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From View message header detail "scholl@newberry.org" <scholl@newberry.org> Sent Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:57 am To john.saillant@wmich.edu Subject Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History: Joshua Piker, November 18 The Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History and Culture Co-sponsored by the History Departments of DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago Wednesday November 18, 2009 5:30 — 7:00 p.m. Lying Together: The Imperial Implications of Cross-Cultural Untruths Joshua Piker, University of Oklahoma Indians and Europeans regularly lied to each other. Our familiarity with that fact has, however, obscured a subset of lies that is worth examining in more detail: those told on both sides of the frontier. This paper focuses on the cross-cultural lies told about Acorn Whistler, a Creek executed in 1752. The process by which Creeks and imperial officials came to tell the same lies offers a unique window onto the quotidian meaning of both Indian and imperial power. The paper argues that lies told in Coweta and Charleston can have an impact in London and may affect how we understand Lexington and Concord. All papers are pre-circulated electronically to those who plan to attend the seminar in person. For a copy of the paper, e-mail Heather Radke at scholl@newberry.org,or call (312) 255-3524. John Saillant Editor, H-OIEAHC OIEAHC <www.wm.edu/oieahc> William and Mary Quarterly <www.wm.edu/oieahc/wmq> Conferences and Calls for Papers <www.wm.edu/oieahc/conferences/index.html> Joining the Associates <http://oieahc.wm.edu/support/join.html>
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