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- January 22, 2008 - January 22,2008 - Methodologies on US Studies: A Conversation- 225 Science Bldg - 11:30-1:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/12/14 08:30:02
The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to take part in the second event in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," which engages scholars from different disciplines in discussions of how various methodologies address like-minded projects on the United States.
This Conversation will engage Maurice Wallace, Associate Professor of English and African and African American Studies and Adriane Lentz-Smith, Assistant Professor of History in a discussion entitled "On Being Objects of Knowledge: Historicizing Black Men and their Masculinities"
Tuesday, January 22nd, 11:30 to 1:00 -Room 225 Science Building (a.k.a. Old Art Museum) on East Campus.
A light lunch will be served.
Please contact Caroline Light at clight@duke.edu or 668-1945 if you have any questions about this event or the 07-08 "Conversations" series.
Please visit the ICUSS website for details about other events in the series: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/ - January 05, 2008 - January 5, 2008 - DUKE/UNC AHA Reception - Washington, DC
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/12/10 10:02:15
The History Departments of Duke University and The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill cordially invite you to attend a reception at the annual meeting of the AHA in The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel on Saturday, January 5, 2008 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm in Washington Room 3 - November 28, 2007 - Get Published in the Washington Undergraduate Law Review!
Carla Ivey, 2007/11/28 09:06:03
Grades and test scores are indeed very important factors in determining admission into the nation's top law schools and graduate schools, but those are certainly not the only factors. Accomplishments beyond grades and test scores are increasingly being recognized as crucial elements in post-undergraduate school admissions. Distinguish yourself from countless other applicants by getting your academic work published by the Washington Undergraduate Law Review (WULR).
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The WULR is an academic legal journal that publishes law-related essays, research papers, and other written work by undergraduates, graduate students, professors, and legal professionals. It is entirely student-run by undergraduates at the ??University of Washington who have an interest in law.
Submissions for the WULR are open to ALL MAJORS. Business majors could write about any of the seemingly countless numbers of business-related laws, music majors could write about copyright laws pertaining to downloadable music, pre-med students could write about laws pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid, journalism students could write about issues concerning freedom of speech. The possibilities are endless. Students are especially encouraged to submit their undergraduate theses and other papers that were written for academic classes.
Submissions will be selected for publication by all of the WULR editors based on the quality of writing, research, and analysis. All submissions accepted for publication may be edited for length and clarity.
Please visit the Washington Undergraduate Law Review website to submit your work or for more information about the WULR:
http://students.washington.edu/wulr
Don't miss this exciting opportunity to become a part of the Washington Undergraduate Law Review at the University of Washington!
Please direct any questions to the Editor-in-Chief, Anthony Herman, at: aherman3@u.washington.edu
- November 26, 2007 - Monday, November 26 - 2007-08 History Colloquium 3 - Room 229 NOON
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/11/21 09:04:06
Dirk Bonker, Assistant Professor of History, will be the speaker at the third 2007-08 History Colloquium on Monday, November 26 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building.
The title of his presentation is, "On the Road to Unlimited Warfare? Navalist Approaches to War in Germany and the United States before World War I." - December 11, 2007 - December 11, 2007 - DUKE/UNC COLLABORATIVE SPEAKER SERIES
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/11/21 08:59:15
Trent History of Medicine Society will host this meeting featuring Professor Peter English, MD, PhD, History and Pediatrics, speaking on, "A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States."
A buffet supper at 5:30 followed by the presentation will be held at the History of Medicine Collections - Duke University Medical Library, Room 102.
For more information please contact:
Suzanne Porter (Duke) 660-1143
Daniel Smith (UNC) 966-1776 - December 13, 2007 - THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/12/13 10:35:43
Alex Keyssar, Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, will be giving a talk to the Duke History Department on December 13th, at noon, in Carr 229.
Keyssar, the leading historian of the right to vote in America, will address the question, "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? A History." - November 09, 2007 - Nov.9 - Research Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society - 229 Carr - 4 pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/11/08 12:57:28
David Bell (Johns Hopkins University)
The Culture of War in the Age of Revolutions
The talk is an overview of some of the main themes of his new book on "The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare As We Know It." It proposes a new argument for understanding the shift between the aristocratic culture of limited warfare that prevailed in Europe in the eighteenth century, and the culture of unrestrained war that succeeded it after the start of the French Revolution. This shift was not primarily due to the rise of nationalism or to new ideological splits, but was a consequence of new modes of thought about war that arose with the Enlightenment. - November 18, 2007 - November 18, 2007 - North Carolina German Studies Seminar - NC Hillel - 6pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/11/08 12:37:43
Tom Robisheaux presents "Living with Witches"
Tom Robisheaux's talk on witch hunts in the early modern period will be a peek into his forthcoming book on one of Germany's last witches.
On Shrove Tuesday, 1672, a young new mother from a small village near the town of Langenburg suddenly took ill and died. Her death triggered the final set of events in the territory that led to the trial of Anna Schmieg, the miller's wife, for poisoning and witchcraft. Using the technique of microhistory Tom Robisheaux explores the life of Anna Schmieg and the perplexing problem of witchcraft as witch trials declined in Europe. What can her life and the Langenburg witch scare tell us about living with presumed witches and witchcraft when detecting witches had become difficult and problematic? At the end of one of Europe's last witch hunts, in an age when caution and some skepticism were taking hold in law, medicine and theology, Anna Elisabeth Schmieg was one of the last of the "classic" witches in Europe. The talk explores the new perspectives on witchcraft that microhistory can provide.
Thomas Robisheaux, Associate Professor of History, is an historian of early modern Europe. After taking an interest in German and social history, he earned a B.A. at Duke in 1974. At the University of Virginia those interests formed the foundation of his dissertation research on rural society in the German Southwest in the early modern era. Based on that work his first book, Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 1989. After two years on the faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he joined Duke's Department of History in 1983. Other works include: Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life (trans.), and a number of articles on society, culture, medicine and the law during the early modern period. His most recent book, The Miller's Wife: Sorcery and Witchcraft in a German Village (W.W. Norton fall 2008) tells the story of one the last witches in Europe. Using microhistory, he proposes a new way to understand witchcraft and the vexing problem of the decline of Europe's witch trials long before the belief in witchcraft weakened.
The Seminar will begin with a catered dinner and drinks.
Please be sure to register with Ms. Tracy Carhart (tracy.carhart@duke.edu) in a timely fashion. - November 05, 2007 - Information Session on Monday, Nov. 5 at 4:00 in 105 Social Science
Carla Ivey, 2007/11/02 14:11:26
Harry Gibney, Study Abroad Officer at Queen Mary University, London, will be holding an information session on Monday, November 5, 4:00 pm, in 105 Social Science. For information on the history courses offered at Queen Mary, see http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/outlines.html
- November 13, 2007 - November 13, 2007 - Tips and Treats for History Majors - Lilly Library 7:30-8:30
Carla Ivey, 2007/11/01 11:22:30
Need some help searching the history databases? Can't figure out how to start your research project? Just want some free food and an excuse to take a break from studying? Then stop by Lilly Library on Tuesday, November 13 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. to meet your history librarians and get expert research tips that are sure to help as you crank out those final projects and papers of the semester.
Email emily.daly@duke.edu by Monday, November 12 to let us know you're coming so that we will have plenty of food. - November 01, 2007 - Journal of Undergraduate International Studies Submissions
Carla Ivey, 2007/10/26 12:47:55
The Journal of Undergraduate International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2007 publication.
Submitted essays may reflect a variety of international issues, including but not limited to:
International relations and politics
Conflict and restoration
Personal field experience abroad
Personal national or international work experience
Submissions will be accepted until Thursday, November 1 and should be e-mailed as Microsoft Word attachments to wiJUIS@gmail.com
Undergraduate students as well as those students who have recently graduated are encouraged to send their work to be considered for publication.
Please include a cover letter with the title of the paper, institution of affiliation, author's name and contact information.
Paper copies may be sent to:
c/o Journal of Undergraduate International Studies
L&S Honors Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
420 South Hall
1055 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706 - November 01, 2007 - North Carolina Museum of History Opportunities
Carla Ivey, 2007/10/26 12:59:50
The North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh offers several opportunities for undergraduate and graduate level students, including internships, part-time jobs, a student essay contest, and mentoring.
The museum offers internships in the spring and fall semesters and during the summer. Most often these internships are volunteer, though they work with students and their professors to qualify for class credit. Occasionally they also have part time positions and paid internships available.
