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- January 14, 2010 - The Walltown Neighborhood History Project
Carla Ivey, 2009/12/03 15:43:04
The Walltown Neighborhood History Project seeks 3 Duke undergraduates (Class of 2011-2013) for its summer 2010 DukeEngage: Durham service project.
Students will work with History department and ISIS faculty to create and teach a summer workshop for Durham middle-school students around the twin themes of computer technology and Durham history, particularly the history of the Walltown neighborhood which lies north of East Campus.
The workshop will help middle-school students master core technology skills while they build an interactive historic map of their neighborhood using GIS technologies. Duke students with interests in southern history, African American history, urban history, history of medicine and interests in new media are strongly encouraged to apply. Technology experience welcome but not required.
Applications for the DukeEngage:Durham program are due on January 14, 2010. For more details about the Walltown Neighborhood History Project contact Professor Abel at tabel@duke.edu.
- Evolving Theories of Civilization
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/11/03 12:12:46
Professor Sucheta Mazumdar urges students to look beyond familiar notions of nations and civilizations. See: Duke Today - Littleton-Griswold Prize for 2010 of the AHA
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/10/22 11:00:32
Laura Edwards has just been awarded the Littleton-Griswold Prize for 2010 of the AHA for her new book, "The People and their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South."
Established in 1985, this prize is offered annually for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society. Only books of high scholarly and literary merit are considered. - October 16, 2009 - Friday, October 16 David Hackett Fischer Noon Room 229 Carr
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/10/14 14:10:30
A Third Way Forward for History Today: Braided Narratives, Webs of Choice, Vernacular Ideas, and Other Mediating Strategies.
Lunch will be provided. - October 21, 2009 - October 21 - John Brewer - East Duke Parlors 4:00 - 5:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/10/14 14:14:23
Distinguished historian John Brewer will speak on Closeness and Distance: Loyalist Affection and Radical Benevolence in the Age of the French Revolution.
This lecture sponsored by the Department of History, Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Women's Studies, and it is free and open to the public.
Professor Brewer is the Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of History and Literature at California Institute of Technology. His influential books include The birth of a Consumer Society, Early Modern Conceptions of Property, Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State 1688-1783, and The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Brewer will be signing copies of his most recent publication, The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money, at the Nasher Museum of Art on Thursday, October 22nd, starting at 5:30; reception to follow. - October 12, 2009 - *CANCELED* October 12, 2009 - Book Reception - 226 Carr Faculty Lounge
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/10/12 11:41:12
The reception to celebrate the publication of Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar and Thierry Labica eds, "From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference" has been canceled. - September 6 - Harry Potter's World - Durham County Library - 3pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/09/09 08:33:32
Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine
Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The exhibition tour is coordinated by the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago.
The Duke Medical Center Library has partnered with the Durham County Library to bring this exhibit to our area.
The exhibit and the following related events will take place at the Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro Street, Durham, NC.
Lecture: Things Most Strange and Wondrous: Medicine in the Renaissance Dr. Thomas Robisheaux, Department of History, Duke University, Sunday, September 6 at 3:00 pm.
Exhibit: Strange & Wonderful Things from the Trent Collection. This small exhibit of related materials is from the Trent Collection, Duke Medical Center Library.
For more details, please visit http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/harry_potters_world.php
- Fall 2009 History Colloquium Schedule
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/10/29 08:27:31
Monday November 16
Reeve Huston "The Crisis in Popular Sovereignty in the United States, 1816 to 1825"
The colloquium will be in 229 Carr at 12:00 noon - September 10-11, 2009 - International Approaches to Historical Studies
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/08/25 10:45:24
The second annual symposium of the Duke-Durham University Exchange will convene over lunch on Thursday, September 10 and conclude in the late afternoon of Friday, September 11, 2009.
Faculty and graduate students from the Department of History at Durham University in Durham, England will be discussing their ongoing research on topics ranging from war and peace in early medieval Europe, New Deal policy towards native Americans in the Depression era United States , and post Civil War reconstruction in the late twentieth century Sudan.
Funding for this event is being generously provided by Durham University's International Office and Department of History and by the Deans of International Affairs and Arts and Sciences, the Department of History, and the Trent Foundation at Duke.
