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- January 21, 2009 - Checkout the Most Exciting Courses on Campus: Spring 2009 History Courses
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/12/09 15:22:48
View the highlights at http://www-history.aas.duke.edu/news/sp09courses.php - October 01, 2009 - Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History is now available
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/09/04 11:55:08
The Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History program will launch in fall 2009 with 24 affiliated faculty.
For more information, see www.duke.edu/~wmr/anthandhist.htm
- January 03, 2009 - Saturday, January 3, 2009 AHA Joint Reception 5:30-7:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/12/09 11:28:44
The History Departments at Duke and UNC will hold a joint reception at the AHA meeting in New York City, Hilton Hotel, Second floor, Beekman Parlor from 5:30 to 7:30 on Saturday, January 3, 2009. - December 05, 2008 - Friday, December 5 - Second Latin American & Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop - 3:00 - 5:30 Room 229 Carr
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/11/24 16:04:43
Discussing the following advance-circulated papers by two Duke ABDs:
Alejandro Velasco (Gallatin School-New York University), "'A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote': Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978-1983"
Bryan Pitts (Duke), "The Audacity to Strong-Arm the Generals: Paulo Maluf and the 1978 Sao Paulo Gubernatorial Contest"
There is no oral presentation of the papers given that they are circulated in advance (the papers will be available on 28 November, six days in advance of the meeting; please rsvp).
• It begins with each of the two presenters offering a reading and comment on the other paper
• It then move from one grad student to next for their comments with the attending faculty joining in once we reach general discussion.
• It will be followed by a reception and party (details forthcoming)
NOTE: Please RSVP to jdfrench@duke.edu to confirm your participation.
The event is funded by the History Department Colloquium and Speakers Committee and is open to all interested faculty and grad students in all fields. All students in residence are expected to attend and several of our ABDs in the field, including Kristin and Katharine, promise to put in their two cents as well. - November 07, 2008 - November 7, 2008 - Freedom Fighters: Regime Change and U.S. Foreign Policy - East Duke 204B
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/10/30 11:10:14
Keynote Presentation: 9:30-11:00
Greg Grandin (NYU): Empire's Workshop: The New Deal to the New Right, Latin America to Iraq
Session one (11:15-1:15): U.S. in the Middle East
Salim Yaqub (UCSB): "Openings and Closings: The United States and the Arab World in the 1970s."
Commentator: miriam cooke (Duke, Lit & AMES)
Session two (2:30-4:30: Plan Colombia
Diana Marcela Roja (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): "Transforming Interventions: US Policy in Colombia, 1998-2008." Commentator: Robin Kirk (Duke, DHRC)
Closing discussion: 4:45-5:30
Reception to follow.
Refreshments and lunch with be provided.
Sponsored by: Duke University History Department, Marxism & Society, Trent Foundation, and Arts & Science Faculty Research Council
For more information, contact: Jocelyn Olcott, (olcott@duke.edu) - January 09, 2009 - January 9, 2008 - Writing Atlantic History: A Workshop - 12-2 Room 229 Carr
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/12/22 15:16:50
Jean Hébrard teaches History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and will be visiting Duke in January as part of an exchange with the Ecole. With Rebecca Scott, he is writing a book entitled Freedom Papers (under contract with Harvard University Press), tracing the history of a family from Africa and Haiti to Louisiana, Cuba, France and Belgium. In this workshop, Jean will share several choice documents about the family, and discuss the challenges and possibilities of combining the approaches of micro-history and Atlantic history.
Facilitated by Peter Wood and Laurent Dubois
Lunch will be provided. - October 17, 2008 - Triangle Legal History Seminar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/11/13 11:29:47
Friday, December 5, 2008 - National Humanities Center
Mary Beth Basile, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
UNC - Chapel Hill
" 'I Was Given a So-Called Hearing': The Treatment of Italians during World War II and the Constitution's Promise of Civilian Control"
All seminars are 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. - November 2008 - A President for All Americans
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/11/13 11:33:35
Dr. John Hope Franklin discussed the election of Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUTRbXTRos
- October 01, 2008 - 2008-09 History Colloquiums
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/03/16 09:37:48
March 23 - Claudia Koonz, Professor of History
The Muslim Headscarf in France: A Word, A Thing, and an Image.