In addition to job/internship placement, the museum offers a student essay contest. Now in its second year, the student essay contest provides an opportunity for the winning essayist to take home a cash prize and to present his/her research during our monthly lunchtime lecture series. Essays on any topic of North Carolina history are accepted. - October 26, 2007 - Friday, October 26 - Lilly Library - 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/10/24 14:34:54
Get expert tips on using Endnote and conducting high-level research in Duke's catalog and history databases, and meet your history librarians.
Feel free to bring questions specific to your research and to drop in at your convenience.
Refreshments will be served! - October 31, 2007 - Wednesday, Oct. 31 - A View From The Forest - 7:30 -9:00 Richard White Auditorium
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/10/22 10:05:04
Resister Faye Schulman's Memories of the Holocaust
Faye will talk about how she joined the resistance movement, share her memories of the Holocaust, and show photographs from her years on the front lines.
Free and open to the public. - November 02, 2007 - Nov. 2 - Mario A. Zuniga Gutierrez - 5:30-7:30
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/10/22 11:01:48
The Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives
Presents
Pieces of the Indies: From Ebony to Cinnamon Skin Piezas de Indias: de ebano a piel canela
Please join us in this rare opportunity to experience contemporary, rural Afro-Mexican cultural practices through the lens of an independent Mexican scholar working through his country's tumultuous relationship with its so-called African "past." Duke University Center for Documentary Studies - Auditorium
1317 W. Pettigrew Street Durham, NC 27705
FREE and open to the public
CONTACT: Danielle Terrazas Williams dlt9@duke.edu for more information - October 27, 2007 - The Historian in the World A Conversation with John Hope Franklin and Romila Thapar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/10/16 16:23:40
Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:00 PM
Goodson Chapel, Westbrook Building, Duke Divinity School
Duke University
Free and Open to the Public
Reception to Follow
Two world-renowned scholars reflect on the role of the historian in their respective societies and their own involvements in national and local debates around historical truth, political identity, and social reform.
Moderated by Srinivas Aravamudan, Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and Professor of English,
Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, and the Department of History - October 23, 2007 - October 23 - Breedlove Room - Noon - A lecture by Gary Wilder
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/10/26 13:10:50
Emancipating Futures Past: Aime Cesaire, Strategic Utopia, and the Political Untimely In his talk, Wilder will outline his reading of Negritude as a
critical theory and then discuss Aime Cesaire's postwar projects
for decolonization without national independence. On Monday, October 22 from 4:30-6:30 in 305 Languages, there
will also be an informal discussion with Gary Wilder about his
book The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and
Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (University
of Chicago Press, 2005). All students and Faculty are welcome. For more information contact Laurent Dubois
ld48@duke.edu - October 19, 2007 - History of the Military, War, and Society
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/10/10 16:20:11
Friday, October 19, 2007 4:00 - 6:00 pm
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
History Department, Hamilton Hall, Room 569, North
Jacqueline Whitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
For God and Country: Chaplains and Religious Practice in the United States Army in Vietnam
Chaplains have served with military forces for millennia, and with American armed forces since the early colonial period, yet their roles in and interpretations of war have received scant attention from military historians and historians of American religion. However, chaplains serve as a primary location for understanding the complex intersections between American religious practice and the American military because they work and live at the intersections of these two institutions and culture. During the Vietnam War, these two cultures and institutions appeared to collide. American religious groups of all stripes publicly denounced the Vietnam War or the practice of it, and the armed services experienced military defeat and cultural turmoil. In the midst of intense protest and cultural upheaval, chaplains remained in the middle. This paper explores some of the intersections and conflicts between God and Country, as experienced by chaplains who served during US intervention in Vietnam.
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Jacqueline Whitt is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is studying American military history with Dr. Richard H. Kohn. She graduated with honors from Hollins University (Roanoke, VA) in 2003 with degrees in History and International Studies. She received her Master's Degree in History from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005. Her dissertation is titled, "A Crisis of Faith: Chaplains, Vietnam, and Religion in the American Military," and focuses on the intersections of military and religious culture in the United States.
The seminar starts at 4:00 pm.
Refreshments will be served afterwards.
A pre-circulated paper is available a week in advance at dirk.bonker@duke.edu.
- October 26, 2007 - October 26-27, 2007 Neither Model Nor Muse: Women and Artistic Expression
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/10/01 10:29:19
Highlights of the program include:
Common Woman Chorus: A Choral Celebration of Women & Creativity
Performing songs from the Sallie Bingham Center's collections
Friday, October 26, 7pm reception in East Duke Parlors, 8pm performance in Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Interactive workshops and panels on documentary film and photography, hip hop, art and activism, 18th and 19th century domestic arts, gender performance, and book arts; plus artist demonstrations and student performances
Saturday, October 27, 8:30am-3:30pm; Perkins Library
Choreo Collective and Carolina Wren Press present Couplets
A collaborative performance of poetry and dance, followed by a closing reception Saturday, October 27, 4pm; Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center
Four exhibits on women in the arts, featuring materials from archival collections and student-created art; on display in Perkins Library, October 22 through December 31, 2007
All events are free and open to the public.
For program details and to register online, visit http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/art-symposium
- November 01, 2007 - November 1 & 2, 2007 - Anne Scott Lecture and Medieval History Conference
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/27 08:23:51
Thursday, November 1, 2007
5 pm - Anne Scott Lecture - Nasher Museum
"The Grooming of the Devil: From Incubus Lover to Demonic Husband"
Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University, speaker Reception follows.
Friday, November 2, 2007
3pm - Medieval History Conference
Nelson Music Room (2nd floor)
"New Directions in Medieval Historiography"
Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University, speaker
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"Christianity and the Hole in the Wall That Wasn't There"
Rachel Fulton, The University of Chicago, speaker
4:30-4:35 BREAK
4:45-5:30 Round Table
5:30-6:00 General Questions
6:00-7:00 Reception - East Duke Parlors (1st floor)
- September 27, 2007 - Thursday, September 27 - Founder's Day Convocation - Duke Chapel - 4pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/27 09:24:15
Duke University will honor outstanding students, faculty, employees and alumni at its annual Founders' Day Convocation in Duke Chapel at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27.
Honorees at the service, which is open to the public, include distinguished alumni Peter M. and Ginny L. Nicholas and John A. Koskinen and longtime Duke development head John J. Piva. - September 23, 2007 - September 23 - Documentary Screening - Richard White Hall 8:00 pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/21 16:09:24
Special Event: Documentary screening with filmmaker Christian Delage*
*Nuremberg* (Nuremberg: Les nazis face à leurs crimes) (dir. Christian Delage, 2006, 90 min, France, in English, German, Russian, French with English subtitles/narrated in English by Christopher Plummer, B/W, DVD)
Director Christian Delage’s documentary, Nuremberg, reconstructs the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, using rare footage from the National Archives (including newsreels shot by John Ford). The film, narrated by Christopher Plummer, also includes contemporary interviews with survivors and former prosecutors.
Introduced by Prof. Claudia Koonz, Dept. of History (Duke University)
Followed by a Q&A with director Christian Delage - September 12, 2007 - September 12 - History Department Forum - Richard White Lecture - 5:30-6:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/10 11:13:00
The department is sponsoring a forum on this year's first year summer book - "Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South" by Osha Gray Davison.
Adriane Lentz-Smith, John French, Ray Gavins & Thomas Robisheaux will make up the panel, but views from other historians are welcome. - September 17, 2007 - Duke University Mellon-Sawyer Seminar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/21 16:10:39
In an era characterized by the frenetic movement of people, goods, and capital within nation-states and across national borders, questions of public health, environmental crisis, and human well-being have become more urgent than ever.
This year’s Sawyer Seminar, Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India, will examine how two of the world’s fastest growing economies are now at the center of debates on global health and the environment. This seminar will bring together scholars and activists working in China, India, and elsewhere to discuss, debate, and map how cultural and political struggles have long been, and continue to be, linked to the question of how to study, define, and care for diverse human populations and the environments they inhabit.
Our first event of the year will take place on Thursday, Sept 6 at 12 noon in Room 240, Franklin Center. Please join us for an informal lunch seminar discussion with Shenyu Belsky of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Jennifer Holdaway of the Social Science Research Council who will speak on their ambitious programs built around environmental and public health in China. For further information, please contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu.
Forthcoming Events:
Monday, Sept. 17. Professor Michael Goldman, “Getting Bangalorized: Excitement and Dispossession in the Making of Asia’s Newest ‘World City.’ Science Building (East Campus), Room 204. 1:30-3:00 pm.
Tuesday, Oct. 2. Walden Bello, Professor, activist, and Director of Focus on the Global South. Time and Place to be announced.
Portents and Dilemmas is convened by Professors Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology) and Dominic Sachsenmaier (History).
Portents and Dilemmas is devoted to the memory of Duke History Professor John Richards. - October 12, 2007 - Friday, December 14 - Triangle Legal History Seminar - National Humanities Center - 4:00-6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/12/06 16:14:53
The Triangle Legal History Seminar will meet for its final meeting of the fall semester to discuss John French and Kristin Wintersteen's paper, “Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: From Seattle to Versailles and Back.”
Anyone wishing to read the paper should contact Sandi Payne Greene at payne@email.unc.edu.
The Schedule for Spring is also now set:
Jan. 18 - Michael Gerhardt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Constitutional Legacy of the Forgotten Presidents"
Feb. 8 - Kelly Kennington, Duke University - "Freedom Suits in Antebellum St. Louis"
March 21- Michael Sherry, Northwestern University (Jointly Sponsored with the Triangle Military History Seminar) - "Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life"
April 25- Thomas Robisheaux, Duke University - "Corpus Delicti: A Seventeenth-Century German University Debates Witchcraft, Poisoning and the Law"
The Convenors
Edward Balleisen
Adrienne Davis
Eric Muller - September 14, 2007 - September 14 - Research Triangle Seminar in History of the Military, War, and Society - 229 Carr Building 4:00 - 6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/10 11:24:55
Wayne Lee (UNC at Chapel Hill) and Dirk Bonker (Duke)
Military History - Cultural History - Transnational History
Wayne Lee
Mind and Matter - Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field
Military historians are reaping the benefits of the compositional and experiential studies long promulgated by the war and society school, and are now examining the more complex interactions of culture and military activity. The paper reviews the last fifteen years of such work, and suggests that military historians can profit by linking traditional operational studies to cultural analysis, while encouraging non-military historians to consider war as a useful arena for cultural study. Such approaches demand that we look more deeply at institutional and societal culture, their interactions, and how those interactions produced individual decisions on the battlefield.
Wayne E. Lee is Associate Professor of history at the University of North Carolina. He researches in the military history of the early modern period, primarily in the Atlantic world.
Dirk Bonker
Military History and the Transnational Turn
The paper examines the promise of the transnational turn for the field of modern military history, foregrounding U.S. and German historiographies. Of great importance to transnationally informed military histories is the exploration of a new, increasingly global transnational military-political realm, which developed as part of the transformation of states, empires, and warfare in the middle decades of the 19th century.
Dirk Bonker is Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. His research interests focus on the history of warfare, militarism, and empire in Germany and the United States between 1860 and 1945.
Refreshments will be served. Pre-circulated papers are available a week in advance. Send an e-mail to: dirk,bonker@duke.edu.
For more information see the website: http://www.unc.edu/~hagemann/TMHS/. _____________________________________________ Future Seminars in Fall 2007:
Friday, October 19, 2007, 4-6 pm Jacqueline Whitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
For God and Country:
Chaplains and Religious Practice in the United States Army in Vietnam
Friday, November 9, 2007, 4-6 pm
David Bell (Johns Hopkins University)
The Culture of War in the Age of Revolutions
All seminars take place at Duke University
East Campus, Carr Building, Room 229, 114 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708 _____________________________________________ Research Triangle Seminar Series
History of the Military, War, and Society
This standing seminar on the "HISTORY OF THE MILITARY, WAR, AND SOCIETY," started in January 2006. The PRIMARY PURPOSE of the seminar is to provide a forum for historians working on issues relating to war, peace and society and in the field of a most broadly defined history of the military. Far from engaging in any policing of boundaries, the seminar recognizes the rich and ever-growing diversity of approaches and methods that have come to characterize the study of the military, war and society. The seminar is open to approaches from political, diplomatic and institutional history as well as economic, social, cultural and gender history. Studies of violent conflicts, peace building and peace keeping will also be included. The goal is to create a stimulating conversation across and on different theoretical approaches and methodologies. Furthermore, we would like to extend the geographical and temporal scope of our discussion beyond the Americas and Europe. We aim for a global history of the military, war, and society that explores and relates the developments in different regions and time periods.
This inter-university seminar is meant to bring together all interested SCHOLARS FROM THE TRIANGLE AREA AND BEYOND. Our meetings provide an opportunity to present and discuss the findings of on-going research by historians in and outside the triangle area. Speakers showcase their work and offer insight into the scholarly directions and developments in the field. Open to faculty and students, the seminar also makes a major contribution to graduate training by offering advanced Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to present their work in progress.
The seminar meets three times a semester on Friday afternoon from 4 - 6 pm in the Carr Building at Duke University's East Campus. We rely primarily, but not exclusively, on pre-circulated papers, with the speakers introducing their work for no more than 10 minutes, to ensure the most substantive discussions. Refreshments will be served.
The ORGANIZERS of the "History of the Military, War and Society Seminar" are:
o Dirk Bonker (Duke University)
o Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill) in cooperation with
o Michael Allan (NC State University)
o Michael Allsep (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Joseph Glatthaar (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Richard Kohn (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Wayne Lee (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Heather Marshall (Duke University)
o Alex Roland (Duke University) - September 06, 2007 - Fall 2007 Economic History Seminar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/27 08:25:00
September 6
4:40 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
"The curious Dawn of American Public Schools"
September 27
4:40 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Francesca Trivellato (Yale)
"Merchants' Letters and the Legal, Social, and Discursive Sources of Business Cooperation"
October 18
4:40 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Jim Boughton (IMF)
"The Macroeconomics of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997: Lessons for Crisis Management."
November 29
4:30 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Joachim Voth (MIT & Pompeu Fabra)
"Lending to the borrower from hell: Sovereign debt and sustainability in the age of Philip II" - September 11, 2007 - Barbara Newman Lecture & Colloquium
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/04 10:55:09
September 11
5:15 Public Lecture - 0014 Westbrook, Divinity School
"Ennobling Love and Saintly Romance: Twelfth-Century Spiritual Couples"
September 12
12:30 Graduate Colloquium - 328 Allen Building (Catered Lunch)
Newman will lead a colloquium centered around discussion of her recent article "Love's Arrows: Christ as Cupid in Late Medieval Art and Devotion," in Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne-Marie Bouche, eds., /The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages/ (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006).
Students and faculty, including graduate students and faculty at UNC and elsewhere are welcome to attend.
Please PREREGISTER by 7 September: email somerset@duke.edu or call 684-5275 in order to be included for lunch and receive a copy of the article, as well as a parking pass if needed. - September 14, 2007 - Professor John Richards Memorial Service
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/04 08:39:29
There will be a Memorial Service for Professor John Richards on Friday, September 14 at 12:30 in the Duke Chapel.
Luncheon will follow at 1:30 in the Gothic Room of the Library.
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/08/richards.html - October 11, 2007 - Visit of Romila Thapar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/28 10:33:51
Dr Romila Thapar, Emerita Professor of Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will visit the Franklin Humanities Center for four weeks this fall.
She will give two public lectures, topics to be announced:
4:30 Thursday, 11 October, in 240 Franklin Ctr
4:30 Wednesday, October 31, in 240 Franklin Ctr.
Professor Thapar will also give a four-week-long seminar for faculty and graduate students entitled "Elements of a Historical Tradition in Selected Early Indian Texts." The seminar will entail outside readings. The seminar will meet on Wed., Oct. 10, and on Tuesdays, Oct. 16, 23, 30, from 6-8 pm, in 240 Franklin Ctr.
Those interested signing up for the seminar should contact Christina Chia christina.chia@duke.edu.
- September 17, 2007 - Monday, September 17, 2007 -History Colloquium 2007-08 - 229 Carr Bldg - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/09/18 09:56:29
Bruce Mazlish
will be speaking on
The Concept of Humanity in a Global Epoch - July 10, 2007 - Job Diarists for Chronicle of Higher Education
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/07/10 14:35:57
The Chronicle's Careers section is looking for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and administrators who will be on the job market in the 2007-8 academic year and would be interested in keeping a diary of their job search.
Since 1998, we've featured the job-market stories of academics in a variety of disciplines. They've written regular, first-person accounts throughout the year of their attempts to find a faculty or administrative job in academe, and in a few cases, a nonacademic job.
(You can read their columns at http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/author_list_fp.html on the site.)
If you have a flair for writing, here's an opportunity to use it and get paid. We select about 8 to 12 diarists a year; each writes three to five columns over the course of the year about his or her job search. Those selected will be paid $500 for each column they write that is accepted for publication. What you need to do:
- Send us a sample column submission by August 14. If selected, your column will be published on our site in the fall as the first entry in your job-search diary.
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The sample column should be between 1,200 and 1,600 words, written in a conversational, journalistic style. It should tell us about your background, career goals, constraints, and job situation in the context of broader issues involving the job market in your field and academic culture.
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Humor is a plus!
