Events (Colloquiums)
HISTORY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM SERIES
The Americas Colloquium, Fall 2008
HIST 6030
Faculty Convener: Ed Baptist
Tuesday 4:30-6:00pm, A. D. White House 201
September
9/2: Introductions
9/9: Jessica Harris, Cornell University. “Of Sacred and Secular Roots: The Emergence of Moral Progress as an Ethos in the Northern Black Community, 1776-1830.”
9/16: Dianne Cappiello, Cornell University. “‘One universal Father hath given being to us all’: Black Reformers and the Meaning of Africa in an Enlightened Age, 1787-1816.”
9/23: Nicole Maskiell, Cornell University. Title TBA.
9/30: Daegan Miller, Cornell University. Title TBA
October
10/ 7: Katie Proctor, Cornell University. “Sick Science: Surveying the Gulf Coast, 1844-1854.”
10/14: Fall Break
10/21: Kim Todt, Cornell University. “Capable Entrepreneurs: The Women Merchants and Traders of New Netherland.”
10/28: Tom Humphrey, Cleveland State University. “The Anatomy of a Crowd: Making Mobs in Early America”
November
11/ 4: Rebecca Tally, Cornell University. “New Science, New Seeds: Wheat, Agronomy & National Development in Colombia.”
11/11: Heather Furnas, Cornell University. Title TBA.
11/18: Brent Morris, Cornell University. “Daughters of America Rejoice': Theory and Reality in Oberlin’s Coeducational Experiment, 1833-1865.”
11/25: Chris Cantwell, Cornell University. “A Thin Green Line:
Feeling, Faith and the Discourse of Friendship in the Adult Bible Class Movement.”
December
12/2: End-of-semester planning and party
*All papers will be available one week in advance from Barb Donnell (bad2@cornell.edu)
European History Colloquium, Fall 2008
HIST 6010
Faculty Conveners: Holly Case & Duane Corpis
Mondays, 4.30-6.30, AD White House, Room 110
*All papers available by contacting: Barb Donnell (bad2@cornell.edu)
Sept.1 - Marie Muschalek, "Policing in Colonial Africa: Rethinking a Research Agenda"
Sept. 15 - Peter Staudenmaier, "The Nazi Campaign Against Occultism"
Sept. 29 - Mikolaj Kunicki (Department of History, Notre Dame), "Between Accommodation, Resistance, and Dialogue: Church-State Relations in Communist Poland, 1945-1989"
Oct. 6 - Heidi Voskuhl (Harvard University), "The Mechanics of Sentiment: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in the European Enlightenment" (note: fall break is Oct. 13, so this is moved up)
Oct. 20 - Gabor Egry (Institute for Political History, Budapest, Hungary), "Dreams Come True or Nightmares? Central European Regional Elites and their Ideologies after 'Returning to the Homeland,' 1918-1944"
Nov. 3 - Taran Kang, "Friedrich Schlegel: Indian Origins and the Future of Europe"
Nov. 17 - Abigail Fisher, "'At the Instance of a Woman': Female Evidence Gathering at the Old Bailey"
Dec. 1 - Robert Fredona, "Political Conspiracy in Late Medieval Florence"
Cornell East Asia Colloquium - Fall 2008
All meetings take place in room 201 in A.D. White House, from 4:45-6:00pm on the designated days. Please contact Chris Jones (chj7) if you have any questions.
9/11 - "America as Desire and Violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War" - Prof. Yoshimi Shunya, University of Tokyo.
9/22 - "Temporary Workers in Permanent Jobs: A study of temporary agency employment at Chinese call centers" - Xiangmin Liu, Cornell.
10/3 - "Overcoming Denial: Remodeling Postwar Penitence in Japan" - Chris Goto-Jones, University of Leiden.
10/17 - "From Geist to Seishin: A Genealogy of Spirit in Meiji Japan" - Richard Reitan, Franklin and Marshall College.
11/3 - "Re-Imagining Annam: Sino-Vietnamese and language transformation in the Red River Delta" - John Phan, Cornell.
11/17 - TBA - Kun Qian, Cornell.
12/1 - "Account of the Western Ocean(Seiyo kibun): a Tokugawa [Japanese] commentary on foreign comings and goings from the late medieval to early 18th century" - Cindy Postma, Columbia University.
The History Colloquium - Fall 2008
TBA........
Papers are pre-circulated. The colloquium starts at 6:30pm. Be sure to RSVP as a light dinner and drinks will be provided. To request papers, please email Barb Donnell at bad2@cornell.edu.