11:30 in 229 Carr Bldg - September 19, 2008 - Triangle Seminar on the History of the Military, War, and Society
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/10/30 10:59:29
Friday, November 21, 2008
John Lynn
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
"Gauging Women's Participation in Early Modern European Armies: Demostrable Certainties, Reasonable Inferences, and Sheer Speculations"
The seminar begins at 4:15 and is in Room 229 Carr Building.
Refreshments will be served afterwards.
Pre-circulated papers are available a week in advance at fbruehoe@email.unc.edu
For more information see the website: www.unc.edu/mhss/.
Co-sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies - October 10, 2008 - Duke/UNC Southern Historical Association Reception
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/09/29 12:53:53
Friday, October 10, 2008
Sheraton Hotel, Maurepas Room
New Orleans
5:00-7:00
- October 26, 2008 - Duke/UNC Jewish Studies Seminar
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:18:01
April 19, 2009
Motti Inbari, Brandeis University
"Religious Zionism and the Temple Mount Dilemma."
Seminar is on Sunday at The Freeman Center for Jewish Life at Duke University at 3:00 pm. - November 16, 2008 - Intellectual History Seminar Program
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:18:56
April 12, 2009
Amir Minsky (University of Pennsylvania): Revolution, Urban Experience, and the Making of Modernity in Early Nineteenth-Century German Cities
Seminar is on Sunday at the National Humanities Center at 7:00 pm. - March 31, 2008 - 2007-08 History Colloquium - Anna Krylova - 229 Carr - 12:00 Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/03/26 09:28:32
Professor Krylova will be talking about her new book, which is near completion, "Women in Combat: Writing Shared History of Violence of the Eastern Front, 1930-1980s."
The colloquium will be in 229 Carr at 12:00 noon and lunch will be served. This talk is open to all faculty, graduate students, and visitors. - March 27, 2008 - March 27 - Jacques Revel Lecture - Room 240 Franklin Center - 5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/03/25 16:43:19
Jacques Revel is a directeur d'etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where he also served as the school's president from 1995 to 2004.
In addition, he is the Global Distinguished Professor of History and the Institute of French Studies at New York University. He is known for his significant contributions to the Annales school and also, more recently, for the promotion of microhistory, Revel's work focuses on social history, cultural forms and practices, and the Ancient Regime.
In 2006, he published Un Parcours Critique (Galaade Editions). He is currently at work at on a project that examines the link between religious practices, political and philosophical critiques of religion, and historical thought.
LECTURE: Thursday, March 27
5:30 pm (refreshments begin at 5:00 pm)
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Free parking available after 4pm at the Pickens Clinic lot across the street
"BROWN BAG" LUNCH DISCUSSION: Friday, March 28
11:00 am—1:00 pm
Faculty Commons, West Union Building, Upper Level
Lunch provided, please RSVP to ham5@duke.edu by March 24
A selection of Professor Revel's articles and a bibliography are available on Blackboard
(search "Jacques Revel" in course search box)
These events are free and open to the public
For more information, please email Heather Mallory at ham5@duke.edu - March 27, 2008 - March 27-29 - FNI International Conference
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/03/26 09:42:29
Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany
5th FNI International Conference
Duke University, March 27-29, 2008
How do societies cope with loss - recurrent and devastating losses in all spheres of everyday life? The 5th FNI conference March 27-29 explores how the experience of loss -- political, material, economic, bodily, spiritual, and intellectual -- shapes societies and cultures in an unstable and changing world. It goes without saying that loss was and still is the crucible of making modern societies and cultures. This interdisciplinary conference explores how the part of Europe that contributed so much to the making of modern politics, culture and religious life -- German-speaking Central Europe -- came to terms creatively with recurrent and devastating losses.
Colleagues from all disciplines are invited to attend sessions of the conference. Approximately 80 speakers -- about 30 of them from Europe -- will present papers. Among the highlights are plenary addresses by several highly regarded scholars, including:
Hans Medick (History, Göttingen), "Ways of Viewing Catastrophe: The Experience and Memory of the Thirty Years War"
Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Art History, University of Texas, Austin), "Did Dürer Die? Artistic Loss and Dilemmas of Cultural Identity"
Jill Bepler (History and Literature, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel), "Enduring Loss: Memorializaing Women"
Christopher Ocker (Theology, San Francisco Theological Seminary), "Spiritual Loss in the German Religious Controversy"
Mary Lindemann (History of Medicine, University of Miami), "The Defects of Flesh: Loss, Imperfection, Ambiguity."