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Some diarists write under their own names, while others choose to use pseudonyms. Either way, we will need to know your name, institution, and discipline. Please make that information clear when you e-mail your submission.
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- April 26, 2007 - HISTORY HONORS - STUDENT AWARDS
Carla Ivey, 2007/05/02 09:36:41
Cannon Prize
Amy Joseph is this year's winner of the Cannon Prize in History!
LaPrade Prize
Lydia Wright, "A Miner's Education: Schools in the Coal Company Towns of Southern West Virginia, 1863-1933" (Karin Shapiro)
Highest Distinction
Lydia Wright, "A Miner's Education: Schools in the Coal Company Towns of Southern West Virginia, 1863-1933" (Karin Shapiro)
Erin Glunt, "Descartes and the Eucharist" (Tom Robisheaux)
Allison Weiss, "'Shirtless and Unterrified,' 'Leading the Marches of the World!': The Bowery B'hoys: America's Chosen Gangsters, Guides and Guardian Angels (1840-1890) (Reeve Huston)
Nicholas Dashmann, "Terms of Redemption: Riot, Atonement, and Reconciliation: The East St. Louis Race Riots of 1917." (Felicia Kornbluh)
High Distinction
Julia Cromwell, "A Visit to Pere Lachaise: The Monuments, Memories and Visitors of the First Modern Cemetery" (William Reddy)
Bradford Harris, Catalyzing American's Modern Appetite for Plastics: Du Pont's and Dow's Technology-Push and the Growth of the Plastics Market After World War II" (Seymour Mauskopf)
Whitney Laemmli, "Clothing the Naked Ape: The Birth, Decline and Artistic Refashioning of Biosocial Research (1967-2004)" (Seymour Mauskopf)
Flora MacIvor, "The Paradox of Assimilation: Immigration and North Africans in 20th Century France" (Laura Schlosberg)
Graham Rehring, "Medical Care during the Korean War" (Margaret Humphreys)
Distinction
Brian Breedlove, "From Loud Rebellions to Silent Revolutions: The Legacy of Black Mountain College" (Felicia Kornbluh)
Ronald Bruckmann, "The Louis Renault Affair: Between Myth and Reality" (Alice Kaplan)
Quindelyn Cook, "A Break from Tradition: Folic Acid Fortification" (Seymour Mauskopf)
Moriah Daugherty, "U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) in World War II" (Dirk Bonker)
Aeden Keffelew, "The Narratives of the Ethiopian-American Community" (Deborah Jakubs)
Jennifer Leary, "Talisman's Sudanese Oil Investment: the Historical Context Surrounding its Entry, Departure and Controversial Tenure" (Janet Ewald)
Michael Martoccio, "The Blind Falcon: Rethinking the Downfall of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici" (Ron Witt)
Peter McCary, "By Every Word Out of the Mouth of God: Biblical Passages in Political Texts of the First English Civil War" (Mary Jane Morrow)
Eric Moore, "Cultural Rebellions in Late Medieval Wales" (Mary Jane Morrow)
Laura Newman, "'We the Peoples:' Public Opinion in Great Britain and the United States during Creation of the United Nations (1941-1945)." (Alex Roland)
Leif Ovorvold, "Perception and Policy in the 1960 Congo Crisis: Patrice Lumumba in the Eyes of Belgium, Great Britan and the United States." (Janet Ewald)
Brian Rosenberg, "Machiavelli and the Human Condition: An Exploration of the Capabilities and Limits of Human Existence in Machiavelli's Work." (Kristen Neuschel) - May 04, 2007 - May 04 & 05, 2007 Latin American Labor History Conference - John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/05/01 11:08:36
Labors of Love: Domestic Work in Latin American Labor History
This year's LALHC will center on the theme of reproductive labor, including both paid and unpaid household labor, the caring labors of childrearing and eldercare, and the community labors of maintaining community organizations and networks. As in the labor history of other geographic areas, the Latin Americanist labor history of household labor remains thin. Although some scholars have taken on research projects in this area, the minimal visibility of reproductive labor in official documentation makes conferences particularly important for collaborative efforts and exchange of sources and methods.
Sponsors: Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development, the Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research Women's Studies, and the Department of History.
For more information contact Jocelyn Olcott at olcott@duke.edu
- April 12, 2007 - International Pre-Dissertation/ Dissertation Research Travel Award for Summer 2007
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/05/01 11:09:36
Danielle Williams
Paula Hastings
Kristin Wintersteen
Arthur Fraas
Heidi Guisto
Montie Pitts
And, Jennifer Welsh won a Aleane Webb Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations also go out to Gordon Mantler who has been selected as a recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
- April 17, 2007 - April 17, 2007 - Blacks and Jews in the South - Social Psychology Room 130 - 7:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/04/10 15:42:10
Dr. Leonard Rogoff, staff historian on the "Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina" project will be speaking on the topic of "Blacks and Jews in the South." Joining him will be members of the North Carolina community who were deeply active in the Civil Rights movement and will share their personal experiences. The event will take place on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 7:30pm in Social Psychology Room 130. This event is free and open to the public.
Please contact daf8@duke.edu for more information or with any questions. - May 16, 2007 - May 16, 2007 - Transatlantic (Post) Graduate Workshop - UNC, Institute for Arts & Humanities, Hyde Hall
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/04/11 09:37:00
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University are pleased to announce the Transatlantic (Post) Graduate Workshop GENDER, EXPERIENCE, AND MEMORY, 18th - 20th CENTURIES
AIMS AND AGENDA
This workshop is designed to bring together graduate and postdoctoral students from Britain, Germany, and the United States to discuss recent approaches to the history of experience and memory from a gendered perspective. The workshop will discuss case studies from East and West European, Caribbean, Latin American, and North American history (18-20th centuries). Its goals are to help (post)graduate students to integrate the gender dimension more systematically into their research on experiences and memory and to conceptualize more clearly terms such as/ Erfahrung/, experience,/ Gedachtnis/, memory, and memoire/. More broadly, the workshop will promote comparative and trans-national research that includes gender as one important category of analysis.
The themes of this workshop will complement the subsequent international conference, "Gender, War, and Politics: Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775-1820," which will take place at the UNC Center for Arts and Humanities from 17-19 May 2007. The workshop will thus provide a crucial link between ongoing research at the senior level and the emerging interests and work of graduate students.
REGISTRATION
Participation is free, but prior registration is required. Please register by April 30, 2007.
Send an email to Laurence Hare (hare@email.unc.edu) and indicate, in which of the parallel panels you wish to participate.
PROGRAM
Registration and Welcome Coffee: 8:30 - 9:00 am
Welcome: 9:00 - 9:15 am
Laurence Hare (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
SESSION I: 9:15 - 11:45 am
1. Gendering Wartime Experiences/IAH Seminar Room/Chair: LAURENCE HARE (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History
LEIGHTON JAMES (University of York, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies): Austrian Soldiers' Experiences during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
CATRIONA KENNEDY (University of York, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies): John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the Britsh 'armed nation', 1793-1815
MARIE-CECILE THORAL (University of York, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies): Women in the French Armies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
SEBASTIAN LUKASIK (Duke University, Dept. of History): Men of the Hob-Nailed Clan?: Wartime Sacrifice, Military Service, and Soldiers' Identities in the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919
Comment: Dirk Bonker (Duke University, Dept. of History)
2. Discourse on Women and Female Experience/IAH University Room/ Chair: Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University, Dept. of History)
KATRINA MERGEN-ADAMS (Duke University, Dept. of English): "Don't you wonder that I can stand the sight of you?": Anxieties Within 19th Century Women's Romantic Friendships.
