History Faculty News Archives
- NC History Undergraduate Thesis Writers Conference - Saturday, April 8, 2006 8:30 - 5:00 We're inviting history departments statewide and history-related departments to submit proposals for student papers and panels. Conceived by Professors Neuschel and Balleisen; directed by Professors Gavins and Ewald. Featuring paper presentations by undergraduate students from seven North Carolina Universities. Plenary address by Brad Snyder, former Duke University student, thesis writer, and author of "A Well-Paid Slave": Curt Flood and His Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports (Viking/Penguin, October 2006). Panel titles include: Labor, Race, and Culture in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century U.S. Religion, War, and Historical Memory Revolution, Culture, and Memory in Twentieth- Century Communist Societies Revolution, Culture, and Identity: Eighteenth- Century Britain and France Politics, Education, and Culture in the Cold War Medicine, Philosophy, and War in Europe across Two Centuries Fascism, Politics, and Pacifism between the World Wars Resistance, Liberation, Occupation, and Memory in late to post-World War II Registration and schedule information is available online at: http://events.duke.edu/nchutwc06. Registration is $20 in advance ($25 at the door) and includes all the day's sessions as well as continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. For more information, please contact Philip Rubio at pfr2@duke.edu, or Kelly Kennington at kmk9@duke.edu.
- UNC-Duke Southern Studies Seminar Tuesday, November 15, 2005 LAURA F. EDWARDS, "Women and the Tangled History of Rights, Law, and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century South." Tuesday, November 15th, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., 569 Hamilton Hall, UNC Campus. Refreshments served. ABOUT LAURA EDWARDS: Laura Edwards is professor of history, Director of Graduate Studies, and Co-Director of the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies, all at Duke University. The author of _Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction_ (1997) and _Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era_ (2000), Edwards is currently working on a book project that deals with the reconfiguration of domestic relations, patriarchy, and the status of white women and enslaved women and men in the early nineteenth century. ABOUT THE SEMINAR: The UNC-Duke Southern Studies Seminar is a new forum for interinstitutional and interdisciplinary collaboration by faculty and graduate students of both Duke and UNC. At each session, up to 15 attendees will discuss a precirculated chapter or article (typically a work in progress). The Seminar is co-organized by Paul Quigley of UNC and Kelly Kennington of Duke, and is funded in 2005-06 by a collaboration grant from the Robertson Scholars Foundation. For more information, see www.unc.edu/~pquigley/seminar.html
- Patricia Limerick Lecture Wednesday, November 9, 2005 4:30 PM -Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center. The Fight for the Forefathers: Who Owns Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold? (Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History) Patricia N. Limerick, Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder Sponsored by Forest History Society, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, History Department For more information, contact Steven Anderson, Forest History Society by phone at 919-682-9319 . URL: http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Events/lecture2005. html
- Bill Chafe Book Signing Saturday, November 5, 2005 Bill Chafe will be at the Regulator Saturday, November 5, 2005 at 3:00 doing a book signing for his new book: PRIVATE LIVES/PUBLIC CONSEQUENCES. Bill Chafe’s new book is Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America (Harvard University Press). Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America by Chafe, William H. Published: Harvard University Press, 2005 Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now A political leader's decisions can determine the fate of a nation, but what determines how and why that leader makes certain choices? William H. Chafe, a distinguished historian of twentieth century America, examines eight of the most significant political leaders of the modern era in order to explore the relationship between their personal patterns of behavior and their political decision-making process. The result is a fascinating look at how personal lives and political fortunes have intersected to shape America over the past fifty years. One might expect our leaders to be healthy, wealthy, genteel, and happy. In fact, most of these individuals--from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martin Luther King, Jr., from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton--came from dysfunctional families, including three children of alcoholics; half grew up in poor or only marginally secure homes; most experienced discord in their marriages; and at least two displayed signs of mental instability. What links this extraordinarily diverse group is an intense ambition to succeed, and the drive to overcome adversity. Indeed, adversity offered a vehicle to develop the personal attributes that would define their careers and shape the way they exercised power. Chafe probes the influences that forged these men's lives, and profiles the distinctive personalities that molded their exercise of power in times of danger and strife. The history of the United States from the Depression into the new century cannot be understood without exploring the dynamic and critical relationship between personal history and political leadership that these eight life stories so poignantly reveal.
