History Faculty Talks and Presentations
Spring 2012
[for archived talks & presentations, click here]
January 5-8: Tracy Steffes will deliver a talk, "State Social Regulation, Child Welfare, and the Compulsory School in the Progressive Era," at the American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago.
January 24-25: Omer Bartov will present "The Historiographic Debate on the Shoah," in International Conference, "Shoah, Modernity and Political Evil," organized by the Regione Toscana in cooperation with the Florentine NGO "Forum per i problemi della pace e della guerra," as part of the Day of Remembrance (Giorno della Memoria), established by the Italian Parliament in 2000 to commemorate all the victims of the Shoah and the Nazi-Fascist persecution in Florence.
February 1: Francoise Hamlin will present "A Mixed Blessing: Churches, the Mass Civil Rights Movement, and the Rural South," Inaugural Lecture for the Gammon Theological Seminary, Center for the Study of Religion and Race, Atlanta, Georgia.
February 9: Palmira Brummett will give the Tomasso Lecture entitled "Vincenzo Coronelli, the Lion of San Marco, and the Image of "The Turk" in Early Modern Italy" at Tufts University.
February 9-10: Tara Nummedal, "The Visual Culture of Early Modern Alchemy," Art and Alchemy Workshop, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
February 16: Vazira Zamindar will give a talk, "Seeing the Frontier: Pakistan in Other Histories," at Harvard University.
March 1-2: Harold Cook presenting "Information Economies," for workshop at Princeton
University, “New Worlds, New Philosophies: ‘Discovery and Knowledge in
the Atlantic World, 1500–1800’”
March 3: Seth Rockman, Keynote Address, Association for Living History, Farm, and
Agricultural Museum, New England Regional Conference, Coggeshall Farm
Museum, Bristol, RI <http://www.coggeshallfarm.
March 22-24: Harold Cook, "Descartes the Spy," for session on "Diplomacy, secrecy
and espionage in Early Modern France (1560-1630)," Renaissance Society
of America annual meeting.
April 14: Nancy Jacobs on faculty panel for "Two Kingdoms; New Perspectives on Flora and Fauna in Environmental History" Northeast Regional Conference, Yale University.
April 18-22: Karl Jacoby will speak at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, at Frontier Airlines Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
April 21-23: Roundtable, "Beyond Holocaust Exceptionality: Theorizing Genocide Studies," with Saul Friedlander (UCLA); Hayden White (UCSC); Ben Kiernan (Yale); Omer Bartov (Brown); Elisabeth Weber (UCSB); and Lynn Hunt (UCLA, moderator/discussant), in conference: History Unlimited: Probing The Ethics Of Holocaust Culture, University of California Los Angeles.
April 23: Maud Mandel is giving a talk called "Shaping Community from the Margins: French Jews and Leftist Politics in the late 20th century," at the University of Michigan.
May 7: James N. Green, Council on Foreign Relations, NYC, "Dilma Rousseff: From Guerilla Fighter to President of Brazil"
June: Francoise Hamlin offers "Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement," lecture and seminar for the eighth annual Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute, New York Public Library.