DURHAM UNIVERSITY HISTORIANS
Ph.D. students:
Tom Allbeson, A Vision of Britain: Memory and Photography in Discourses of Post-war Urban Reconstruction (Post 1945 UK)t.j.allbeson@durham.ac.uk
Leona Skelton, Attitudes towards Public Hygiene in Northern English Towns and Scottish Burghs, c.1560-1700 (early modern Britain; urban history)
l.j.skelton@durham.ac.uk
Will Berridge, ‘Hit and go on hitting’: Political Policing and Decolonisation in the North (Sudan)
w.j.berridge@durham.ac.uk
Charlie Rozier, Henry of Huntingdon and the Vision of History in his Prologue to the Historia Anglorum (Classical and Christian influences on historical imagination in medieval England)c.c.rozier@durham.ac.uk
Faculty:
Cherry Leonardi, Buckets of blood: Sacrifices of war and economies of peace in Southern Sudan (Sudan)
d.c.leonardi@durham.ac.uk
Gabriella Treglia, Testing the ‘Safety Zone’ thesis: a reassessment of government attitudes to Native American cultures during the Indian New Deal, 1933-1945 (The US government and Native American people)
g.a.treglia@durham.ac.uk
Jo Fox, The Strange Case of Rudolf Hess: Modelling British and German Responses to the Flight of the Deputy Führer, 1941 (Film history; Nazi Germany; The history of propaganda in the twentieth century AND Director of Undergraduate Studies)
j.c.fox@durham.ac.uk
Paul Stephenson, Nicholas the Monk, former Soldier (middle Byzantine political and cultural history; the history and historiography of the Balkans AND Director of Postgraduate Studies) paulstephenson@mac.com
Lawrence Black, The politics of Whitehouse… or… there was something about Mary (Modern British political and cultural history; Political culture - identities, practice and social movements since 1955; Politics of consumerism, the arts, 'culture', creative economy, TV, affluence and postmaterialism)
lawrence.black@durham.ac.uk - November 06, 2009 - Friday, November 6 - Annual SHA Meeting Reception - Downtown Louisville
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/10/14 14:18:19
The History Departments of The University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Duke University Cordially Invite You To Attend A Reception At the Annual Meeting of the SHA
Friday, November 6, 2009 5:00 P.M. -- 7:00 P.M.
MARRIOTT LOUISVILLE DOWNTOWN, Salon F-G - September 17, 2009 - September 17 - REGSS Colloquium - Noon - Erwin Mill Bldg, Room A103
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/09/18 16:13:29
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Ph.D., Department of History
Freedom Struggles: African Americans, World War I, and Civil Rights
Clashing with white American soldiers in the ports and villages of wartime France, African Americans fought their own "War for Democracy." In this talk, she will discuss how fighting in a Jim Crow army on foreign soil spurred black soldiers to rework their notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. This changing political consciousness spurred a dogged political activism in soldiers and civilians alike. World War I mobilized a generation and laid the groundwork for the movement that emerged in World War II.
Lunch will be served at noon. - October 22, 2009 - Faculty Bookwatch: Thavolia Glymph's Out of the House of Bondage - Rare Book Room - 4:30
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/10/08 14:32:00
FACULTY BOOKWATCH panel discussion on
OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE
The Transformation of the Plantation Household
THAVOLIA GLYMPH Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and History, Duke University
Thursday, October 22, 2009
4:30 PM Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Duke University Book sale & Reception to Follow
Panelists Ira Berlin Distinguished University Professor,
Department of History, University of Maryland
William A. Darity Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy / Professor of African & African American Studies and Economics, Duke University
Barbara Fields Professor of History, Columbia University
Peter Wood Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
and
Thavolia Glymph
ABOUT THE FEATURED BOOK & AUTHOR Out of the House of Bondage (Cambridge University Press, 2008) views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal. Out of the House of Bondage is co-winner of the 2009 Taft Labor History Prize and a finalist for the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Thavolia Glymph is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Duke University. In addition to Out of the House of Bondage, Professor Glymph is the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, economic history, and southern women. She is co-editor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1861, ser. 1, vol. 1;
The Documentary of History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3; The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South and Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. - October 02, 2009 - October 2-3, 2009 - 2009 Latin American Labor History Conference - 229 Carr Bldg
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/09/18 16:21:25
In First Person: Biography and History in Latin America
Please join us for the upcoming Latin American Labor History Conference, with a thematic emphasis on biography.