- Professor James Sweet to lecture Wednesday, Nov 2 @ 3pm The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States A lecture by Professor James Sweet, Author of RECREATING AFRICA: CULTURE, KINSHIP, AND RELIGION IN THE AFRO-PORTUGUESE WORLD, 1441- 1770 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 3:00 PM, Carr 229 Sponsored by African and African American Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute for Critical U.S. Studies, and Department of History
- Paul Kramer Lecture Wednesday, November 9, 2005 5:30 PM - 07:00 PM Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center. The Darkness that Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution Paul Kramer, Johns Hopkins University The lecture will discuss the politics of regulating prostitution in the Philippines during the early period of U.S. occupation. Sponsored by the Asia/Pacific Studies Institute, the Department of History, the Institute for Critical US Studies, and Women's Studies For more information, contact Yan Li by phone at 919-684-5425
- Langford Lecture Luncheon Thursday, November 10, 2005 featuring Margaret Humphreys, Professor of History and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine Noon - 1:45 p.m. Von Canon Hall, Bryan Center
- Ashanti Alston Talk by Former Black Panther Monday, November 7, 2005 7pm. White Auditorium. "Alterglobalization: From the Black Panthers to the Zapatistas"
- Examining Genocide: Why "Never Again" Happens Again Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 7:00 PM in Love Auditorium A Panel Discussion in Commemoration of Kristallnacht Moderated by Professor Bruce Jentleson On November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis engaged in Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), destroying Jewish property and deporting thousands of Jews to concentration camps. On the 67th anniversary of this tragedy that precipitated the Holocaust, the Freeman Center for Jewish Life is holding a panel discussion on the topic of genocide. The panel will include: David J. Scheffer, Former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001). Iain Levine, Program Director for Human Rights Watch William Parsons, Chief of Staff at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Eric Reeves, Professor at Smith College and Sudan Expert. This program is free and open to the public and will take place on Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 7:00 PM in Love Auditorium located in the LSRC. Co-sponsored by the Eisenberg Family Fund, Duke Conversations, Duke Center for Judaic Studies, Center for Race Relations, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Duke Human Rights Coalition, and the Multicultural Center.
- Felicia Kornbluh to Speak at Sallie Bingham Center on October 27 Professor Felicia Kornbluh will be speaking at the conference sponsored by the Sallie Bingham Center for the history of women on October 27th. The conference overall is titled "Feminist Generations" and her panel is "Documenting Social Movements." The conference begins on the afternoon of October 26th with a keynote address by Ellie Smeal of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
- Symposium: Anti-Americanism and National Identity in Greece and Turkey Marty Miller will be moderating a symposium the
Master of
Arts in Liberal Studies program is sponsoring,
"Anti-Americanism and
National Identity in Greece and Turkey," on
Friday, October 28, 2005,
7:00 p.m. at the John Hope Franklin Center, Room
240, Duke University.
Moderator: Martin Miller, Professor, Department of History
Panelists: Erdag Göknar, Visiting Assistant Professor, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, on Turkey: Anti-Imperialism (and Anti-Americanism beginning in the 1950s) has been central to notions of Turkish identity on the right and on the left. The military coups of 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 demonstrated an ongoing contestation over national ideals and ideologies in the context of the Cold War and its legacy. In retrospect, the struggle between imperial and national aims revealed an ironic convergence of leftists, nationalists, and Islamicists at the intersection of Anti-Americanism.
Nick Omirly, MALS 2003, on Greece: Political violence related to Anti-Americanism in Greece has its roots in WWII. The Greek resistance movement and struggle for liberation during the Nazi occupation became in turn a struggle for the ideological domination of modern Greece. It resulted in the violent, ideological divisions that characterized the Greek Civil War. During the Cold War, US interests in the southern Mediterranean replaced old European interests and became entangled in Greek politics. My comments will address why political violence in modern Greece was directed towards the US.
This symposium is intended as a seminar. Readings from the panelists will be made available in advance for all participants.
Space is limited. To register, contact the MALS office (919-684-3222; dukemals@duke.edu).
PARKING: Free parking is available across Trent Drive in the Marshall I. Pickens clinic lot. Additional paid parking is available next door to the Franklin Center in the parking deck at the corner of Erwin and Fulton Streets.
- Faculty Awards A roundup of the recent History faculty that have been recognized for their efforts is available online.
- Faculty Publications A roundup of recent publications by the faculty of the History department is available online.
- Seminar on "Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi" The African & African American Studies Program
and the Department of
History are co-sponsoring a faculty-grad seminar
with Professor John
Dittmer, author of the Brancroft Award-Winning
book, "Local People:
The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi."
The seminar will be a discussion of chapters 11 and 12 of "Local People," which is on reserve at Perkins. The seminar will be Wednesday, October 5 at 5:30 pm in Room 240 Franklin Center.
Please contact Aqila Coulthurst to reserve a space. Dinner will be served.
- Personnel Changes Bill
Chafe, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences and Vice Provost for undergraduate
Education, left his administrative posts on June
30, 2004, to return to teaching in the Department
of History.
Laura Edwards has been promoted as of July 1, 2005 to Full Professor and will be acting DGS when she returns from her leave this fall.
Bruce Kuniholm will become director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and chair of the Department of Public Policy Studies effective July 1, 2005.