Lectures and Symposia
Lectures and Symposia
To honor Professor Gipson, the Institute invites scholars to give occasional lectures and to participate in annual symposia on various topics in eighteenth-century studies. Please join us for this semester's events.
Fall 2022

Spring 2022
Santa Clara University

Fall 2021 Colloquium Series

Friday, November 5, 2021
Friday, October 1, 2021
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Virtual: Registration Required - ZOOM: go.lehigh.edu/1gipson
Moderated Q&A

Spring 2021
Virtual Seminar Series
Race in the Eighteenth Century
Friday, May 7, 2021
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Virtual: Registration Required - ZOOM: go.lehigh.edu/chimingyang
Moderated Q&A
Racialized Porcelain, Animality, & Asian “White Matter”
Chi-Ming Yang
University of Pennsylvania

Virtual Seminar Series
Race in the Eighteenth Century
Friday, April 2, 2021
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Virtual: Registration Required - ZOOM: go.lehigh.edu/sashaturner
Moderated Q&A
Race, Gender, and Caribbean Medical Encounters
Sasha Turner
Johns Hopkins University
Co-sponsor
Africana Studies Program
Virtual Seminar Series
Race in the Eighteenth Century
Friday, March 5, 2021
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Virtual: Registration Required - ZOOM: go.lehigh.edu/sharonblock
Moderated Q&A
Creating Race on Colonial American Bodies
Sharon Block
Department of History
University of California at Irvine
Fall 2020
Fall Virtual Colloquium - Third in the Series
Friday, December 4, 2020
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Virtual: Registration Required - ZOOM: go.lehigh.edu/gipson3
Moderated Q&A

Fall Virtual Colloquium - Second in the Series
Friday, November 6, 2020
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Virtual: Registration Required - ZOOM: go.lehigh.edu/gipson2
Moderated Q&A

Fall Virtual Colloquium - First in the Series
Friday, October 2, 2020
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Virtual: Registration Required - ZOOM: go.lehigh.edu/Gipson1
Moderated Q&A

Fall 2019
"The Surprising Origins of Radical Abolitionism" (co-sponsor)
Monday, September 23, 2019
4:30 p.m.
Linderman Library, Room 200
Dr. Marcus Rediker
University of Pittsburgn
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Spring 2019
"I Have No Master: Marriage and/as the Transatlantic Slave Trade"
Thursday, March 28, 2019
4:10 p.m.
STEPS 290
Dr. Patricia A. Matthew
Montclair State University
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Spring 2018
"Writing Freedom: Abolitionist Women's Fiction Before the U.S. Civil War"
Monday, April 9, 2018
4:10 p.m.
STEPS 101
Dr. Holly M. Kent
University of Illinois, Springfield
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Fall 2017
"The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands"
Thursday, October 12, 2017
4:10 p.m.
STEPS 280
Dr. Ann M. Little
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Co-Sponsors: Humanities Center and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
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"Jane Austen at 200"
Free One-Day Symposium/Registration Required
Friday, September 22, 2017
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall
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Image: Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, circa 1810 - National Portrait Gallery London
Spring 2017
"Coerced Reproduction and Enslaved Men: Manhood and Community"
Thursday, February 23, 2017
4:10 p.m.
STEPS 101
DePaul University
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Fall 2016
"Wildness without Wilderness: The Nature of Empire in French colonial North America"
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
4:10 p.m.
Williams Hall, Room 351
Dr. Christopher Parsons
Northeastern University
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Brown Bag Series - History Department
"Voters and the Whig Oligarchy in Early Eighteenth Century Britain"
Co-sponsor: Gipson Institute for Eighteenth Century Studies
Thursday, November 3, 2016
12:00 p.m.
Maginnes Hall, History Common Room, 3rd floor
Dr. Chris Dudley
East Stroudsburg University
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Spring 2016
“Fama and the Founding Father: Frontier Rumors in the Seven Years' War”
Thursday, March 24, 2016
4:10 p.m.
STEPS, Room 280
Reception following / Free and Open to the Public
Dr. Gregory Dowd
Professor of History and American Culture | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Fall 2015
"The Song Cycles of BEACHY HEAD based on Charlotte Smith's 1807 poem, Beachy Head"
Friday, September 11, 2015
4:10 p.m.
Zoellner Arts Center, Room 145
Reception following / Free and Open to the Public

Spring 2016
CANCELLED-The Many Captvities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeastern Borderlands
Thursday, February 25, 2016
4:10 p.m.
Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons
Ann Little | Associate Professor, History | Colorado State University
Humanities Center - "Relatives" Series
Co-sponsor: Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies