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History Faculty Talks and Presentations

Fall 2012

[for archived talks & presentations, click here]

September 18: Francoise Hamlin will deliver a lecture and discussion on her book "Crossroads at Clarksdale" at the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, Mississippi.

September 26: Francoise Hamlin will deliver a lecture "Crossroads at Clarksdale: Critical Encounters" at the Critical Enounters Series at Yale University.

September 28, 2012: Francoise Hamlin presents a talk at Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia on "Women's Work For The Movement: A Case Study".

September 29: Harold J. Cook will give a plenary talk, "Sciences and economies:
Examples from the early modern period
," to a joint meeting of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, in Mainz, Germany.

October 12-13: Harold J. Cook will be conducting a course for PhD students at the "Basler Renaissance Kolloquium", in Basel, Switzerland.

October 14: Seth Rockman presents  “Northern Manufacturers, Southern Slavery and the Antebellum Origins of American Business Ethics.”  Preyer Lecture, Queens University of Charlotte (North Carolina).

October 19: John Bodel will read a paper entitled: "The life and death of ancient Roman cemeteries" at a conference "Reconstruction and the Historic City: Rome and Abroad - an interdisciplinary approach" at the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität (Department für Geographie) in Munich, Germany.

October 26: Amy Remensnyder will give the Riggsby Lecture at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and the title of the talk is "La Conquistadora: A Tale of Two Seas, the Virgin Mary, Muslims, Christians, Jews and Indians." 

November 9: James N. Green will be presenting a chapter of his new manuscript project "Exiles within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary" at a symposium at Syracuse University.

November 16: John Bodel will read a paper entitled: "Status dissonance and status dissidents in the equestrian order" at a conference "Social Status and Prestige in the Roman World" at the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität in Munich, Germany.

December 5: Maud Mandel will offer a presentation at the University of Chicago on "Colonial Policies, Middle Eastern War, and City Spaces:  Marseille in 1948".

December 6, 2012: "Negro Cloth, Planters Hoes, and the Geographies of Plantation Provisioning in Antebellum America”Seth Rockman will deliver a lecture at Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan.

December 13: Harold J. Cook will be conducting a "masterclass" for the Huizinga
Institute in The Netherlands.