Events (Colloquiums)
HISTORY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM SERIES
The Americas Colloquium, Spring 2008
HIST 603
Faculty Conveners: Ed Baptist and Jon Parmenter
Tuesday 4:30-6:00pm, McGraw Hall 365
*All papers will be available one week in advance from Barb Donnell (bad2@cornell.edu)
1/22 -Introduction and Overview
1/29 -Irene Vrinte, "Irish America and the Hunger Strikes, 1980-1981: An Examination of NORAID's Activities in New York as an Example of Transnational Contention"
2/5 -Hajimu Masuda, "Rumors of War: The Social Construction of American-Japanese Relations in the Age of Globalization, 1905-1913"
2/12 -Brent Morris, "The Path of the Orator: Frederick Douglass and his March Towards Independence"
2/19 -Mike Schmidli, "Competition, Collaboration, and Human Rights: The 'Third World War' and U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1976-1980"
2/26 -John McDonald, "How Religion Divided the British Empire"
3/4 -Erik Seeman, History Dept., University of Buffalo, "Across the Waters: African-American Deathways in the Eighteenth Century"
3/11 -Chris Cantwell, "God Hath Restored My Manhood: Conversion and Identity at the Pacific Garden Mission"
3/18 -SPRING BREAK
3/25 -Heather Furnas, "From School to Home: School Nurses and the Americanization of Immigrant Families in the Lower East Side, 1905-1915"
4/1 -Betty Wood, History Dept., Cambridge University, title TBA
4/8 -Karen Thomas, "Hurry Up and Wait: Soldiers Lives Off the Battlefield During the Seven Years' War"
4/15 -Will Harris, "Uprising in Mississippi: Discovery and Reaction to the Suspected Insurrection of 1835"
4/22 -Jorge Rivera Marin, "Precipitous Revolution: The United States, the Cuban Revolution, and Decolonization"
4/29 -End of Semester Party/Fall 2008 Planning
European History Colloquium
Spring 2008
Coll. meets on Mondays, 4.30-6.30, AD White House, Room 110.
(Papers available by contacting: Barb Donnell, bad2@cornell.edu)
21 January, Nicole Marafioti, (Cornell University)
Lost in Translation: Burying and Unburying King Harold Harefoot
28 January (no meeting)
4 February, Noa Vaisman (Cornell University)
Civilizing Identity: The Other, Eugenics and the Subject of Truth
11 February, Tom McSweeney (Cornell University)
The King's Dishonorable Champions: Approvers and the Role of
Honor in the Judicial Duel, ca. 1150-1250
18 February, Guy Ortolano (Washington University, and Society for the Humanities)
The Eclipse of the Meritocratic Moment, or, The Politics of Science and Literature in Britain, c.1945-c.1980
25 February, Tarandeep Singh Kang (Cornell University)
A Foreign Land: The Orient and the Inception of Enlightenment Philosophies of History
3 March, Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Ohio State University)
American Cultural Diplomacy and the Mediation of Avant-garde Music
10 March, Peter Staudenmaier (Cornell University)
Germany’s Savior: Rudolf Steiner and the Esoteric Meaning of Nation and Race
24 March, Samantha Herrick (Syracuse University)
Apostolic Foundation Legends in Medieval France: Problems and Possibilities
31 March, Guillaume Ratel (Cornell University)
Judge-King, Perfect Magistrate, Society of Order(s): Royal Justice in Representations in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
7 April, Fiona Griffiths (New York University)
‘Spare your monks I beseech you’: Women, Men and Prayer in the Twelfth Century
14 April, Colleen Slater (Cornell University)
Dealing with the Aftermath of Battle: Women as Passive Victims and Active
Agents in Medieval Warfare
21 April, CANCELLED....... Sandra den Otter (Queen’s University, Toronto)
The Empire of Law: the British Colonial State and Ideology in early to mid-19th Century South East Asia
28 April, Yael Nadav-Manes (Cornell University)
What is a Mother’s Worth? The Negotiation of Motherhood and Virtù in Machiavelli’s Comedies
The History Colloquium - Spring 2008
Wednesday, February 27 - Jon Parmenter, "The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1634-1649."
Wednesday, March 26 - Suman Seth, "The Kaiser's Physicists: The Sommerfeld School goes to War."
Thursday, April 24 - Tamara Loos, "Violent Intimacies: Affect in Thai History."
Papers are pre-circulated. The colloquium starts at 6:30pm. Be sure to RSVP as a light dinner and drinks will be provided. To request papers, please email Barb Donnell at bad2@cornell.edu.