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| 4:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 5:30 | What Was Lost Jack Temple Kirby, W.E. Smith Emeritus Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio |
| 6:45 | Evening reception |
| Registration continues | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Slave to Soldier to Citizen: The Black Body in the Civil War (and After) Margaret Humphreys, Professor of History and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Duke University |
| 10: 15 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - noon | A War to Set Us Free: Black Women in the Civil War Thavolia Glymph, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History, Duke University |
| Noon-1:00 p.m. | Box Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:15 | Walt Whitman, Genetic Memory, and Historical Research: The Making of a Modern Civil War Tale Allan Gurganus |
| 2:15 - 3:30 | Profile in Leadership: R.E. Lee's First Month in Command of the Army of Northern Virginia Joseph Glatthaar, Stephenson Distinguished Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Break |
| 4:00 - 4:45 | Still Fighting the Civil WarDavid Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History, UNC-Charlotte |
| 5:00 | Close |
The registration fee for the weekend is $50. This includes all the educational sessions, Friday night reception, continental breakfast on Saturday morning, and box lunch on Saturday. Space is limited and full payment is required upon registration. Registrations will be accepted in the order in which they are received. A $25 administrative fee will be charged for cancellations before February 7, 2007; after that date, no refunds will be given.
Students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at local universities may participate at no charge. Meals will not be included. Students are asked to register in advance.
ACCOMMODATIONS
A small block of rooms has been reserved at the MILLENIUM HOTEL, 2800 Campus Walk Avenue, Durham, NC 27705. The special rates available for this program are $129 single/double and are subject to 6% NC sales tax and 5% occupancy tax.
The cutoff date for booking within this block is January 23, 2007.
Please contact MILLENIUM HOTEL directly at (919) 383-8575 or (800) 633-5379 to reserve a room within the "Civil War Conference at Duke" block.
Millennium Hotel is ideally located just one mile from Duke. Check-in is at 3:00 p.m. and checkout is by noon.
Should you wish to inquire about other accommodations in Durham, please consult with your local travel agent or go to www.durham-nc.com.
December 19, 2006 - 2007-2008 Fellowship Awards
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/02/07 15:03:44
CONGRATULATIONS AWARD WINNERS!!!
Bass Advanced Instructorship Program in A&S - Gordon Mantler
International Fellowship for Advanced Students - Reena Goldthree
Library Internship - Reference Intern - Gordon Mantler
Summer Research - Paula Hastings and Felicity Turner
March 01, 2007 - OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/03/07 10:53:43
Lecturers from the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program from Duke University History Department this year are:
William Chafe
Sarah Deutsch
Laura Edwards
Gunther Peck
Anne Firor Scott
This program was created in 1981 by OAH President Gerda Lerner and now features 300 speakers who have made major contributions to the many fields of U.S. History. Each speaker has agreed to give one lecture on behalf of OAH during the 2006-2007 academic year.
January 19, 2007 - Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society Program for Spring 2007
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/12/13 15:10:45
January 19
Dr. Adriane Lentz-Smith (UNC Chapel Hill), Saving Sergeant Caldwell: Caldwell v. Parker, WWI, and the African-American Freedom Struggle
February 9
Prof. John Thornton (Boston University), African Military Experience and Identity of Africans in the Diaspora, 1600-1800
March 2 Michael Allsep (UNC Chapel Hill), Bridge to Reform: Elihu Root, New York Elites and Army Reform, 1898-1904
4-6 PM at the National Humanities Center, 7 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
For further information please contact Dirk Bonker at db48@duke.edu
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November 28, 2006 - November 28, 2006 - Adeeb Khalid - 229 Carr - 11:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/11/21 09:40:22
Islamic Studies Candidate, author of two remarkable books, (1) The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley, 1998), and (2) Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Berkeley, in press) and a projected work on Islam under the Soviets, Khalid has opened up a "virtually unknown" field--i.e., the study of Islam in relation to modernization in Central Asia. Muslim reform in this area is distinctive in a number of respects, notably, in being secular in outlook, according to Khalid. He examines the reform movement in the context of the impact of Russian imperialism, the spread of print culture and emergence of a public sphere, and the social implications of splits between reformers and conservatives. His talk will address Islam in the Soviet Union, and its aftermath.
December 01, 2006 - December 1, 2006 - Triangle Legal History Seminar - National Humanities Center - 4-6pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/11/27 12:23:28
Triangle Legal History Seminar will host Professor Eric Muller of the UNC-Law School. Muller will be presenting draft selections from his upcoming book, "Yellow Peril, Red Tape," which considers the legal bureaucracy associated with World War II Japanese internment in the United States.
His research focuses on decision-making processes through which the government distinguished loyal from disloyal Japanese-Americans, and especially a series of sharp conflicts between civilian law enforcement agencies and military intelligence.
Anyone interested in receiving the pdf file with the selections from the manuscript should contact Sandi Payne Greene at payne@email.unc.edu
December 01, 2006 - December 1, 2006 - Sumathi Ramaswamy - 229 Carr - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/22 12:38:44
author of Passions of the Tongue and The Lost Land of Lemuria and a projected work on Body Politics: Maps and Modernity in India, Ramaswamy has already published an article on this topic, “Maps and Mother Goddesses in Modern India,” in the journal Imago Mundi. Her talk will be, “The promise of pictorial history: Maps, mother goddesses and martyrdom in modern India.”
December 04, 2006 - December 4, 2006 - Seema Alavi - 229 Carr - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/22 12:39:06
author of, “The Sepoy and the Company,” and a second book forthcoming from New Delhi’s Permanent Black Press and Britain’s Palgrave, Macmillan, "The Loss and Recovery of Indo-Muslim Medicine: A History and its Legacy, 1650-1900," Alavi demonstrates her unusual scholarly breadth. She also co-authored with Muzzaffar Alam, "A European experience of the Mughal Orient: The Ijaz-I-Arsalani (Persian letters, 1773-1779) of A.H. Polier.
Her talk will be on, "From Mughal gentleman physician to native doctor: Imperial medicine in India, 1600-1900."
December 08, 2006 - December 8, 2006 - Jean Allman - 229 Carr - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/11/21 09:42:01
Director, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Allman will be speaking on, “Ritual Commerce and Modern Traditions: Lessons in the Vernacular from West Africa.”
November 17, 2006 - November 17, 2006 - Snapshots from a New Brazil: Popular Education for Democracy - Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 12:15-2:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/11/15 15:42:39
Two visiting Brazilian historians will discuss old and new initiatives linked to the Workers’ Party (PT) and President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, reelected in October 2006 with 61% of the national vote.
