History Faculty Talks and Presentations
Fall 2009
[for archived talks & presentations, click here]
September 11: Nancy Jacobs, “Cosmopolitan Science, Respectability, and Defiance In a Segregated Life: Saul Sithole of the Transvaal Museum.” History of Knowledge and Transnational History, Basel Switzerland
September 30: Joan Richards, "From the Logic of Geometry to the Geometry of Logic: Augustus De Morgan confronts Euclid." Cambridge, England
October 1: Linford Fisher, “Christian Indians? On the Dangers of Homogenizing Indians’ Religious Experiences in Colonial New England.” American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, La.
October 2: John Bodel, "Pushing Up Daisies: Cult and Cultivation in the Roman Tomb Garden." Keynote address for "Aere perennius: Memory and Posterity in Antiquity," Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
October 3: Francoise Hamlin, "Gender, the War on Poverty and Activism for Change." Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio
October 4: Tara Nummedal, "The Lion's Blood: Alchemy, Apocalypse, and Gender in Reformation Europe." Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
October 8: Tom Gleason, "'The Pope and I Did Everything': the Role of Anti-Communism in the End of the Soviet Union." The End of the Soviet Union: the View from Twenty Years Later, a conference sponsored by the Gramsci Foundation, Rome, Italy
October 9: James N. Green, "Gender, Sexuality, and Revolutionary Masculinity during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship." Gender, Empire and PostColony: Intersections in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
October 14: Evelyn Hu-Dehart, "The Inconvenient Truth About Immigration." University of Florida, Gainesville
October 18: Michael Vorenberg, "French Readings of Lincoln's Role in the Creation of American Citizenship." European Readings of Abraham Lincoln, His Times and Legacy, American University of Paris
October 23: Tracy Steffes, “Education and the Welfare State: A Roundtable." History of Education Society Conference, Philadelphia, Pa.
October 29: Deborah Cohen, "Other People's Bastards: Adoption and Illegitimacy in Britain, 1900-1960." Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University
October 30: Seth Rockman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in the Early Republic conference, Library Company of Philadelphia
November 4: Omer Bartov, "Genocide in a Multiethnic Town: Event, Origins, Aftermath." Yale University
November 5: Karl Jacoby, "'Exterminate all the Brutes': Intersections and Fault Lines Between American Indian History and Genocide Studies." Genocide, Memory, Justice: The Holocaust in Comparative Contexts conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
November 10: Mark Swislocki, “Nutritional Sovereignty: Food and the Politics of Health in Late Imperial and Republican China.” Reed College Chinese Humanities Lecture Series
November 12: Naoko Shibusawa, "Elite Ideologies and Popular Support for U.S. Foreign Policies." American Studies Institute, Seoul National University.
November 14: Ethan Pollock, “Banias and Bodies: Life and Death in the Soviet Bathhouse." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Convention, Boston, Mass.