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Archived events, September, 2007-present

SEPTEMBER 2007
Sept. 25, 2007, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 6-8 pm. Barbara Weinstein, Professor of Latin American History, New York University, President of the American Historical Association: "Erecting and Erasing Boundaries: Can We Combine the 'Indo' and the 'Afro' in Latin American Studies?" Reception to follow the lecture. Sponsored by the History Department, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.

Sept. 27, 2007, Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Greg Moynahan, Assistant Professor of History; Co-director, Science, Technology, and Society Program , Bard College: "The Politics of Science in Cassirer and Heidegger's 1929 Davos Disputation." Sponsored by the History Department, and the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies.

OCTOBER 2007
Oct. 20, 2007, Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall 117, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 9am-6pm. New England Renaissance Conference: Nature's Disciplines. For information about the program and registration, see the conference website. Sponsored by The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program and The Committee on Science and Technology Studies.

Oct. 22, 2007, McMillan Hall, Rm. 117, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Paul Nugent, Professor of Comparative African History, University of Edinburgh: "Writing Comparative Histories of Contemporary Africa: Avoiding the Lowest Common Denominator." Sponsored by the Goldberger lectureships fund, the Africa Group of the Watson Institute, the Dean of the College Office, the Wayland Collegium, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Department of History.

October 23, 2007, John Carter Brown Library, Lower Seminar Room, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Brown University, Providence, RI, 3-5pm. History Department Faculty Workshop. The Department of History offers a workshop on the Atlantic World. Refreshments will be served.

October 24, 2007, Smith-Buonanno, Rm. 201, 95 Cushing Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Paul Bushkovitch , Professor of History, Yale University: "Moscow to St. Petersburg. " Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages, Department of History and The Watson Institute for International Studies.

NOVEMBER 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. List 120, 64 College Street, Brown University The 27th William F. Church Memorial Lecture: Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University: "The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance." The “culture wars” refers to a series of conflicts in the early seventeenth century between the papacy, the Jesuits, and the Spanish monarchy, on the one hand, and a group of cultural critics, often called the libertines, on the other. Libertines from all over Europe found a home in Venice between 1607 and 1657, a period when press censorship was relatively light. The University of Padua during the time of Galileo was the nesting ground for skeptics and libertines who established the famous Academy of the Unknowns as a vehicle for a cultural program that included publishing novels, moral commentaries, histories, dialogues, and opera librettos. This talk focuses on the final phase of the culture wars that pitted commercial opera, with its classical plots, women singers on stage, and often racy plot lines against the decorous model of Jesuit theater.


DECEMBER 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 4:00 p.m., MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Brown University. The Marjorie Harris Weiss Lecture: Susan D. Amussen, Graduate College, Union Institute and University, author of : "Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society" will offer a lecture, "'If her son is living with you, she sends her love': The Caribbean in England, 1640-1700." Sponsored by the Department of History, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program and the John Carter Brown Library.

FEBRUARY 2008
February 4, at 4:00 pm in the Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer Street. Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher at the African Studies Center, Leiden, will present the second lecture in a series on "Contemporary Africa: Writing Its History." His talk is titled "Histories of Invisible Africa." This series is sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of History, the Wayland Collegium, the Africa Group of the Watson Institute, the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund and a Saloman Grant from the Dean of the College.

APRIL 2008
April 17 at 5:30pm, MacMillan Reading Room in The John Carter Brown Library. Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Department of History, UCLA) will present the inaugural "Gulbenkian-Vasco da Gama Lecture on Portugal and the Early Modern World." The title of his talk is "Disturbing Old Bones: Old and New Myths about Vasco da Gama." The lecture will take place on the occasion of the opening of the book exhibition "Portugal and the European Renaissance" in The John Carter Brown Library. This event is jointly organized by the Department of History and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and it is sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, with additional sponsorship from The John Carter Brown Library and the Center for Latin American Studies at Brown.

OCTOBER 2008

Sunday, October 19, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Manning Hall; reception at 6:30 p.m. CSREA/American Indian Studies presents: Russell Thornton, UCLA Department off Anthropology, "Repatriation and Healing the Trauma of Native American History." There is a trauma of history whereby groups must be healed from the wounds of traumatic events if they are to achieve psychological well being. That Native American human remains and cultural objects from massacres and atrocities have been kept in museums and other institutions has hindered a coming to terms with their history. Recently, Native Americans have been successful in obtaining the passage of federal and state laws mandating the return of their human remains and cultural objects. Through repatriations, Native American groups may now reconcile themselves with terrible facets of their past and achieve an enhanced sense of well being. Co-sponsored by the Public Humanities Program and the Friends of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street. Brazil @ Brown History Lecture Series presents: Joel Wolfe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity." Professor Wolfe is the author of Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955 (Duke 1993) and the forthcoming Autos and Progress: Brazil's Search for Modernity (Oxford). He has published articles on modern Brazil in the Latin American Research Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, Radical History Review, and Revista Brasileira de História. In addition to modern Brazil, Prof. Wolfe's research and teaching interests include the history of technology and Inter-American relations. He is at present conducting research on two projects. One is a study of the atomic age in Latin America, the other is a history of the development of the Brazilian space program.

NOVEMBER 2008

Friday Nov. 7, 5:30-7p.m., Macmillan Room, John Carter Brown Library & Saturday Nov. 8, 9:30a.m.-6p.m., Smith-Buonano 106. The Conference “Antonio Vieira, Baroque Portugal and Colonial Brazil” (November 7-8, 2008) aims to discuss both the personality and the epoch of the noted Jesuit Antonio Vieira (1608-1697). Missionary and diplomat, political and economic thinker, orator and “prophet”, Vieira undoubtedly is one of the key figures of the seventeenth century. Ca. 10 scholars from North-American, Portuguese and Brazilian academic institutions will discuss the terrestrial and prophetical worlds of Vieira and the ways in which his ideas and actions impacted Portugal, Brazil and the South Atlantic societies. The Conference will open in the evening of November 7, Friday, with a lecture by João Adolfo Hansen (University of São Paulo, Brazil) titled “Cultural patterns of Antonio Vieira's representations of Brasil and Maranhão e Grão-Pará” (The John Carter Brown Library, 5:30pm). The two sessions of November 8, Saturday (morning, 9:30 am-12.45pm; afternoon, 2:00-6:00 pm) will take place at Smith Buonano, 106. This event is jointly organized by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and the Department of History, Brown University, together with the Centro de História de Além-Mar, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. The Sponsors are the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Portugal; the Instituto Camões, Portugal; The John Carter Brown Library; and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University. For a PDF of the program, click here.

Thursday, Nov. 20, 5pm. Barus & Holley 166. The 28th Annual William F. Church Memorial Lecture. Keith Wrightson (Randoph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History at Yale University), "Ralph Tailor's Summer: a Newcastle Scrivener and the Great Plague of 1636." Professor Wrightson's lecture is an exercise in 'microhistory'. It tells the story of an epidemic of bubonic plague in the northern English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the summer of 1636, reconstructing what that experience was like, and in particular the impact that the plague had on social relationships. It is largely told from the perspective of a young scrivener, Ralph Tailor, who wrote many of the documents which survive, and whose personality emerges from them - hence the title.

FEBRUARY 2009

Feb. 27-28 Abraham Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century: A symposium honoring the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. More ...

MARCH 2009

Tuesday March 17, 4pm. Pavilion Room in the Dept. of History, 79 Brown St. The History Department and the American Antiquarian Society Regional Seminar (co-sponsored by Clark University and University of Connecticut) welcome Sean Kelley, AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellow and Associate Professor of History, Hartwick College, for the following talk: "The Vernon Brothers' Atlantic World: Newport Slave Trading in the Mid-Eighteenth Century."

Wednesday March 18, 4:30pm, John Nicholas Brown Center Library, 357 Benefit St. Marlene Lopes, special collections librarian at James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College will give the following talk: "Cape Verdeans in Rhode Island: Foxpoint and Beyond?" Sponsored by the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance. Please RSVP to rigea@ric.edu

APRIL 2009

Friday, April 3, 4:30-5:30pm, Petteruti Lounge (Faunce House) 75 Waterman St. Are you interested in declaring History? Please join us on Friday, April 3rd from 4:30-5:30 in Petteruti Lounge! A short student panel will be held with History students who have studied abroad, are completing a thesis or senior capstone project, have done ISPs and GISPs, and more. Current concentrators and concentration advisers will also be on hand to talk about their experiences and to answer any questions you may have. Come find out more about one of Brown's most popular departments! Refreshments (and concentration forms!) will be available. contact: Anna_Hidalgo@brown.edu or Kwan_Siu_Tang@brown.edu

Wednesday, April 15, 5:30pm, Pembroke Hall 305 Professor John Thornton (Boston University, Department of History) will deliver the second Gulbenkian Vasco da Gama Lecture on Portugal and the Early Modern World (co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities) on Weds., April 15, 2009, 5.30pm. The title is: "The Kingdom of Kongo, the Kingdom of Angola, and the Thirty Years' War: African Diplomacy and Portuguese Politics in the Struggle for the Atlantic, 1620-48."