Dr. Alexandre Fortes (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro):
Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: The Roots and Global Impact of Democratic Innovation in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Dr. Paulo Fontes (Visiting Fellow, Princeton University; CPDOC-FGV-Rio):
Labor’s Memory: A Nation-Wide Government-Academic Program Bringing Labor History to the Brazilian Public
During 2005-2006, our guests co-directed the “Programa Memória de Trabalho,” an educational and research effort supported by Brazil's Labor Ministry that provided support for historical preservation, publication and scholarly debates, as well as sponsoring a traveling photo exhibit that served as the basis for their photographic history of workers in Brazil (the event will serve as an unofficial celebration of the coffee table book of photographs they edited). A short video with sound track on the photo exhibit will also be shown.
Snacks and refreshments provided.
September 29, 2006 - Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society Program for Fall 2006
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/18 12:38:00
Friday, September 29, 2006, 4-6pm Prof. J. E. Lendon (University of Virginia) WHY WAS THE ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMY SO GOOD? Evidence from Soldiers’ Tombstones
Friday, October 20, 2006, 4-6pm Prof. Anna Krylova (Duke University) BEYOND GENDER: Women in Combat at the Soviet Front, 1930s-1940s
Friday, November 17, 2006, 4-6pm Prof. Thomas Kühne (Clark University) MALE BONDING AND GENOCIDAL WAR: Germany, 1918-1945
All seminars take place in the National Humanities Center, 7 Alexander Drive,Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709. Refreshments will be served. Pre-circulated papers are available a week in advance from dirk.bonker@duke.edu.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Prof. Dirk Bönker; Department of History, Duke University; Box 90719 (East Campus); Durham, NC 27708; dirk.bonker@duke.edu; 919-684-3930
November 17, 2006 - November 17, 2006 - Southern Historical Association - Medical Forum C - 5:00 - 7:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/10/16 12:16:48
The Southern Historical Association meeting will be held at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel. Alumni and friends are invited to a History Department reception on Friday, November 17th from 5:00 – 7:00 in Medical Forum C.
October 23, 2006 - October 23, 2006 - Roberta Gilchrist Lecture- New Divinity 0014 Westbrook - 4:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/18 11:33:17
Magic for the Dead-The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials.
October 20, 2006 - October 20, 2006 - Martha Few Talk - 229 Carr - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/19 13:02:05
Martha Few, Associate Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and author of "Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala" will give a paper to the Department of History. The title of the talk will be: "Cesarean Operations and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1780-1804"
October 24, 2006 - October 24, 2006 - Roberta Gilchrist Seminar - 204A East Duke Building - 1:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/18 11:35:32
Norwich Cathedral Close-Reading Sacred and Social Space in the Medieval Cathedral
October 26, 2006 - October 26, 2006 - Elizabeth Povinelli - East Duke Parlors 5:00 pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/10/16 11:53:12
Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, will be giving a lecture on "Disturbing Sexuality: Queer Studies After Identity"
Reception at 5:00
Lecture at 5:30
September 28, 2006 - September 28, 2006 - Martha Hodes - Perkins Library Rare Book Room 4:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/08/24 09:20:40
Author Martha Hodes will read from her recently published book The Sea Captain's Wife, a true story of love, race, and war in the 19th century. Much of the book is based on research Hodes did in the Lois Wright Richardson Davis Papers, 1851-1881, which are held in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The event is co-sponsored by the library's Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture with the Department of History, the African & African American Studies Program, the Program in Women's Studies and the Institute for Critical US Studies. Light refreshments will be served.
September 28, 2006 - September 28, 2006 - Mark Poster Lecture - Rubenstein Hall - 5:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/18 12:12:09
We are excited to announce the participation of Dr. Mark Poster, Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine, as an official respondent to a panel entitled "Technospace." This panel will feature papers on new media and virtual spaces.
His lecture is entitled "Care of the Self in the Hyperreal"
Over the last two decades, Dr. Poster has been a leader in promoting critical engagements with digital cultures and the networked society. For more information on Dr. Poster, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/luye4
September 29, 2006 - EXPANDING FRONTIERS IN SOUTH ASIAN AND WORLD HISTORY - September 29-30, 2006
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/18 12:16:19
Session I (Friday, Sept. 29): 8:15-10:45 am: "State-Building and Frontiers of Power (Monetary, Military, Administrative)" Chair: Tom Metcalf Presentations: Munis Faruqui, "At Empire’s End: The Nizam, Hyderabad and 18th Century India” Sunil Kumar, “ Frontier Feudatories and the Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Early Delhi Sultanate” Bin Wong ““Fiscal and Administrative Frontiers in Chinese State Making”
Commentator: Gordon Johnson
Session II (Friday): 11:00 am-1:30 pm: "Frontiers, Trade, and Drugs" Chair: Philip Brown Presenters: Stephen Dale, “Silk Road or Cotton Road, Or …. : Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times” Claude Markovits, “Sindh in the early 19th century: drug frontier of British India?” George Souza, “Opium and the Company: Maritime Trade and Imperial Finances on Java, 1684-1796” Commentator: Peer Vries Lunch: 1:30-2:45 pm
Session III (Friday): 2:45-5:15 pm: "Cultural Frontiers" Chair: Stewart Gordon Presenters: Muzaffar Alam, “The Mughals and the Sufis Reconsidered” Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ”How to be an Alien: Niccolo Manucci in Mughal India and Beyond” Cynthia Talbot, “A Frontier of Cultural Fusion: The Kyamkhani Rajput-Muslims of Rajasthan” Commentator: Joanne Waghorne Friday Conference Reception (hosted by the Department of History): 5:30-7:00
Session IV (Saturday, Sept. 30): 9:00-11:30 am: "Frontiers of Settlement and Environmental Change" Chair: Janet Ewald Presentations: Peter Perdue, “Ethnicity on Chinese Frontiers: An Unending Question” Sumit Guha, “Frontiers of historical memory: what the Marathas remembered of Vijayanagara” John McNeill, "African Diseases and European Settlements in American Environments: A Tale of Two Catatrophes (Darien 1698-1700 and Kourou 1763-65)" Commentator: Ron Herring Lunch: 11:30 am-1:30 pm
Session V (Saturday): 1:30-4:00 pm: "Frontiers and World History" Chair: Barbara Metcalf Presenters: Richard Eaton, “Some reflections on empires and frontiers – a typology” Pat Manning, "Migration and Family Structure: Modeling Family History of the Early Modern World" Carl Trocki, “Chinese Business and Southeast Asia Frontiers” Commentator: David Gilmartin
November 20, 2006 - November 20, 2006 - 2006-07 History Colloquium - 229 Carr Bldg - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/11/21 09:38:43
Sucheta Mazumdar
will be speaking on her current research project: “From the Slave Trade to the Opium Rush: America-China Trade in the Making of the Modern World”
Introducing Professor Mazumdar will be two of her former graduate students: Derek Chang, Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University and Seonmin Kim, Assistant Professor of History, UNC-G
November 09, 2006 - November 9, 2006 - Professor Char Miller - White Lecture Hall 4:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/10/24 11:47:31
Will the U.S. Forest Service Celebrate a Bicentennial?: The Remarkable History of and Future Challenges Facing a Resource Agency
The 2006 Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History welcomes Dr. Char Miller, Professor of History, Trinity University, to examine the central administrative, legal, and political tensions the U.S. Forest Service has long confronted and evaluate the key environmental challenges the agency and the nation will face over the next century. During the 2005 Forest Service centennial, Dr. Miller traveled the nation speaking about Forest Service history. The talk will explore links between the agency's past, present, and future and suggest what this remarkable organization must do to adapt to the immense difficulties that lie ahead.
