Page of Reason - Special Events Issue
Dispatches from your most humble servant
Page of Reason is the newsletter of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS) at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York. Learn more about the ITPS and our activities at our Research Portal. You can follow us on Twitter @TheITPS, BlueSky @theitps.bsky.social, and Mastodon @ITPS@historians.social.
The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies will host two exciting events this month: the inaugural Lapidus Lecture in Paine Studies and the sixth biannual Conference in Paine Studies. You can join us in person on Iona’s campus in New Rochelle, New York, or virtually via Zoom webinar for all sessions. Dates, details, links to the conference program, and registration information are listed below each event. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Upcoming Events
Lapidus Lecture in Paine Studies
Join us for the inaugural Lapidus Lecture on Paine Studies titled “The Age of Choice” on September 26, 2024 at 5:00pm ET, featuring Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania).
Scholars, students, and interested members of the public are all welcome to attend, and a reception will follow.
Register for in-person attendance, or virtual Zoom attendance.
Teaching American and Digital Revolutions Conference
The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS) is hosting our Sixth Biannual Conference from September 27-28, 2024 in person at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York, and virtually via Zoom webinar. “Teaching American and Digital Revolutions” considers how digital methods and practices can help us to teach the complexities of revolution more effectively. Similarly, as higher education and pedagogy shifts in the face of emerging, complex technologies from AI to virtual reality, “Teaching American and Digital Revolutions” will address how teaching revolutionary movements can help students, scholars, and educators alike to apply the relevance of past histories to our contemporary digital moment.
Our distinguished program of leading scholars and educators will share their insights, experiences, and research on innovative approaches, methodologies, and technologies in teaching the history of the Age of Revolutions, the digital humanities, and the two together. The conference will also mark the recent publication of an open-access volume, American Revolutions in the Digital Age (Cornell University Press, 2024), and include discussions of how this volume contributes to those discussions. “Teaching American and Digital Revolutions” will also introduce several new initiatives at the ITPS related to a generous gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Nora Slonimsky, ITPS Director, at nslonimsky@iona.edu, and the conference co-organizers and American Revolutions in the Digital Age co-editors Dr. Mark Boonshoft at boonshoftmd@vmi.edu and Dr. Ben Wright at bgw@utdallas.edu.