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News & Events
Colloquia, talks . . .
Seminars / Lectures
2009-10
FALL SEMESTER
October 30: Mark Wasserman at 2 pm
Professor at Rutgers University
“Age of Chaos or Golden Age?: The New Nineteenth Century”
Nov. 6: Renzo Honores at 2 pm
“Pluralistic Legal Rhetoric in Colonial Courts, 1550-1670”
Nov. 13 Reinaldo Roman TBA
"Spiritism on the Map: Cuba's Moral and Religious Landscapes, 1880s-
1940s"
Nov. 20th: Dan Segal, TBA
Pitzer College (BB)
Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies &
Director of the Center for Social Inquiry
http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~dsegal/
"Several Theses about World History"
Dec. 4: Susan Pennybacker, TBA
Trinity College (ASC)
Borden W. Painter, Jr., '58/H'95 Professor of European History
http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1000652
“From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain”
SPRING SEMESTER
January22: Joyce Chaplin
"Earthsick: The Circumnavigator's Malady."
Harvard University (ASC)
James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/chaplin.shtml
Feb. 3: James Sweet
University of Wisconsin (BB w/ AADS)
http://history.wisc.edu/africa/faculty/sweet.htm
Feb. 4-5: Atlantic Narratives Symposium (in conjunction w/ UM)
http://humanities.miami.edu/programs/symposia
March 25: Vince Brown
Harvard University (AADS)
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/brown.php
Vince will show and discuss his new film, “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness”
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0224&s=hersk
April 2: Lauren Benton
NYU (ASC)
“A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-
1900”
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/laurenbenton
2008-09
Entries marked with an asterisk form part of the Atlantic
History Graduate Colloquium Series, funded by the University Graduate
School and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Karen Kupperman (Department of History, NYU): “Why
Think Atlantically?,” December 5, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, DM 370.*
Professor Laurent Dubois (History & Romance Languages, Duke University): “The
Banjo in the Caribbean,” February 6, 2009, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, DM
370.*
Professor Joseph Tulchin, (Sr. Scholar for the Woodrow Wilson Center’s
Latin American Program; co-sponsored by LACC): “Doing History/Using
History,” February 27, 2009, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, DM 370.*
Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Distinguished Visiting Professor (emeritus,
Department of History, University of London): “When and Why Did
Haiti Fall Behind,” March 2, 2009, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, Green Library
220.
Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Distinguished Visiting Professor (emeritus,
Department of History, University of London): “Working on Caribbean
Economic History,” March 25, 12:00 -1:30 pm, DM 370. Part of
the series “Welcome to the Archives: Now What?” sponsored
by the Department of History Graduate Student Association.
Professor Joseph Miller (Department of History, University of Virginia): ““African
Historical Dynamics and Atlantic History,” March 27, 2009, 12:00
- 1:30 pm, DM 370.*
Professor Ariel de la Fuente (Department of History, Purdue University.
Sponsored by the Department of History Graduate Student Association: “Investigating
Domingo Sarmiento’s Writings,” April 3, 2009, 12:00 - 1:30
pm, DM 370.
2007-08
Devyn Spence Benson, Department of History, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "'Say It Ain't So, Joe' [Louis]:
Exploring Connections between the Cuban Revolution and African Americans,
1960." January 11, 2007, 11:30 - 1:00, DM 370.
Christopher Magra, Department of History, Calfornia State
University, Northridge. UCLA. "Commercial
Fishing and Atlantic Dimensions of the American Revolution." January
25, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30, DM 370.
Eric Schlereth, Department of History, Brandeis University. “Inventing
Partisan Religious Controversy: Editors and Infidels in the Early National
United States." February 1, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30, DM 370.
Jenna Gibbs, Department of History, UCLA. “The
Blackface Rebel Slave: Performing Atlantic Slavery, Rights, and Revolution.” February
8, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30, DM 370.
David Rifkind, School of Architecture, FIU. "The
Very Model of an Modern Imperial City: Gondar, Ethiopia." February
29, 2008, 12:00 noon - 1:30, DM 370. Co-sponsored by the Department
of
History Graduate Student Association.
Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Department of History, FIU. "Cuba
without Fidel," March 5, 2008, 1:30 - 3:00, Green Library 220. Co-sponsored
by the Latin
American & Caribbean Center.
Professor Victoria Grieve, Utah State University and Wolfsonian Visiting
Research Fellow. "Creating Middlebrow Culture: Prints of the Federal
Art Project," Friday, March 7, 2008, 12:00 - 1:30, DM 370.
Events
"A Conversation with Dr. Sherry Johnson,"
February 11, 2008, DM 370. Co-sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta and
the Department of History Gradaute Student Association.
"Land and Liberty," a
film dealing with the Spanish Civil War, directed by Ken Loach. Comments
by Profs. Aurora Morcillo and Alex Lichtenstein,
Thursday, January
17, 8:00 pm, DM 370. A Phi Alpha Theta event.
Elizabeth, with introduction and commentary
by Amanda Snyder, Department of History, FIU. February 27, 2008, 8:00
pm, DM 370. Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta.
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