This lecture is FREE to the public. Parking will be available around the East Campus Quad. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the East Duke Parlors.
The Lectureship is sponsored by the Forest History Society, the Duke University Department of History, and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. For more information, please contact Dr. Steven Anderson, President, Forest History Society, 919/682-9319. http://www.foresthistory.org/
October 27, 2006 - October 27, 2006 Triangle Legal History Seminar at the National Humanities Center 4:00 - 6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/10/24 10:39:43
Jonathan Ocko and David Gilmartin, both history professors at N. C. State, present their pre-circulated paper, "State, Sovereignty, and the People: A Comparison of 'Rule of Law' in Imperial China and India." Contact: Edward Balleisen at eballeis@duke.edu.
October 26, 2006 - October 26, 2006 - Digital Durham Launch - Von Canon B, Bryan Center 5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/28 11:18:05
Peter Lange, Robert Thompson, and Robert Byrd will speak at the event. The new Digital Durham website will have over 1000+ new digital objects of maps, letters, printed works, 130 transcriptions, audio postcards and a robust search engine. OPEN TO PUBLIC.
September 29, 2006 - September 29, 2006 - COLONIALITY AT LARGE: FROM THE PERIPHERIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (ROMANIA, HUNGARY AND IRELAND) - Conference Room, Multicultural Center at the Bryan Center - Noon - 5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/09/18 13:57:59
12:30 pm to 2:15 pm The Imperial/Colonial Border: Chances and Pitfalls for Knowledge Production Manuela Boatc, Sociology, University of Eischtatt, Germany
From the second half of the 19th century until World War II, the Romanian response to Western Europe's neocolonial projects targeting the Eastern European periphery was an array of political epistemologies that can be interpreted as border thinking with a significant de-colonial potential. During the period of Communist rule in the region, the logic of coloniality established in the relationship with Western Europe was overridden by the imperial reason imposed by Russia/the Soviet Union and enforcing a state-controlled collective amnesia with respect to local knowledge production that included heterodox Marxism. The cognitive blur caused by consecutive de-legitimations of intellectual insurgency against the Marxist-liberal hegemonic consensus is increased in the post-Communist, neo-liberal era, in which it effectively acts toward the epistemic silencing of sociopolitical alternatives.
Through the examination of the chances and pitfalls these historical junctures entailed for the production of knowledge, the paper aims to demonstrate that a de-colonial shift in the region involves transforming both the imperial and the colonial logic still incumbent in it and is thus contingent upon the restoration of collective cultural memory.
Related article: "Knocking on Europe's Door: Romanian Academia between Communist Censorship and Western Neglect" (http://saq.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/105/3/551;)
Manuela Boatc is assistant professor in the Department of Sociological Theory at the University of Eischstatt-Ingolstadt in Germany. Her research interests include political sociology, world-system analysis, gender and violence, and postcolonial studies. Among her recent publications are From Neo-evolutionism to World System Analysis: the Romanian Theory of Forms without Substance in Light of Modern Debates on Social Change, 2003; Peripheral Solutions to Peripheral Development, Journal of World-System Analysis, II.1, 2005, 3-26; The Eastern margins of Empire: coloniality in Nineteenth-Century Romania, Cultural Studies, forthcoming; and Knocking on Europe's Door: Romanian Academia between Communist Censorship and Western Neglect, South Atlantic Quarterly, 105/3, 2006, 551-580 (http://saq.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/105/3/551);
15 minutes break
2:30 pm to 4:15pm 'Thinking the Irish Republic' Nicholas Allen, English and Comparative Literature, UNC
In this paper I want to think about the formation of the term 'republic' in Irish culture and politics. My aim is to explore how the idea of a 'republic' has operated historically as a space of refuge from forms of dispossession, political, economic and cultural, relevant to Ireland's still contested experience as a colony within the British Empire. Reading from the contemporary work of Phillip Pettit, I will argue that thinking about the republic's construction, in aspiration and reality, allows us see the operations of a situational, adaptive, utopian politics (whose other name might be postcolonial). In this, a classical system of government is transformed into a contemporary, dissident practice, such as can be read in the work of writers like James Joyce and Flann O'Brien. It is even possible that the first step to this practice was participation with empire, and I will discuss the work of Roger Casement, knighted for his reports on commercial slavery in the Putumayo and the Congo, then executed for his role in the Easter Rising, the beginning of Ireland's war for independence. I hope the questions I will raise, of imagination, participation and solidarity, will speak to your own concerns for a Latin American rethinking of the relations between modernity and colonialism, two conditions that twentieth century Ireland experienced with an intensity all the more ferocious for its peripheral status.
Related article: The Republic of Modernism: Irish Post-Revolutionary Culture, 1922-39 (available at the web page of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/news.html:)
Nicholas Allen is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast, he is author of George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003) and editor, with Aaron Kelly, of The Cities of Belfast (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003). Allen's edition of the Irish poet Gerald Dawe's collected prose, The Proper Word, will be published by Creighton UP next year, and he has recently completed The Republic of Modernism: Irish Post-Revolutionary Culture, 1922-39.