KELLY KENNINGTON (Duke University, Dept. of History): Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum St. Louis: Women's Experiences in the St. Louis Circuit Court
LISI LOTZ (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): In Search of Prince Charming: Courtship and Gender Norms in Urban Cuba, 1919-1929
KATHARINE FRENCH-FULLER (Duke University, Dept. of History): The Gendered Experience of Consumerism in Authoritarian Argentina
Comment: Jane Rendall (University of York, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
Coffee Break and Lunch: 11:45am - 1:00 pm
SESSION II: 1:00 - 3:30 pm
1. Gendered Memories of War/IAH University Room/Chair: Alex Roland (Duke University, Dept. of History)
JULIA OSMAN (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Reviving Sparta: The Gendered Memory of Seven Years' War and French Participation in the American Revolution
RUTH LEISEROWITZ (Free University Berlin, Center for French Studies): Heroic Times: Gendered Images of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars in German Feature Films of the Interwar Period
MICHELLE COHEN (UNC Chapel Hill, Dpet. of Anthropology): Ambivalent Sanctuary: The Argentine 'Dirty War', Auschwitz, and Memory
Politics Comment: Alan Forrest (University of York, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
2. Gendered Framings of Twentieth-Century Activism/IAH Seminar Room/Chair: Chad Bryant (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
FELICITY TURNER (Duke University, Dept. of History): Redefining African-American Activism: Finding a Place for Helen G. Edmonds
MICHAEL MULVEY (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Recording and Retrieving a Gendered Social Type: Jules Valles, the Jacques Vingtras Trilogy, and May '68
SARAH SUMMERS (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Rethinking the Private Sphere: The West Berlin/Kinderladen/Movement and Challenges to the Gendered Division of Labor, 1968-1971
KELLY MORROW (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Remembering the Sexual Revolution: The Sexual Liberation Movement at the University of North Carolina, 1969-1973
Comment: Claudia Koonz (Duke University, Dept. of History)
Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:00 pm
SESSION III: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Masculine Representations and Men's Experiences/IAH University Room/Chair: Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
MARIA SCHULTZ (Free University Berlin, Berlin School for Comparative European History): About Statesmen, Military Leaders, and Struggling Poets: Heroic Masculinity Images in German and Austrian Memoirs of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
LARS PETERS (Free University Berlin, Center for French Studies): Warrior Sailors and Heroic Boys: The Narrative Imagining of Masculinities in Popular British Historical Novels on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Long Nineteenth Century
MARKO DUMANCIC (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Reinventing the New Soviet Man: How the Soviet Film Industry Affected Post-Stalinist Attitudes by Remaking the Masculine Ideal, 1956-1968
Comment: Peter Filene (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
SESSION IV: 6:00 - 6:30 pm
Roundtable: Gender, Experiences, and Memory - Methodological Reflections
IAH University Room
Chairs: Jennifer Donally and Rachel Martin (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
JOCELYN OLCOTT (Duke University, Dept. of History)
JANE RENDALL (University of York, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
DINNER: 7:00 pm
FORMAT
All papers will be pre-circulated in advance. It is expected that all participants have read the papers of the panels in which they participate. Each presentation will be no longer than 15 minutes.
ORGANIZERS OF THE WORKSHOP
Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
J. Laurence Hare (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
The "UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History"
For further information, contact Laurence Hare (hare@email.unc.edu) or visit the workshop website at http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/conferences/gender/
- April 05, 2007 - Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/05/01 11:09:50
Anne-Marie Angelo was awarded for her project, "Routes of Revolution: The Politics of the Black Panther Party of Israel, 1971-75."
Stephan Isernhagen was awarded for his project, "Come Back To Life" Wounded Bodies in WWII and Postwar Germany.
Willeke Sandler was awarded for her project, "Creating Future Colonists: Colonial Discourse, National Socialism, and the Rendsburg Colonial School for Women."
Danielle Terrazas Williams was awarded for her project, "Bound by Language: Excavating the Legal Bonds of Free Blacks in New Spain."
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS! - May 17, 2007 - May 17-19, 2007 - Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation: Contemporary Challenges in Historical Context - Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/04/02 12:41:54
Sponsored by The Labor and Working-Class History Association
Southern Labor Studies Association
Join us for an innovative dialogue on current issues facing the working class and their allies. This conference will bring together scholars, students, social justice and union activists, policy makers and rank-and-file workers to explore the connections between contemporary challenges facing the working class and their historical context. This gathering aims to enhance personal and organizational ties between those engaged in ongoing workplace and community organizing efforts and students and scholars whose work documents the long history of activism in the United States.
The key thematic areas for the conference will be:
- The New Working Class: Public Sector and Service Workers
- Farm Labor & Immigration
- Organizing Outside the Workplace
- Environmental Justice
- Intellectuals' Role in Labor Struggles
For more information, please visit www.lawcha.org - March 26, 2007 - Monday, March 26, 2007 - 2006-07 History Colloquium - 229 Carr Bldg - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/03/20 11:06:49
Gunther Peck
will be speaking on his current research project:
Trafficks in Race: Locating the Origins of White Slavery
- March 29, 2007 - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - Anne Firor Scott Lecture in Women's History - 4:15
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/03/20 11:17:48
Valerie Traub
University of Michigan
Women's Studies & Department of English
HISTORICIZING THE NORMAL
Professor Traub works on early modern literature and culture; she is director of Women's Studies at Michigan. Her publications include Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992); The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (2002); and Gay Shame, co-edited with David Halperin (forthcoming). Her current manuscript project is entitled Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality. - March 21, 2007 - April 25, 2007 - Second Spring Fulbright Information Sessions
Carla Ivey, 2007/04/02 12:35:27
There will be two Spring Fulbright Information Sessions for interested undergraduates and graduate students: Wed, March 21 and Wed April 25 - both at 4:30 PM in Room 240 of the John Hope Franklin Center. Sophomores and beginning graduate students are also encouraged to attend so that they can begin thinking seriously about applying for the Fulbright. It is very important that students start early on the application process in order to have the most competitive applications possible.
Further information about the US Student Fulbright Program can be found at www.fulbrightonline.org. The fall campus deadline for the 2008-09 competition will be mid-September with campus interviews occurring between late September to mid-October of 2007. Students applying for 2008-09 need to begin their applications now, if they've not already started on them. A minimum of 6-12 month advance preparation is strongly recommended in applying for the Fulbright.
Interested students are encouraged to carefully read the on-line materials and attend an information session before making an appointment to meet individually with Fulbright Advisor Dr. Darla K. Deardorff: d.deardorff@duke.edu or 668-1928. - March 15, 2007 - Help Wanted: Public Information Assistant
Carla Ivey, 2007/03/14 15:14:27
The North Carolina Museum of History is seeking a student or recent graduate to serve as a public information assistant (visitor services). Vacancy must be filled as soon as possible. Preference will be given to early applications.
If you have questions, contact Thom Swindell at Thom.Swindell@ncmail.net
- March 23, 2007 - Schondorf-Duke Exchange Fellowship - Deadline March 23, 2007
Carla Ivey, 2007/03/07 10:32:34
Under an agreement between Duke University and Landerziehungsheim Schondorf , a German private secondary school in Bavaria, one Duke graduating senior or graduate student will be selected for the school year 2006-2007 (August through July) to go to Schondorf where he or she will participate in the teaching of upper-level English language courses, under the supervision of a Schondorf faculty member. He/she will be expected to assume other faculty duties analogous to those of an RA at Duke. He or she would also be permitted to register as an auditor at the University of Munich or Augsburg. The student will receive round trip air fare to and from Germany, room and board, and a €uro 765 per month stipend. Health insurance will be paid by the Landheim.
Candidates for this fellowship must have a strong academic record and be reasonably fluent in German. Any student interested in applying for the Fellowship must submit the following:
1) A completed application form accompanied by an essay (2-4 pages) outlining why he or she wishes to spend a year at Schondorf, how his/her studies at Duke have qualified him/her for the program, and how he or she might lead discussions on American culture, history and civilization.
2) recommendations from two faculty members;
3) a language evaluation form to be completed by a faculty member of the German Department;
4) an official transcript.
Additional applications are available from the German Department. The complete application with essay and the official transcript should be submitted by the student to Professor Ingeborg Walther, at the German Department, 116A Old Chem by Friday, March 23, 2007 at 5:00 p.m - March 30, 2007 - March 30, 2007 - Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism and Anthropological Knowing - 240 Franklin Center
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/03/07 09:53:49
This two-day conference provides an extensive analysis and critique of ethnographic and colonial practices that replicate the pornographic gaze. The "native informant" in ethnography and the "racialized body" in pornography promote a search for the truth about desire for the Other. The participants in this conference critique this essentializing search. We engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the colonizer's gaze and the creation of modern concepts of race, sexuality, and, ultimately, pornography.
All events are in Franklin Center 240
Friday, March 30
10:30-12:30
Seminar Meeting: Ethnopornography - Toward A Theory
Discussion Leaders: Pete Sigal, Duke University; Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin; Ara Wilson, Duke University.
Discussion of readings by Anne McClintock, Jose Munoz, and Ann Stoler.
If you wish to attend the seminar meeting, please RSVP to psigal@duke.edu.
