Events
(For a list of talks Brown History faculty are giving around the United States and the world, see this list; for archived events, click here)
SPRING 2013
| March 2013 |
| Friday, March 1 at 5:30pm Martinos Auditorium at the Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street | Screening of Lincoln (2012) and Q&A with Michael Vorenberg
Complimentary public screening of DreamWorks' LINCOLN in belated celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Vorenberg, Associate Professor of History, and author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and teh Thirteenth Amendment. This event is open to the public. Seating is limited and tickets are required. Seats will be held for ticketed attendees until 5:20pm, at which point remaining seats will be released to patrons at the door on a first-come, first-serve basis. Hosted by The Brown University Library, the Office of Public Affairs and University Relations, and the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. |
| Friday, March 15 at 1:00pm Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Room 104 | 19th Century U.S. History Workshop This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. We are especially eager to welcome faculty and graduate students from nearby institutions and related disciplins. Each session will feature a pre-circulated paper, available a week in advance. To join the mailing list, please write to Seth_Rockman@brown.edu Our speaker is Rachel Purvis, Clay Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Department of History "Emancipation and the 1866 Reconstruction Treaty with the Cherokee Nation" |
| April 2013 |
Wednesday, April 3 at 12:00 noon McKinney Room, Watson Institute
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MES Luncheon Seminar While historians have long debated the bourgeois character of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, charting the course of the multi-ethnic Ottoman bourgeoisie during these years is still pendin. This presentation will follow the Jewish, Greek Orthodox, Muslim and Donme entrepreneurs of Salonica between 1908 and The Balkan Wars of 1912. Our speaker is Parmenion Papamichos Chronakis, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, Department of History "Revisiting the Late Ottoman Bourgeoisie: The Entrepreneurs of Salonica in the Second Constitutional Period, 1908-1912" RSVP cmes@brown.edu required. Seating limited. |
| Friday, April 5 at 1:00pm Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Room 104 | 19th Century U.S. History Workshop This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. We are especially eager to welcome faculty and graduate students from nearby institutions and related disciplins. Each session will feature a pre-circulated paper, available a week in advance. To join the mailing list, please write to Seth_Rockman@brown.edu Our speaker is Bruce Dorsey, Professor of History, Swarthmore College "Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Religion, and Scandalous Stories in Antebellum New England" |
| Thursday, April 11, 5 pm Smith-Buonanno, Room 201 |
"Dueling Sounds, Contending Tones: The Pronunciation Wars in 1920s China" presented by: Janet Y. Chen Sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Studies and History |
| Wednesday, April 24, noon Watson Institute, McKinney Room |
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES LUNCHEON SEMINAR "The Adriatic as an Ottoman Zone: Sovereignty, Cartography, and Cultural Flows in the Early Modern Era" presented by: Palmira Brummett RSVP to CMES @brown.edu |
| Friday, April 26 at 1:00pm Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Room 104 | 19th Century U.S. History Workshop This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. We are especially eager to welcome faculty and graduate students from nearby institutions and related disciplins. Each session will feature a pre-circulated paper, available a week in advance. To join the mailing list, please write to Seth_Rockman@brown.edu Our speaker is Jennifer Manion, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College "19th Century Narratives of Transgender Experience & the History of Possibility" |
FALL 2012
September 2012 |
Thursday, September 13 5:30 pm MacMillan Reading Room John Carter Brown Library
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Paper Technologies of Capitalism This lecture by Seth Rockman, Department of History, Brown University, will celebrate the opening of: Mind Your Business: Records of Early American Commerce at the John Carter Brown Library on view in the MacMillan Reading Room through December 2012 Co-Sponsored with the John Carter Brown Library Reception to Follow |
Friday, September 14 9:00am-2:30 pm at Petteruti Lounge |
Paper Technologies of Capitalism Symposium Co-Sponsored with the John Carter Brown Library
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Thursday, September 20 5:30 - 6:30 pm at The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street |
Linford Fisher, History Department, Brown University will speak on his new book "The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America"
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October 2012 |
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Tuesday, October 2 at 4:00 pm at the Brown Bookstore |
Francoise N. Hamlin, Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Brown University will offer a reading from her new book "Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II"
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Friday, October 19 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room
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19th Century U.S. History Workshop This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. We are especially eager to welcome faculty and graduate students from nearby institutions and related disciplins. Each session will feature a pre-circulated paper, available a week in advance. To join the mailing list, please write to Seth_Rockman@brown.edu Our speaker is Joshua Greenberg, Bridgewater State University "Dollars and Senses: Engaging Paper Money in the Early Republic" |
| November 2012 | |
Friday, November 2 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room |
19th Century U.S. History Workshop This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. We are especially eager to welcome faculty and graduate students from nearby institutions and related disciplins. Each session will feature a pre-circulated paper, available a week in advance. To join the mailing list, please write to Seth_Rockman@brown.edu Our speaker is Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky "Family Ties: Slaves, Servants, and Masters in an Emancipating North" |
November 4-5, 2012 |
Workshop A Workshop will be held at Brown University via Judaic Studies entitled, "Jewish History after the Imperial Turn: The French Empire in Comparison" co-sponsored by the History Department (more information to follow) |
November 14, 2012 5:30pm MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer Street, Room 115 |
The 33rd William F. Church Memorial Lecture "Democratic Republicanism and the Making of the French Revolution (1770-1792)" Jonathan Israel, Professor of Modern History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Jonathan Israel specializes on the intellectual and general history of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Europe. He has published upwards of a dozen books, the most recent entitled Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution and Human Rights (1750-1790) Oxford University Press, 2011. Since 2010, he has been writing an intellectual histsory of the French Revolution. |
November 15, 2012 4:00pm Sarah Doyle Women's Center (26 Benevolent Street)
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s Please join us for a presentation and discussion with Associate Professor of History Robert Self. Professor Self will talk about his new book All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s,
which argues that debates over the meaning and make up of the American
family were central to the successful conservative shift in American
politics and culture. As ideas about gender, sexuality, and sexual
politics underwent massive transformation and contestation in the final
decades of the 20th century, they became sites of intense debate over
the very meaning of American citizenship. Self will also discuss how
this new history helps us better understand our current political
moment. Using his research to provide a long view of the social and
political debates of our time, Self will discuss the false distinction
between economic and social issues, as well as the relationship between
neoliberalism and the politics of the family, gender, and sexuality. A
Q&A will follow, and light snacks will be provided. |
Friday, November 16 1:00-3:00 pm at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room
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19th Century U.S. History Workshop This seminar features new research on nineteenth-century American history and is intended to stimulate conversations about periodization, method, and interpretation. We are especially eager to welcome faculty and graduate students from nearby institutions and related disciplins. Each session will feature a pre-circulated paper, available a week in advance. To join the mailing list, please write to Seth_Rockman@brown.edu Our speaker is Martha Hodes, NYU "Rage: Personal Responses to Lincoln's Assassination and the Future of the Nation" |
| December 2012 | |
Friday, December 5 5:30 pm at The JohnCarter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room |
"Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes" The John Carter Brown Library will host Jeremy Mumford, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, December 5th, in the MacMillan Reading Room at 5:30 p.m. Jeremy will speak on
his new book, "Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in
the Colonial Andes". |
Ongoing Seminars, Workshops, and Lectures
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Modern Europe Workshop
John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Programs
Science and Technology Studies Brown Bag Series
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