15 minutes break
4:30 pm to 6:15 pm 'Eastern' Europe on the Map of De-Colonial Studies" Jozsef Borocz, Sociology, Rutgers University, USA
If we define the socio-historical subject of coloniality as /1/ 'white west European', this definition creates three Other-locations: /2/ white non-west European, /3/ non-white west European, and /4/ non-white non-west European. De-/post-/colonial Studies articulates the basic axis of coloniality as the historicity of (i.e., what refuses to go away from) the oppression of /4/ by /1/. This talk aims to initiate a conversation about the other Europe, a diverse region grappling with coloniality in a somewhat different constellation. I hope to analyze some visual and scriptural illustrations.
Related article: Goodness is elsewhere: the rules of the European difference(http://www.ru.nl/socgeo/colloquium/Borocz.pdf#search=%22goodness%20is%20elsewhere%220);
Jozsef Borocz has an MA in Literature, Linguistics and Culture Theory, Hungary; and a PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins. He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His recent work applies critical readings of world-systems analysis and de-colonial studies to the European Union as a global geopolitical project. In this presentation, he will suggest some ways in which "the Other (i.e., 'eastern') Europe" can be placed in the de-colonial world. Among his recent publications, Goodness is elsewhere: the rules of the European difference (http://www.ru.nl/socgeo/colloquium/Borocz.pdf#search=%22goodness%20is%20elsewhere%220);
Empire's New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement, E-Book, Central Europe Review imprint (http://www.cereview.org/http://www.mirhouse.com/ce_review/Empire.pdf);
Introduction: Empire and Coloniality in the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union, 4-50 In József Böröcz and Melinda Kovács (eds.), 2001, pp. 4-57.
The workshop will be followed by an informal conversation on Saturday, September 30th from 10 am to 1 pm (Conference Room, International Studies, UNC across the street from the Planetarium)
September 08, 2006 - Triangle Legal History Seminar - September 8, 2006
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/08/09 09:41:23
Adrienne Davis, Professor at the UNC-Law School, and Edward Balleisen, Associate Professor of History, are convening a new Triangle Legal History Seminar (TLHS) this upcoming year. We will begin Sept. 8 with an afternoon presentation by a visiting scholar of law in the early modern Atlantic world, Richard Ross, Professor of Law and History at the University of Illinois. From 4-6 that afternoon at the Carr Building's Boyd Seminar Room, TLHS will discuss Ross's pre-circulated paper, "Puritan Jurisprudence in Comparative Perspective: The Sources of Intensity," at a joint meeting with the Triangle Early American History Seminar. This paper considers whether there was anything especially distinctive about ostensibly "Puritan" law, in both the New England colonies and early modern Europe. If anyone not already on the TLHS email list would like to receive the draft via email, please contact Ed Balleisen at eballeis@duke.edu.
Presenters Needed
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2006/08/22 14:48:31
The Cary Senior Center is looking for people to present historical and/or education related programs to adults aged 55 and older. They are open to any interested faculty, graduate students, and/or staff. They are very flexible and open to most any type of presentation. Typical presentations are one hour in length. Most of the programs occur between 9 am and 5 pm. Presentations will be in front of approximately 30-35 Seniors and is free of charge. Some of the current or previous topics pertain to Japan, the Civil War in NC, and other history books. Many of the patrons have expressed interests in FDR, more world history, US history, science, etc. This is also a great opportunity for graduate students to practice oral presentations. If you are interested in speaking at the Cary Senior Center, please Sam Trogdon, Recreation Program Specialist via email (sam.trogdon@townofcary.org)or at 919-462-3985. He is recruiting speakers for the months of January 2007 to May 2007.
Military History Seminar THIS Sunday, April 30, 6-8pm, National Humanities Center, 7 Alexander Drive
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/04/27 14:24:58
History of the Military, War, and Society Seminar presents:
MARK R. WILSON (UNC at Charlotte)
THE MAKING OF A LIBERAL WAR MACHINE:
A Reconsideration of the Truman Committee and the Politics of U.S. Industrial
Mobilization for the Second World War
PRE-CIRCULATED PAPER available at:
History Jobs & Internships
Carla Ivey, 2006/04/24 14:38:15
AfterCollege would like to direct you to your Job Resource Center and inform you that there are new entry-level, summer internships and part-time positions available specifically for your department with employers like Apple, Boeing, Eli Lilly, Merck, the National Security Agency, Sun Microsystems, and many more. Register Today http://aftercollege.com/groups/ccenter.asp?id=965651547&fct=2 In addition, the AfterCollege Job Resource Center for the Department of History also offers a career resource center complete with resume, interview and salary guides that include sample resumes, interview questions and salary worksheets. You can also find Department of History alumni here, many of who can help answer questions about what it's like to work at various companies. Please note: Some resources are password-protected and all information is strictly confidential.
