Archived events, September, 2007-present
SEPTEMBER 2007
Sept. 25, 2007, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 6-8 pm. Barbara Weinstein, Professor of Latin American History, New York University, President of the American Historical Association: "Erecting and Erasing Boundaries: Can We Combine the 'Indo' and the 'Afro' in Latin American Studies?" Reception to follow the lecture. Sponsored by the History Department, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
Sept. 27, 2007, Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Greg Moynahan, Assistant Professor of History; Co-director, Science, Technology, and Society Program , Bard College: "The Politics of Science in Cassirer and Heidegger's 1929 Davos Disputation." Sponsored by the History Department, and the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies.
OCTOBER 2007
Oct. 20, 2007, Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall 117, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 9am-6pm. New England Renaissance Conference: Nature's Disciplines. For information about the program and registration, see the conference website. Sponsored by The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program and The Committee on Science and Technology Studies.
Oct. 22, 2007, McMillan Hall, Rm. 117, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Paul Nugent, Professor of Comparative African History, University of Edinburgh: "Writing Comparative Histories of Contemporary Africa: Avoiding the Lowest Common Denominator." Sponsored by the Goldberger lectureships fund, the Africa Group of the Watson Institute, the Dean of the College Office, the Wayland Collegium, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Department of History.
October 23, 2007, John Carter Brown Library, Lower Seminar Room, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Brown University, Providence, RI, 3-5pm. History Department Faculty Workshop. The Department of History offers a workshop on the Atlantic World. Refreshments will be served.
October 24, 2007, Smith-Buonanno, Rm. 201, 95 Cushing Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Paul Bushkovitch , Professor of History, Yale University: "Moscow to St. Petersburg. " Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages, Department of History and The Watson Institute for International Studies.
NOVEMBER 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. List 120, 64 College Street, Brown University The 27th William F. Church Memorial Lecture: Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University: "The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance." The “culture wars” refers to a series of conflicts in the early seventeenth century between the papacy, the Jesuits, and the Spanish monarchy, on the one hand, and a group of cultural critics, often called the libertines, on the other. Libertines from all over Europe found a home in Venice between 1607 and 1657, a period when press censorship was relatively light. The University of Padua during the time of Galileo was the nesting ground for skeptics and libertines who established the famous Academy of the Unknowns as a vehicle for a cultural program that included publishing novels, moral commentaries, histories, dialogues, and opera librettos. This talk focuses on the final phase of the culture wars that pitted commercial opera, with its classical plots, women singers on stage, and often racy plot lines against the decorous model of Jesuit theater.
DECEMBER 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 4:00 p.m., MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Brown University. The Marjorie Harris Weiss Lecture: Susan D. Amussen, Graduate College, Union Institute and University, author of : "Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society" will offer a lecture, "'If her son is living with you, she sends her love': The Caribbean in England, 1640-1700." Sponsored by the Department of History, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program and the John Carter Brown Library.
FEBRUARY 2008
February 4, at 4:00 pm in the Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer Street. Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher at the African Studies Center, Leiden, will present the second lecture in a series on "Contemporary Africa: Writing Its History." His talk is titled "Histories of Invisible Africa." This series is sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of History, the Wayland Collegium, the Africa Group of the Watson Institute, the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund and a Saloman Grant from the Dean of the College.
APRIL 2008
April 17 at 5:30pm, MacMillan Reading Room in The John Carter Brown Library. Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Department of History, UCLA) will present the inaugural "Gulbenkian-Vasco da Gama Lecture on Portugal and the Early Modern World." The title of his talk is "Disturbing Old Bones: Old and New Myths about Vasco da Gama." The lecture will take place on the occasion of the opening of the book exhibition "Portugal and the European Renaissance" in The John Carter Brown Library. This event is jointly organized by the Department of History and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and it is sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, with additional sponsorship from The John Carter Brown Library and the Center for Latin American Studies at Brown.
OCTOBER 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Manning Hall; reception at 6:30 p.m. CSREA/American Indian Studies presents: Russell Thornton, UCLA Department off Anthropology, "Repatriation and Healing the Trauma of Native American History." There is a trauma of history whereby groups must be healed from the wounds of traumatic events if they are to achieve psychological well being. That Native American human remains and cultural objects from massacres and atrocities have been kept in museums and other institutions has hindered a coming to terms with their history. Recently, Native Americans have been successful in obtaining the passage of federal and state laws mandating the return of their human remains and cultural objects. Through repatriations, Native American groups may now reconcile themselves with terrible facets of their past and achieve an enhanced sense of well being. Co-sponsored by the Public Humanities Program and the Friends of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street. Brazil @ Brown History Lecture Series presents: Joel Wolfe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity." Professor Wolfe is the author of Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955 (Duke 1993) and the forthcoming Autos and Progress: Brazil's Search for Modernity (Oxford). He has published articles on modern Brazil in the Latin American Research Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, Radical History Review, and Revista Brasileira de História. In addition to modern Brazil, Prof. Wolfe's research and teaching interests include the history of technology and Inter-American relations. He is at present conducting research on two projects. One is a study of the atomic age in Latin America, the other is a history of the development of the Brazilian space program.
