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The NYU Atlantic History Workshop meets most Tuesday's from 12:30 to 2 PM. Please check their website for the full schedule of dates and locations: www.nyu.edu/pages/atlantic
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Fall 2009 Center for the United States and the Cold War Center Seminar Series
All seminars take place from* 5:00pm to 7:00pm *at the Tamiment Library, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor (between LaGuardia and Greene Streets).
For more information or to RSVP, contact zk3@nyu.edu
September 17th Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz "The AFL-CIO's Cold War in Honduras: The First Years of Intervention, 1954-59"
September 24th John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress, "Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Activities in the United States during the Stalin Era"
October 15th Ryan Irwin, Ohio State Univerity "Moral Majorities: G. Mennen Williams and the Postcolonial Moment, 1961-1963"
October 26th Miriam Glucksmann, University of Essex "Changes and continuities in Women's Work. Thirty year reflections on 'Women on the Line'"
November 12th Sarah Bridger, Columbia University "Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research in the Vietnam Era"
November 19th Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna, "Kissinger, the Eccentric Realist"
December 3rd Nick Turse, Columbia University "The Massacre at Le Bac (2)"
December 10th Paul Hirsch, Paul Hirsch, UC-Santa Barbara "Adventure is my Career: Comic Books as Propaganda at Home and Abroad during World War II"
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The European History Workshop and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies would like to invite faculty members and graduate students to this semester's workshop series. This year's workshop will be meeting on Friday at 12:30 - 2:00, on the 7th floor seminar room of 285 Mercer Street.
The schedule for the semester is as follows:
October 21st: Guy Ortolano, Assistant Professor of History, NYU. "The
Typicalities of the English: W. W. Rostow, Modernization Theory, and the
Example of English History."
November 4th: Jennifer Egloff, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, NYU.
"Keeping Track of It All: How Early Modern English and British North
American People Situated Themselves in Time."
November 18th: John Tresch, Assistant Professor of History and Sociology
of Science, University of Pennsylvania. "The Order of the Prophets: The Concept of
'Series' in Early French Socialism." (Joint event with the NYU History of Science Workshop).
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The American History Workshop will be held on Friday mornings from 10-12 in room 428 in the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Building, 53 Washington Square South.
/October 2nd/ Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan
"‘I was born in…Croix-des-Bouquets’: Slavery, Law, and "French Negroes" in New York’s Era of Gradual Emancipation"
/November 20th / Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia
"God and Wal-Mart: Neoliberalism, Service Labor, and Family Values in the Conservative Ascendancy"
/December 11th /
Ann Fabian, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
"News from the Feegees: Death and Burial Far From Home"
/February 5th /, Thomas A. Guglielmo, George Washington University
"Race War: World War II and the Crisis of American Democracy"
/March 5th/
Tiya A. Miles, University of Michigan
"‘Showplace of the Cherokee Nation’: The Making of a Southern House Museum"
/April 2nd /
Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College
"Counterinsurgency and Human Rights in Iraq"
/April 30th /
Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
"Reckoning with Empire: Race, Freedom, and State Power Across the Pacific"
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