When:
Friday, June 2, 2023
All day
Where: Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
(847) 467-0885
Group: Center for Historical Studies
Category: Academic
CCHS all-day graduate conference on
“COMMERCIAL NETWORKS: Connections, Conversations, Conflicts”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Claire Arnold
The keynote speaker will be Professor Sarah PEARSALL (Johns Hopkins U), author of the award-winning Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century (2008) and Polygamy: An Early American History (2019).She will speak on “Networks and Nations in the Eighteenth Century.”
Our external commentator will be Professor Peter THILLY (U of Mississippi), a historian of China and the opium trade.