NOVEMBER 2008
Friday Nov. 7, 5:30-7p.m., Macmillan Room, John Carter Brown Library & Saturday Nov. 8, 9:30a.m.-6p.m., Smith-Buonano 106. The Conference “Antonio Vieira, Baroque Portugal and Colonial Brazil” (November 7-8, 2008) aims to discuss both the personality and the epoch of the noted Jesuit Antonio Vieira (1608-1697). Missionary and diplomat, political and economic thinker, orator and “prophet”, Vieira undoubtedly is one of the key figures of the seventeenth century. Ca. 10 scholars from North-American, Portuguese and Brazilian academic institutions will discuss the terrestrial and prophetical worlds of Vieira and the ways in which his ideas and actions impacted Portugal, Brazil and the South Atlantic societies. The Conference will open in the evening of November 7, Friday, with a lecture by João Adolfo Hansen (University of São Paulo, Brazil) titled “Cultural patterns of Antonio Vieira's representations of Brasil and Maranhão e Grão-Pará” (The John Carter Brown Library, 5:30pm). The two sessions of November 8, Saturday (morning, 9:30 am-12.45pm; afternoon, 2:00-6:00 pm) will take place at Smith Buonano, 106. This event is jointly organized by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and the Department of History, Brown University, together with the Centro de História de Além-Mar, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. The Sponsors are the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Portugal; the Instituto Camões, Portugal; The John Carter Brown Library; and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University. For a PDF of the program, click here.
Thursday, Nov. 20, 5pm. Barus & Holley 166. The 28th Annual William F. Church Memorial Lecture. Keith Wrightson (Randoph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History at Yale University), "Ralph Tailor's Summer: a Newcastle Scrivener and the Great Plague of 1636." Professor Wrightson's lecture is an exercise in 'microhistory'. It tells the story of an epidemic of bubonic plague in the northern English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the summer of 1636, reconstructing what that experience was like, and in particular the impact that the plague had on social relationships. It is largely told from the perspective of a young scrivener, Ralph Tailor, who wrote many of the documents which survive, and whose personality emerges from them - hence the title.
FEBRUARY 2009 |
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| Feb. 27-28 | Abraham Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century: A symposium honoring the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. More ... |
MARCH 2009 |
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Tuesday March 17, 4pm. Pavilion Room in the Dept. of History, 79 Brown St. |
The History Department and the American Antiquarian Society Regional Seminar (co-sponsored by Clark University and University of Connecticut) welcome Sean Kelley, AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellow and Associate Professor of History, Hartwick College, for the following talk: "The Vernon Brothers' Atlantic World: Newport Slave Trading in the Mid-Eighteenth Century." |
| Wednesday March 18, 4:30pm, John Nicholas Brown Center Library, 357 Benefit St. | Marlene Lopes, special collections librarian at James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College will give the following talk: "Cape Verdeans in Rhode Island: Foxpoint and Beyond?" Sponsored by the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance. Please RSVP to rigea@ric.edu |
APRIL 2009 |
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| Friday, April 3, 4:30-5:30pm, Petteruti Lounge (Faunce House) 75 Waterman St. | Are you interested in declaring History? Please join us on Friday, April 3rd from 4:30-5:30 in Petteruti Lounge! A short student panel will be held with History students who have studied abroad, are completing a thesis or senior capstone project, have done ISPs and GISPs, and more. Current concentrators and concentration advisers will also be on hand to talk about their experiences and to answer any questions you may have. Come find out more about one of Brown's most popular departments! Refreshments (and concentration forms!) will be available. contact: Anna_Hidalgo@brown.edu or Kwan_Siu_Tang@brown.edu |
| Wednesday, April 15, 5:30pm, Pembroke Hall 305 | Professor John Thornton (Boston University, Department of History) will deliver the second Gulbenkian Vasco da Gama Lecture on Portugal and the Early Modern World (co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities) on Weds., April 15, 2009, 5.30pm. The title is: "The Kingdom of Kongo, the Kingdom of Angola, and the Thirty Years' War: African Diplomacy and Portuguese Politics in the Struggle for the Atlantic, 1620-48." |
| Wednesday, April 15, 5:30pm, 190 Hope St. 102 | Professor Matthew Sneider (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Department of History) will discuss his work at the Italian Studies Colloquium and will give the following talk: "Sacred Territory: Confraternities in the Bolognese Contado." The paper will be available for review later in the semester at the colloquium website: http://blogs.brown.edu/project/it_colloquium/ |