Triangle East Asian History Colloquium (TEAHC) - April 15, 2006 10 am- 4pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/04/11 14:34:43
Boyd Room, Carr Building Panel 1: 10 a.m.-12.30: Bordercrossings: Home and Empire Antonia Mary Finnane: (Department of History, University of Melbourne) “The Triumph of the Nomads and the Death of the Bolero: An Historical Costume Drama.” It is often said that "men submit, women do not submit," a reference to the fact that men adopted the Manchu robe while women retained Ming dress. A close analysis of clothing style argues that, on the contrary, there was an unusually high degree of exposure of the home/family to the state under the Qing empire. James A. Anderson, (Department of History, UNC Greensboro) “The Great King Nng Tr Cao: an Eleventh-Century Rebel's Role in Shaping Regional Identity Along the Modern Sino-Vietnamese Border” In the mountainous region separating Vietnam and China, far from the central governments in Hanoi and Beijing, there exists a scattered handful of temples and memorials dedicated to the life and deeds of the eleventh-century Tai-speaking leader, Nung Tri Cao (1025-1055?). Today, Tri Cao's ancient effort to shape a distinct political identity along the Sino-Vietnamese border continues to shape a collective ethnic identity that links communities straddling the modern border between Chinese and Vietnamese states. 12.30- 2 p.m. Lunch and Discussion: Planning future meetings of TEAHC Panel 2: 2.00 p.m.-4.30 p.m. Debates on Twentieth Century Chinese Modernity John Fitzgerald (International Center Asia Pacific Studies and Modern Chinese Studies, Australian National University) “Making China Equal: Social Visions of Modernity in late Qing and Republican China.” Michael Tsin, (Department of History, UNC Chapel Hill) "Modernity Revisited: An Update on a Review Essay." Comment and Discussion: Audience Reception follows
Frames: Imaging Indigeneity and Diaspora - April 18 & 19, 2006
Carla Ivey, 2006/04/17 16:11:09
THERE HAS BEEN A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THIS PROGRAM THE 10:00 A.M. PANEL IS CANCELLED, AND LINDA RUPERT'S PRESENTATION WILL MOVE TO THE 2:00 PANEL. ORIN STARN WILL NOT PRESENT HIS PAPER, BUT WILL INTRODUCE PAUL CHAAT SMITH AT NOON. A project of Epistemologies of Belonging: Indigeneity and Diaspora, the 2005-2006 John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar. Read more about the Seminar here: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/seminar/sem0506.php. This two-day series of events explores the complex interrelationship of diaspora and indigeneity. The program focuses on the role of visual media, maps, television, photography, film, and museum exhibitions in framing the changing lines of belonging and exclusion that define human experience. Tuesday, April 18, 7-9 pm, 240 Franklin Center Screening Diasporic Visions: Film Screening and Discussion * Back and Forth: Two Generations of Indian Americans at Home (with filmmaker Leela Prasad, Religion) * Double Vision: Stories of South Africans in North Carolina (with filmmaker Karin Shapiro, History) Wednesday, April 19, 10 am - 6pm, 240 Franklin Center Panels and Presentations 10 - 11:30 am: Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Cartographies of Empire * Linda Rupert, History, Missing Atlantic Diasporas on the `Other Side of a Dutch Colonial Map * Yektan Turkyilmaz, Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Violence, and Ethnic Politics: Turkish and Armenian Silences about the Struggle for Van * Discussant: Clare Hemmings, Gender Institute, London School of Economics 12 - 1:15 pm: Making History at the National Museum of the American Indian * Wednesdays at The Center Public Lecture (Lunch will be served beginning at 11:45 am) * Paul Chaat Smith, Associate Curator, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution and co-author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. 2 - 4:15 pm: Framing Memory, Belonging and Exclusion * Bayo Holsey, African and African American Studies, Fashioning Globality: The Future of Atlantic Pasts * Orin Starn, Cultural Anthropology, Andean Fantasies: Wounded Modernity and Televisual Politics in Peru * Tina Campt, Womens Studies, Framing the Archive: Reflections on A Black German Sounding Gallery * Discussant: Srinivas Aravamudan, Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute 4:30 - 6 pm: Staged Belonging and the Performance of Diaspora and Indigeneity * Mixed Media Presentation, Markets of Diaspora, (2006, 20 minutes) by Christof Galli, Perkins Library * Video Presentation, Mona Hatoums Measures of Distance, (1988, 15 minutes) * Discussants: Micaela Janan, Classical Studies; and Ranjana Khanna, English * Reception to follow Online Exhibition: Indigenous Diasporas / Diasporic Indigeneity Parallel Visions in Art Production This interactive exhibition features three projects that engage diaspora and indigeneity as forms of belonging that are deeply intertwined in their dimensions of social inclusion and exclusion. It showcases the work of photographer Christof Galli and artist Mona Hatoum, and a collaborative multimedia installation by Keith Piper, Tina Campt and Nicola Laure al Samarai on Black Germans in the Third Reich. Together these pieces paint a complex picture of arts role as a medium for articulating the representational politics underlying the processes of diaspora and displacement, and notions of homeland, belonging and exclusion. Components of the online exhibition will be discussed at the Staged Belonging panel, described above. All events are free and open to the public. The John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University is at 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC. For a map and parking information, please visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php For more information, contact Anne Whisnant, (919) 668-1902 or anne.whisnant@duke.edu. Frames is a project of the 2005-2006 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar, Epistemologies of Belonging: Indigeneity and Diaspora, and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and is made possible by the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Dean of Humanities of Duke University, with the generous support of the staff of the John Hope Franklin Center. Special thanks to Casey Alt and the ISIS program for their technical assistance with the electronic and web-based components of this project.
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Wednesday, April 12 4:30 - 5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/04/04 11:26:11
A tertulia sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to discuss Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005), a new publication by Professor Jocelyn Olcott (History, Duke). For more information, please contact the Center at 681-3980. For reviews and synopsis of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, visit the Duke University Press Web site www.dukeupress.edu.
UNC-Duke Southern Studies Seminar Monday, April 10 5:00-7:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/04/04 11:27:09
SETH DOWLAND, "Christian Academies and the Reordering of Southern Conservatism, 1965-1975." Monday, April 10th, 5-7 p.m., 569 Hamilton Hall, UNC Campus. Refreshments served. **Please RSVP by April 5th to Paul Quigley (pquigley@email.unc.edu) to reserve your place (seats are limited), and so that we can pre- circulate the paper to attendees** ABOUT SETH DOWLAND Seth Dowland is a Ph.D. candidate in the religion department at Duke University, working on a dissertation called "Christianity and Masculinity on Tobacco Road: Gender, Order, and the Bible in the South, 1965-2000." He teaches courses on southern and American religious history, and is particularly interested in how religion informs political activity. Outside of school, Dowland enjoys playing and watching all kinds of sports, but most especially basketball. Fellow sports nuts will excuse the deficiencies of a paper written in the midst of March Madness... 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, with support from UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. www.unc.edu/~pquigley/seminar.html
Jennifer Gonzalez events, April 19 & 20, 2006
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/04/11 15:56:39
The Latina/o Studies working group and the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invite you to a public lecture and a workshop with Jennifer Gonzalez, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. ¿Qué Es Mas Macho?: Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Chicano/Latino Art Wednesday, April 19th, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm 108 East Duke Building Morphologies: Race in Digital Culture A Workshop Thursday, April 20th, from 10:30 am - 12:00 130 John Hope Franklin Center Readings for the workshop will be available after April 13th at http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/latinastudies.php: 1- Guillermo Gomez-Pena, "Chicano Interneta: The search for intelligent Life in Cyberspace," Hopscotch: A Cultural Review - Volume 2, Number 2, 2001, pp. 80-91. 2- Jennifer Gonzalez, "The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage," in Race in Cyberspace, Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, Gil Rodman, eds., (New York: Routledge, 2000), 27-50. 3- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Chapter 3 "Scenes of Empowerment" in Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics, (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006) pp. 129-170. For Thursday's seminar, parking passes will be available for the Medical Center Parking Lot on Erwin road. Please RSVP to clight@duke.edu by April 17th if you plan to attend the seminar. Jennifer Gonzalez is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work examines contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, museums and material culture studies, and public and activist art in the U.S. since 1960. Recently, she co-authored Christian Marclay (Phaidon Press, 2005) and co- edited Shock and Awe: War on Words (The New Pacific Press, 2004). Her essays have appeared in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003), Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections (2002), and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). A former Whitney Museum of Art fellow, she has received numerous grants, including two from the Ford Foundation.
