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Members of the list may be interested in the following conference, to be held in September 1999, NOT 1998. Plans are to have sessions linked via tele-conferencing to a site at the Institute of American Studies at Oxford University. Information on the conference will be updated on the Winthrop Papers home page, http://www.millersv.edu/~winthrop John Winthrop's Worlds: England and New England 1588-1649 Millersville University of Pennsylvania sponsored by Millersville University of Pennsylvania Indiana University of Pennsylvania The Massachusetts Historical Society The Institue for American Studies of Oxford University The Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Commemorating the 350th anniversary of the death of John Winthrop, this conference has been designed to review the state of the fields of colonial New England studies and Tudor-Stuart England studies at the close of the twentieth century, and to encourage interaction between scholars in these two fields. Thus, most sessions will feature a look at a particular subject from the perspectives of England and New England in the time period. Each presenter has been asked to prepare a paper that will be a creative synthesis a review of the subject enriched by the scholar's own research and insights. All papers will be pre-distributed to those who register so that sessions will focus on discussion of the papers. Friday, 17 September 1999 9:00 - 10:15 England in the Armada Year, 1588 Pauline Croft, University of London 10:30 - 12:00 Session A: Society and Life in Old and New England Chair: Roger Thompson, University of East Anglia England: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Oxford New England: Jenny Pulsipher, Brandeis University Session B: Political Thought in a Turbulent Age Chair: T. H. Breen, Northwestern U England: Mark Kishlansky, Harvard University New England: Darren Staloff, CCNY 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:15 - 2:45 Session A: Gender Identities Chair: Susan Amussen, Union Institute Graduate School England: Frances Dolan, Miami U. of Ohio New England: Richard Godbeer, U of California Riverside Session B: Forms and Functions of Local Government Chair: Cynthia Herrup, Duke University England: John Walter, University of Essex New England: Christopher Fritsch, Oxford University 3:00 - 4:30 Session A: Women's Experience in the early Modern World Chair: Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University England: Lynn Bothelo, Indiana University of Pa New England: Laurel Ulrich, Harvard University Session B: The Law and Law Reform Chair: John Murrin, Princeton University England: James Hart, University of Oklahoma New England: Richard Ross, University of Chicago Law School 4:45 - 6:15 Session A: Puritans in the Marketplace Chair: Dwight Bozeman, University of Iowa England: John Craig, Simon Fraser University New England: Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary of Va Session B: Puritanism Ideas and Consequences Chair: Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield England: Peter Lake, Princeton University New England: Michael Winship, University of Georgia 6:30 Reception Saturday, 18 September 1999 9:00 - 10:30 The Puritan Choice in 1630 Chair: Richard Dunn, University of Pennsylvania To Stay -- Oliver Cromwell: John Morrill, Cambridge University The Irish Alternative: Alan Ford, Durham University To Migrate -- John Winthrop: Francis Bremer, Millersville U 10:30 - 12:00 Session A: Poverty Chair: Paul Slack, Oxford University England: Steve Hindle, Warwick University New England: Stephen Innes, U of Virginia Session B: The Practice of Piety Chair: Michael McGiffert, Omohundro IEAHC England: Tom Webster, University of Edinburgh New England: Brian McCarthy, College of William and Mary 12: 00 - 1:15 Lunch 1:15 - 2:45 Session A: The Medical World Chair: Michael MacDonald, University of Michigan England: Margaret Pelling, Oxford U New England: Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS Session B: The Treatment of Religious Dissent Chair: Judith Maltby, Oxford University England: Kenneth Fincham, University of Kent New England: Elizabeth Dale, Clemson University 3:00 - 4:30 Session A: The World of the Book: Literature and Its Audience Chair: Jill Lepore, Boston University England: Alexandra Walsham, University of Exeter New England: David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School Session B: Worlds of Wonders and Witches Chair: John Demos, Yale University England: Malcolm Gaskill, Anglia Polytechnic University New England: Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon Exorcism in Old and New England: Tom Freeman, Rutger's U 4:30 - 6:00 Panel: Changes and Continuities England and New England in the early Seventeenth Century Chair: Stephen Foster, University of Northern Illinois Charles Cohen, University of Wisconsin Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University Linda Levy Peck, George Washington University Tim Harris, Brown Uninversity 6:00 Dinner and Closing Address: Winthrop's Worlds in 1649 David Cressy, California State University, Long Beach
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