The conference opening reception is Thursday, March 27th, at 5:30 in the Rare Book Room. Sessions run in Von Canon Hall A-C Friday and Saturday, March 28th and 29th. For a full program and registration information go to the FNI website: http://fni.ucr.edu.
The conference is free to Duke faculty and students. For additional information contact Tom Robisheaux, FNI Executive Secretary, trobish@duke.edu. Graduate students should contact James Stutler regarding special participation opportunities. - February 08, 2008 - Friday, February 8 - Triangle Legal History Seminar - National Humanities Center - 4:00-6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/05 15:11:25
Kelly Kennington will present on a chapter from her dissertation entitled "Good Reasons to Fear": Slaves' Experiences in Freedom Suits."
Anyone wishing to receive the reading should contact Sandi Payne Greene at payne@email.unc.edu
This chapter is part of her larger dissertation project, which examines slaves' suits for freedom in St. Louis. This chapter looks at slaves' experiences in the freedom suits to ask why, in the face of numerous dangers and obstacles, they chose to trust the law to free them. Suing for freedom could be a life or death decision, but despite the risks involved, slaves had faith in the courts to set them free and they believed that white slaveholders would abide by the court's decisions in these cases. - February 15, 2008 - Friday, February 15 - Research Triangle Seminar in History of the Military, War, and Society - 229 Carr 4-6pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/05 15:15:57
Jennifer Siegel (Ohio State University) Money, Peace and Power: Loans to Russia and the (Un)Making of the Triple Entent
Refreshments will be served.
Free Parking is available in the lot behind Carr.
A pre-circulated paper is available a week in advance at dirk.bonker@duke.edu
Imperial Russia was the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, railroad construction, and the development and adventures of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, and nascent manufacturing class turned, time and time again in the late imperial period, to foreign capital. This talk will examine the history of British and French public and private bank loans to Russia in the late imperial and early Soviet periods, focusing on the ways that non-governmental and sometimes transnational actors were able to influence both British and French foreign policy and Russian foreign and domestic policy. There are three main themes that will be addressed: the role of individual financiers and policy makers; the importance of foreign capital in late imperial Russian policy; and the particular role of British capital and financial investment in the construction and strengthening of the Anglo-Russo-French entente. Most significantly, this talk will look beyond the realm of high politics and state-centered decision making in the formation of foreign policy, offering insights into the forms and functions of diplomatic alliances.
Jennifer Siegel is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. She received her B.A. and her Ph.D. from Yale University, the latter in 1998. She specializes in modern European diplomatic and military history, with a focus on the British and Russian Empires. She is the author of Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2002), which won the 2003 AAASS Barbara Jelavich Prize. She has published articles on intelligence history, and co-edited Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society (Praeger, 2005). Her current research projects include an exploration of British and French private and government bank loans to Russia in the late imperial period up to the Genoa Conference of 1922, tentatively entitled "For Peace and Money." - February 25, 2008 - Monday, February 25 History Colloquium 5 - 229 Carr Bldg - Noon
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/21 12:00:11
The speaker will be Kathryn Burns, Associate Professor of colonial Latin American history at UNC, who will be introducing her current research project. The title is, "Making Colonial Archives: Cuzco, Peru."
Lunch will be provided. - April 25, 2008 - Friday, April 25 - Triangle Legal History Seminar - National Humanities Center - 4:00-6:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/02/06 10:14:33
Professor Thomas Robisheaux will present, "Corpus Delicti: A Seventeenth-Century German University Debates Witchcraft, Poisioning and the Law." - January 23, 2008 - January 23, 2008 - Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series - Duke North Room 2002 - 12:00 - 1:00
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2008/01/16 10:50:20
Margaret Humphreys, Josiah C. Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, will be giving the lecture, "Diabetes Among Union Army Veterans: A Lesson for Our Time," at Duke North Room 2002
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is among the fastest growing chronic disease conditions in the U.S., especially among African-Americans. This study looks at the status of diabetes a century ago, using a dataset of Civil War veterans, and reveals a very different disease pattern than exists today, raising intriguing questions about the evolution of this important disease.
Lunch provided at noon.
Talk begins at 12:15.
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