FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
2024
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, FA Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- “Women and Science in the 17th- and 18th- Century Ireland” | Katharine Beene, University of Connecticut
- “Trading with the Enemy: The English, the Dutch, and Commerce in Time of War” | Dr. Elizabeth Hines, University of Chicago
- “Apocalypse, Puritans, and Politics in the Empire of Oliver Cromwell” | Courtney MacPhee, Stanford University
2022
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, FA Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- “A man of so much money and power, justice might not be done”: Gender Violence, Power, and Print in the Revolutionary Atlantic” | Joan Jockel, College of William and Mary
- “Ingredients for Revolution: The Political Economy of Molasses, Sugar, and Rum” | Eva Landsberg, Yale University
- “Networking Nature: John Bartram and the Market Economy of 18th-Century Science” | Shannan Mason, University of Missouri
2021
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, FA Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- “18th-Century Mourning Customs: Life, Death, and the American Revolution” | Dusty Dye, University of Maryland
- “Bodies of Empire: The Political, Religious, and Corporeal Makings of Subjecthood in Seventeenth-Century New England | Makiki Reuvers, University of Pennsylvania
- “Food Anxieties and the Development of Colonial Hybrid Identities in the 18th-Century British Atlantic” | Elizabeth Schmidt, UC Santa Barbara
2019
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, FA Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- “Beast of Many Names: Cattle, Conflict, and the Transformation of Native Florida, 1585–1858” | Jason Herbert, University of Minnesota
- “The Spyglass and the Mirror: Competitive Intelligence and Trans-imperial State Formation in the War of Spanish Succession” | Brandon Munda, College of William and Mary
- “Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic” | Sean Morey Smith, Rice University
2018
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, FA Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- “Political Philosophy of “Republicanism” from the English Civil War to the American Revolution” | Deborah Charnoff, CUNY Graduate Center
- “Consent and Gender Roles During the Enlightenment” | Hannah Jorgenson, University of Minnesota
- “American” Identity in the Nation’s First Periodicals” | Jordan Wingate, UCLA
