “‘Enrobe Thyself in Thunder’: Performing History in John Daly Burk’s
Bunker-Hill”

Helen Hunt Knight: “Conjuring Columbia:  Female Utopian Constellations in Susanna Rowson’s
Reuben and Rachel”


SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS, 
7TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, PHILADELPHIA

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EARG represented heavily at the 2011, Society of Early Americanists conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Six current student members, two current faculty members, and four alumni were present.  Among the presentations given by EARG members were:

Rebecca Bossie: “The Contrast as a Performance of American Familial Sensibilities”

Kristina Bross: “Soundtrack for a Survey”

Joy Howard, St. Joseph’s University: “Delaying the Salem Story with Slavery and Spirit Possession”


Sabine Klein, University of Maine--Farmington: “Amazons in New England?  Fighting Women During Metacom’s War”

Christopher Lukasik: “Revisiting Rebecca”

April Phillips: “A ‘Dangerous and Sinful Practice’: The Boston Inoculation Controversy”

Cassander Smith, University of Alabama: “‘No Witch in Her Own Country’: Candy’s Testimony at Salem and the Recovery of Black Voices in Early American Literature”


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4th Annual EARG Graduate Student Colloquium 
April 26, 2010

EARG's fourth annual colloquium, organized by Nick Mohlmann, took place from 1:00 to 4:30 pm in the Graduate Student Lounge in Heavilon Hall.  The colloquium was followed by a performance of Royall Tyler's The Contrast as interpreted by Dr. Bross' undergraduate students.  See below for colloquium program.
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3rd Annual EARG Graduate Student Colloquium 
May 1, 2009

EARG's third annual colloquium, organized by Elyssa Tardif, took place from 2:00-6:00 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge in Heavilon Hall. We were honored to host Prof. Rachel Wheeler (IUPUI) who presented an informal talk on her works in progress. See below for the official colloquium program.
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SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS 6TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCe MARCH 4-7, 2009

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While Indiana was still in the throes of wintry weather, seven EARG members including Dr. Kristina Bross headed to sunny Hamilton, Bermuda for the SEA Conference. The 6th Biennial Conference of the SEA marked the 400th anniversary of the wreck of the Sea Venture, flagship of the Jamestown Third Supply voyage, which initiated the permanent settlement of Bermuda-- the second permanent English colony in the Americas.  Several members of EARG presented conference papers:

Elyssa Tardif, "'Tho I Cannot Now Remember Particularly What She Said': Re-envisioning Native Women's Experience in Early Martha's Vineyard"

Karen Salt, Colloquy with Marcus Rediker on The Slave Ship: A Human History

Megan Morton, "Descending the Body Politic: Edward Winslow's Hypocrisie Unmasked

Dr. Kristina Bross, "The Business of Amboyna: Religion and Violence from the East to West Indies"

Joy A. J. Howard, "'Indian' Language and Quaker Authority in Anti-Puritan Texts"

Dr. Sabine Klein (University of Maine-Farmington), "John Underhill’s Other Indian War: Dutch Soldiers, English Mercenaries, and Algonquian Pan-Nativism in the Anglo-Dutch Borderlands,” with Jeffrey Glover (University of Rochester)

These members, along with Beau Gaitors, were in charge of registration at the conference, and Mark Leahy was in charge of the program and nametag design.


2ND ANNUAL EARG GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM, 
APRIL 25, 2008

EARG's second annual colloquium, organized by Ellen Bayer, was held from 2:30-6:00 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge in Heavilon Hall. See official colloquium program below.

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PROPHETSTOWN REVISITED: A SUMMIT ON EARLY 
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, 
APRIL 3-5, 2008

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Sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists, the Prophetstown Revisited Conference was hosted by our very own Purdue University, and EARG participated in many different capacities. Cassander L. Smith served as research assistant to the conference.  Two EARG members presented papers at the conference: Sabine Klein ("Indian Ventriloquism: Constructing Whiteness in Colonial New Netherland") and Megan Morton ("Native Allies, Native Enemies: Miantonomi's Use of Colonial Deliberative Rhetoric"), while Nicole Livengood and Joy Howard each chaired a panel entitled, respectively, "After Prophetstown" and "Revolutions/Nations." Three members of EARG, Allison Hutton, Mark Leahy, and Elyssa Tardif, assisted the leaders of three of the conference's workshops, in conjunction with the Early Native Literacies course taught by Dr. Kristina Bross.  

On the occasion of the bicentennial of the founding of Prophetstown by Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa (The Shawnee Prophet) in 1808, the Society of Early Americanists and Purdue University will host an interdisciplinary scholarly summit on early Native American Studies that will feature panel presentations, workshops, and keynote sessions open to the public. The founding of Prophetstown was an important historical moment, marking the first significant peaceful gesture on the part of indigenous North Americans to appropriate and utilize an "Indian" identity as a singular racial force of community and resistance. Pan-racial identification had been imagined and imposed by a series of European conquerors and colonizers for centuries, and pan-Indian identity would become the driving force behind the Jacksonian Policy of Indian Removal, enacted as law in 1830. The Shawnee Brothers' efforts were the first to coalesce and mobilize "Indians" on a continental level to oppose such efforts. Its brief efflorescence notwithstanding, it effectively marked the end of the era when tribes were set against one another by whites for their own selfish purposes.


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First EARG Graduate Student Symposium, November 30, 2005

EARG's first colloquium, organized by Joy A. J. Howard, was held from 3:30-7:00 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge in Heavilon Hall. See official colloquium program below.
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