OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute)

Coffeehouse ad for extended deadline of October 19, 2025.

Extended deadline to apply for seats at our two NEW OI Coffeehouses, #VastEarlyAmerica AND a whole new year of the Digital Projects Coffeehouse and the "Just Write" table -- check it out! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

OI Coffeehouse - OIEAHC Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable online gathering place for many in the early A...

We are diving back in to another season of OI Coffeehouses, Vast Early America! Come check them out - two have application deadlines of midnight, October 12, so apply now! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

3D SER., 81, No. 2 (April 2024) - OIEAHC THE FRANKLIN STOVE: MODERN MATERIALITY, MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA Joyce E. Chaplin Abstract 219 THE PLANTATION CARBON COMPLEX: SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EARLY MODERN BRITISH ATLANTIC...

The Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award has gone to Eric Herschthal and John L. Brooke for their WMQ article “The Plantation Carbon Complex: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change in the Early Modern British Atlantic” (April 2024). Congratulations to both! lnkd.in/ePkYr5nt

WMQ-EMSI 2026 Workshop - OIEAHC Apply by September 15, 2025, for the WMQ-EMSI Workshop—"Global Early America before 1700"—convened by Alison Games. Workshop convenes January 30-31, 2026.

Still time to apply for the 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop at the Huntington Library. Proposals due Sept. 15:🗃️

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For 2026: Wartime Transformations - OIEAHC Join us this October for the fourth "For 2026" conference. Call for Proposals now open. Proposals due April 15, 2025.

Little less than a month left to get your proposal in for "WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS" the 4th in the "For 2026" series. What better time to discuss the AmRev than now and where better than Williamsburg? CFP closes 4/15. bit.ly/3Fk6Rl5

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Vast Early America Lecture with Marlene Daut - OIEAHC Talk by award-winning author Marlene Daut (Yale University) on March 5, 2025, at Hennage Auditorium, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA.

In or around Williamsburg VA tomorrow afternoon? We may not have a huge bridge, hip restaurants, or even any restaurants -hip or not- open after about 9 pm but! we DO have none other than MARLENE DAUT coming to speak! Join us!
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OI Coffeehouse Season 2 - YouTube

We've had two great @oieahc.bsky.social DH Coffeehouse sessions so far this term featuring two compelling projects on slavery, archives, artificial intelligence, and the orality of early America. Check out Jane Landers, Daniel Genkins, and Sophie White. More to come!

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Excited to announce that Sara E. Johnson has won the 2024 P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)! Congratulations, Prof. Johnson!

Vast Early America Lecture with Marlene Daut - OIEAHC Talk by award-winning author Marlene Daut (Yale University) on March 5, 2025, at Hennage Auditorium, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA.

And another great lecture next week - join us for the Vast Early America Lecture with Marlene Daut, "A King's World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti's King Henry Christophe." Hennage Aud., Art Museums of Colonial Wmsbg, 5:00 pm on WEDS, MARCH 5. oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

A Lecture by Patrick Spero - OIEAHC Join us for a talk by prize-winning author and CEO of the American Philosophical Society Patrick Spero.

If you are in the Williamsburg area then join us on Thursday, 2/27, at 5 pm for a talk by the APS's Pat Spero on Andre Michaux, "The Scientist Turned Spy" - bit.ly/oi-lecture-s...

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