Nikhil Pal Singh April 21, 2006 at Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/04/11 10:09:55
"Race and Empire in the Logic of US World Power" Upper East Side, East Union Building This talk will explore the contradictory play of racial animus and anti-racist hope in US foreign policy discourse and practice in the post-civil rights era, with a particular focus on the period since 9/11. More specifically, it will consider the historical relationship and relevance of US black freedom struggles to contemporary projections of US state power in the greater Middle East. Nikhil Pal Singh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2004), winner of the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians (OAH), and the Norris and Carol Hundley Award from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (AHA). His articles and essays have appeared in American Quarterly, Radical History Review, Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly and American Literary History. He is currently at work on a new book, tentatively entitled The Afterlife of Fascism: A Post-WWII History.
Spring 2006 Alumni Speaker Series
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/18 09:46:24
What They Think of Us: The United States in the Eyes of the World No country enjoys more power in the contemporary world than the United States, and none elicits more passionate responses. In recent years, American policies and influence have met with increasing disdain abroad, even as American products and ideals continue to gain an enthusiastic reception. In "What They Think of Us," Duke and UNC professors explore perceptions of the United States in four areas of the world. Join us as we examine the often explosive response to the United States in the contemporary world. CANADA Wednesday, January 25, 4:00 PM: John Thompson, Department of History, Duke University FRANCE Wednesday, February 15, 4:00 PM: Jean-Jacques Thomas, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University THE MIDDLE EAST Wednesday, March 8, 4:00 PM: Sarah Shields, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill GUATEMALA Wednesday, March 29, 4:30 PM: Diane Nelson, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University All lectures are at Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus. For more information call 684-2988 or visit www.dukealumni.com or www-history.aas.duke.edu
Tom Scott Lecture March 21, 2006 4:30-5:30 Lilly Library
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/03/10 11:22:34
Tom Scott, St. Andrews University, Scotland, will lecture on Tuesday, March 21 at the Thomas Room in Lilly Library on "The Origins and Development of the City State in Europe." Tom Scott is a leading social and economic historian of early modern Europe especially well known for his work on town-country relations, the rural economy, and the German Peasants' War of 1525. Among his books are: _Freiburg and the Breisgaus: Town-Country Relations in the Age of the Reformation and the Peasants' War_ (1986); _The German Peasants' War: A History in Documents_ (1991, with Bob Scribner); _Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine 1450-1600_ (1997); _The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries_ (1998); and _Society and Economy in Germany, 1300- 1600_ (2002). His lecture on the European City State sketches out a new and comparative approach to the history of one of Europe's unique political formations. The City State has long been recognized as an unusually dynamic state formation at the center of key political, cultural and economic developments in European history: Renaissance urban culture in Italy, Swiss republicanism, the German urban reformation, and Flemish and Dutch capitalism.
Richard Philcox Lecture March 03, 2006 - 10 am
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/21 12:59:13
"Translating Frantz Fanon: Retrieving a Lost Voice" Upper East Side, East Union Building
Anne Firor Scott Awards- Deadline March 10, 2006
Carla Ivey, 2006/03/07 13:57:40
The Anne Firor Scott Award is given to help students (undergraduates planning to take the History Senior Honors Seminar) engaged in research in women's history to spend time in archives and resource centers where they can use original historical materials. Recent graduates may be considered. The application consists of three copies of the following, including the completed application form: 1) a proposal of 2-3 pages addressed to the Anne Scott Award Committee and 2) current curriculum vitae or resume. The proposal should describe the student's overall project or the specific resource materials for study, as well as the reasons undertaking the project; the status of work already in process; a budget for requested funds; and explanation of other funds available to the student. Applications are due Friday, March 10, 2006 to Carla Rusnak, History Department, Box 90719, 226 Carr Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. Applicants will be notified by mail the week of April 4, 2005. Winners will be asked to report on the use of these funds and their work by September 27, 2006.
Maryse Conde March 03, 2006 - 2:30pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/21 13:00:53
"The Middle Passage: Literary Encounters of the French Caribbean" Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Women and Empire Conference: March 24, 2006 8:30-2:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/03/13 15:29:30
Antoinette Burton will join an interdisciplinary group of area scholars in a discussion of women and Empire, past and present, in the Women's Studies parlor. Panelists include our own Dirk Bonker, Thavolia Glymph, Heather Marshall, and Sucheta Mazumdar. Light breakfast and buffet lunch will be served.
Anne Firor Scott Keynote Address - March 23, 2006 4:30-6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/03/13 15:28:25
Antoinette Burton will give the Anne Firor Scott keynote address on Thursday, March 23, 2006, 4:30- 6pm, in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke. There will be a reception following the talk in the Women's Studies parlor.
Friday, February 17, 2006-Noon-Upper East Side Union Building
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/21 13:15:18
Partitions of States and Minds by: Rada Ivekovic The lecture will address different types of partitions and divisions: divided memories, minds, partitioned states and separately constructed histories. An attempt will be made to find a common denominator for all these apparently diverse mechanisms. The author calls it "partage de la raison". Rada Ivekovic is a philosopher and an indologist. As a professor, she teaches philosophy at the College international de philosophie in Paris and at French Universities. Until 1991, she taught in the former Yugoslavia. Some of her books are: Divided Countries, Separated Cities. The Modern Legacy of Partition (ed., with Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes), Delhi, OUP 2003; Captive Gender. Ethnic Stereotypes & Cultural Boundaries, Delhi, Kali for Women -- Women Unlimited, 2005, and Partitions. Reshaping States and Minds, co-authored with S. Bianchini, S. Chaturvedi and R. Samaddar Frank Cass/Routledge 2005.
Monday, February 20th, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. 569 Hamilton Hall, UNC Campus.
