Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la présentation d’ouvrage de Sandra Slater (University of Charleston, SC, Directrice du Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program) et John McCurdy (Eastern Michigan State) à Condorcet.
Mardi 4 mars de 16h à 18h The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center à Paris – Amphitheater, 1st Floor 41 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris Métro ligne 14 – Bibliothèque François Mitterand
Si vous souhaitez assister à la présentation en personne, merci d‘envoyer un mail à: bertrand.van-ruymbeke@univ-paris8.fr afin que nous puissions vous inscrire sur la liste.
Lien Zoom disponible pour suivre à distance Heure: 4 mars 2025 04:00 PM Paris https://univ-paris8.zoom.us/j/98069076020?pwd=VRe5CG2ae6hk1y2oGGwwfEYkZrPESa.1 ID de réunion: 980 6907 6020 Code secret: 589680
“Uniformity and Individuality in Early America: A Conversation with Professors Sandra Slater and John McCurdy”
In this presentation, Professors Sandra Slater and John McCurdy will discuss their recent books and how they highlight the roles of conformity and deviance in early British North America. Dr. Slater’s The Pompe and Pride of Man: Pride and Humility in Early New England (Brill, 2024) explores the dichotomy of pride and humility in American Puritanism, beginning with their transatlantic migration. Her work argues that a distinct form of American Puritanism arose that affected every facet of daily life: religious understandings, legal proceedings, and conceptions of the self in diaries and letters. Puritans placed the punishment and eradication of pride as a central lens through which society should be ordered.
Dr. McCurdy’s Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh (Johns Hopkins, 2024) explores the story of Robert Newburgh, a chaplain in the British Army who was accused of same-sex intimacy and tried by court-martial in 1774. Newburgh’s flamboyant dress and conflicts with army officers reveal a complicated story of nonconformity with sexual and gender mores. McCurdy argues that Newburgh’s response to the pernicious rumors, as well as his own legal defenses, reflected an embrace of a burgeoning American notion of sexual liberalism.
Together, the works of Drs.Slater and McCurdy highlight the importance of uniformity and individuality at the beginning and the end of colonial America.
