The Early Modern Studies Institute will be hosting a conference on Early American Biographies.

“Presenters’ papers are precirculated among the workshop participants. In each hour-long session devoted to a particular paper, brief respondents’ comments will be followed by thirty minutes of discussion among the participants. Audience members will then be invited to join the conversation.

Registration is limited; requests for registration and access to the workshop papers should be sent to Kelly Crawford (kscraw@wm.edu).“

The Conference info:

Huntington Library Overseers’ Room 

1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108 

8:30 AM to 5:00 PM  

Here is the line up:

Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University

Steven W. Hackel, University of California, Riverside 

Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Gregory Nobles, Georgia Institute of Technology 

Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan

Joshua Piker, University of Oklahoma 

James Sidbury, Rice University

James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Brigham Young University

Catherine O’Donnell, Arizona State University

Michael Oberg, State University of New York, Geneseo 

The conference seems to be free, but for more details jump to EMSI’s site.