PEAES and FEEGI: Works-in-Progress Workshop

April 9th, 2026

The Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) at the Library Company of Philadelphia will host a one-day works-in-progress workshop associated with the 2026 Biannual Conference of the Forum on Early Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.  The pre-circulated paper workshop will take place on Thursday, April 9, 2026.  The FEEGI Conference begins the next day, April 10-11.

PEAES invites proposals that relate to political economy in the early modern world—capaciously understood in both cases—and align broadly with the missions of PEAES and FEEGI.  We especially encourage submissions from scholars planning to participate in the FEEGI conference in any capacity. This workshop will bring together scholars at all career stages, ranging from the young and emerging to the more established, who are seeking critical and productive engagement with a work-in-progress. Workshop participants will all read one another’s work and offer feedback in sessions lasting c. 45-60 minutes.

The selected papers, c.25pp-long, will be circulated a month in advance of the workshop which will be led by Dr. Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University and Director of PEAES and Dr. Casey Schmitt, Cornell University.

To submit a paper, please submit a c.300-word abstract and a 2-page CV to mmoeller@librarycompany.org with the subject line “PEAES-FEEGI Workshop” by Friday, October 17th, 2025.

Finance and The American Revolution, 1763-95

September 24-25, 2026

The Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) at the Library Company of Philadelphia invites proposals for a symposium on the topic of Finance and the American Revolution, 1763-1794, scheduled to take place in Philadelphia on September 24-25, 2026. Across several panels devoted to workshopping pre-circulated papers, the symposium will foster discussion about the relationships between finance and the Revolution. We are broadly interested in papers that speak to public and private finance, credit, trade, and exchange in political and social contexts. The intention is that revised essays will appear in an edited volume to be published in the PEAES book series at University of Pennsylvania Press.

We are interested in thinking capaciously about finance and the American Revolution. To give a sense of some, but by no means all, possible topics:

· British fiscal policy in the coming of and prosecution of the war

· US diplomatic efforts on behalf of trade, credit, and financial assistance

· Free trade, free ports, smuggling, privateering, and the role of merchants

· Monetary policies and institutions, including currency, credit, banks, and insurance

· Trade, gift-giving, and plunder relating to Native nations

· Dispossession, speculation, and landownership

· Taxation and populist resistance

· Inflation, scarcity and price-fixing, price-gouging

· Slavery, the slave trade, and their relationships with finance

· Women and finance on the homefront and after the war

· Loyalists, property seizures, and post-war claims

The selected papers, c.25pp long, will be pre-circulated a month in advance of the workshop, which will be led by Dr. Michael Blaakman, Princeton University, and Dr. Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University and Director of PEAES. The Library Company will be able to offer limited assistance for travel and lodging if needed.

To submit a paper, please submit a c.300-word abstract and a 2-page CV to mmoeller@librarycompany.org with the subject line “Finance and the American Revolution Workshop” by October 15, 2025.