Wednesday, April 15, 5:30pm, 190 Hope St. 102 Professor Matthew Sneider (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Department of History) will discuss his work at the Italian Studies Colloquium and will give the following talk: "Sacred Territory: Confraternities in the Bolognese Contado." The paper will be available for review later in the semester at the colloquium website: http://blogs.brown.edu/project/it_colloquium/

September 2009

Thursday, September 17, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St. Robert Self, Department of History, Brown University Brown University Thursday Lecture Series "There's Nothing the Matter with Kansas: Family, Sex, and Politics at the End of the American Century"

Thursday, September 24, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St. Jeremy Mumford, Department of History, University of Mississippi Brown University Thursday Lecture Series "Ethnography, Ethnocide, and Social Engineering: The 'General Resettlement of Indians' in Sixteenth-Century Peru "

October 2009

Thursday, October 1, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St. John Logan, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University Brown University Thursday Lecture Series "New Uses of Historical GIS: Immigrant Incorporation in the 19th Century City "

Thursday October 8, 5:00pm, Pembroke Hall, Room 305 Robert A. Gross, The James L. and Shirley Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut will deliver a lecture on the topic of "Helen Thoreau's Anti-Slavery Scrapbook: Abolitionism and Transcendentalism in Concord, Massachusetts" Invited by The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Department of American Civilization, the Department of English, and the Department of History. There will be a reception following the lecture.

Thursday, October 15, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St. Judith Surkis, Department of History, Harvard University Brown University Thursday Lecture Series "A Tale of Two Scandals: Legal and Sexual Conflict in French Algeria "

Thursday, October 15, 5:30pm, MacMillan Reading Room, The John Carter Brown Library, corner of George and Brown Sts. Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University will be celebrated by The John Carter Brown Library on the publication of "Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 " (Oxford University Press). Reception to follow brief remarks.

Thursday, October 29, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St. Palmira Brummett, Department of History, University of Tennessee Brown University Thursday Lecture Series "Mapping The Early Modern Ottoman Empire: Imagination, Circulation, and the Image/Text Interface "

November 2009

Thursday, November 12, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St. Robert Sommer, Humboldt University, Berlin Brown University Thursday Lecture Series "Camp Brothels: Sexual Slavery in Nazi Concentration Camps "

Tuesday, November 17, 5:00pm, MacMillan Hall, Room 115 Ronnie Hsia, Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University will deliver The 29th William F. Church Memorial Lecture titled "Elective Affinities: Europe, China, and the Jesuits, 1580-1800 "In the 16th and 17th centuries, Jesuit missionaries were primarily responsible for representing an admirable Chinese civilization to the West; after the mid-18th century, they became associated in the European imagination with its decline. This lecture will present both a history of the reception of China in Europe between 1600 and the early 20th century, as well as its relationship to the actual history of the Catholic mission in China.

December 2009

Thursday, December 3, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St. Conevery Bolton Valencius, History of Science, Harvard University Brown University Thursday Lecture Series "Vernacular Science: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 and Early American Scientific Imagination "

Thursday, December 10, 2:30pm, Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street This year's mid-year undergraduate honors students will be presenting their theses. Below you'll find a schedule for the presentations. Refreshments provided. We hope you'll be able to drop in!                     2:30 pm Hannah Mintz A prism of defeat: The shifting impact of the 1967 War in shaping the memory of Gamal Abd al-Nasser in Egypt

3:00 pm Rebecca Rattner The Formation of the Spartacus League: A Radical Alternative to Social Democracy and Bolshivism, 1900-1919

3:30 pm Sam Bollier CAP, CAAs, and AVs: The Turbulent History of Federally-Sponsored Community Action in Eastern Kentucky, 1960-1970

January 2010

Thursday, January 28, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Street Corey Walker, Department of Africana Studies, Brown University Brown University Department of History Thursday Lecture Series "The Shadow of That Thought": W.E.B. DuBois and the Making of Black Atlantic Intellectuals

