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I'm writing to let you know about an interdisciplinary graduate conference at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania that will be held on September 26-28. The full announcement is below: Scholars encounter early America through its traces, the vestiges and fragments left behind. And in reconstructing the fleeting and ephemeral, scholars also attempt to trace early American encounters. This conference will bring together graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines to explore the various meanings of traces—as material objects, cultural representations, and academic practices. Presentations and discussions will explore how people deliberately and unwittingly left traces as they moved through space and time; what traces or remnants of the past get privileged while others are marginalized or occluded; how written, visual, and other texts are both material objects and traces of lives and experiences; and where we look for the traces of different communities and conflicts in early America. More generally, this conference seeks to address tracing as a method of historical inquiry, one that both uncovers and constitutes objects and archives, as well as the methodological traces that have reconfigured early American studies, such as Atlantic history, diaspora studies, hemispheric studies, and circum-Caribbean and Latin American studies. We hope you can join us for the conference. Please find the full program here <http://www.mceas.org/gradconference13/program.htm>. To register, please visit the conference website: http://www.mceas.org/gradconference13/ --
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