Events

Freedeman Lectures

Lectures &
Presentations

Past Lectures

• Fall 2001
• 2002-2003
• 2003-2004
• 2004-2005
• Fall 2006
• Spring 2007
• Fall 2007
• Spring 2008
• Fall 2008
• Spring 2009

Conferences

History Department Lecture Series, Spring 2007

Thursday, February 8, 4:30 PM, Reinhardt Room (LNG-332)
David Bell, Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University
"The First Total War"

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Friday, February 23, 4:00 PM, Reinhardt Room (LNG-332)
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
"Labor and Radicalism in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1880-1914"
co-sponsored with Harpur College Dean's Office Speakers' Series on Middle East and Ottoman History

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Thursday, March 15, 4:30 PM, Reinhardt Room (LNG-332)
Greg Geddes, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Binghamton University
"'God Save Us From Our Intellectual Friends': The Intellectual, the Worker, and the Labor Leader in Twentieth-Century U.S. History"

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Thursday, March 22, 4:30 PM, Couper Administration Building 1st Floor Conference Room (AD-148)
Robert V. Wells, Chauncey H. Winters Professor of History, Union College
"Facing the 'King of Terrors': Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990"

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Thursday, March 22, 7:00 PM, Couper Administration Building 1st Floor Conference Room (AD-148)
Robert V. Wells, Chauncey H. Winters Professor of History, Union College
"Life Flows on Song: American Folk Music & History"
Co-sponsored with PA Theta History Honors Society : An Event

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Wednesday, April 11, 3:30 PM, PSPC Room "C"
Dina Rizk Khoury, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
"Geographies of Violence: Imperial Conflict, Utopia and Politics of Sect and Tribe in Early Nineteenth Century Baghdad"
co-sponsored with Harpur College Dean's Office Speakers' Series on Middle East and Ottoman History

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Thursday, April 19, 4:30 PM, Reinhardt Room (LNG-332)
Allen Wells, Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History, Bowdoin College
"'Desirable Racial Elements': Trujillo, FDR and Jewish Immigration to the Dominican Republic in World War II"

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Thursday, April 26, 7:00 PM, LH #7
Fern Levitt, director of documentary films, Toronto
possible title: "The Making of Gorbachev's Revolution (2005)"

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Wednesday, May 2, 2:30 PM, UUW-324
Suraiya Faroqhi, Professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
"Artisans of Empire, Defending craft interests vis a vis the sultan and the market "