Events (Colloquiums)
HISTORY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM SERIES
European History Colloquium, Fall 2009
HIST 6010
Faculty Conveners: Dominick LaCapra and John Weiss
Mondays, 4:30-6:00, AD White House, Room 110
Sept 7 - Jeremy Varon (New School), "'We Create': The Origins and Evolution of the Jewish Students Union."
Sept 21 - Emma Kuby, "'Yesterday's Duty Would Be a Crime Today': Cold War, Domestic Crisis, and the Reshaping of the French Debate on Political Violence (1947-1950)."
Sept 28 - Kate Horning, "Literary Eroticism and the Historical Task: The Politics and Reception of The Reader and The Kindly Ones."
Oct 5 - Peter Staudenmaier, "Accommodation, Collaboration, Persecution: Anthroposophy in the Shadow of National Socialism, 1933-45."
Oct 19 - Federico Finchelstein (New School), "'Dirty War,' Ideology and Trauma: An Argentine History."
Oct 26 - Susan Lape (USC), "The Life of Demosthenes and the Making of Athenian History," Goldwin Smith G22, 4:30pm. Talk held jointly with the Department of Classics.
Nov 2 - Franz Hofer - CANCELLED
Nov 9 - Taran Kang, "Arthur Schopenhauer: From History to Nirvana."
Nov 16 - no colloquium
Nov 23 - Courtney Work (Dept. of Anthropology, Cornell), "Memoir and Memory: Buddhist Cosmology and European Discourse in the Stories of Khmer Rouge Survivors."
Nov 30 - Abi Fisher, "Duplicitous Loyalties: William Chaloner, Aubrey Price, and the Post-Revolution State."
*All papers available by contacting: Barb Donnell (bad2@cornell.edu)
Cornell East Asia Colloquium - Fall 2009
HIST 6020
Mondays, 4:30-6:00, McGraw Hall 145
All meetings to be held on Mondays in A.D. White House, Room 201, from 4:45-6pm. The colloquium may be taken for credit or attended on an informal drop-in basis.
Please contact Chris Jones (chj7) if you have any questions.
9/7 - Yuji Nishiyama - "Maruyama Masao--Saving the Name of Democracy."
Yuji Nishiyama teaches modern French philosophy and literature at the University of Tokyo. He published his dissertation, Literature as Contestation: Solitude, Friendship and Community in Maurice Blanchot (Tokyo: Ochanomizu shobo, 2007), and edited a volume entitled Philosophy and the University (Tokyo: Miraisya, 2009). At Cornell, he is also going to show "The Right to Philosophy," his documentary film about the College International de Philosophie in France on September 8.
9/21 - William Ravanell - "The Blood of the Bitten Wold."
10/19 - Hajimu Masuda - "The Epoch of Simultaneity: Unintentional Repercussions across US, Japan, and China, 1946-1950."
11/2 - Akiko Ishii - "Managing Human Collectivity: Discourses on Population in Prewar and Wartime Japan."
11/16 - Franz Hofer - TBA
11/30 - Peter Lavelle - "Zhejiang Sericulture and the Hierarchies of Imperialism in Late Qing Xinjiang."
Americanist Colloquium, Fall 2009
HIST 6030
Faculty Convener: Ed Baptist (eeb36@cornell.edu)
Tuesdays, 5:00pm, McGraw Hall 145
9/1 - Introduction
9/8 - Emma Willoughby, Cornell University, "Captive Soldiers, Prisoners of War."
9/14 - [Special Event]: Eric Rauchway, University of California, San Diego, "Morrill's Unpassed Act: Federal Education Policy and the Success of Reconstruction," held in 366 McGraw Hall.
9/15 - Maeve Kane, Cornell University, "They That Made the Men: The Labor of Women in Haudenosaunee-British Diplomacy."
9/22 - Nicole Maskiell, Cornell University, "'A Mighty Smile of Heaven Upon My Family': Slavery and Gift Exchange Among the Elite of Colonial Massachusetts."
9/29 - Jorge Rivera Marin, Cornell University, title TBA.
10/6 - Rebecca Tally, Cornell University, "At the Mercy of the Millers: Hope, Crisis, American Flour, and the Contours of Import Substitution Industrialization in Colombia, 1956-1960."
10/13 - Fall Break
10/19 (Monday) - Joint Session with European Colloquium - Federico Finchelstein, New School for Social Research, "'Dirty War', Ideology and Trauma: An Argentine History."
10/27 - Daegan Miller, Cornell University, "Progress: Sun Pictures of the One Thousand Mile Tree."
11/3 - Catherine Biba, Cornell University, "'Papists' in the Promised Land: The American Baptist Reponse to American Catholics."
11/10 - Tom Balcerski, Cornell University, "Governing Men: Captain Thomas Melville and the 'Worn-out' Sailors of Snug Harbor."
11/17 - Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Universidade de Sao Paulo, "The Paraiba Valley Coffee Zone: The Visual Regime of the Second Slavery."
11/24 - Vernon Mitchell, Cornell University, "Citizens of God's Country: Religious Movements and Black Political Agency in the 1920s."
12/1 - Last meeting; plan for next semester.
*All papers will be available one week in advance from Barb Donnell (bad2@cornell.edu)
The History Colloquium - Fall 2009
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.