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Vol. 9, No. 4


LISTING OF BOSTON-AREA EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Mid-November 2009 - January, 2010


Please contact us (cwc@fas.harvard.edu; 617.495.3591) if you would like an upcoming event to be included in this monthly listing.

Wednesday, November 18, noon - W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Colloquium
David Bindman (University of London)
"The Image of the Black in Western Art"

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Wednesday, November 18, noon - John Carter Brown Library Fellows Luncheon
Wendy Wong (Temple University)
"American Neutrality and the Politics of Slavery"

Wednesday, November 18, 4 pm - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
"Du Bois & The General Strike"

Thursday, November 19, 4 pm - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
"Du Bois & Women's Work"

Thursday, November 19, 4:15-6 pm - Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual and Cultural History
Brooke Blower (Boston University)
"AMERICAN EXPATRIATES IN INTERWAR APRSI: A RECONSIDERATIONS"

Thursday, November 19, 4:30 pm - Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable
Ray Madoff (Boston College Law School)
"Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead"

Thursday, November 19, 5:15 pm - MHS Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Sandy Zipp (Brown University)
"Culture and Authority in the Superblock World: East Harlem Plaza and the Conflict over Public Space."

Monday, November 23, 4-6pm - Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism
Jan Abbeloos (Ghent University)
"Born with a Copper Spoon: Global Copper and Local Development (1870-2000)."

Monday, November 30, 4-6pm - Warren Center’s Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below
Gunther Peck (Warren Fellow; Duke University)
"Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910"

Tuesday, December 1, 12:30-2pm - The U.S. - Japan Relations Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Erik Esselstrom (University of Vermont). 
“The United States and Kaji Wataru in Wartime China and Occupied Japan.” 

Wednesday, December 2, noon - W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Colloquium
Sylvie Laurent (Sciences Po Paris)
"White Like She: Cross-Over Narratives of Doubling in Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison"

Wednesday, December 2, noon - John Carter Brown Library Fellows Luncheon
Mark Molesky (Seton Hall University)
"The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755."

Wednesday, December 2, noon - BU American Political History Seminar
Ruth Martin (Cambridge University)
“Defending the Unpopular: The Continuing Impact of Anti-Communism in the American Civil Liberties Union's Due Process Campaign, 1967-77"

Wednesday, December 2, 4-6 pm - Harvard International and Global History Seminar
Linda Colley (Princeton University)
"Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis"

Thursday, December 3, 5:15 pm - MHS Boston Early American History Seminar
Elaine Forman Crane (Fordham University)
"Cold Comfort: Rape and Race in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island"

Friday, December 4, 5 pm - Du Bois Medal Ceremony
John F. Kennedy School of Government

Saturday, December 5, 10:00 am - Department of African and African American Studies and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American
An Interdisciplinary Symposium Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Nathan I. Huggins (1927-1989)

Tuesday, December 8, 5:15 pm - MHS Boston Environmental History Seminar
Allen M. Gontz (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
"Linking Anthropogenic Landscapes and Natural Processes to the Cultural and Environmental Vulnerability of Southern Rainsford Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts"

Wednesday, December 9, noon - John Carter Brown Library Fellows Luncheon
Jason Sharples (Princeton University)
"Fearing Slave Conspiracy in Early America."

Thursday, December 10, 5:30 pm - MHS Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Crystal Feimster (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"How Are the Daughters of Eve Punished? Rape and the American Civil War"
Comment: Nina Silber, Boston University
Location: Schlesinger Library

Wednesday, December 16, noon - John Carter Brown Library Fellows Luncheon
Adrian Finucane (Harvard University)
"Friends and Enemies: The South Sea Company and Imperial Interconnection, 1713-1739"

Monday, January 25, 4-6pm - Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism
Sven Beckert (Harvard University)
“The New Cotton Imperialism”

Wednesday, January 27, noon - BU American Political History Seminar
Jonathan Soffer (NYU Polytechnic Institute)
Adapting to Neoliberalism: Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City”

Thursday, January 28, 4:30 pm - Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable
Mr. Michael von der Linn (Antiquarian Book Department, Law Book Exchange)
TBA

Thursday, January 28, 5:15 pm - MHS Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Rosalyn Negron Goldbarg (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
"Situational Ethnicity for the 21st Century"










 



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