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John Dickinson Symposium Schedule

Register for Free Symposium Here!

Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 6pm ET

Plenary Address by Jack N. Rakove: “John Dickinson, Political Conscience, and the Dilemma of the Moderates”

Hosted by the American Philosophical Society

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106

Jack N. Rakove is the emeritus William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, and Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) Law at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is author of numerous books, articles, and essays, as well as editor of several volumes of primary and secondary sources, on the political history of the Founding Era. His 1997 study Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, and the Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize. He is currently at work on The Ticklish Experiment: A Political History of the Constitution (under contract to Farrar Straus Giroux). He has published numerous op-ed articles in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and New York Times. Other work includes testifying before Congress on impeachment in 1998, serving as consultant expert witness in several cases involving Indian land claims in New York State dating to the 1780s, and writing four amicus curiae briefs for the Supreme Court, including one cited by Justice John Paul Stevens in D.C. v. Heller (2008), the leading Second Amendment case. Among many other positions held, he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999 and the American Philosophical Society since 2007.

Friday, October 21, 2022 from 8:45am to 6:30pm ET

Hosted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

1300 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19107

8:30 – 8:45am ET

Doors Open

Registration & Coffee

8:45 – 9:15am ET

Welcome: David R. Brigham

Introductory Remarks: Jane E. Calvert

9:15 – 10:45am ET

Panel One: Communication

Jelte Olthof, “John Dickinson: Pluralist and Orator”

Helena Yoo, “Letters from Before He Became a Farmer: John Dickinson’s Transatlantic Correspondence”

David Forte, “‘Like Lightening thro the Land’: John Dickinson and the Freedom of the Press”

11:00 – 12:30 pm ET

Panel Two: Matters of State

Charlotte Crane, “Contribution and Representation: John Dickinson’s Contributions to the Fiscal Design of the Emerging Federal Government”

Charles Fithian, “‘A System, concise, easy and efficient’: John Dickinson’s Version of von Steuben’s Regulations for the Delaware Militia, 1782”

Nathan R. Kozuskanich, “‘A Certain Coldness in my Presbyterian Friends’: Dickinson and the Pennsylvania Radicals”

12:30 – 1:45pm ET

Lunch on your own

Drop in Dickinson Artifact Tours at the Library Company of Philadelphia

1:45 – 3:15pm ET

Panel 3: Social Justice

Jon Kershner, “‘Nature Planted Them in this Land’: John Dickinson’s Quakerly Diplomacy and Indian Concerns”

Kevin Bendesky, “‘Defending the Innocent & redressing the injurd’: The Criminal Jurisprudence and Penology of John Dickinson”

Jane E. Calvert, “Expansive Conceptions of Black and Women’s Rights in the Thought of John Dickinson”

3:30 – 5:00pm ET

Panel Four:  Gender and Social Concerns

James Emmett Ryan, “John Dickinson and Public Education”

Rebecca Brannon, “John Dickinson and Aging”

Nathaniel Green, “‘From a Common Stock of Rights’: Human Rights and Political Power in John Dickinson’s America”

5:00 – 5:15pm ET

Closing Remarks: Jane E. Calvert

5:15 – 6:45pm ET

Catered Reception

Hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia

1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia PA 19107

For the safety of all guests and staff, proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masking are required of all guests. Upon entering the building, please provide proof of vaccination. Proof will be accepted in the form of your original vaccination card, a photo of it on your phone, or a photocopy of the original. All guests are required to remain properly masked throughout their time at the Symposium. 

For virtual attendees, we provide closed captioning.

Should you require assistance or further accessibility information please call 215-546-3181 x. 144 or email events@librarycompany.org

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