If you have any questions, please contact Vanessa Freije vanessa.freije@duke.edu
Friday, October 2
Welcome 4:30
Panel I: : 5:00-7:00
Enver Casimir (UNC Chapel Hill): Kid Chocolate: The Athlete as National Hero and Sport as Nationalized Labor in Republican Cuba
Gabriela Cano (El Colegio de México): Estereotipos de género en la escritura de la biografía de Elena Arizmendi
David Sartorius (Maryland) and Micol Seigel (Indiana), comments
7:00-9:00 Dinner
Saturday, October 3:
9:00 Breakfast
9:30-11:30 Panel II:
Ivonne Wallace Fuentes (Roanoke College): Woman with a Gun: Magda Portal and APRA, 1931-1935
Jocelyn Olcott (Duke): Truthiness and Consequences: Biography, Concha Michel, and Telling Tales out of School
Daniel James (Indiana) and Susan Besse (City College of New York), comments
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00 -3:00 Panel III:
Mary Kay Vaughan (Maryland): El patriarca de los espectáculos/La madre de las calles: Los padres de Pepe y
Chucho Zuñiga
Taylor Jardno: (Georgetown): "Impossible Biography:" The Multiple Lives, Deaths and Resurrections of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternauta(s)
Anne Rubenstein (York) and Pamela Voekel (Georgia), comments
3:00 -3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 Panel IV:
Francie Chassen-Lopez (Kentucky): A Tehuana and "Her" Traje: Fashion, Modernity, and Ethnicity in Porfirian Mexico
John D. French (Duke) How the Not-So-Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil
Jürgen Buchenau (UNC Charlotte) and Tom Rogers (UNC Charlotte), comments
5:30-6:30 Informal Rountable
7:30 Dinner
Funding provided by:
Dean’s Office of Roanoke College Duke University Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Committee
Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Duke University History Department - October 02, 2009 - Military History Seminar Program
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2010/03/23 08:40:54
Friday, April 16, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Robert Brigham (Vassar College)
Rethinking Pacification in Vietnam - July 30, 2009 - For These Students, Durham Is Their Classroom
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/08/25 10:37:13
Work outside the classroom provides hands-on opportunities for learning.
History Professor Susan Thorne's seminar on the history of Durham's past and present will engage students exploring issues that range across ethics, race, human rights and class.
Read more about it here. - North Carolina Public Radio "State of Things"
Carla Ivey, 2010/06/09 09:59:00
Interview with Frank Stacio February 2009 about the roles of religion, gender and fearful imagination play in "The Last Witch of Langenburg" and in our society. [more] Featured Member:
Thomas Robisheaux
of History - Outer Banks History Center to Help Use of Collection
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/07/21 12:19:05
Lots of researchers turn to the Outer Banks History Center (OBHC) in Manteo for information on lighthouses, shipwrecks or even pirates. Thanks to a $40,327 grant awarded to the center from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, that task could prove more productive. The grant will support work of a full-time archivist who will arrange and describe some of the collections for the center's "Reaching New Audiences" program.
The Outer Banks History Center is a regional archives and research library whose collections document the social, economic, and ecological history of the Outer Banks and surrounding areas. Subjects include maritime history, commerce, local and regional history, African American, American Indian, European and Elizabethan history, the Civil War, outdoor theater, and much more.
"This project will make finding aids available for most of the collections we have received in the last few years," explains Curator Kaeli Spiers. "The finding aids will have background information on the organization or individual and on the collection's size and format with a detailed inventory."
Finding aids will be available at the OBHC and online. The aids indicate the number of boxes of minutes, letters or other materials in the collection. Work on the project should begin Aug. 1.
For additional information, call (252) 473-2655. The Outer Banks History Center, within the Office of Archives and History, is part of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina's arts, history and culture. It is now podcasting 24/7 with information about the Department of Cultural Resources, all available at www.ncculture.com < http://www.ncculture.com/> - CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR PHI ALPHA THETA HONOR SOCIETY GRADUATES!