February 2010

Tuesday, February 9, 6:00pm, List Art Center, 64 College Street, Room 12 Nancy Jacobs, Department of History, Brown History, will discuss how people hear and mimic birds; lists of bird names in African languages; textual representations of bird calls by European observers; and some recording of birds and imitation of birds. Her forthcoming book, Birders of a Feather: Stories of People, Birds, and Other People in Africa, concerns the intimate connectivity between birds and humans. The lecture is held in conjunction with Rachel Berwick's exhibit Zugunruhe at the David Winton Bell Gallery, and is free and open to the public. news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2009/10/berwick

Thursday, February 11, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Omnia El-Shakry, Associate Professor of History, University of California-Davis Brown University Department of History Thursday Lecture Series and Brown's Committee on Science and TEchnology Studies, part of the "Who Counts?" Lecture Series The Character of Incalculability: Statistics and the Construction of the Social in 20th Century Egypt Professor Omnia El Shakry will focus on the ways in which the constituition of the social as an object of study initially both enabled and resisted calculation.

Thursday, February 25, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Street Mo Moulton , Department of History, Brown University Brown University Department of History Thursday Lecture Series "The Return of the Repressed Island: England's Irish Problem, 1922-39"

Saturday, February 27,11:30am - 1:00pm, Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room 106 HISTORY CONCENTRATORS Brown Degree Days: History graduates David Peterkin '75 (Executive Director of News Practices, ABC News), Jonathan Ebinger '84 (media consultant, educator, and former nettwork and cable producer), Susan Schwartz Stewart '85 (educator and Clinical Supervisor in the Department of Education at American University), and Catherin Spath '89 (Orthopedic physician, Northampton, MA) will discuss how they put their undergraduate degrees in History to use. Our alumni guests will share stories, wisdom, and insight from 11:30-1:00. Box lunches will be served, courtesy of the History Department and the Office of the Dean of the College.

March 2010

Monday, March 1, 3:30pm, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Abbott Gleason, Brown History Professor Emeritus, will be signing his newly published memoir, A Liberal Education (Tidepool Press, February 2010), prior to a reading and discussion at 4pm in the Joukowsky Forum. Thoughtful, funny, pointed and honest, A Liberal Education is an insightful scholar's memoir of the generation that came of age in the late fifties-an opaque generation hinged between the conformist fifties and the rebellious late sixties.

Tuesday, March 9, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Salomon Center, Main Green, Room 203 Publishing Books in Troubled Times: join us for a conversation with Robert Weil, an executive editor at W.W. Norton. Mr. Weil has edited many prominent works of history, including, most recently, Annette Gordon-Reed's Pulitzer-prize winning The Hemingses of Monticello. His talk will explore the relationship between the author and editor, as well as how the rise of "new media" (the internet and e-books) has affected book publishing.

Thursday, March 11, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Street Cynthia Brokaw, Department of History, Brown University Brown University Department of History Thursday Lecture Series "Spreading Civilization": The Expansion of Publishing in Late Imperial China

Thursday, March 18, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Street Eileen Chow, Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University Brown University Department of History Thursday Lecture Series "1, 2, 3 To Taiwan: The Enigma of Arrival"

April 2010

Thursday, April 8, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Street. Robert Ross, African Studies, Leiden Brown University Department of History Thursday Lecture Series "Material Culture and Consumption Patterns: A Southern African Revolution?"

Wednesday, April 21, 4:30pm, Pavilion Room Petere Green House, 79 Brown Street. Talk by April Haynes, Postdoctoral Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society, "'Abuse Not': Flesh and Bones in Sarah Mapps Douglass' Classroom" American Antiquarian Society Regional Seminar, sponsored by the Departments of History at University of Connecticut, Clark University and Brown University.

