Archived History Faculty Talks and Presentations
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2008
September 10: Tara Nummedal, “Paracelsus, Count Carl, and Anna Zieglerin's Apocalyptic Alchemy,” Chymia: Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1750, International Conference, El Escorial (Madrid), Spain
September 20: Michael Vorenberg, “Lincoln and the Constitution,” Lincoln and American Values Symposium, National Archives, Washington D.C.
September 25: Howard Chudacoff, “Children at Play,” Center for Study of Human Development, Brown University
September 27: Nancy Jacobs, “Liberal Ornithology: The Collaboration of Con Benson and Jali Makawa in British Central Africa,” CART II Conference: Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s, Leiden, The Netherlands
October 5: Seth Rockman, “The Star-Spangled Banner and the Hidden History of Wartime Coercion,” German-American Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
October 17: Naoko Shibusawa, “Pacific Crossings: Cultural Bridges Between the US and Japan,” Center for American Studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
October 28: Matthew Garcia, "Nature's Candy: Grapes, Immigrants, and Race in Early 20th-Century California." Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University.
October 31: Charles Fornara, "The Kallias Decrees." Department of Classics, Brown University.
November 7 and 8: Mary Gluck, “Jewish Self-Fashioning through Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Budapest,” 4th Lavy Colloquium on "Nationhood and the Jews", Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
November 7-9: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, “Latin America in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization: The Cases of Mexico and Peru,” Beijing Forum on “Decolonization, Modernization, and Nation Building,” Peking University, Beijing, China
November 13-15: Robert Self, “Gender, Citizenship, and the Privacy Quandary in American Politics and Law, 1965-1975,” American Society for Legal History, Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario
November 17: Omer Bartov, “Communal Genocide: Personal Accounts of the Destruction of Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, 1941-44,” Eli Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina
November 23: Ethan Pollock, chair, “Official Re-conceptualizations of Post-War Soviet Masculinities,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, Philadelphia, Pa.
November 28-29: Engin Akarli, keynote address, “One Island, Many Histories: Rethinking the Politics of the Past in Cyprus” conference sponsored by the Peace Research International Oslo (PRIO) Cyprus Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
December 5: John Bodel, “Tombe e immobili: il caso dei praedia Patulciana,” Il Mediterraneo e la storia: Epigrafia e archeologia in Campania Conference, Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy
Dec. 9-10, 2008: Tracy Steffes, “Education, Work, and the Dilemmas of the ‘New Education’ in the United States, 1890-1940,” Joint Meeting of History of Education Societies of United Kingdom and Australia/ New Zealand, Sydney, Australia
December 12: James N. Green, “We Cannot Remain Silent: Brazil and the Emergence of a Human Rights Discourse in Latin America in the 1970s,” Human Rights and History Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
2009
January 22: Tara Nummedal, "Anna Zieglerin's Holy Alchemy." Opening lecture for "Book of Secrets: Alchemy in the European Imagination, 1500-1800," an exhibit at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
January 24: Tim Harris, "Charles I and Scotland." The Reign of Charles I, 1625-1649, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, San Marino, CA
February 18: Michael Vorenberg, "Did Emancipation Create American Citizens?" Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
February 19: Mark Swislocki, "The 'Discovery of Malnutrition' in China: A Window onto the Comparative History of Hunger." University of Washington China Seminar
February 20: Naoko Shibusawa, "TransPacific Histories: Migration and Diaspora." East of California: Across Ethnic Studies: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies Workshops, Northwestern University
February 27: Ethan Pollock, "'On Saturday All of Russia Goes to the Bania': Bathing and Hygiene in Late Imperial Russia." University of Toronto
March 5: Robert Self, "The Body Politic: 1968 and the Making of a New Politics of Gender, Sex, and the Body in America." Princeton University.
March 17: Maud Mandel, "'I’m a Jew; my Neighbors are Arabs': Understanding Muslim/Jewish relations in Marseille." Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris
March 18: Deborah Cohen, "Family Secrets: The Rise of Confessional Culture in Britain, 1840-1980." Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library
March 27: Nancy Jacobs, "Why Might a Man Hunt Birds for Whites? Central African Precedents to Scientific Collecting." 2009 Africa Conference - Science, Technology, and the Environment in Africa, University of Texas at Austin
April 6: James N. Green, "Who is the Macho Who Wants to Kill Me? : Gender, (Homo)sexuality and Revolutionary Masculinity in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship of the 1960s and 70s.” Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University
April 17: Kurt Raaflaub and Seth Rockman, "Freedom and Slavery, Ancient and Modern." Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio
May 7: Jorge Flores, "Empires and Cultural Brokers: The Social World of Native Interpreters in Imperial Goa" Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University
May 8-10: Engin Akarli, 24th Conference on Middle East History and Historiography, University of Chicago
May 18: Omer Bartov, Keynote speaker at Breaking the Bonds: Communal Violence in Eastern Europe," Wellington, New Zealand