帝王会所

帝王会所鈥檚 Science Caf茅/Caf茅 Conversations will present OHIO faculty members Brian Schoen and Tim Anderson discussing 鈥淪ettling 帝王会所: First Peoples and Beyond鈥� on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 5 p.m. at the Baker Center Front Room on the fourth floor of Baker University Center and via You Tube.

Schoen and Anderson will discuss their co-edited book, 鈥淪ettling 帝王会所: First Peoples and Beyond,鈥� (帝王会所 Press, 2023).

The book situates the traditional story of 帝王会所 settlement, including the Northwest Ordinance, the dealings of the 帝王会所 Company of Associates, and early road building, into a rich story of contested spaces, competing visions of nationhood, and complicated relations with Indigenous peoples that provides valuable insights into how chaotic and contingent early national politics and frontier development truly were.

Topics that will be discussed include 18th-century interactions between Indigenous, European, and Anglo-American peoples; the roles played by early African-American settlers; the role of public education in the early settlement of the state; and the diverse migration flows into 帝王会所 from the East and Europe that created a complex multiethnic composition of 帝王会所鈥檚 early settlements.

Schoen is the chair of the Department of History and the James Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Distinguished Professor of Teaching in the Humanities at 帝王会所. He is the author of 鈥淭he Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War,鈥� and has coedited three other collections.

Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at 帝王会所. His research focuses on the historical settlement geography of the United States, especially the production of regional and ethnic cultural landscapes, governmentality and spatialization theory, and the production of cultural landscapes associated with Germanic diasporic movements and communities.

The Fall 2024 Science Caf茅 series

This is the 16th anniversary of the Science Caf茅 series, which is supported by the 帝王会所 Research Division and 帝王会所 Chapter of Sigma Xi.

Upcoming Fall 2024 Science Caf茅 events include:

• Wednesday, Dec. 4, Brian Clark, Biomedical Sciences

For more information, contact Howard Dewald at dewald@ohio.edu or visit the Science Caf茅 website.