FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- The Community History Project of Shenandoah University and the Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection are cosponsoring a conference on North American, eighteenth-century frontiers to be held at Shenandoah University and the Glen Burnie Museum, April 16-18, 1999. Both are in Winchester, Virginia. This interdisciplinary conference will examine recent scholarship on the eighteenth-century backcountry and develop a needs and opportunities agenda for future study. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRONTIERS IN NORTH AMERICA RECENT SCHOLARSHIP AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES April 16-18, 1999 SPONSORED BY: Community History Project, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, and Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Visit the conference website: www. su.edu/history/frontiers Call: Glen Burnie at 540-662-1473 Shenandoah University at 540-665-4587 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1999 12:00-2:30 PM -- Registration: Henkel Hall, Shenandoah University 2:30-3:00 PM -- WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Conference Chair: Jennifer Esler, Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection Conference Chair: Warren R. Hofstra, Shenandoah University 3:00-5:30 PM -- BREAKING OUT OF THE BACKCOUNTRY: MULTIDISCIPLINARY STRATEGIES FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE WORK Chair: Ellen Eslinger, De Paul University Commentator: Robert M. Calhoon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro "The Future of Space and Place in Backcountry Studies" Robert D. Mitchell, University of Maryland at College Park "Parting the Veil: Discerning Speech Patterns in the Backcountry" Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina 6:30-9:00 PM -- Reception and Dinner Session -- AMERICAN CREATION MYTHS: CONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION Chair: Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University "American Creation Myths: Construction and Reconstruction" Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1999 9:00-11:30 AM -- BORDERLANDS AND INTERIORS: APPROACHING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRONTIERS Chair: Fredrika Teute, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Commentator: Daniel K. Richter, Dickinson College "The Lower Mississippi Valley in the Eighteenth Century: Borders and Border-Crossings" Daniel H. Usner Jr., Cornell University "Where Is the Spanish Backcountry?" Amy Turner Bushnell, University of Charleston 1:00-3:30 PM -- FRONTIER LANDSCAPES AND ARTIFACTS Chair: Jennifer Esler, Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection Commentator: Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin--Madison "Urban Hinterlands: The Backcountry and the Town" Bernard L. Herman, University of Delaware "Untilled Earth: Understanding the Potential of Material Culture Research in the Backcountry" Bradford L. Rauschenberg, Old Salem and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts 4:00-5:30 PM -- Field Session at Glen Burnie -- PAST AND PRESENT IMPERFECT: RESEARCHING, PRESENTING, AND INTERPRETING THE FRONTIER WHEN PAST AND PRESENT REALITIES CONFLICT Leila O. W. Boyer, Research Consultant, Glen Burnie Heather Hembrey, Curator of Education, Glen Burnie Sarah Bevan Meschutt, Curator of Collections, Glen Burnie 5:30-6:30 PM -- Reception at Glen Burnie 7:00-9:00 PM -- Dinner Session -- COMING BACK TO THE BACKCOUNTRY: A REFLECTION AND PROJECTION ON THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER Chair: James P. Whittenburg, College of William and Mary "Coming Back to the Backcountry: A Reflection and Projection on the History of the Early American Frontier" Gregory H. Nobles, Georgia Institute of Technology SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1999 9:00-11:30 AM -- GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE FRONTIER Chair: John Larson, Old Salem and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Commentator: Alan Taylor, University of California at Davis "Complex Societies and the Archaeology of the Early American Frontier" David Colin Crass, Georgia Historic Preservation Division Martha A. Zierden, Charleston Museum "Looking East: A Pacific Perspective on North America's Intercultural Frontiers in the Eighteenth Century" Peter H. Wood, Duke University 1:30-4:00 PM -- Field Session at Rose Hill -- DOCUMENTING, RESEARCHING, MANAGING, AND INTERPRETING A HISTORIC SITE FROM THE FRONTIER: A PROBLEM-SOLVING SESSION Jennifer Esler, Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens & Julian Wood Glass Jr. Collection Alphonso Narvaez, John Milner Associates 4:15 PM -- Return to Shenandoah University for adjournment FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Visit the conference website: www. su.edu/history/frontiers Call: Glen Burnie at 540-662-1473 Shenandoah University at 540-665-4587 -- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
