The folks at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History have been putting together some great annual conferences of late. The 2017 meeting in Dallas is shaping up to be a real intellectual history-fest.
I was recently asked to participate in a panel proposal for this conference, but I decided to decline in order to avoid the embarrassment of this happening again. For the next several years my travel to conferences in late October and early November is going to be limited.
It was recently announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning Jefferson scholar Annette Gordon-Reed will be one of the plenary speakers. And just the other day L.D. Burnett announced this:
…we’re pleased to announce our Friday plenary session, “Toward Democracy as Faith or Doubt.” We have assembled a panel of outstanding scholars who will be interrogating and at times no doubt challenging James Kloppenberg’s argument in his most recent, remarkable book: Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (OUP, 2016).
Christopher Cameron of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will chair the discussion. Joining him will be W. Caleb McDaniel of Rice University, Amanda Porterfield of Florida State University, Manisha Sinha of the University of Connecticut, and Daniel Wickberg of the University of Texas at Dallas. James Kloppenberg will also join the conversation, responding to his readers’ comments and questions and perhaps posing some questions of his own.
