Gender & History Series
 
Juliana Barr, Associate Professor, Duke University
Author of the prize-winning book Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.
 
Monday, November 28, 4:30pm
Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Center
Lecture: “War Came in the Form of a Woman: Spanish Saints and Demons in the American Southwest”
Reception to follow
 
Tuesday, November 29, 10:00-11:30am
Wood Hall Basement Lounge
Workshop: “La Dama Azul” (The Woman in Blue): An Origin Story for Colonial America, as told from an Indian Perspective”
 

[From UConn Today 3/2/2015]

UConn has been selected as a host site for a national traveling exhibition in 2016 for “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.”

The “First Folio” is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays published in 1623 by two of his fellow actors, seven years after the Bard’s death. The collection includes 18 plays that would otherwise have been lost, including “Macbeth,” Julius Caesar,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Tempest,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” “The Comedy of Errors” and As You Like It.” The exhibition will take place in the Gilman Gallery at the William Benton Museum of Art in Storrs.

The tour is a partnership between The Folger Shakespeare Library, Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association and will be hosted by one institution in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s passing.

For the full story, please visit the original UConn Today article.

 

Richard Lyman Bushman

Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus, Columbia University
2015 Scholar-in-Residence at the American Antiquarian Society

Wednesday, March 11 – 5:30pm in the Wood Hall Basement Lounge

Reception and refreshments begin at 5pm

Prof. Bushman’s current research focuses on “Farmers in the Production of the Nation: Family Agriculture in Eighteenth-Century America.” He is well known for books such as From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967), King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985), The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992), and Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005).

After the seminar, there will be a dutch-treat dinner gathering at the Oriental Café in Storrs. All those planning to attend the dinner please let Nina Dayton know in advance, so we have a headcount for the reservation.

Any questions? Contact cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu (faculty coordinator, History Department)

The Gender and History Lecture Series Presents:

Heidi Tinsman, Professor of History
University of California, Irvine

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

4:30 pm

Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Public reception to follow.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Heidi Tinsman’s work focuses on twentieth-century Latin American social history, gender history, and labor history. Her recent book, Buying into the Regime, is a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both the United States and Chile.

In addition, please join us in Wood Hall Basement Lounge for a workshop on a pre-circulated paper by Professor Tinsman from 10:00 to 11:30 am on Wednesday, March 4. Copies of the paper will be available in the History Department mail room, Wood Hall 117.

These events are co-sponsored by the History Department, El Instituto, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

The University of Connecticut Department of History’s Sixteenth Annual Fusco Distinguished Lecturer, Anthony Grafton (Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University) will be visiting the Department next Thursday, January 22, 2015.

Please join us in Wood Hall Basement Lounge for a Morning Workshop from 10:00 to 11:30 AM on Prof. Grafton’s pre-circulated paper: “Observation and Compilation in Renaissance Ethnography: Johannes Buxtorf Observes the Jews of Ashkenaz”. Copies of the paper are available in the History Department mail room, Wood Hall 117.

The Fusco Distinguished Lecture, “Colonial American Readers and the Traditions of Latin Humanism” will be at 4pm in Konover Auditorium, with a reception to follow.

Everyone is most welcome.

“For a New Cuba and a New Spain: Popular Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War”

Ariel Mae Lambe

12:15-1:15pm, Wood Hall Basement, Rm 4A

 

Please join us for the next History Department’s Wednesday Workshop. Professor Lambe’s forthcoming article will be circulated in early October in the department.

 

Gallery Talk: World War I on the Battlefield and in the Kitchen
Allison Horrocks, PhD Candidate in History
Tuesday, September 23, 3:30pm
American men and women participated in World War I on the battlefield and in their kitchen cupboards. The war to “end all wars” entered foreign and domestic realms, ushering in new ways of engaging with the world and the food put on the dinner table. In addition to factory work, women were called to serve on the “homefront” through preservation and conservation. This talk will explore women’s various contributions to the war effort and their changing relationships to the state through the case of Connecticut Agricultural College, later the University of Connecticut.

Jane Schultz

UConn Visiting Guest Professor
Professor of English
Adjunct Professor of American Studies, Women’s Studies, Medical Humanities, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Wed 9/17, 12:15-1:15pm – Wood Hall 4A (basement level)

 

 

The Gender and History Lecture Series Presents:

Maylei Blackwell, University of Los Angeles
Associate Professor César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Women’s Studies Department

Tues, Sept 23, 2014 – 4:30-6pm, reception to follow
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center
Storrs Campus

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Maylei Blackwell is an interdisciplinary scholar activist, oral historian, and author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement, published with University of Texas Press.

She is an Associate Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Women’s Studies Department, and affiliated faculty in the American Indian Studies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies.

 

Her research has two distinct, but interrelated trajectories that broadly analyze how women’s social movements in the U.S. and Mexico are shaped by questions of difference ­ factors such as race, indigeneity, class, sexuality or citizenship status ­ and how these differences impact the possibilities and challenges of transnational organizing. Through collaborative and community-based research, Professor Blackwell has excavated genealogies of women of color feminism in the U.S. and accompanied indigenous women organizers in Mexico as well as feminist movements and sexual rights activists throughout Latin American. Her most recent research with farm worker women and indigenous migrants seeks to better understand new forms of grassroots transnationalism

“American Lives and American Studies”

Thursday, October 9, 2014 and Friday, October 10, 2014

Click here to register and for detailed program information

 

What American lives can be made with an education in the various fields encompassed by American Studies?

At a time when every aspect of higher education is being questioned and the value of humanities degrees doubted, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Conference in Early American Studies takes a wide-ranging look at the diverse ways in which the study of American history and culture, past and present, has shaped lives and careers since the mid-1970s.

The conference brings together former students and advisees of Draper chair Robert A. Gross to reflect on the opportunities, experiences, and professions opened up by their undergraduate and graduate educations in such areas as American history, literature, art, music, popular culture, government, and sociology and in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Graduates of Amherst College, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Connecticut, among other schools, the participants are now active in the law, government, philanthropy, business, education, and the arts. Like the figures celebrated in Emma Willard’s “Temple of Time” (1846), they, too, are making a mark on America’s unfolding history.

Their impact extends from the entertainment industry to environmental policy, from journalism to public service, from teaching schoolchildren to pursuing social justice. How have their post-graduate commitments and values been shaped by their formal education? In what ways did that education prepare them, if at all, for the challenges they have faced? And what critical lessons do they derive from experience for how American Studies should be taught today? Taking place during Professor Gross’s final semester of teaching at UConn, this fourth Draper Conference takes a wide view of higher education, as it affects the ways we live as citizens of the United States and of a transnational world. We welcome you to join in the conversation.

Questions? Contact Robert.Gross@uconn.edu