1:30 - 1:45 Ethnopornography: Introductory Remarks
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin
1:45-4:30 Colonial Sexualities
Moderator: Marc Schacter, Duke University
Martha Few, University of Arizona
That Marvelous Sexual System': Race, Sexuality, and Colonial Medicine in Guatemala, 1780-1810
Rachel O’Toole, University of California, Irvine
Consent to the Devil: Rape, Race, and Desire in Colonial Peru
Rebecca Parker Brienen, University of Miami
Ethnographic Images and the Pleasures of Possession: Dirk Valkenburg's Slave Dance (ca 1707 Brazil)
Carina Ray, Pennsylvania State University
Ethnopornography and the Colonial Archive: Eroticism, Racism, and the 'Politics of Citation'
Zeb Tortorici, UCLA
Animals, Indians, and the Category of the 'Unnatural' in Colonial Mexico
Saturday, March 31
10:00 - 12:00
Money, Movement, and Sex Travels
Moderator: Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin
Martha Chaiklin, University of Pittsburgh
Unseasonal Winds of Love - Prostitution and the Foreign Community in Early Modern Nagasaki
Olga Romantsova, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University
Sexuality and Gender in Goth Cultures: East-West Discourse
Erika Robb, University of Wisconsin
Topographies of Pleasure: Travel, Fantasy and the Brazilian Body
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Provided
1:00 - 3:30 Ethnographic Practice/Ethnographic Gaze
Moderator: Irene Silverblatt, Duke University
Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University
Mouth to Mouth: Studying Moche Sex Pot
Maria Lepowsky, University of Wisconsin
Sex, Sexuality, and the South Seas
Helen Pringle,University of New South Wales
"Men Like Us": Ethnography and Sexual Violation in Australia
Harriet Lyons, University of Waterloo and Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University
Her Story and His Story: Male and Female Perspectives in the Anthropology of Sexuality
4:00 - 6:00
Plenary Session: Ethnopornography, Sexual Commerce, and the Future of Sexuality Studies
Moderator: Ara Wilson, Duke University
Participants:
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Ethnopornography
Franciso J. Hernandez Adrian, Duke University
Soy Cuba, or Inside/Outside the Other Caribbean
Negar Mottahadeh, Duke University
Against Voyeurism: Iran's Stand Against the Meta-desire of Cinema - March 07, 2007 - Applications for Funding Summer Research Projects
Carla Ivey, 2007/03/05 15:17:39
All areas of research - Deans' Summer Research Fellowship Deadline: March 7.
Up to $2500 for a research project proposed by a Trinity College undergraduate. Research in all areas is considered, and there is designated funding in library/archive research, research associated with study abroad, research conducted on campus and research funding for premajor students.
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute of Duke University (APSI) Deadline: March 9. Support to do independent research in East Asian Countries (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
Center for International Studies. Deadline: March 21. Travel grants for summer research projects conducted overseas
Latin America and the Caribbean, Research in. Deadline: March 8. Mellon Undergraduate Awards for summer research in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latino/a Studies Research Support Awards Deadline: mid-Late March. Two awards available to support independent research and travel projects during Summer
Information for each program is linked to the URS Office web page at: http://www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/research/ - April 02, 2007 - Help Make American History - Deadline April 2, 2007
Benjamin Kimmel, 2007/03/05 15:11:52
The California office of the federal Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, which will soon become the nonpartisan Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, is seeking talented and energetic college students and recent graduates to work as interns between June 4 and August 6, 2007.
Interns will assist with substantial and meaningful projects, such as planning and organizing public lectures and talks, researching the Nixon administration and contemporaneous events, and creating content for our Website and museum exhibitions. Interns will also participate in discussions with experts in fields such as the Cold War, espionage, presidential history, and museum administration.
These interns will contribute to the creation of a major national center for the study of the presidency, American history, and the life and times of Richard Nixon. We are seeking mature, driven candidates with a demonstrated record of accomplishment. In choosing interns, we are not guided by an applicant's major field of study but by his or her commitment to creating a serious and impartial national institution. We welcome applications from students majoring not only in history, political science, and international relations but also in other fields, such as business, marketing, public history, museum studies, Asian studies, African-American studies, economics, journalism, and communications (particularly new media).
To apply, please send a current resume, one or two letters of recommendation, a current transcript (a photocopy or other informal version is acceptable), and a cover letter explaining why you would like to be an intern at the Nixon to:
Dr. Timothy J. Naftali
Director, Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Applications must be postmarked or emailed no later than April 2. Late applications will not be considered. Finalists will be interviewed in person or by telephone. Please direct any questions to paul.musgrave@nara.gov.
About the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
The nonpartisan, federal Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, a part of the National Archives and Records Administration, will soon operate both a museum visited by more than 100,000 people annually and an archive with documents that span the entire life of President Nixon. We expect that we will soon formally become the twelfth presidential library in the National Archives and Records Administration presidential system. More information is available online at http://nixon.archives.gov - May 17, 2007 - May 17-19, 2007 - "Gender, War, and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation, Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775-1820"
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/03/01 15:15:33
The Duke Department of History will co-sponsor an international conference on "Gender, War, and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation, Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775-1820" from 17 through 19 May 2007 at the Institute for Arts & Humanities, Hyde Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
For complete information, visit the conference web site at http://www.unc.edu/~hare/GWPhome.html. - March 23, 2007 - March 23-24, 2007 HPSTM Conference
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/02/26 14:41:23
The Duke Graduate Certificate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science Technology and Medicine (HPSTM) would like to invite you to the 2007 HPSTM Conference, to be held at Duke University on March 23-24, 2007, on the topic: Do Historians and Philosophers of Science Have Anything to Say to Each Other?
The session on Friday, March 23, will be held at 105 West Duke Building, on East Campus, and the sessions on Saturday, March 24 will be held at the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library, on West Campus (for locations, see the Duke map at http://map.duke.edu/index.php?).
For those who need hotel accomodations, Duke Philosophy has reserved a number of rooms at the Millenium Hotel (919/383-8575) under a reduced rate. To reserve a room at this rate you must ask for the HPSTM or Duke Philosophy rate. If you have any questions concerning the conference, please call 919/660-3050 or email mra7@duke.edu. We look forward to seeing you in March. - February 23, 2007 - Internship Opportunities at Historic Stagville:
Carla Ivey, 2007/05/01 11:10:30
Research intern:
Duties:
-visitor services (greeting visitors, orienting visitors to the site)
-giving guided tours of the grounds to visitors
-researching special events
-researching future visitor center exhibits
-doing research for information to put on our website
-working on the extensive slave genealogy project
-researching information on period correct costumes for special events
Interpreter intern:
Duties:
-visitor services (greeting visitors, orienting visitors to the site)
-giving guided tours of the grounds to visitors
-creating tours geared towards certain audiences (African American, children, furniture enthusiasts, etc)
-creating guided tour sheets different languages
-creating special tours for the hearing or visually impaired
-researching period costumes for special events
Educational Programming Intern:
Duties:
-visitor services (greeting visitors, orienting visitors)
-giving guided tours of the grounds to visitors
-creating special activities for school groups
-researching and planning ideas for special events
-working with our junior interpreter program (school-age children who have a great interest in history that we do special programs for)
- researching costumes for special events
Please contact assistant site manager Diana Bahnson at 919-620-0120 or diana.bahnson@ncmail.net if interested! - March 02, 2007 - March 2-3, 2007 BRIDGING DIVIDES: A WORKSHOP ON WORKS-IN-PROGRESS Carr 229
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/21 14:52:44
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together faculty and graduate students to facilitate ways of thinking about topical areas that cross geographic and chronological fields, promoting dialogue that bridges traditional divisions in the discipline. We have invited participants to discuss their works-in-progress while addressing methodological issues raised by their particular lens of analysis. Four panel discussions will focus on race and ethnicity, travel and imperial encounters, violence and the state, and trade and consumption, respectively.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
10:45-12:15: New Approaches to Race and Ethnicity
Tina Campt, Departments of Women's Studies and History, Duke University
Bob Korstad, Departments of Public Policy and History, Duke University
Max Krochmal, Department of History, Duke University
Danielle Terrazas Williams, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Orion Teal
12:30-1:30: Catered lunch
1:45-3:15: Travel and Imperial Encounters
David Ambaras, Department of History, North Carolina State University
Heidi Giusto, Department of History, Duke University
Paul Johstono, Department of History, Duke University
Claudia Koonz, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Kim Bowler
3:15-4:00: Wine and cheese
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
10:45-12:25: Violence and the State
Dirk Bonker, Department of History, Duke University
Stephan Isernhagen, Department of History, Duke University
Ben Kiernan, Department of History, Yale University and National Humanities Center
Pete Sigal, Department of History, Duke University
Felicity Turner, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Liz Shesko
12:30-1:30: Catered lunch
2:15-3:45: Trade, Technology and Consumption
Ed Balleisen, Department of History, Duke University
Barry Gaspar, Department of History, Duke University
Rosalie Genova, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Robert Penner, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Fahad Bishara
For further information, please contact Anne-Marie Angelo at aa76@duke.edu
- February 28, 2007 - February 28, 2007 - Alison Frazier - Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin - Room 229 @ Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/22 11:57:04
Alison Frazier
will be speaking on, "Interpreting Failure: The Case of Garzoni's St. Augustine" on Wednesday, February 28 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building - March 01, 2007 - 2007 GILDER LEHRMAN HISTORY SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Carla Ivey, 2007/02/16 14:17:07
The Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program, a competitive summer scholarship program in American history for outstanding college sophomores and juniors, is now accepting applications (Deadline: March 1). Based in New York City, the program provides an opportunity for the next generation of historians to conduct primary-source research and to work closely with eminent scholars.
