Spring 2008
[Link to Phi Alpha Theta events]
| Jan 29, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Pozzetta Colloquium: Bill Link (Department of History), Race, Sex, and Subversion in the Sixties: Jesse Helms and the University of North Carolina |
| Feb 1, 3:00-6:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Milbauer Series: William Blair (History, Penn State) |
| Feb 7, 4:05, 1002 New Physics Bldg | Fred Gregory (Department of History), "Science and Atheism: Mutually Entailed?" |
| Feb 8, 3:30, 471 Grinter | Greg Mann (Columbia Univ), "Knowing the Post-colony: Socialist Government, Sources and the Sociologist's Assistant" |
| Feb 15, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Mark Ravina (Emory Univ), "The Strange Death of 'The Last Samurai': Saigo Takamori in History and Legend" |
| Feb 19, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Pozzetta Colloquium: Mark Thurner (Department of History), The "As If" of "The Book of Kings": Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo's Colonial Poetics of History |
| Feb 20, 7:30, Hillel | Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia University, "Esperanza Rodriguez: A Mulata from 17th-Century Mexico City" [link to flyer] |
| Feb 21, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia University, "Still Afraid of the Inquisitions? Methodological Matters in the Study of Colonial Judeoconversos, Afroiberians, Amerindians and Other Others"[link to paper] |
| Feb 22, 3:00-6:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Milbauer Series: Catherine Clinton (Queen's University, Belfast) |
| March 20, 4;00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Pozzetta Colloquium: Sheryl Kroen (Department of History), Tartuffe and the French Revolution and Robinson Crusoe and the Marshall Plan: A Crazy Kind of Cultural History? |
| Mar 21, 3:00-6:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Milbauer Series: Stephanie McCurry (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Mar 24, 6:00, Turlington L007 | Beate Sirota Gordon, civil rights activist and author, will speak on Japan's constitution |
| April 1, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint Hall | Pozzetta Colloquium: Trysh Travis (Women's Studies), Quiet Americans: Gender Publishing and the Export of Cultural Democracy during the Cold War |
| April 3rd, 4:00, 150 Pugh Hall | Simon Rabinovitch, "Assimilations' Antidote: Jewish Culture and Autonomy in Inter-Revolutionary St. Petersburg" |
Spring
2008 Phi Alpha Theta schedule.
Fall 2007
| Sept 14, 5:00 The Webber Center Gallery, CFCC |
Robert Zieger (Department of History), All the Live long Day: Work in American History |
| Sept 19, 8:00, Goerings | James Cusick (UF Special Collections), The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida |
Sept 20, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint |
Pozzetta Colloquium: Luise White (Department of History), Global Guns, Cosmopolitan Cadres: Skills and Sophistication in an African Guerilla War |
| Sept 28, 2:00, Smathers Library | Michael Gannon (Department of History), History of Florida in 40 Minutes |
| Sept 27, 7:30 pm Keene-Flint 117 | Phi Alpha Theta meeting: Professor Link will talk about graduate school and the profession. |
| Oct 4, 7:00 Keene Faculty Center |
Graham Center Forum on Civic Engagement: Steve Ortiz (Bowling Green State University) "Soldier-Citizens: Veteran Activism and the Expansion of the Twentieth-Century Veteran Welfare System" |
| Oct 15, 7:30 Christian Study Center |
Jon Sensbach (Department of History), "Before the Bible Belt: Reconsidering Religion in the Early South" |
| Oct 17, 8:00 Goerings Book Store |
Goerings Book Store Series UF Faculty and their New Books: Julianna Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands |
Oct 18, 11:30-12:45 |
Paul Dosal, Professor of History (University of South Florida), “Manhunt: The Covert Campaign to Capture Che Guevara in Bolivia” |
| Oct 25, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint | Pozzetta Colloquium: Nina Caputo (Department of History), "Living Together, Worshipping Apart: Reassessing Religious Boundaries in Medieval Iberia" |
| Oct 26, 3:00 - 6:00 005 Keene-Flint |
Millbauer Seminar: Professor Aaron Sheehan-Dean (University of North Florida), "Why Confederates Fought" |
| Oct 28, 3:00 Harn Museum of Art |
Sheryl Kroen (Department of History), "From Durer to Renoir: European Prints from the Harn Collection" |
| Nov 5, 7:30 Christian Study Center |
John Sommerville (Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Florida), "'Amazing Grace' (the movie): Revisiting the History of Evangelicalism" |
Nov 7, 7:00 |
Graham Center Forum on Civic Engagement: Steve Prothero, Professor of Religion, Boston University |
| Nov 9, 4:30 025 Keene-Flint |
Millbauer Seminar: Jack Temple Kirby (W. E. Smith Professor Emeritus of History at Miami University, Ohio), "Ecological Landscapes of the South" |
| Nov 14, 8:00 Goerings Book Store |
Goerings Book Store Series UF Faculty and their New Books: Mitchell Hart, The Healthy Jew |
| Nov 18, 2:00 Goerings Book Store |
Goerings Book Store Series UF Faculty and their New Books: David Colburn, From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and its Politics since 1940 |
| Nov 19, 12:00 005 Keene-Flint |
Jan Gross will be speaking on the reception of his book Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland |
| Nov 29, 4:00, 005 Keene-Flint | Pozzetta Colloquium: Alan Petigny (Department of History), "Feminism in the Fifties: Rethinking the Complacency Narrative" |
| Dec 3, 7:00 Keene Faculty Center |
Graham Center Forum on Civic Engagement: Donald Critchlow, Professor of History, St. Louis University |
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 |