Thursday, April 22, 12:10pm Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Street, Dagmar Herzog, History, CUNY Graduate Center Brown University Department of History Thursday Lecture Series "Syncopated Sex: Towards a Transnational History of European Sexualities, 1900-2000"

September 2010

Thursday, September 2, 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets, Thursday Lecture Series. The speaker will be Cynthia Radding, Department of History, UNC (Chapel Hill) "Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain"

Thursday, September 16, 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets, Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be James Gelvin, Department of History, UCLA, ""Modernity," "Tradition" and the Battleground of Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Damascus"

Thursday, September 16, 12:00 noon at Mencoff Hall, Seminar Room, 68 Waterman Street, Who Counts? Science, Demography and the Social Edmund Ramsden, Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter "Challenging the stigma of eugenics: Population surveys and the genetic demography of mental ability" Sponsored by Science and Technology Studies, Population Studies and the History Department

Tuesday, September 21, 4:30-6:00 pm, Pavilion Room at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Emily Brimsek, PhD candidate in History, Brown University "Counter-Insurgents as Criminals in the Irish Rebellion of 1798: The Narrative of Edward Hay"

Thursday, September 23, 12:00 pm at McKinney Conference Room, Room 353, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street, Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Israel Gershoni, Department of History, Tel Aviv University "The Crime of Nazism Against Humanity: Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the Outbreak of the Second World War "

October 2010

Thursday, October 7 - 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series - The speaker will be Engin Akarli, Department of History, Brown University "Religious Difference and Trans-religious Commonalities in Ottoman Legal Practice (With a Focus on the Arcades of 18th-Century Istanbul)"

Friday, October 15, 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Modern Middle East Lecture SeriesThe speaker will be Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara "Shi'i Reformation and the Green Movement in Iran "

Tuesday, October 26, 4:30-6:00 pm, Pavilion Room at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street - Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Hal Cook, Professor of History, Brown University "'Revisiting the Medical Marketplace: Commerce and the Decline of Individualist Bodies'? "

November 2010

Thursday, November 4 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Oded Rabinovitch, Department of History, Brown University "Chameleons between Science and Literature: observation, Writing, and the Early Academie des Sciences in the Literary Field "

Monday, November 1 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Modern Middle East Lecture Series The speaker will be Beshara Doumani, University of California, Berkeley "Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900"

Tuesday, November 16 4:30-6:00 pm, Pavilion Room at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar John Martin, Professor of History, Duke University TBA

Thursday, November 18 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Ussama Makdisi, Department of History, Rice University "American Missionaries in the Levant: Against a Totalizing History of Arab-American Relations"

December 2010

Thursday, December 2 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Deborah Weinstein, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brown University  "The Pathological Family: Post-World War II American and the Rise of Family Therapy"

February 2011

Thursday, February 3 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Margot Canaday, Department of History, Princeton University "Finding the Lesbian in the State"

March 2011

Thursday, March 3 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Ira Harkavy, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania "Engaged Scholarship and University-School-Community Partnerships: Strategies for Realizing the Mission of the American Research"

Thursday, March 17 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Cecile Vidal, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris "Caribbean New Orleans: The Genesis of a Colonialand Slave Urban Society at the Edge of the French Atlantic Empire"

April 2011

Thursday, April 7 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Evelyn Lincoln, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University "TBA"

April 7-9, 2011 Slavery Conference Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development Sponsored by Brown University and Harvard University Relevant information: http://brown.edu/web/slaveryconf/

Thursday, April 21 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Patricia Sieber, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, Ohio State University "Lost Voices? Chinese Visitors to Europe and Their Impact on Chinese Studies, 1680-1830"

Thursday, April 28 12:10 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets Thursday Lecture Series The speaker will be Konstantinos Kornetis, Department of History, Brown University "Everything but May '68"? Student Resistance, Military Dictatorship and the Long 1960s in Greece

September 2011

Thursday, September 15 4:00 pm at Hillel House, Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell Streets TLS Lecture Series Our speaker is Joan Richards, Department of History, Brown University "From History to Biography and Beyond: Confronting Two Hundred Years in a Radical English Family"

Friday, September 16 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. Our speaker is Rachel St. John, Harvard University "The Imagined America of William McKendree Gwin: Individual Ambition and the Uneven Path of American Expansion"

Tuesday, September 20 5:30 pm at 110 List Art Center, 64 College Street 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. Co-sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society. Our speaker is Tanya Sheehan, Rutgers University "The Happiness of Others: Social Identity and the Photographic Smile"

Monday, September 26 7:00 pm at Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106/107, 95 Cushing Street My Perestroika Screening of the award winning documentary film, which follows the lives of five Russians from childhood through the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years. Followed by a Q & A with director Robin Hessman (Brown '94/Slavic Studies Concentrator) for more information on the film, see: myperestroika.com

