The University of Exeter and The Society of Early Americanists welcome proposals for panels, roundtables, workshops, and working groups for an international conference to be held 24-27 June 2020 at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Designed to coincide with the four-hundred-year anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth, Devon (45 miles southwest of Exeter) to New Plymouth, the conference will be particularly concerned to address:

• The guiding question(s) “What Does It Mean to Remember” or “How Do We Remember?”
• Anglo-American-Indigenous relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The organizers welcome individual or panel contributions (traditional or innovative) that engage with the following topics, though we emphasize that this is not an exhaustive list:

• Transatlantic circulation of people, ideas, texts, foods, goods, things
• The “Winthrop fleet”—technology, people, motivations, microhistories
• The English diaspora in the Americas and globally in the 17th century
• Indigenous travelers to and/or perspectives on England/Europe
• American Puritanism “before the fact”
• Commemorations and remembrances of the Mayflower, Thanksgiving, Plymouth Rock.
• Exeter, the South West and the Pilgrims
• Digital Pilgrims (DH approaches and applications)
• Popular Pilgrims/the Pilgrims as Popular Culture in the U.S. and beyond

The conference organizers warmly welcome participants from both within and beyond the UK. Reasonably-priced housing for the conference will be available on campus. Registration for the conference will have an option inclusive of housing, breakfasts, lunches and conference dinner.

Email 1-page proposals to SEA2020@exeter.ac.uk by August 31, 2019.

Individual paper proposals should include
• Presenter’s name, title, and institutional affiliation (or independent status)
• Title and short description of the presentation.

Full session proposals should include
• A title and overall description of the panel
• Presenters’ names, titles, email addresses and institutional affiliation (or independent status)
• Titles of each presentation on the panel, if applicable.

For more information, please contact the conference coordinators: Kristina Bross (bross@purdue.edu), Sinéad Moynihan (S.Moynihan@exeter.ac.uk), Bryce Traister (bryce.traister@ubc.ca).