History Graduate News Archives
- September 6 - Harry Potter's World - Durham County Library - 3pm
Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine
Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The exhibition tour is coordinated by the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago.
The Duke Medical Center Library has partnered with the Durham County Library to bring this exhibit to our area.
The exhibit and the following related events will take place at the Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro Street, Durham, NC.
Lecture: Things Most Strange and Wondrous: Medicine in the Renaissance Dr. Thomas Robisheaux, Department of History, Duke University, Sunday, September 6 at 3:00 pm.
Exhibit: Strange & Wonderful Things from the Trent Collection. This small exhibit of related materials is from the Trent Collection, Duke Medical Center Library.
For more details, please visit http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/harry_potters_world.php
- Fall 2009 History Colloquium Schedule
Monday November 16
Reeve Huston "The Crisis in Popular Sovereignty in the United States, 1816 to 1825"The colloquium will be in 229 Carr at 12:00 noon
- September 10-11, 2009 - International Approaches to Historical Studies
The second annual symposium of the Duke-Durham University Exchange will convene over lunch on Thursday, September 10 and conclude in the late afternoon of Friday, September 11, 2009.
Faculty and graduate students from the Department of History at Durham University in Durham, England will be discussing their ongoing research on topics ranging from war and peace in early medieval Europe, New Deal policy towards native Americans in the Depression era United States , and post Civil War reconstruction in the late twentieth century Sudan.
Funding for this event is being generously provided by Durham University's International Office and Department of History and by the Deans of International Affairs and Arts and Sciences, the Department of History, and the Trent Foundation at Duke.
DURHAM UNIVERSITY HISTORIANS
Ph.D. students:
A Vision of Britain: Memory and Photography in Discourses of Post-war Urban Reconstruction (Post 1945 UK)t.j.allbeson@durham.ac.uk
Tom Allbeson,Leona Skelton,
Attitudes towards Public Hygiene in Northern English Towns and Scottish Burghs, c.1560-1700 (early modern Britain; urban history)
l.j.skelton@durham.ac.ukWill Berridge, ‘Hit
and go on hitting’: Political Policing and Decolonisation in the North (Sudan)
w.j.berridge@durham.ac.ukCharlie Rozier,
Henry of Huntingdon and the Vision of History in his Prologue to the Historia Anglorum (Classical and Christian influences on historical imagination in medieval England)c.c.rozier@durham.ac.ukFaculty:
Buckets of blood: Sacrifices of war and economies of peace in Southern Sudan (Sudan)
Cherry Leonardi,
d.c.leonardi@durham.ac.ukGabriella Treglia,
Testing the ‘Safety Zone’ thesis: a reassessment of government attitudes to Native American cultures during the Indian New Deal, 1933-1945 (The US government and Native American people)
g.a.treglia@durham.ac.ukJo Fox,
The Strange Case of Rudolf Hess: Modelling British and German Responses to the Flight of the Deputy Führer, 1941 (Film history; Nazi Germany; The history of propaganda in the twentieth century AND Director of Undergraduate Studies)
j.c.fox@durham.ac.ukPaul Stephenson,
Nicholas the Monk, former Soldier (middle Byzantine political and cultural history; the history and historiography of the Balkans AND Director of Postgraduate Studies) paulstephenson@mac.comLawrence Black,
The politics of Whitehouse… or… there was something about Mary (Modern British political and cultural history; Political culture - identities, practice and social movements since 1955; Politics of consumerism, the arts, 'culture', creative economy, TV, affluence and postmaterialism)
lawrence.black@durham.ac.uk - September 17 - REGSS Colloquium - Noon - Erwin Mill Bldg, Room A103
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Ph.D., Department of History
Freedom Struggles: African Americans, World War I, and Civil Rights
Clashing with white American soldiers in the ports and villages of wartime France, African Americans fought their own "War for Democracy." In this talk, she will discuss how fighting in a Jim Crow army on foreign soil spurred black soldiers to rework their notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. This changing political consciousness spurred a dogged political activism in soldiers and civilians alike. World War I mobilized a generation and laid the groundwork for the movement that emerged in World War II.
Lunch will be served at noon.
- Faculty Bookwatch: Thavolia Glymph's Out of the House of Bondage - Rare Book Room - 4:30
FACULTY BOOKWATCH panel discussion on
OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE
The Transformation of the Plantation HouseholdTHAVOLIA GLYMPH Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and History, Duke University
Thursday, October 22, 2009
4:30 PM Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Duke University Book sale & Reception to FollowPanelists Ira Berlin Distinguished University Professor,
Department of History, University of MarylandWilliam A. Darity Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy / Professor of African & African American Studies and Economics, Duke University
Barbara Fields Professor of History, Columbia University
Peter Wood Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
and
Thavolia GlymphABOUT THE FEATURED BOOK & AUTHOR Out of the House of Bondage (Cambridge University Press, 2008) views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal. Out of the House of Bondage is co-winner of the 2009 Taft Labor History Prize and a finalist for the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Thavolia Glymph is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Duke University. In addition to Out of the House of Bondage, Professor Glymph is the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, economic history, and southern women. She is co-editor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1861, ser. 1, vol. 1;
The Documentary of History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3; The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South and Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. - October 2-3, 2009 - 2009 Latin American Labor History Conference - 229 Carr Bldg
In First Person: Biography and History in Latin America
Please join us for the upcoming Latin American Labor History Conference, with a thematic emphasis on biography.
