Events
(For a list of talks Brown History faculty are giving around the United States and the world, see this list; for archived events, click here)
September 2011 |
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Thursday, September 15 4:00 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets |
T LS Lecture Series
Our speaker is Joan Richards, Department of History, Brown University "From History to Biography and Beyond: Confronting Two Hundred Years in a Radical English Family" |
Friday, September 16 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop
This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. Our speaker is Rachel St. John, Harvard University "The Imagined America of William McKendree Gwin: Individual Ambition and the Uneven Path of American Expansion" |
Tuesday, September 20 5:30 pm at 110 List Art Center, 64 College Street |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop
This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. Co-sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society Our speaker is Tanya Sheehan, Rutgers University "The Happiness of Others: Social Identity and the Photographic Smile" |
Monday, September 26 7:00 pm at Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106/107, 95 Cushing Street |
My Perestroika Screening of the award winning documentary film, which follows the lives of five Russians from childhood through the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years. Followed by a Q & A with director Robin Hessman (Brown '94/Slavic Studies Concentrator). for more information on the film, see: myperestroika.com |
Tuesday, September 27 5:30pm at Smith-Buonanno, 106, 95 Cushing Street |
31st Annual William F. Church Memorial Lecture Deborah Harkness, Professor of History at the University of Southern California, is the author of John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Yale University Press, 2007), which won the 2008 John Ben Snow Foundation Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies and the Pfizer Prize for Best Book in the History of Science from 2005-2007 from the History of Science Society. She is also the author of recent work of fiction, A Discovery of Witches (Viking , 2011). "Fiction and the Archives" |
Friday, September 30 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop
This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. Our speaker is Gregory Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University "The Sense of the People": Contesting the Foundations of a Diasporic Cherokee Identity, 1794-1839 |
October 2011 |
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Friday, October 14 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop
This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. Our speaker is Jim Downs, Connecticut College "Dying to be Free: the Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation" |
Tuesday, October 25 4:00 pm Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
T LS Lecture Series
Our speaker is Karl Jacoby, Department of History, Brown University "The Future of the Past: The Possibilities and Perils of Historical Scholarship on the World Wide Web" refreshments will be served |
Friday, October 28 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop
This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. Our speaker is Jeannine DeLombard, University of Toronto "Fully Alive to the Importance of being...Self-Possessed: Slavery, Civil Death, and Life-Writing" |
November 2011 |
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Friday, November 11 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop
This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. Our speaker is Courtney Fullilove, Wesleyan University "Discarded Knowledge: The Making and Unmaking of U.S. Pharmacopoeia" |
Tuesday, November 15 7:00-8:00 pm in Wilson, Room 101 |
Janus Conversation: Birthplace and the Myth of Liberal Citizenship
Join the Janus Fellows for a conversation on birthright citizenship. Professor Michael Vorenberg will trace the roots and consider the stakes of birthright citizenship in a 15 minute lecture followed by a Q&A period. As always, free Nice Slice! |
Thursday, November 17 John Carter Brown Library |
John Carter Brown Library
Professor Harold Cook will present a talk at the John Carter Brown Library. "Drug Prospecting in the New World: Medicine and Commerce among Early Modern Europeans" |
Tuesday, November 22 4:00 pm Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
T LS Lecture Series
Our speaker is Omer Bartov, Department of History, Brown University "Genocide in a Multiethnic Community: Event, Origins, Aftermath" refreshments will be served |
December 2011 |
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Friday, December 2 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop
This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. Our speaker is Steven Deyle, University of Houston "A Man, HIs Mistress, and Her Cow: Race, Class, Gender, and Bestiality in the Slave South" |
Ongoing Seminars, Workshops, and Lectures
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Modern Europe Workshop
John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Programs
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