2009 Seminar - November 6-7
Our Tentative List of Speakers for 2009 include:
1. Professor Robert Miller of Lewis and Clark Law School, a Native American, author, authority on federal tribal law, who will speak on Indian concepts of ownership and relations with the Europeans in the 18th century.
2. Brian Dunnigan of the Clements Library, formerly Director at Fort Niagara will talk on the 1759 Siege of Fort Niagara.
3. Dr. Stephen Warfel, former Senior Curator of Archaeology at the Pennsylvania State Museum, who will speak on current efforts to locate the site of Fort Morris in Shippensburg, PA. Steve spoke previously on his work at the Fort Loudoun site and is a dynamic speaker.
4. Dr. Jose Brandao, Professor of History at Western Michigan University, and an authority on the Iroquois. He followed in the late Joe Peyser's footsteps as Director of the Michilimackinac Translation Project, and he will speak on Iroquois relations with the French and British during the F&I War (and speak briefly on the Translation Project).
5. Dr. Matthew H. Spring, History Teacher at Truro School in Devon, Cornwall, England. He has just published a new book entitled "With Zeal and Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783" (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2008).