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/10 16:31:57
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, with support from UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. www.unc.edu/~pquigley/seminar.html This session-DAVID A. DAVIS, "Mechanization, Materialism, and Modernism in Faulkner's Flags in the Dust." David A. Davis is Georgia Carroll Kyser Fellow in American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Managing Editor of the Southern Literary Journal. This essay is drawn from his dissertation, "World War I, Literary Modernism, and the U.S. South." Please RSVP by Feb 13th to Paul Quigley (pquigley@email.unc.edu) to reserve your place
Monday, February 13, 2006-229 Carr Building-Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/10 16:38:28
Micol Seigel presents: Afro-Brazilians' "Global Vision": (Trans)Nationalism in the São Paulo Press This talk explores the transnational reach of the community of readers and writers of the Afro- Brazilian press in São Paulo after World War I. Like other denizens of this hugely cosmopolitan city, Afro-Paulista journalists embraced the flux of commerce, migration, and technological innovation, the sparks of the rise of mass culture of which they were also a part. Their lives were far from the backwoods insularity still too-often imagined as the lot of those on the isolated periphery of the North Atlantic metropoles. In fact, black press writers formulated their activist positions in conversation with interlocutors and global currents far and near. This paper considers the global currents in which the black press community negotiated its local everyday, challenging prevailing assumptions about Afro- Brazilians' unquestioning fealty to their nation- state and their supposed ignorance of the “truth” of racial hierarchy in Brazil. Such a contextualization also serves to complicate the dichotomy between nationalism and transnationalism, here intimately interrelated by this smart, strategic group of anti-racist activists. Professor Micol Seigel is an assistant professor of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006-Trent History of Medicine Society
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/13 14:33:56
Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD Professor, History Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine Immensely Human:The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War History of Medicine Reading Room 102 Medical Center Library Light Buffet Supper at 5:30pm Paper begins at 6:00pm Call 660-1143 for more information.
February 10 - Senior Thesis Meeting - 4 pm 229 Carr
Carla Ivey, 2006/01/24 11:16:14
There will be an informational Senior Thesis Meeting on Friday, February 10, 2006 in 229 Carr at 4:00 p.m.
February 9, 2006-Rebecca J.Scott-240 John Hope Franklin Center - 4:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/10 16:50:35
Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World Spring 2006 African and African American Studies Lecture Series "Public Rights and Private Commerce: An Atlantic Creole Itinerary"- reception to follow. Professor Scott is the Charles Gibson Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of Law, and Faculty Associate, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of the recently published Degrees of Freedom: Louisana And Cuba After Slavery (Harvard, 2005).
February 9, 2006-Rebecca J. Plant-204A East Duke-6:00-8:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/10 16:50:44
LECTURE: War Mothers: Patriotic Maternalism and American Culture Professor Plant, Assistant Professor of History at University of California, San Diego, a Residential Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, currently working on her first book, The Repeal of Mother Love: Momism and the Reconstruction of Philip Wylie's America, to be published by University of Chicago Press 2007.
Dominic Sachsenmaier Departmental Lecture February 3 Noon Room 229
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/31 13:15:32
TOPIC: Chinese Reactions to World War One - Seen From a Trans-Cultural Perspective. Sachsenmaier is an Assistant Professor in Global History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in European & International History from Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany in 2000.
Thomas DuBois Departmental Lecture January 27 Noon Room 229
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/17 12:13:01
TOPIC:TBA Professor Tom DuBois joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2000 and now leads the department's Area Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and teaches, writes, and researches on a variety of Nordic topics
Laurent DuBois Departmental Lecture January 24 Noon Room 229
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/17 12:13:30
TOPIC: "Voltaire, Zaïre, Dessalines: Enlightenment Theatre in the French Atlantic." Laurent Dubois is associate professor of history at Michigan State University. He is author of Les esclaves de la République: l'histoire oubliée de la première émancipation, 1789-1794.
February 17 - Jared Diamond - Nelson Music Room-3:30-5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/20 11:11:41
Dr. Jared Diamond from UCLA will give a talk titled "What Is Science? Is History A Science? " on February 17, 2006 from 3:30-5:30pm in the Nelson Music Room (East Duke Building, East Campus). Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. He is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize winning "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies", and, most recently, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed."
Beardon Keynote - Nasher Museum - March 24, 2006
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/18 09:50:17
A keynote discussion of Bearden's representations of women. Panel discussion will be composed of three participants including proposed speakers, Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia) and visual artist, Carrie Mae Weems.
February 3, 2006 - Nelson Music Room - 11:30 - 5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/02/01 15:13:08
Civilities and Civil Rights, A Retrospective After 25 Years Event Schedule 11:30a.m. - 1 p.m. Screening of February One, followed by Q and A 1:15 - 2:00p.m. Professor Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, How Power Concedes: Civilities and Civil Rights in the Long Duree of the African American Past. Moderator: Donna Benson, Winston Salem State University. 2 - 2:45 p.m. Professor John Dittmer, Depauw University, Civilities and Its Legacies. Moderator: Professor Carlton Wilson, North Carolina Central University. 3-4 p.m. Panel of Dr. Chafe former graduate students: Tim Tyson (Duke), Christina Greene (Wisconsin), Matthew Countryman (Michigan), Leslie Brown (Washington University). Moderator: Professor Raymond Gavins, Duke University. 4:15-5:30p.m. Activist Reflections: Claude Barnes and Ann Atwater. Moderator: Professor Jarvis Hall, North Carolina Central University. 5:30 - 5:45 Reflections, Professor Chafe Keynote Speakers: Ann Atwater who grew up in Whiteville, NC, moved to Durham in 1953. In the middle 1960s she joined United Organizations for Community Improvement,an all-Black neighborhood federation that emerged out of War on Poverty. She became one of the most respected community organizers in Durham and an expert on public housing regulations. She is well known for her participation in a 1971 Durham community council on school desegregation, which brought her into conflict and then friendship with local Ku Klux Klan president C. P. Ellis. She has received a multitude of honors and awards for her work, which has been chronicled in the book Best of Enemies by Osha Davidson and the film An Unlikely Friendship. Claude Barnes is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University and he received both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University. He was active in the Greensboro Association of Poor People and Students Organized for Black Unity. In 1969, the school board's lack of recognition of his write- in candidacy for student body president at Dudley High School ultimately ignited a student revolt that was chronicled in Civilities and Civil Rights. He now teaches political science at North Carolina A & T University in Greensboro. Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor at the University ofMaryland, has won the Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history; the Frederick Douglass Prize by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute; the Owsley Prize by the Southern Historical Association, and the Rudwick Prize by the Organization of American Historians. He was president of the Organization of American Historians from 2002-2003. John Dittmer,Professor of History Emeritus at Depauw University, is the author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, which won the Bancroft Prize, the Lillian Smith Award and the Herbert Gutman Prize, among others. Organizing committee: Ray Gavins (Duke), Jarvis Hall (NCCU), Charles Payne (Duke) and Carlton Wilson (NCCU). Co- sponsored by African and African American Studies,the Department of History, the Initiative in History and Public Policy and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Cemil Aydin Departmental Lecture January 20, 2006 Noon Room 229
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/12 12:51:14
TOPIC: An Anti-Western Internationalism? Comparative Reflections on Pan-Islamic and Pan- Asian Thought (1882-1920) Cemil Aydin recently completed a manuscript, titled The Politics of Anti Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan- Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (1882-1945), which is currently under review for publication. Meanwhile, he is writing an article on “International History from Non-Western Perspectives” for a book project by the German Research Foundation study group on “The Conceptions of World Orders in Global History.” Dr. Aydin is also organizing an international conference on the “Anti-Western Critiques in Iran, Turkey and Japan: Historical and Comparative Perspectives” to be held at Harvard Academy in May 2005.