If you have any questions, please contact Vanessa Freije vanessa.freije@duke.edu
Friday, October 2
Welcome 4:30
Panel I: : 5:00-7:00
Enver Casimir (UNC Chapel Hill): Kid Chocolate: The Athlete as National Hero and Sport as Nationalized Labor in Republican Cuba
Gabriela Cano (El Colegio de México): Estereotipos de género en la escritura de la biografía de Elena Arizmendi
David Sartorius (Maryland) and Micol Seigel (Indiana), comments
7:00-9:00 Dinner
Saturday, October 3:
9:00 Breakfast
9:30-11:30 Panel II:
Ivonne Wallace Fuentes (Roanoke College): Woman with a Gun: Magda Portal and APRA, 1931-1935
Jocelyn Olcott (Duke): Truthiness and Consequences: Biography, Concha Michel, and Telling Tales out of School
Daniel James (Indiana) and Susan Besse (City College of New York), comments
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00 -3:00 Panel III:
Mary Kay Vaughan (Maryland): El patriarca de los espectáculos/La madre de las calles: Los padres de Pepe y
Chucho Zuñiga
Taylor Jardno: (Georgetown): "Impossible Biography:" The Multiple Lives, Deaths and Resurrections of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternauta(s)
Anne Rubenstein (York) and Pamela Voekel (Georgia), comments
3:00 -3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 Panel IV:
Francie Chassen-Lopez (Kentucky): A Tehuana and "Her" Traje: Fashion, Modernity, and Ethnicity in Porfirian Mexico
John D. French (Duke) How the Not-So-Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil
Jürgen Buchenau (UNC Charlotte) and Tom Rogers (UNC Charlotte), comments
5:30-6:30 Informal Rountable
7:30 Dinner
Funding provided by:
Dean’s Office of Roanoke College Duke University Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Committee
Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Duke University History Department
- Military History Seminar Program
Friday, April 16, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Robert Brigham (Vassar College)
Rethinking Pacification in Vietnam - For These Students, Durham Is Their Classroom
Work outside the classroom provides hands-on opportunities for learning.
History Professor Susan Thorne's seminar on the history of Durham's past and present will engage students exploring issues that range across ethics, race, human rights and class.
Read more about it here.
- Outer Banks History Center to Help Use of Collection
Lots of researchers turn to the Outer Banks History Center (OBHC) in Manteo for information on lighthouses, shipwrecks or even pirates. Thanks to a $40,327 grant awarded to the center from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, that task could prove more productive. The grant will support work of a full-time archivist who will arrange and describe some of the collections for the center's "Reaching New Audiences" program.
The Outer Banks History Center is a regional archives and research library whose collections document the social, economic, and ecological history of the Outer Banks and surrounding areas. Subjects include maritime history, commerce, local and regional history, African American, American Indian, European and Elizabethan history, the Civil War, outdoor theater, and much more.
"This project will make finding aids available for most of the collections we have received in the last few years," explains Curator Kaeli Spiers. "The finding aids will have background information on the organization or individual and on the collection's size and format with a detailed inventory."
Finding aids will be available at the OBHC and online. The aids indicate the number of boxes of minutes, letters or other materials in the collection. Work on the project should begin Aug. 1.
For additional information, call (252) 473-2655. The Outer Banks History Center, within the Office of Archives and History, is part of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina's arts, history and culture. It is now podcasting 24/7 with information about the Department of Cultural Resources, all available at www.ncculture.com <
http://www.ncculture.com/> - 2009-10 Fellowship Awards
Fahad Bishara - IDRF Fellowship
Mitch Fraas - Reference Internship
Reena Goldthree - Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship and the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship at Dartmouth College
Paula Hastings - Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Robert Penner - Boone Endowed Fellowship
Bryan Pitts - Fulbright-Hays DDRA
Liz Shesko - International Fellowship and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Danielle Terrazas-Williams - CLIR-Mellon Fellowship and Fulbright
Felicity Turner - Bass Fellowship
- April 3, 2009 - Third Latin American & Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop - 229 Carr Bldg
This event will discuss the following advance-circulated papers by two Duke ABDs:
Reena Goldthree, "Fighting for King and Country: Imperial Patriotism, Transnational Labor Recruitment, and the Making of the British West Indies Regiment."
Elizabeth Shesko, "Deserters, Traitors, and Izquerdistas: How the "Bad Sons of Bolivia" Strengthened the State."
Please RSVP to jdfrench@duke.edu to confirm your participation.
Event begins at 3:00 followed by a reception.
- Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
Congratulations to the following Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
Daniel Bessner, "A Woman in Their Midst: Roberta Wohlstetter and the Contestation of Institutional Masculinity at the RAND Corporation, 1948-1965."
Paula Hastings, "Race, Nation, and the Failure of Canadian Expansion in the Caribbean Basin, 1884-1919."
Max Krochmal, "Women, Civil Rights, and the Left in Texas, 1938-1970."
Anne Phillips, "Love, Labor, and Loss: The Gendered Politics of East India Laborers on Sugar Plantations in British Guiana, 1869-1910."