History Graduate News Archives
- Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History is now available
The Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History program will launch in fall 2009 with 24 affiliated faculty.
For more information, see www.duke.edu/~wmr/anthandhist.htm
- Librarian Office Hours Need help finding primary sources for your history paper? Can't figure out where to begin your research for HI195S? Stop by Carr 121 on Tuesdays between 1:00 and 3:00 to get personalized assistance from a reference librarian who specializes in history. No appointment necessary. No question too big or too small. Save time, ask a librarian!
- Triangle Labor and Civil Rights Working Group
April 22, 2009 - Film Screening and Discussion, UNC, Love House, 6pm
The LCRWG seeks to foster greater dialogue between activists and scholars on issues related to civil rights and labor in the Triangle and beyond.
- April 10, 2008 - At the River I Stand - 6:00 - 8:00
The Triangle Labor and Civil Rights Working Group, the African American History Working Group, and Student Action with Workers
Presents a film and discussion of "At the River I Stand"
The Powerful Documentary of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Crusade
6-8pm. April 10, 2008 at the Love House and Hutchins Forum 410 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill
Kindly RSVP orion.teal@duke.edu
Commemorating the 40-year anniversary of Dr. King's death.
- April 11 - Examining Encounters: Strangers in Strange Land - 229 Carr - 3:30-5:30
Janet Ewald, Department of History, Duke University
"'No Objection to a Wandering Unsettled Life': African Slaves and Freedmen in the Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Indian Ocean World."Elizabeth Fenn, Department of History, Duke University
"Madoc on the Missouri: Searching for America's Welsh Indians"Andrew Byers, Department of History, Duke University "Prostitution as a 'Military Necessity': The Politics of Sexuality, Morality, and Venereal Disease During the American Occupation of the Philippines, 1898-1918"
Willeke Sandler, Department of History, Duke University "Creating Future Colonists: Colonialist Discourse, National Socialism, and the Rendsburg Colonial School for Women, 1926-1945"
Chair: Justin Ward, Department of History, Duke University
This is the third annual workshop sponsored by the Duke Department of History second-year graduate cohort that strives to bring together graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their research interests and current projects. This year, our workshop will explore personal and societal encounters with the marketplace, with the state and its institutions, and with other people, societies, and places. How do these encounters leave the participants changed? How do individuals and societies define themselves in relation to the market, the state, or the strangers they encounter? How does the historian approach these questions?
- Research Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society
PRESENTS
Sigrun Haude (University of Cincinnati)
Dealing with the Reality of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648): The Story of Two Religious Women
Friday, April 18, 2008 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Duke University
East Campus, Carr Building, Room 229, 114 Campus DriveThe seminar starts at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served before the seminar.
A pre-circulated paper is available a week in advance at dirk.bonker@duke.edu.
The presentation concentrates on two autobiographical documents, the diaries of Klara Staiger, prioress of the Augustinian cloister Mariastein near Eichstaett, and the recordings of Anna Maria Junius, nun of the Dominican cloister Heiligengrab in Bamberg. By looking at personal accounts of the war, we turn the focus on the individual, and, with the two religious women, on a couple of very select persons. However, their diaries and chronicles regularly direct their attention beyond the personal and thus reflect a wider circle of contemporaries. A critical reading of these two testimonies in the broader context of other contemporary voices reveals both the commonalty and the uniqueness of their experience, and sheds light on how people managed to survive the war. Klara Staiger led her convent through flights, the destruction and rebuilding of their cloister, poverty, and other frightful experiences of the war, while Anna Maria Junius was part of a group of nuns that held out in their convent as the war raged on around them. Though their situations were quite different, the two women showed great pragmatism in navigating the war and a willingness to exploit all options - orthodox and unorthodox - to ensure their survival.
SIGRUN HAUDE is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. Her main fields of research are the history of reformation, Early Modern European History, and the history of Christianity, European History, in particular the history of Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation, and the history of the Thirty Years' War. Her publications include: In the Shadow of "Savage Wolves": Anabaptist Munster and the German Reformation during the 1530s (Boston, 2000).
- Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
Congratulations to the following Anne Firor Scott award winners:
Katharine French-Fuller, "The Commercialization of Daily Life: A History of Domestic Cultures and Technologies in Post-1960 Argentina."
Reena Goldthree, "Shifting Loyalties: War and the Gendered Politics of Patriotism in the British Caribbean, 1900-1938."
Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, "The Geographies of Home: Somali Women Refugees, Race, and Resettlement in the U.S. South."
Jacob Remes, "When the State Blew Away: Survival and Organization After Two Progressive-Era Urban Disasters."
Danielle Terrazas Williams, "Few But Not So Far Between: Free Black Women of Means in Colonial Veracruz."
- March 28 - Examining Encounters Workshop - 229 Carr - 3:30
Amy Williams, Department of History, Duke University "Appropriating Supranationalism: Representing the League of Nations in Upper-Level German Gymnasium Textbooks, 1920-1968"
Anna Krylova, Department of History, Duke University "'Woman-Soldier' as a State and Popular Category of Mobilization in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945"
Liz Shesko, Department of History, Duke University "'Who Will Speak for the Indian'?: Representations of Indigeneity at Bolivia's 1945 Indigenous Congress"
John French, Department of History, Duke University "When the State Reaches Out/Down to the Poor: Combating Hunger During the First Presidential Administration of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, 2002-06."
Chair: Stephan Isernhagen, Department of History, Duke University
This is the third annual workshop sponsored by the Duke Department of History second-year graduate cohort that strives to bring together graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their research interests and current projects. This year, our workshop will explore personal and societal encounters with the marketplace, with the state and its institutions, and with other people, societies, and places. How do these encounters leave the participants changed? How do individuals and societies define themselves in relation to the market, the state, or the strangers they encounter? How does the historian approach these questions?
- March 27 - Kristin Wintersteen - Franklin Center - Room 028 - 4:30-6:00
"The Stench of Success: Anchovies, protein politics, and the making of a fishmeal empire in Peru and Chile, 1950-2000" presentation by Kristin Wintersteen (PhD candidate, Duke Department of History)
Kristin will present some preliminary findings from her dissertation research, which traces the history of the fishmeal industry as Peru and Chile grappled with environmental limits and powerful interest groups within a shifting international political, socio-economic, and legal landscape since the 1950s. Fishmeal is a flour-like substance used in fertilizers and high-protein animal feeds. This global commodity helped fuel the rapid expansion of chicken, hog, and fish farming in the developed world after World War II and catapulted Peru and Chile into the ranks of the world's top fishing nations. Kristin's research seeks to understand how actors in these two states--linked by a shared marine ecosystem and the devastating consequences of El Niño--responded to common challenges, and how together they shaped this massive protein transfer along global food commodity chains from the world's most productive marine ecosystem to the dinner plates of first-world consumers.
- EndNote Sessions - Perkins Library
Jump start your research and writing with an introductory session to EndNote, a citation management tool that is sure to save you time and frustration.
The library is offering sessions at the following times (more to come after Spring Break if these don't fit into your schedule):
Tuesday, Feb 19 from 3-4
Thursday, Feb 28 from 5:30-7
Tuesday, March 4 from 4:30-6Interested? Register online at
http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/endnote.do
This introduction to EndNote shows you everything you need to write your first paper. We provide an orientation to the software, including how to enter references, search your library, set preferences, select a style, and set up "Cite While You Write". You'll also work with a word document, pulling in citations from your EndNote library, and then formatting the document in a couple of keystrokes. Training Manual is included and free.