Society of Early Americanists

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference

18-22 April 2001

The SEA invites every early Americanist who will be attending the upcoming American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference ñ ASECS 2001, in New Orleans April 18-22 -- to participate in these back-to-back events on Friday afternoon, April 20:

4:30-6:00 p.m. Friday, in the Magnolia Room at the Radisson:
our SEA Session,
"FOODWAYS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA"

Chair: Teresa TOULOUSE, Tulane University

"Images of America in French Gastronomic Writing"

-- Julia ABRAMSON, University of Oklahoma

"Securing Virtue With Forks and Knives: Thoughts About Eating in
Early America"

-- Trudy EDEN, University of Northern Iowa

"Rice and Butterflies: Food as Art in the Landscape of Middleton Place"

-- Robert BENSON, Ball State University

Respondent: Fredrika TEUTE, Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture

THEN, 6:00-7:00 p.m. Friday,
in the Spiritís [sic] Lounge
at the Radisson:
SEA Cash Bar

Special presentation: second annual SEA Essay Prize, for best paper during 2000 on an early American topic, broadly conceived, at ASECS or at one of its regional affiliates. Presenting the award on behalf of the 2000 prize ommittee will be Eric Slauter, recipient of the first annual prize; his colleagues are Sheila Skemp and Laura Kennelly, committee chair.

Won't you join us? Christine Huber, Tom Krise and Dennis Moore, serving as the liaison committee between the SEA and ASECS, have organized this yearís session and the cash bar.

Philip B. Gould
President, Society of Early Americanists