Tuesday, September 27 5:30pm at Smith-Buonanno, 106, 95 Cushing Street 31st Annual William F. Church Memorial Lecture Deborah Harkness, Professor of History at the University of Southern California, is the author of John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Yale University Press, 2007), which won the 2008 John Ben Snow Foundation Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies and the Pfizer Prize for Best Book in the History of Science from 2005-2007 from the History of Science Society. She is also the author of recent work of fiction, A Discovery of Witches (Viking , 2011). "Fiction and the Archives"

Friday, September 30 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 history. Our speaker is Gregory Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University, "The Sense of the People": Contesting the Foundations of a Diasporic Cherokee Identity, 1794-1839

October 2011

Friday, October 14 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. Our speaker is Jim Downs, Connecticut College "Dying to be Free: the Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation"

Tuesday, October 25 4:00 pm Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room T LS Lecture Series Our speaker is Karl Jacoby, Department of History, Brown University "The Future of the Past: The Possibilities and Perils of Historical Scholarship on the World Wide Web"

Friday, October 28 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.Our speaker is Jeannine DeLombard, University of Toronto "Fully Alive to the Importance of being...Self-Possessed: Slavery, Civil Death, and Life-Writing"

November 2011

Friday, November 11 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. Our speaker is Courtney Fullilove, Wesleyan University "Discarded Knowledge: The Making and Unmaking of U.S. Pharmacopoeia"

Tuesday, November 15 7:00-8:00 pm in Wilson, Room 101 Janus Conversation: Birthplace and the Myth of Liberal Citizenship Join the Janus Fellows for a conversation on birthright citizenship. Professor Michael Vorenberg will trace the roots and consider the stakes of birthright citizenship in a 15 minute lecture followed by a Q&A period.

Thursday, November 17 John Carter Brown Library Professor Harold Cook will present a talk at the John Carter Brown Library. "Drug Prospecting in the New World: Medicine and Commerce among Early Modern Europeans"

Tuesday, November 22 4:00 pm Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street, Pavilion Room T LS Lecture Series Our speaker is Omer Bartov, Department of History, Brown University "Genocide in a Multiethnic Community: Event, Origins, Aftermath"

December 2011

Friday, December 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. Our speaker is Steven Deyle, University of Houston "A Man, His Mistress, and Her Cow: Race, Class, Gender, and Bestiality in the Slave South"

February 2012

Friday, February 10 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 Elizabeth Pryor, Smith College "Not... a Color, But a Man": Black Men Abroad before the Civil War

Friday February 10th - Sunday February 12th Studio 1, Granoff Center South Asian Film Festival: Inequality and Change Come watch twelve award winning films from the Kathmandu South Asian Film Festival! The films explore current issues in the sub-continent such as land rights, farmer suicides, the legal system, piracy and the arts, urban redevelopment and women's rights. We will travel through Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Some of the films will be followed by discussions with professors at Brown, and the hall could be a constant space of reflection! All films are free and open to the public. The film festival is organized as part of Prof. Vazira Zamindar's class, Inequality and Change in South Asia. For a full schedule, please visit our website: http://southasianfilmfestival.wordpress.com/

Tuesday, 28 February Cogut Seminar, Brown University Professor Harold Cook, Brown University "Translation and Early Modern Knowledge Economies"

March 2012

Friday, March 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 Philip Misevich, St. Johns University "The Origins of Enslaved People in Africa and the Diaspora: A Project and a Plea"

Thursday, March 15 at 4:00pm in Room 104 at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street

Tuesday (and occasionally Thursday) Lecture Series The History Department is pleased to invite you cordially to the exciting line up of talks in this Spring's TLS. This series of talks explores new research and new initiatives being undertaken by memebers of the Department. Our speakers will be Naoko Shibusawa and Vazira Zamindar and the talk is entitled: "Thinking Change Over Time, Making Change Over Time: Our Lives as Scholars and Activists"

April 2012

Tuesday, April 24 at 4:00pm in Room 104 at Peter Green House, 79 Brown Street Tuesday (and occasionally Thursday) Lecture Series The History Department is pleased to invite you cordially to the exciting line up of talks in this Spring's TLS. This series of talks explores new research and new initiatives being undertaken by memebers of the Department. Our second speaker will be James Green and his talk is entitled:"Writing Biography Backwards or Exiles within Exiles: Hebert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary"

Friday, April 27 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 Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University "Title to be Announced" Co-Sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society