UConn has been selected as a host site for a national traveling exhibition in 2016 for “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.”
Title page from “First Folio” — the first collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays published in 1623. (Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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
Thursday, October 9, 2014 and Friday, October 10, 2014
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.
Keynote speaker Professor Anne Valk, Associate Director for Public Humanities at the Center for Learning in Action, Williams College
Please join us for the 8th Annual History Graduate Student Research Conference!
SESSION A, 1:15-3:00 pm
Panel One, SHAPING POLICY
Class of 1947 Room, Babbidge Library
Chair, Brittney L. Yancy
Nathan Braccio, Enslaving the Heathen, Enslaving the Christian: The Connections between American Indian and African Slavery in Seventeenth-Century New England
Margaret Stack, The Search for an Appropriate Navy: Matthew Fontaine Maury’s Negotiation of Nationalism and Sectionalism in Naval Reform
Gabrielle Westcott, The Other Struggle for Hearts and Minds: Clark Clifford, Lyndon Johnson, and the Emotional Influences on Vietnam Policy in 1968
Anna Leigh Todd, “A Second Offense of This Kind”: Female Sexual Repeat Offenders in Colonial New England
Mary Sherman Lycan, Earning Her Keep: A Connecticut Girl’s Home Textile Labor, 1802-1812
Danielle Dumaine, Life by a Different Beat: The Journals of Diane di Prima, 1966-1967, and Negotiating Motherhood, Radicalism, and Literary Production at Millbrook Commune
Commentator, Allison Horrocks
2:45 – 3:00 pm, COFFEE AND COOKIES BREAK Class of 1947 Room
SESSION B, 3:15-5:00 pm
Panel Three, PROTESTING THE STATUS QUO
Class of 1947 Room
Chair, Casey Green
Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Imagining Resistance: Organizing the Puerto Rican Southern Agricultural Strike of 1905
Claudio Luis Quaresma Daflon, Samba and the Expansion of Popular Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro, 1937-1945
Cara Palmer, “Our Silence Buys the Battles”: The Place of Protest Music in the United States-Central American Peace and Solidarity Movement
“Community Oral History and Public Humanities in Theory and Practice”
Anne Valk is associate director for Public Humanities at the Center for Learning in Action at Williams College. A historian by training, Valk specializes in 20th century U.S. social history. At the Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, Valk coordinated the Fox Point Oral History Project, the Mashapaug Pond/Reservoir Triangle Collection project, and worked with local researchers and community members interested in community history. She has taught oral history and public humanities courses, worked with students on practicums, and is involved in developing public programs. She recently published a collection of oral history interviews, Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Jim Crow South (Palgrave, 2010), using interviews housed at Duke University. Valk is currently a series editor for Humanities and Public Life, a new publishing initiative of the University of Iowa Press. Valk also sits on the National Advisory Board of Imagining America.
The Gender and History Lecture Series Presents:
