FALL 2009 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

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"

Monday, November 23, 4-6pm
Jan Abbeloos (Ghent University)
"Born with a Copper Spoon: Global Copper and Local Development (1870-2000)."
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center. 
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall.

Monday, November 30, 4-6pm
Gunther Peck (Warren Fellow; Duke University)
"Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910"
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below. 
History Library, First Floor, Robinson.
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Monday, November 30, 6-7:30pm
Warren Center Holiday Party -- Harvard and Boston-area Americanists are warmly invited to an informal gathering celebrating the end of fall term classes and the upcoming holiday season.
Robinson Hall Great Space.

Tuesday, December 1, 12:30-2pm
Erik Esselstrom (University of Vermont). 
“The United States and Kaji Wataru in Wartime China and Occupied Japan.” 
Presented by the U.S.-Japan Relations Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.  1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South), Room S-020.

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Monday, September 14, 4-6pm
Vijay Prashad (Trinity College)
“Empire in our Time (looking at it with my penlight).”
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora:Transnational America from Above and Below.
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall.

Monday, September 14, 6-7pm
Start-of-Year Reception. 
Harvard and Boston-area Americanists are warmly invited to a wine and cheese reception in the Robinson Hall Great Space.

Friday, September 25 - Saturday, September 26, 9:30am - 5:30 pm
" Writing Cultural History Today", a two-day symposium on the occasion of the publication of A New Literary History of America.
Barker Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy St
RSVP and see the schedule for the event at http://writingculturalhistory.eventbrite.com

Tuesday, October 13, 12:30 - 2pm
Peter J. Katzenstein (Cornell University). 
“Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives.” 
Presented by the U.S.-Japan Relations Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. 1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South), Room S-020.

Wednesday, October 14, 4-6pm
Jeremi Suri (University of Wisconsin, Madison).
"A Nation-Building People: American Efforts at International Control without Empire, and the Consequences."
Presented by the International History Seminar. 1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South), Room S-050.

Monday, October 19, 4-6pm
Paul Kramer (Warren Fellow, Vanderbilt University)
"Gentlemen's Agreements: Class, Migration and Empire in Trans-Pacific History."
Presented by the Warren Center's Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below.
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall.

Monday, October 26, 4-6pm
Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam University)
"Global Labour History."
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center. History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall.

Thursday, October 29 - 5pm
Margot Canaday (Princeton University)
"The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in 20th Century America"
A discussion of Professor Canaday's book on the same title. 
Co-presented by the American Civilization Workshop and the GSAS Gender and Sexuality Workshop.
Thompson Room, Barker Center
To receive an excerpt from the book, email amcivworkshop@gmail.com
Email questions to stephen.vider@gmail.com or anna.lvovsky@gmail.com

Friday, October 30, noon-2pm
Kristen Block (Warren Fellow, Florida Atlantic University)
Cromwellian Politics of Economic Exclusion: Masculinity, Piety, and the Specter of Slavery.
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below.
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall.

Friday, October 30, 4-6pm - New Literary Histories:  Australia and the United States Compared
Discussants:
Nicholas Jose (University of Western Sydney, editor of The Literature of Australia),
Werner Sollors (Harvard University, co-editor of A New Literary History of America),
Nicole Moore (Macquarie University, contributor to The Literature of Australia),
Hua Hsu (Vassar College, contributor to and member of the editorial board of A New Literary History of America).
Chair:  Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
Harvard University, CGIS, Knafel K-050

Monday, November 9, 4-6pm
Tami Friedman ( Brock University, Ontario)
"The Promise of Prosperity: Capital Flight, Regional Economic Development, and Anti-Unionism in the Postwar South."
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center. 
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall.

Monday, November 16, 4-6pm
Edward Rugemer (Warren Fellow, Yale University)
"The Political Formation of English Slave Societies in the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from the Slave Laws of Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina"
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below.
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall.