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History of the Freedeman Lectures

The Charles E. Freedeman Memorial Lecture in History was established by the Department of History in memory of Professor Freedeman who taught French History, Modern European History and Economic history at Binghamton from 1968 until his retirement in 1991, shortly before his untimely death. A generous gift from Professor Freedeman to the Department of History upon his retirement became the basis for the lecture series. Professor Bonnie Smith of Rutgers University, a distinguished scholar of French history as well as a close friend of Professor Freedeman, delivered the first lecture in October 1992, and other distinguished scholars continued the series in succeeding years. A history of the speakers and their topics follow.

This year's -- 16th Annual -- Freedeman Lecture

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Thursday, November 29, 5:00 - 6:30, Casadesus Hall (Fine Arts Building)

Colin Jones

Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London

“Teeth and Smiles in Eighteenth-Century Paris ”

Binghamton University
Free and Open to the Public


Past Freedeman Lectures

Megan Marshall, 2006-07 American Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
"'A More Interior Revolution': The Peabody Sisters and American Romanticism"
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Timothy J. Brook, University of British Columbia
"Incredibility: Truth Syndromes of Occupation and Collaboration in Wartime Asia"
Friday, November 11, 2005

Carole Frick, Southern Illinois University
"Circulating the Goods: Second-hand Clothes, Gender and Class in the Economy of Early Modern Florence"
Friday, November 5, 2004

John M. Murrin, Princeton University
"War in American Society from Jamestown to the Present."
Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Karen Hagemann, University of Toronto
"Images of the Nation: The Painter Goerg Friedrich Kersting in the Age of the
Anti-Napoleonic Wars: Crossing Boundaries between History and Art History"
Friday, November 8, 2002

Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY Binghamton
"The Ugly Secret of US History: The Hidden Agonies of Class"
Friday, November 9, 2001

Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University
"The Liberal Tradition Revisited"

Friday, November 10, 2000

Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago
"The Discourse of Civilization and Area Studies"
Friday, November 5, 1999

Charles Tilly, Columbia University
"Contention and Democracy in France, 1650-2000"
Friday, October 2, 1998

Linda Gordon, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"The Construction of a Crime: The History of the Struggles Against Violence Against Women"
Wednesday, October 22, 1997

Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"666 and All That: Bible Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture"
Thursday, October 31, 1996

David Marwell, Kennedy Assassination Review Board
"The Search for Joseph Mengele"
Thursday, November 2, 1995

Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
"Rereading the History of Feminism in France, 1789-1944"
Tuesday, October 25, 1994

Bryan D. Palmer, Queens University Ontario, Canada
"Historicizing E. P. Thompson"
Thursday, November 11, 1993

Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University
"Historiography, Objectivity, and the Case of the Abusive Widow"