The application for the 2007 Gilder Lehrman History Scholars program is now online. To learn more, email Justine Ahlstrom at scholars@gilderlehrman.org or visit: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/student2.html - February 23, 2007 - February 23, 2007 - Jutta Sperling -Associate Professor, Hampshire College - Room 229 @ Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/22 11:56:33
Jutta Sperling
will be speaking on "Queer Lactations in Renaissance and Baroque Art" on Friday, February 23 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building - March 05, 2007 - March 5, 2007 - John Martin - Chair and Professor, Trinity University - Room 229 @ Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/22 12:37:28
John Martin
will be speaking on "Transparency and Sincerity in the Italian Renaissance" on Monday, March 5 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building - March 09, 2007 - March 9, 2007 - African Lecture Speaker Series - Room 229 Carr @ Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/15 11:20:45
Steven Feierman
Professor, University of Pennsylvania will be speaking on "The Local in African History: The Case of the Disappearing Object," on Friday, March 9 in Room 229 Carr Building at Noon. - April 07, 2007 - April 7, 2007 Imperialism and Colonialism Conference
Carla Ivey, 2007/02/15 09:49:15
This spring Washington University in St. Louis will host its third annual academic conference for undergraduates with an interest in the study of colonial empires and their impact on contemporary society. The conference is organized by undergraduates and Washington University in St. Louis, and in past years its keynote speakers have included Dane Kennedy of George Washington University and David Anderson of Oxford University. Interested students should submit a one-paragraph abstract by March 1, 2007 focusing on any aspect of imperialism and colonials. Issues might include, but are not limited to, the economic, political, epidemiological, and cultural consequences of colonial enterprises past or present. The most appropriate papers will be selected for discussion at the conference on April 7, 2007, and their writers invited to participate as panelists (travel expenses may be partially defrayed as needed). Students should submit papers and abstracts to:
Imperialism and Colonialism Conference
African and African American Studies Program
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1109
St. Louis, MO 63130 - March 23, 2007 - March 23 & 24 - Race, Representation, and Citizenship in the Americas
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/03/06 12:52:07
This two-day symposium will examine the impact of race on notions of citizenship and national belonging in Latin America and the Caribbean, and explore how African-descended communities have sought to transform their status through diverse modes of cultural and political representation.
Symposium Schedule
FRIDAY, MARCH 23 (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Keynote Lecture and Reception
Frank Porter Graham Student Union, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Room 3411
Keynote Presentation: ??
Race Mixture, Hybridity and Politics: A Research Agenda for Afro-Latin Studies
Michael Hanchard, Department of Political Science, ??Johns Hopkins University
Respondents: Eunice Sahle, Department of African & Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Clifford Griffin, Department of Political Science, North Carolina State University
SATURDAY, MARCH 24 (9:00 - 1:30 pm)
Panel Presentations
John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Duke University, Room 240
9:00 - 9:15 am Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 10:45 am Panel One
Transforming Cultural Representations
Gaspar Octavio Hernandez and Latin American Modernism
Johnny Webster, Department of Modern Foreign Languages,
North Carolina Central University
Chano Urueta's Al Son del Mambo (1950) and Imaginations of Primitivism and Blackness in Americas
David Garcia, Department of Music, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Ciudadano Perfecto: Antonio Maceo, Race and Memory in the Cuban Republic
Toby Nathan, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
El Mito del Mestizaje Cósmico y el Otro del Otro en Chin-chin el Teporocho
Marco Polo Hernandez Cuevas, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, North Carolina Central University
10:45 - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm Panel Two
(Re) Constructing Citizenship: Racial Configurations and Codes of Belonging
Re-negotiating Racial Hierarchies: East Indians and Africans in Guyana
Elizabeth Hordge Freeman, Department of Sociology, Duke University
Maritime Marronages, Imperial Rivalries, and Freedom in the Early Modern Caribbean
Linda Rupert, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Color and Race in Haitian Politics
Matthew Smith, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Duke University
(Re)Moving Blackness: Negotiations of Color Dynamics Among US-based Caribbeans
Ishtar Olivier Govia, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Duke University
Moderator:
Michaeline Crichlow, Department of African & African American Studies, Duke University
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch with Wrap-up Session
Moderators: Kia Lilly Caldwell, Department of African & Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Esther L. Gabara, Departments of Romance Studies and Art and Art History, Duke University
Funding has been generously provided the UNC Center for Global Initiatives, UNC Curriculum in International and Area Studies, UNC Institute of African American Research, UNC Institute of Latin American Studies, UNC Stone Center, Duke African & African American Studies Program, Duke Cultural Anthropology Department, Duke History Department, Duke in Madrid Program, Duke Department of Political Science, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Duke Romance Studies Department.
- March 09, 2007 - Anne Firor Scott Awards - Deadline March 9, 2007
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/02/14 09:06:59
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.
You may pick up an application from Carla Rusnak at 229 Carr or email carla.rusnak@duke.edu for an application.
Applications are due Friday, March 9, 2007 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 2, 2007. Winners will be asked to report on the use of these funds and their work by September 7, 2007. - March 30, 2007 - March 30, 2007 - Colet Fellowship Interviews
Carla Ivey, 2007/03/06 16:22:40
Interested in teaching in London next year? Apply for the Colet Fellowship. The Fellowship offers an opportunity for an American graduate to spend one academic year as a member of the community in one of the United Kingdom¹s major independent schools.
The application deadline is March 12th and interviews will be held on campus on Friday, March 30th. To apply go to www.duke.erecruiting.com and submit a resume and cover letter. Two sealed letters of recommendation must also be sent to
Abby Vargas
Duke University Career Center
PO Box 90950 1
10 Page Building
Durham, NC 27708-0950
Feel free to contact Abby Vargas with any questions at abby.vargas@duke.edu
- February 26, 2007 - February 26 - Neil Foley - Associate Professor University of Texas at Austin - Room 229 @ 12:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/22 12:36:49
Neil Foley
will be speaking on, "'Latin Americans, Not Negroes': The Good Neighbor Policy and Jim Crow in the Southwest During World War II," at Noon in Room 229 Carr. - February 08, 2007 - February 8 - Engseng Ho - 229 Carr @ 11:45
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/07 14:58:46
Engseng Ho
will be giving a talk on, "The Last Colony: India and Singapore in the Making of British South Arabia" at 11:45 in Room 229 Carr. - March 07, 2007 - The Berlin Project
Carla Ivey, 2007/03/06 12:58:55
Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Berlin & Environs
The 2007 Berlin Summer Research Fellowship Program is an interdisciplinary program administered by Duke University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literature in support of undergraduate research and inquiry in the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin.
Summer Research Fellowships of up to $2500 will be awarded to approximately 6 Trinity College students. Priority will be given to projects that are embedded within longer-term study at Duke: e.g., projects that are preparatory to fall semester independent study courses or extensions of work or ideas encountered in coursework during the spring 2007 semester. Similarly, a summer research fellowship might lead to a senior thesis project. Funds may be applied toward travel and living expenses while conducting research at, e.g., an archive, field site, museum, gallery, laboratory, or library. Modes of inquiry, to be agreed upon in consultation with a faculty sponsor, may include surveys, interviews and oral histories. Though other sites will be given due consideration, priority will be given to students conducting research in Berlin and environs. While fellows are expected to work independently, orientation to Berlin as well as assistance in locating lodging will be provided.
All research projects must be directed by a member of the Duke University faculty and conducted over a period of no less than three weeks during the summer months. Required language ability will depend upon the respective project and will be assessed by the faculty director. Students may not be enrolled in courses during the period they designate as their fellowship period. Students who require additional language training may elect to participate in the 6-week Duke in Berlin summer program (May 20-June 30, 2007) prior to the research project, in which case the research could be conducted during the month of July. (It should be understood, however, that the summer program, particularly with regard to application and funding, is fully independent of the research program.)
Eligibility: Trinity College students who are registered for the 2007 spring semester and who will continue at Duke in the fall are eligible to apply for a Berlin Summer Research Fellowship. (The condition of registration in the spring or fall is met with enrollment in Duke or Duke-approved study abroad programs.) Fellowship recipients are required to report on the project outcome during the academic year at a University sponsored undergraduate research event.
