SPRING 2013 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, April 30, 4-6pm
Michael Ralph (New York University)
"The Afterlife of Slave Insurance."
Part of the Warren Center’s series on Emancipation@150.
Robinson Basement Seminar Room.
Thursday, May 2, 4-6pm
Harvey Young (Northwestern, theatre).
“‘Is I Got a Valentine’: Romancing the Caricature”
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated. Robinson Basement Conference Room.
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Thursday, January 31, 4-6pm
Jayna Brown (UC Riverside, Ethnic Studies)
"Along the Psychic Highway: Sojourner Truth, Black Women Radical Visionaries and Utopias of Feeling”
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated Robinson Basement Conference Room
Monday, February 11, 4-6pm
Roy Kreitner (Tel Aviv University)
“This Standard Which Is Not One: Gold and Multiple Liquidity Regimes.”
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism
Wednesday, February 13, 4-6pm
Vanessa Ogle (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Many Worlds That Unifying Time Created, 1880-1930.”
Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050
Thursday, February 14, 4-6pm
Martha Hodes (NYU, history)
"National Catastrophe and Everyday Life: Personal Responses to Lincoln’s Assassination and the Aftermath of the Civil War"
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated. Robinson Basement Conference Room
Tuesday, February 19, 4:30pm-7pm
Book event and reception, on the occasion of the publication of Andrew Jewett’s Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War.
Guest speakers: Theodore Porter (UCLA), Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard, STS), Charles Rosenberg (Harvard, History of Science)
Robinson Basement Seminar Room
Thursday, February 21, 4-6pm
David Jaffee (Bard, New Media Studies)
“Seeing in the City: Broadway and the Culture of Vision in 19th Century New York”
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated
Robinson Basement Conference Room
Monday, February 25, 4-6pm
Annelise Riles (Cornell University)
“Against Market Totalitarianism: Thinking Through Legal Technique.”
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism
Monday, March 4, 4-6pm
David Moss (Harvard Business School), with Roger Lowenstein (journalist/author).
“The Federal Reserve and the Banking Crisis of 1931.”
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism.
Wednesday, March 6, 4-6pm
Daniel Sargent (University of California at Berkeley)
“Contesting Globalization: The Struggle for the World Economy in the 1970s.”
Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar.
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050.
Thursday, March 7, 4-6pm
Bruce Dorsey (Swarthmore, history)
“Scandalous Stories: Murder, Sex, Religion, and Everyday Life in Antebellum New England.”
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated.
Robinson Basement Conference Room
Thursday, March 14, 4-6pm
Sara Warner (Cornell; theatre, film, dance)
"SCUM: Valerie Solanas and the Art of the Chronic"
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated. Robinson Basement Conference Room.
Thursday-Friday, March 14, 15 – Law and International History.
The thirteenth annual graduate student conference on international history, presented with support from the Warren Center. More information at www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/
Monday, March 25, 4-6pm
Mary Poovey (New York University)
“The Foundations of Finance,” from the work-in-progress A Modern Way of Knowing: The History of Financial Modeling. Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism.
Wednesday, March 27, 4-6pm
Alan Gilbert (University of Denver)
"Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence."
Part of the Warren Center’s series on Emancipation@150. Co-sponsored with the Center for American Political Studies. Robinson Basement Seminar Room.
Thursday, March 28, 4-6pm
Kyla Tompkins (Pomona, English).
"Joel Chandler Harris' Biopolitical Fictions."
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated. Robinson Basement Conference Room
Wednesday, April 3, 4-6pm
Jenny Andersson (CNRS Fellow and Researcher, Sciences Po)
"Forging the American future: Forecasting from RAND to the Commission for the Year 2000"
Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar.
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050
Tuesday, April 16, 4-6pm
James Oakes (CUNY).
"The Scorpion's Sting: The Irreconcilable Conflict Over Slavery"
Part of the Warren Center’s series on Emancipation@150.
Robinson Basement Seminar Room.
Thursday, April 18, 4-6pm
Daniel Wickberg (University of Texas, Dallas; workshop guest).
"The Interestingness of the Ordinary: On the Cultural History of the Idea of Everyday Life".
Presented by the Workshop on Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated. Robinson Basement Conference Room.
Monday, April 22, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Thavolia Glymph (Duke University)
"Refugees and Outlaws: Enslaved Women and the Struggle for Freedom on the Civil War's Battlefields"
Part of the Warren Center’s series on Emancipation@150.
Robinson Basement Seminar Room.
Wednesday, April 24, 4-6pm
Mira L. Siegelberg (Harvard University).
“Is Statelessness Actually Evil? Codifying Statelessness at the United Nations and Beyond, 1954–1964. ”
Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar.
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050.
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