Activities

2005 American Studies Seminar

2005 American Studies Seminar

Lectures on Puritanism
(Jointly held with Center for Pacific and American Studies, Association for Early American Studies and Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture)

Lecturer: Prof. David D. Hall
(Professor of American Religious History and Bartlett Lecturer on New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School)

January 11
Lecture II
Text and Context in H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

January 12
Lecture I
The Experience of Authority in Seventeenth-Century England and New England

January 14
Lecture III
Understanding the Puritans: Reflections on Four Decades of Scholarship

January 17
Lecture IV
Church and State in Early New England: Did the Puritans Believe in Liberty of Conscience?