Application requires one copy of each of the following:
A brief research proposal (no longer than three pages, typed, single-spaced) with three subtitled sections: (1) Background and Justification; (2) Long-term Objective of the Overall Research Project; (3) Short-term Objective/s, i.e., goal/s for the summer, including the research methodology. Applicants must also state what other sources of funds are available to them including pending decisions on other award applications.
Application cover sheet
Proposed budget
Preliminary IRB (Human Subjects form) statement, which is required for projects focusing on interviews and oral histories.
These forms are available here.
A statement of support from the faculty research director at Duke assessing the feasibility of the proposed project; the ability of the student to complete it; the manner in which he or she will be in communication with the student during the fellowship period; and the student's foreign language competency as required by the project.
An official Duke transcript. (See http://registrar.duke.edu/registrar/studentpages/student/transcriptinfo.htm
No application will be considered without the statement of support from the faculty director. Please submit all materials in hardcopy to:
Professor William Donahue, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, 016D Old Chemistry Building, wcd2@duke.edu
The application deadline for 2007 is Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 5 pm. Decisions will be announced by e-mail approximately three weeks after the application deadline. - February 09, 2007 - February 9, 2007 - Triangle Legal History Seminar National Humantities Center
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/05 16:42:14
Triangle Legal History Seminar, Feb. 9, 4-6, National Humanities Center
Catherine Fisk, Duke Law School, "Free Labor and the Culture Worker, 1875-1920."
The paper is available from Sandi Payne Greene, at payne@email.unc.edu. - January 30, 2007 - HISTORY MATTERS
Carla Ivey, 2007/02/05 16:01:46
HISTORY MATTERS is an undergraduate history journal, published annually by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. The journal is edited by undergraduates with the help of a faculty board. HISTORY MATTERS aims "to publish the best undergraduate historical research possible. In doing so," their webiste says, "we would like to provide an opportunity for top undergraduates from a variety of schools to be recognized for their work, familiarize them with the publishing process, and encourage student-faculty collaboration. We hope that all students who take part in this process will become better writers and self-editors. In all of our endeavors, we are committed to publishing the papers of students who have worked hard and deserve recognition. We are especially seeking research papers that utilize primary sources." Deadlines for submissions: once a year at the end of January. Website: - January 30, 2007 - HISTORY MATTERS
Carla Ivey, 2007/02/05 15:57:29
HISTORY MATTERS is an undergraduate history journal, published annually by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. The journal is edited by undergraduates with the help of a faculty board.
HISTORY MATTERS aims "to publish the best undergraduate historical research possible. In doing so," their website says, "we would like to provide an opportunity for top undergraduates from a variety of schools to be recognized for their work, familiarize them with the publishing process, and encourage student-faculty collaboration. We hope that all students who take part in this process will become better writers and self-editors. In all of our endeavors, we are committed to publishing the papers of students who have worked hard and deserve recognition. We are especially seeking research papers that utilize primary sources."
Deadlines for submissions: once a year at the end of January.
Website: <http://www.historymatters.appstate.edu/> - March 30, 2007 - Terrorism Studies Fellowship Program
Carla Ivey, 2007/02/05 15:39:20
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is accepting applications for its Academic Fellows anti-terrorism training program. This program provides university professors with a detailed understanding of the terror threat that faces our nation and sister democracies. Centered on a 10-day course taught in conjunction with Tel Aviv University, the program takes place entirely in Israel and runs May 26-June 6 (travel inclusive). Participants interact with academics, diplomats, military and intelligence officials, and politicians from Israel, Jordan, India, Turkey and the United States. They also visit military bases, border zones and other security installations to learn the practical side of deterring terrorist attacks. All expenses are paid by FDD. The final deadline for applications is March 30, 2007.
FDD runs a similar program for undergraduate students that gives them access to cutting edge information on terrorism and prepares them for national security careers. That program will run in early August.
For more information on both programs, please visit: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/programs/programs.htm. - June 01, 2007 - Internship in Building Community at Columbia University
Carla Ivey, 2007/02/05 16:26:09
The Internship in Building Community is a two-week seminar in which interns participate in team building, communications, counseling, etc. in preparation for a four-week practicum where they will each be placed in charge of about 10 gifted high school students from around the world. The interns then perform various duties around campus and supervise the well-being of the students, who take classes with Columbia professors. The interns also plan and execute trips with the students in and around NYC; the interns' own expensive are reimbursed.
If you would like more information, the IBC website is here: http://www.ce.columbia.edu/ibc/ and the high school program website is here: http://www.ce.columbia.edu/hs/ - June 21, 2007 - Summer Employment Opportunities in History
Carla Ivey, for grad, 2007/04/02 12:45:43
Who: Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth CTY
What: We are seeking enthusiastic history and American studies instructors and teaching assistants to work in our summer programs. CTY offers intense 3-week academic programs for academically talented elementary, middle, and high school students from across the country and around the world.
Where: Residential site locations around the country: California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Day Site locations in the Baltimore, Washington and Los Angeles areas.
When: Session 1: June 21 - July 14
Session 2: July 14 - August 4
Instructors and teaching assistants can work either or both sessions.
Why: CTY staff work with exceptional students, make contacts and friendships with dynamic colleagues, and gain valuable experience in a rigorous academic setting.
Salary: Instructors start at $1970 - $2970 per 3-week session. Teaching assistants start at $1050 per 3-week session.
Room and board are provided at our residential sites.
Classes: 15 students
Each instructor is assigned a teaching assistant.
Courses: We offer numerous courses in both western and non-western fields of history.
Visit: www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment
Review full job descriptions and responsibilities
Learn about additional opportunities
Download an application
You can also contact us at 410-735-6185 or ctysummer@jhu.edu for more information.
Johns Hopkins is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
For more information please see our website: www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment
e-mail ctysummer@jhu.edu or call 410-735-6185. - March 02, 2007 - March 2-4, 2007 - Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/02/12 15:17:06
Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe
A Symposium in Honor of Michael R. McVaugh
March 2-4, 2007 Wilson Library The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Between Text and Patient brings together nearly two dozen internationally recognized scholars to honor the work of Professor Michael R. McVaugh in advance of his retirement from the University. The papers will examine a wide range of topics relating to medical practice, knowledge and textuality from late antiquity through the early modern era, and will serve as a forum for participants to discuss recent achievements in their particular areas of research and to define new scholarly desiderata.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
Program available online at http://ww2.coastal.edu/brian/betweentextandpatient.htm .
For further information please contact the organizers, Eliza Glaze and Brian Nance, fglaze@coastal.edu and brian@coastal.edu . - February 12, 2007 - Monday, February 12, 2007 - 2006-07 History Colloquium - 229 Carr Bldg - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/01/23 10:56:10
Jared Diamond
will be speaking on Historical Comparisons in Room 229 Carr Building at Noon.
- January 24, 2007 - Wednesday, January 24, 2007 – Adriane Lentz-Smith – 229 Carr Bldg – Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/01/18 12:00:28
Adriane Lentz-Smith (UNC Chapel Hill), will be speaking on:
“French-Women-Ruined-Negroes: African American Soldiers Abroad in World War I” in Room 229 Carr Building at Noon. - January 22, 2007 - Monday, January 22, 2007 - 2006-07 History Colloquium - 229 Carr Bldg - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2007/01/11 16:03:46
Dominic Sachsenmaier
will be speaking on his current research project:
“Trans-Cultural History - Seen From a Trans-Cultural Perspective"
In recent years trans-cultural and global history have become more prominent in many parts of the world. It is important to note that the trans-cultural turn is mainly characterized by a wide range of detailed research projects rather than by a surge of new master narratives. Furthermore, approaches to trans-cultural history remain locally conditioned by such factors as scholarly traditions, academic structures and modes of historical memory. Ironically, even the intensifying theoretical debates on trans-cultural history are still largely confined to single national or regional academic communities.
Focusing on China, Germany and the United States as sample cases, the current trajectories of trans-cultural history will be explored from a comparative perspective. Building on these pluralistic perspectives, the presentation will also touch upon some of the key theoretical challenges faced by the field. These include the question of Euro-centrism and the potential role of trans-cultural history in a wider public sphere.
- January 12, 2007 - January 12, 2007 - Information Meeting - Room 229 4pm
Carla Ivey, 2007/01/05 09:36:02
JUNIOR HISTORY MAJORS
Interested in submitting a proposal to write a Senior Honor Thesis?
Come to an information meeting on Friday, January 12, 2007 at 4pm in Room 229, Carr Building
PROPOSALS DUE FEBRUARY 16, 2007
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