Comments on: Women in Early America: CFP and reminder

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:08:43 +0000

Quixote–I just found your comment today in that ol’ spam filter. You ask a good question. I’m not sure that it costs anything to just attend and listen in–there were people who did that when I did the same seminar in 2009. But I’m sure there will be details posted once they’ve selected the participants and got the program all set, probably sometime in the early spring of 2009.

Since it’s a conference with precirculated papers, I’m not sure that anyone but conference participants has access to the papers, but I may well be very wrong about that.

By: dr m

dr m — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:02:02 +0000

The bookstore has a “stunning” collection of books and ephemera to purchase. STUNNING.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:36:10 +0000

Mi Piace is not the place I was thinking of, but it does look fucken awesome! Dunno when I’ll be in Pasadena again, but I’ll try it.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:54:45 +0000

Yes–the Westin is where I stayed. Well remembered, Susan. They have a shuttle that will take you over to the Huntington on a moment’s notice, and take you back to the hotel at the end of the day!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:42:18 +0000

You are inducing Huntington envy. I think CPP is thinking of Mi Piace, in Old Town. Walking distance from the Westin, where the HEH put me up the last time I did something for them.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:46:42 +0000

I’ve been to some great fucken restaurants in Pasadena, but I can’t remember the names of any of them. One was a great two-room Italian place, and I also remember this awesome tavern-type place with an old-style barroom and also a regular dining room.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:30:15 +0000

I stayed at a very nice hotel in downtown Pasadena–walking distance to most stuff you’d want or need. It was extremely comfortable, with a rooftop pool and exercise room.

I’m usually more of a No-Tel Motel kind of gal, so I appreciate the luxury when I can git it.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:40:32 +0000

Let’s hope it’s the Green Hotel in Pasadena, which hasn’t actually been a hotel since the wealthy snowbirds used to take the Southern Pacific down there for the winter. It’s been repurposed into a pretty ritzy condominium type venue, I think. I took a house tour there once, and wow, you wouldn’t want to come back!

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:25:40 +0000

Huntington Library is fucken schweeeet! What hotel are they putting everyone up at?

By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:35:32 +0000

Sorry--it was sloppy of me not to include image captions/provenance as I ordinarily do. The first image is of a Western Abenaki woman produced in the 18th C. The second is a painting is a post-mortem portrait of Margurite Bourgeoys (1620-1700), a nun of the Congregation de Notre Dame in Montreal, by Pierre LeBer (1700), and the last is a portrait of the Moravian Protten Family by Johann Valentin Haidt (1751). (More information here.) It's interesting because although the child's skin is whitened beyond belief, she's painted with her hand in the "preaching position"--something we never see with girl children, let alone girl children of African descent. The Prottens were Christian Protten (1715-1769), an Afro-Dane Moravian missionary, his wife, a former slave from St. Thomas and also a missionary, Rebecca (1718-1780) with baby Anna Maria. If I recall correctly, neither this baby nor a previous child of hers (by a previous marriage) survived. (More information here.) I don't have my copy of the book, but I learned about Rebecca Protten through Jon Sensbach's fine biographical study, Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (2005). (I may have misremembered some of the details about her husbands and children.) I didn't realize this until looking up Bourgeoys's dates that she was Canada's first woman saint! (Beatified by JPII in 1982).