Carla Ivey, 2009/05/28 09:18:09
1st MAJORS
Cage Brewer
Catherine Daniel
Alden Denegre
David Graham
Jessica Hatch
Peter Henle
Frank Holleman, IV
Marc Murinson
Katherine O'Neil
Keith Orgel
Javier Peral
Alyssa Reichardt
Gillet Rosenblith
Robert Shapiro
Angela Silak
Ryan Thornton
2nd MAJORS
Corina Apostol
Tyler Evans
Owen Gehrett
Julie Matthews
Anayansi Rodriguez
Rian Sutton
MINORS
Timothy Britton
Jamie Grischkan
Andrew Keaton
Katherine Mikush
Amy Streitwiewser - April 20, 2009 Fox Lecture 4pm Room 105 West Duke Building
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/04/21 16:10:23
Department of History
Department of Philosophy
Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
Present a Lecture by
ROBERT FOX
Professor, History of Science, Oxford University, Emeritus
"Science, Church, and State in France From the Second Empire to the Popular Front"
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 4:00 pm Room 105, West Duke Bldg. Reception to Follow - April 02, 2009 - April 2, 2009 - Laurent Dubois - NC Museum of History 7:00 pm
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:11:55
"The Banjo: A Cultural History"
Laurent Dubois will share the storied history of the banjo, an instrument whose development was marked by wide cultural encounters from Africa to the Caribbean and North America, contributing to an incredibly rich variety of musical traditions.
This talk is a part of the Perspectives on History lecture series, sponsored by the National Humanities Center and the North Carolina Museum of History. To learn more about this series, visit the Center's Web site or the North Carolina Museum of History.
To register, call the NC Museum of History Associates at 919-807-7853. - April 06, 2009 - April 6, 2009 - Margaret Humphreys - SSRI/PARISS Monday Seminar Series
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/04/01 12:26:55
SSRI/PARISS Monday Seminar Series
April 6, 2009
Erwin Mill Building, Room A103 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
All are welcome. Fresh hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Margaret Humphreys, MD PhD, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University, to speak on "Broadcasting Evil: Propaganda and Prisoners of War in the Election of 1864"
Abstract:
In the fall of 1864 the United States Sanitary Commission (a Red Cross-like agency formed during the early years of the Civil War) published a book comparing prisoner of war camps in the Union and the Confederacy. Although the USSC had been quite critical of the U.S. government's treatment of POWs in prior years, and in general of how the Union handled wounded and sick soldiers, in this volume the authors conceal knowledge about deadly conditions in northern camps while excoriating the south for deliberately starving and otherwise abusing Union prisoners. This talk will explore the stormy political climate of 1864 and the role that the conditions of POWs played within political rhetoric. It will ask: What led an organization usually known for its honesty and defense of humanity to an act of such overt and public deceit? - April 09, 2009 - April 9 - 11 - International Symposium Presentations
Carla Ivey, for faculty, 2009/04/01 12:21:20
The North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies will host an international symposium on the controversial Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain on Duke Campus, April 9th-11th, 2009.
Presentations:
Susan Bean, “On Exhibition: The Art of M. F. Husain.”
Akeel Bilgrami, “How to Argue for Free Speech and Secularism.” Veena Das, “The Unbearable Figure of Love”
David Gilmartin and Barbara Metcalf, “The Public, the Law and M. F. Husain”
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, “Fault-lines in a National Edifice: Debating the Rights and Offences of Contemporary Indian Art.”
Kajri Jain, “Taking and Making Offence: Husain and the Politics of Desecration.”
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Secret Histories of Indian Modernism: M. F. Husain as Indian Muslim Artist.”
Geeta Kapur, “Drawing the Line: The Exile of Maqbool Fida Husain.”
Bruce Lawrence,“Decoding MF Husain as a Muslim Painter.” Ram Rahman, “Defending Husain in the public sphere: The Sahmat experience”
Sumathi Ramaswamy, "Mapping 'India' after Husain."
Patricia Uberoi, “The ‘Bliss’ of Madhuri: Husain and his ‘Muse’.” Karin Zitzewitz, “‘I am an Indian and a painter that is all:’ Intention and the Secular Subject in India.”
For further details, contact Sumathi Ramaswamy at sr76@duke.edu and visit conference website at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/husainconference2009.php
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