Timothy Tyson Departmental Lecture January 18, 2006 Noon Room 229
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/12 12:52:18
TOPIC: "Freedom Stories: Tales From Our Little Mopping Up Operation at the Grassroots" Tim Tyson teaches and writes the history of African American freedom movements in the 20th century South. His most recent book, Blood Done Sign My Name, appeared in May 2004. It tells the story of a racial murder and black uprising in his hometown of Oxford, North Carolina, when Tyson was eleven and the father of one of his friends murdered a young black man and Black Power radicals fought back with fire. His first book, Democracy Betrayed: the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and its Legacy, co-edited with David S. Cecelski, won the 1999 Outstanding Book Award from the The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. His second book, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, won the James Rawley Prize and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award both from the Organization of American Historians. "Freedom Ride 2001: Sites and Sounds of the Freedom Struggle" won the Best Summer School Course from the National Association of Summer School Sessions. He has been selected as Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. He is a native of North Carolina, a founding member of the Harmony Bar Writers Collective, and lives with his wife, Perri Morgan, and their two children, Hope and Sam. He loves to make Southern-style chicken and pork barbecue for students and friends.
CANCELLED : A Talk by Neil Whitehead April 24, 2006 Room 240 Franklin Center 1:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/04/24 10:37:26
Due to airline mishaps, our speaker is unable to get to Durham in time for the talk.
May 13, 2006 PhD/MA Graduates Reception
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2006/04/11 15:36:42
Students graduating in the academic year 2005- 2006 are invited to join us on Saturday, May 13, 2006, 2:30 - 4:00 PM, in 229 Carr for a reception to celebrate students' completion of their PhD and MA degrees. Graduates are invited to bring their family and friends as well. RSVP number of adults and children to Betty Cowan (919-681-5746 or betty.cowan@duke.edu) by Monday, April 24th.
Method & Meaning Workshop, 31 March-1 April 2006
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2006/03/02 15:19:44
As part of the Carnegie Initiative, the second- year graduate students in the Department of History have organized a two-day event on 31 March and April 1, 2006: METHOD & MEANING: A WORKSHOP IN HISTORICAL APPROACH AND INTERPRETATION The purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholars and graduate students to interrogate the relationship between method and meaning in historical inquiry. We have invited participants to discuss their current research while addressing this central question. Although we aim to engage scholars who practice a wide variety of approaches, we are particularly interested in centering the workshop on those historical fields and approaches that are 1) untraditional, or 2) have experienced a recent revival and/or re-imagining in recent years. In six different panels, our participants will explore the problems and possibilities of studying visual culture, religious experience, biography, environmental history, premodern sexualities, and transnationalism. All panels will convene in the Boyd Seminar Room. Scheduling details have yet to be confirmed, but will follow soon. Our panels and panelists thus far include: UNDERSTANDING VISUAL CULTURE Peter Wood, Department of History, Duke University John Thompson, Department of History, Duke University Patricia Leighten, Department of Art History, Duke University Katharine French-Fuller, Department of History, Duke University WRITING ABOUT RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Thomas Robischeaux, Department of History, Duke University Susan Thorne, Department of History, Duke University Jenny Wood Crowley, Department of History, Duke University Jacob Remes, Department of History, Duke University WRITING BIOGRAPHY Gerda Lerner, Department of History, Duke University Alex Roland, Department of History, Duke University Yvonne Wallace-Fuentes, Department of History, Duke University CENTERING NATURE: HUMANS, HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENT John Richards, Department of History, Duke University Matthew Booker, Department of History, North Carolina State University Kristin Wintersteen, Department of History, Duke University INTERPRETING PREMODERN SEXUALITIES: CATEGORIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES Marc Schacter, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University Christina Ramos, Department of History, Duke University Maren Wood, Department of History, UNC Chapel Hill MAPPING THE TRANSNATIONAL Sucheta Mazumdar, Department of History, Duke University Janet Ewald, Department of History, Duke University Eric Weber, Department of History, Duke University We hope to see you at the workshop! Details will follow soon . . .
Laura Mulvey - March 31, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Carla Ivey, 2006/02/21 13:06:05
"Seeing the Past from the Present: Cinema in the Age of New Technologies" in Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Janet Afary Departmental Lecture January 12, 2006 Noon Room 229
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2006/01/12 12:58:51
TOPIC: " From Mullah to Goya: The Art and Politics of Mullah Nasreddin 1906 - 1912 " Dr. Janet Afary is a native of Iran. She received her M.A. from the Department of Literature of Tehran University and her Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at Purdue University. Dr. Afary is author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (N. Y.: Columbia UP, 1996), which was also translated and published in Iran (Bisotoun, 2000) and co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005). She was awarded year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), and has received grants from the SOROS and IREX foundations. Dr. Afary has co-edited three volumes and published numerous articles, many of which have also been translated or reprinted in Iran, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Britain. She is currently President of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS-MESA, 2004-2005), and President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS-MESA, 2004-2006). She was also past- president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA).
Graduate School's Summer Research Award Winners
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2006/01/20 10:26:18
We had nine recipients this year! Congratulations to: Erin Avots, Michael Crotty, Steve Inrig, Kelly Kennington, Sebastian Lukasik, Gordon Mantler, Swati Shresth, Alejandro Velasco, and Michael Weisel.
Bass Instructorship
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2006/01/20 10:28:36
Marie Hicks has received one of the Graduate School's Bass Instructorships. Congratulations on receiving this prestigious award!
