Spring 2007
January 18, 4:30 |
Olivia Remie Constable (University of Notre
Dame), "Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Chess: Gaming and Courtly
Culture in Medieval Spain" |
January 18, 12:00 |
History of Science Society Colloquium: Betty Smocovitis (Department of History), "Quinine Fever: American Botanists and the "Cinchona Missions" in Latin America, 1942-45" |
| January 22, 4:30 219 Dauer Hall |
George E. Pozzetta Lecture Series: Lee Irby, "Truth Is Stranger: On Using (and Abusing) the Past in Historical Fiction" |
January 26, 4:00 |
Peter Carmichael (UNC Greensboro) Milbauer Series |
| February 9, 6:30 Emerson Alumni Hall |
2007 Burns Lecture: John Hope Franklin, "Mirror to America: An Autobiography" |
| February 13, 12:00 | CES Graduate Student Brownbag Lunch: Lisa Booth, "Bards, Beatles, and Platonic Freedom: The Russian Music Scene in the 1960s" |
| February 18-19 Hillel |
Conference on the Significance of Blood in Jewish Culture and History |
February 20, 4:30 |
Gil Anidjar (Columbia University), "On the Muslim
Question" "The East in the West? Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe" Series |
| February 21, 5:00 History Department Library |
Empires and Cultures Faculty Reading Group |
| February 22, 12:00 Turlington 3304 |
HSS Colloquium: Steve Noll and Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig,"The Black Stork: Eugenics and Attitudes Toward the Defective in Early 20th Century America" |
| March 1, 12:00 Turlington 3304 | HSS Colloquium: Josh Abraham, "Reframing Creationism: How the Genesis of the Culture War Gave Antievolutionism New Life" |
| March 1, 4:00 Smathers Library Conference Room 212 |
Benjamin Ehlers (University of Georgia) and Pawel
Kras (University of Lublin), "Politics and Religious Identities
in Pre-Modern Europe: Case Studies in Poland and Spain" "The East in the West? Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe" Series |
| March 6, 7:30 Hillel |
CJS lecture: David Rechter, "The Habsburg Empire, 1867-1918: Good for the Jews?" |
| March 7, 7:00 | CJS faculty seminar: Matt Jacobs, "Imagining a Quagmire" |
March 29, 12:00 |
HSS Colluquium: Michal Meyer, "Spaces and Places: Mary Somerville and the Tangled Roots of Physical Geography" |
| April 3, 12:00 Anderson 216 |
CES Graduate Student Brownbag Lunch: Samuel Pierce, "Distinguished Ladies and Daughters of the Heart: Catholic Women in Spain's Second Republic." |
| April 5, 11:30 Grinter 376 |
LAS/SALAS Colloquium: Ida Altman, “Interpreters and Bilingualism in Early Western Mexico” |
| April 5, 4:30 Smathers Library Conference Room 212 |
Matthew Connelly (Columbia University), "Reproducing
the West: The History and Politics of Population Growth and Movement" "The East in the West? Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe" Series |
Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Spring 2007 Events
Fall 2006
August 17-18 |
Department orientation for graduate students |
August 18, 5:00 |
Department reception |
| September 14, 3:00 3304 Turlington |
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Department picnic/ HGS fundraiser, Lake Wauburg |
September 21, 3:00 |
HSS Colloquim: Sean Patrick Adams (History) "Responding to the First American Fuel Crises, One Hearth at a Time" |
| September 22, 3:30 371 Grinter |
African Studies Baraza: Professor Luise White (History), "Starring Minority Rule! Rhodesian TV Commercials and Propaganda Films" |
September 28, 3:00 |
HSS Colloquium: Joseph Spillane (History) "Picturing Addiction: The Evolution of Substance Abuse Research" |
| George E. Pozzetta Lecture Series: Sevan Terzian (Associate Professor, School of Teaching and Learning) "Radio 'Adventures in Science': Casting Scientifically Talented Youth in the U.S. as National Resources, 1942-1959" |
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| October 23, 6:00 005 Keene Flint |
Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students: "Placement and the Job Search" |
| October 29, 2:00 Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach |
CJS lecture: Mitchell Hart (History), "The Pathological
Circle: Zionism and the 'Health' of European Jewry" Center for Jewish Studies events |
| November 1, 7:30 Hillel |
Alexander Grass Annual Endowed Lecture: Daniel Boyarin, "Literary Fat Rabbis: The Rabbis & the Syriac Connection." |
| November 13, 6:00 005 Keene Flint |
Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students: "Teaching and Pedagogy" |
| November 16, 3:00 3304 Turlington |
HSS Colloquium: Jason Antley (History) "(re)Presenting Matthew Flinders: The Warp and Weft of Science and Nation" |
| November 27 & 28, 5:00,
005 Keene Flint |
Cambridge Study Abroad information sessions |
November 30, 9:30 - |
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Space and Place [pdf] |
| November 30, 3:00 3304 Turlington |
HSS Colloquium: Maria Portuondo (History) |
| December 1, 3:30 005 Keene Flint |
Pozzetta Colloquium: Sherry Johnson, "Climate Cycles and Catastrophe: New Perspectives on the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution" |
December 4, 6:00 |
Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students: "Designing and Pitching a Conference Presentation" |
December 7. 9:15 |
EUH 5934 Research Seminar Mini Conference |
