|
|
|
Events Calendar
Wednesday, 29 August
Graduate Student Research Conference
12 - 1:00 pm, Lunch buffet in the Wood Hall basement lounge for all grads and faculty
1:10 - 2:45 pm, Session A: Panels 1 & 2 run concurrently, each with four presentations, Dodd 162 and Library Lecture Center
2:45 - 3:00 Coffee and cookies in the Dodd Center hallway or lounge
3:00 - 4:30 Session B: Panels 3 & 4 (as above)
5:00 pm, Keynote speaker, with a reception to follow
Matthew Warshauer
Professor, Central Connecticut State
"Publish, Perish, or Pout: The Challenges of Academia"
Prof. Warshauer is an editor for Connecticut History and is the author of Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Marshall Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship
Click here for a full schedule of speakers and paper titles
September 2007
Monday, 10 September
Welcome Reception for New Faculty and Graduate Students
4:00pm, Class of 1947 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Click here for the flyer
Sunday, 16 September
History Department - HiGSA Picnic
1:00pm, Home of Walter Woodward, 30 Highwood Street, Manchester, CT
Click here for the flyer
Thursday, 20 September
HiGSA Box Lunch -- "Am I Doing This Right?"
With faculty members Alexis Dudden, Robert Gross, Brendan Kane, and Janet Watson
12:00pm, Wood Hall Department Lounge
Monday, 24 September; Gender and History Series
Kathleen M. Brown
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
"Body Work in the Antebellum United States"
10:00am - 11:30am, Wood Hall basement lounge.
Hard copies are available in Wood Hall's water cooler room.
"Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in the Early Modern Atlantic"
4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
A reception and dinner to follow the lecture. Email Cornelia Dayton to reserve a spot for dinner at a local restaurant.
Thursday, 27 September
Raymond Craib
Associate Professor of History, Cornell University
"The Killing of Jose Domingo Gomez Rojas: Santiago, 1920"
12:00 - 1:30 pm, Humanities Institute. Light lunch will be provided.
October 2007
Wednesday, 3 October
"Know Your Rights: Understanding the Rights of Immigrants"
3:00 - 5:00 pm, PRLACC http://www.latino.uconn.edu
For more information please contact: Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, History, 6-5571, mark.velazquez@uconn.edu.
Friday, 5 October; Foreign Policy Seminar
Greg Grandin
New York University
"Neocons, Theocons, and Militarists, Oh My: How the Road to Iraq Ran Through Latin America."
4:30 pm, Wood Hall basement lounge. Reception and buffet dinner after the talk.
Thursday, 18 October; Ninth Annual FUSCO Distinguished Lecture
Caroline Elkins
Hugh K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"'The Most Expensive form of Illness:' British Counter-Insurgency in Malaya"
4:30pm, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
Thursday, 25 October
HiGSA Box Lunch -- "'Would I Hire Me with This Letter?': The DOs and DON'Ts of Writing Successful Cover Letters "
With faculty member Brendan Kane
12:00pm, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Monday, 29 October; Gender and History Series
Megan Vaughan
Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, King's College, University of Cambridge
"Suicide notes: towards a history of suicide in Nyasaland"
10:00am - 11:30am Seminar, Wood Hall basement lounge.
Hard copies are available in Wood Hall's water cooler room.
"The History of Romantic Love in Africa"
4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
A reception and dinner to follow the lecture. Email Cornelia Dayton to reserve a spot for dinner at a local restaurant.
Click here to download the electronic flyer.
Tuesday, 30 October
Sarah G. Ross
Princeton Society of Fellows
"The Renaissance Origins of Feminism: Women Intellectuals and Patriarchal Culture in Italy and England"
4:00 pm, Class of 1947 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Sponsored by: Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair
November 2007
Thursday, 1 November; British Studies Seminar
Cormac Ó Gráda
University College, Dublin/Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"Irish Jewry: Leopold Bloom and Beyond"
12:00pm, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Click here to download the electronic flyer.
Thursday, 7 November
Edward Bartlett Rugemer
Assistant Professor of History & African American Studies, Yale University
"The Black Atlantic and the Coming of the Civil War"
4:00pm, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Thursday, 15 November; History Colloquium
Alix Cooper
State University of New York, Stony Brook
"The Nature of Home: Daughters, Sons, and the Labors of Natural History in Early Modern Danzig"
4:00pm Reception, 4:30pm talk, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Click here to download the electronic flyer.
December 2007
No events scheduled.
January 2008
No events scheduled.
February 2008
Monday, 11 February; Gender and History Series
Lyndal Roper
Professor of Early Modern History, Balliol College, University of Oxford
"The Fat Reformer: Martin Luther and his Biographers"
10:00am - 11:30am Seminar, Wood Hall basement lounge.
Hard copies are available in Wood Hall's water cooler room.
"Luther and the Household"
4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
A reception and dinner to follow the lecture. Email Cornelia Dayton to reserve a spot for dinner at a local restaurant.
Click here to download the electronic flyer.
March 2008
Thursday, 6 March
David Blight
Yale University
"Slaves No More: The Discovery of Two New Slave Narratives and the Story of Emancipation."
4:00 pm, reception, 4:30 pm, lecture, 6:00 pm, dinner, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Friday, 7 March; Foreign Policy Seminar
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University
"Sowing Crisis: The United States and the Cold War in the Middle East."
4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium in the Thomas Dodd Research Center
Dinner will be served after the talk, please make reservations.
Monday, 17 March
Terri Goldich and Laura Smith, HiGSA Box Lunch
Dodd Center, University of Connecticut
"Historians and Archivists: Parallel Lives or Cross Purposes?"
11:30am, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Thursday, 20 March
Richard D. Brown and Doron Ben-Atar
Professor of History, University of Connecticut and Fordham History Department Chair
"Darkness in New Light New England: Punishing Beastiality in the 1790s"
4:00pm, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
A copy of the paper will be made available to xerox in the graduate student lounge.
Friday, 28 March; Medieval Studies Seminar
Annual Medieval Studies Seminar
"Medieval Landscapes: Sacred, Social & Natural Environments"
9:00 am, CUE Building, Room 134
A registration flyer with information about this event can be found by clicking here.
Friday, 28 March - Saturday, 29 March
Welcome Weekend for New Graduate Students
UCONN History Department Open House
Schedule of events can be found by clicking here.
April 2008
Thursday, 3 April
Adam Rome
Penn State
"Earth Day and the Greening of America."
4:00 pm, reception, 4:30 pm, lecture, 6:00 pm, dinner, Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Wednesday, 9 April; Early American Studies Series
Douglas Winiarski
Assistant Professor of Religion and Coordinator of American Studies at the University of Richmond
"Lydia Proust's Dreadfullest Thought: Female Piety and Maternal Bereavement in Provincial Boston."
4:30pm, Humanities Institute Conference Room
Copies of the paper are available in the History Department, the English Department, and the Humanities Department.
Thursday, 24 April
Margaretta Lovell
AAS Mellon Distinguished Scholar and Professor of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
"Fitz Henry Lane: Time, Memory, Canvas, and Lumber in Antebellum New England"
4:30pm, Class of '47 Room, Babbidge Library.
Please email Nancy Comarella to RSVP for this event. This series is co-sponsored with the American Antiquarian Society.
|
|
