Events (Colloquia)
European History Colloquium - Spring 2012
HIST 6010
Faculty Convener: Claudia Verhoeven
Mondays, 4:30-6:00, AD White House 110
Monday, February 6 Ben Sullivan, "The Historicity of Early Archaic Messenian Wars."
Monday, February 13 David Blome, "The Aetolian Rout of the Athenians (426 BC): An Articulation of Complexity."
Monday, February 20 (combined European-American colloquium) Julie Jacoby, "Occupying 'God's Playground': Military-Civil Relations in Eastern Poland 1914-1918"
Monday, February 27 Uku Lember, “Patterns in the Negotiation and Transmission of Familial Pasts within Russian-Estonian Mixed Marriages in late Soviet Estonia”
Monday, March 5 Jacob Nabel, “The Origins of Alexander's Eastern Cities: Deportation and Resettlement In the Persian and Macedonian Empires”
Monday, March 12 Christina Casey, “British Colonial Governing Wives, from 1750 to 1900”
Monday, March 19 SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 26 Mate Nikola Tokic (American University, Cairo), "West Balkan Separatist and Irredentist Political Violence and Terrorism from Sarajevo to the end of the Twentieth-Century."
Monday, April 2 Dan Ryan (College of Charleston), Title TBA. (Russian/Baltic history)
Monday, April 9 Abigail Fisher, “The Queen of the Coiners.”
Monday, April 16 Andrew Sartori (NYU), "Indigo and Independence in 19th Century Bengal."
Monday, April 23 Heather DeHaan (Binghamton University), “The Perils of Performance: Stalinist Ritual as Agent of Expert Power”
Monday, April 30 Andrew Amstutz, “Writing and Exhibiting Sindh: Sacred Geography and History in Pakistan between Persian texts, Colonial Exploration, and Urdu Publishing"
*All papers are available on Blackboard under HIST 6010.
The Americas Colloquium - Spring 2012
HIST 6030
Faculty Convener: Aaron Sachs
Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm, McGraw Hall 366, unless otherwise noted
The Department of History acknowledges the generous support of Marc and Lyn Cohen, whose gift helps make this colloquium possible.
Thurs. 1/26: Introduction. Featuring coffee and cookies (all semester, we hope).
Thurs. 2/2: NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: BECKER HOUSE SEMINAR ROOM
Jonathan Ablard (Ithaca College): “Military Service and Masculinity in Argentina, 1901-1930.”
Thurs. 2/9: Daegan Miller: “At Home in the Great Northern Wilderness: Landscapes of Social Health in the 19th-Century Adirondack Mountains.”
Thurs. 2/16: Ryan Edwards: “An Ecology of Exile: Earth and Elsewhere in the Ushuaia Penal Colony.”
MONDAY 2/20: NOTE DATE AND PLACE CHANGE - meets in room 110, ADWhite House, at 4:30pm
Julie Jacoby (joint with European Colloquium): “Occupying ‘God's Playground’: Military-Civil Relations in Eastern Poland 1914-1918.”
Thurs. 3/1: Rebecca Tally: “Noah's Ark Arrived to Cerro Alto: Cattle, Colonization, and Youth Education in Colombia, 1960-1962.”
Thurs. 3/8: Catherine Biba: “Power and Politics after the 1913 Omaha Tornado.”
Thurs. 3/15: Heather Furnas: “To Enlarge and Extend: Dr. Sara Josephine Baker's Vision of the State in the Lives of Immigrant Children, 1900-1917.”
Thurs. 4/5: Christy Croxall: “Trembling before God: Crises and Religious Interactions in the Mississippi Valley, 1811-1812.”
Thurs. 4/12: Amy Kohout: “Work in progress on soldiers, frontiers, and ideas about nature in the American Southwest and the Philippines.”
FRIDAY 4/20: NOTE DATE CHANGE
Kathryn Meier (U. Scranton): “‘Death in the Breeze’: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and the Democracy of Health Care.”
Thurs. 4/26: Jenni Lieberman: “Instant Switches, Electric Servants, and other Fantasies of Technological Control, 1886-1925.”
Thurs. 5/3: Jackie Reynoso, “Work in progress on the assistance and participation of Quebecois inhabitants in the Continental Army's siege of Quebec (1775-1776).”
AND PLEASE STICK AROUND FOR PIZZA AND BEER TO CELEBRATE THE END OF THE SEMESTER!
*All papers are available on Blackboard under HIST 6030.
Faculty Comparative History Colloquium - Spring 2012
TBA.......
Papers will be available one week prior to the colloquium meeting. Please contact Barb Donnell if you wish to receive a copy of the paper. Dinner will be provided, so please RSVP one week in advance as well. Directions to the event will be distributed in advance.