History Department at Binghamton University

Wednesday, September 19, 4:30 - 6:00, Casadesus Hall (Fine Arts Building)
Geoffrey Parker
Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History, Ohio State University
“Climate and Catastrophe: The World Crisis of the Mid-Seventeenth Century”

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Wednesday, October 3, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
J. David Hacker
Department of History, Binghamton University
“The Impact of Federal Assimilation Policies on the American Indian Population in the late Nineteenth Century”

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Wednesday, October 17, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Harald Weilnböck
Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Zürich
“The Pitfalls of Cultural Memory Studies: Post-Structuralism and the Trauma Fallacy”

Saturday, October 27, 3:00 PM, SL-212
John Chalcraft
London School of Economics
“Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon, Subaltern Studies, and the Invisible Cage”

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Tuesday, October 30, 4:00 PM, UUW-324
Christoph Neumann
Istanbul Bilgi University
“The Failure of 'a Curious Art' : A Reappraisal of the Reception of the Printing Press in the Ottoman Empire ”

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Wednesday, November 14, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Melyssa Wrisley
Department of History, Binghamton University
“Fashioning a New Femininity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Women's Dress, 1875-1930”

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Thursday, November 29, 5:30 - 6:30, Casadesus Hall (Fine Arts Building)
16th Annual Freedeman Lecture
Colin Jones
Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London
“The Smile Revolution: Identity and Dentistry in Eighteenth-Century Paris ”

Friday, November 30, 3:30 - 5:00 PM, AAG 008
Sponsored by the Dean's Workshop Social Science Perspectives on the Past
Steven Nafziger
Department of Economics, Williams College
“Local Public Good Provision in Late Tsarist Russia”

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 "

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History Department Lecture Series, Fall 2006

Thursday, 12 October 2006, 3:00 - 4:45P.M., PSPC-Room "C":

Professor Randy Roth, Ohio State University
"Why Are Homicide Rates So High in the U.S.?"

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Thursday, 9 November 2006, 4:30 - 6:00P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG-332:

Ryan Pederson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Binghamton University
"Chivalry and Noble Violence in France, 1560 - 1650"

Thursday, 16 November 2006, 4:30 - 6:00 P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG-332:

Professor Brian Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts
"Nature's Bible; or Insects in Seventeenth-Century European Science"

Thursday, 30 November 2006, 4:30 - 6:00P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG-332:

Professor Fa-ti Fan, Binghamton University
"New Wine in Old Bottles: Nationalism, International Politics and the Preservation of Antiquities in Republican China"

Thursday, 7 December 2006, 4:30 - 6:00P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG-332:

Denise Lynn, Ph.D., 2006, Binghamton University
"American Communism and Women's Rights in the Popular Front 1935 - 1939"

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History Department Lecture Series, 2004-2005

Friday, 29 April 2005, 2:30 P.M., FA 258:

Professor Amira El Azhary Sonbol, Georgetown University
"How Does the Islamic Shari'a Deal with Women's Labor?"

Sponsored by the History Department, the Sociology Department, the Fernand Braudel Center, the Multicultural Resource Center, and the University Convocations Committee.

Professor John Stoner, Binghamton University
"Cold Warriors at Work: The AFL-CIO as NGO in Africa".

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History Department Lecture Series, 2003-2004

"Women, Mission, and American Empire in International Context, 1840-1940"

Friday, 3 October 2003, 3:00 P.M., LN 2401:

Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Siena College. " Women, Mission, and American Empire in Nationalizaing Bulgaria, 1840-1870"

Wednesday, 29 October 2003, 4:30 P.M., LN 2401:

Connie Shemo, Princeton University, "Women, Mission, and American Empire in
Nationalizing China, 1890-1930"

Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 4:30 P.M., LN 2401:

Rui Kohiyama, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, "'Women, Mission, and American
Empire in Imperializing Japan, 1920-1940."

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History Department Lecture Series, 2002-2003

"Transitional Perspectives on Women and Gender: Historicizing Difference, Power, and Resistance"

This workshop will explore the changing field of women's and gender history in an increasingly global landscape. Current scholarship constructs new kinds of knowledge about gender identity and human experience in response to such influences as decolonization and postcolonial theory; transnational circuits of capital; a recognition of the mutual imbrication of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation; challenges to normative constructions of masculinity and femininity; recognition of the diversity of "women's experience"; and finally, the changing nature of the boundary between the "public" and the "private." The workshop will examine how these themes were enacted in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe, while highlighting the nature of their interdependency in a world-system.

Thursday, 10 October 2002, 4:30 P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG 332:

Professor Martha Hodes, Department of History, New York University. "Geography, Gender and Race in the 19th-Century U.S. and British Caribbean: A Family Story"

Thursday, 27 February 2003, 4:30 P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG 332:

Katherine Pence, Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College, City University of New York, "Showcase Showdown: Consumption, Conflict and Citizenship in the Cold War Germanies"

Thursday, 10 April 2003, 4:30 P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG 332:

Chad Heap, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University, "'Slumming' and the Spatial Dynamics of Gender, Sexuality and Race in Early Twentieth-Century American Nightlife"

Thursday, 24 April 2003, 4:30 P.M., Reinhardt Room, LNG 332:

Usha Zacharias, Assistant Professor of Communication, Westfield State College, "Gender, Community, and Citizenship: Notes from Fieldwork Among Dalits in Dehli"

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History Department Lecture Series, 2001

Vince M. Diaz, "Indigenous Hypo-Modernity," which will include a screening of his film, "Sacred Vessels: Navigating Tradition and Identity in Micronesia (28mins)."

Vicente M. Diaz is a visiting professor in the American Cultures Program at the University of Michigan. He received his MA from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on colonial discourse and decolonization, Native Studies, and traditional seafaring. His publications include "Deliberating Liberation Day: Memory, Culture, and History in Guam," in Perilous Memories, an anthology edited by Geoff White, Takashi Fujitani, and Lisa Yoneyami, from Duke University Press; and "Pious Sites: Chamorro Cultures Between Spanish Catholicism and American Liberalism" in Cultures of United States Imperialism, published by Duke University Press and edited by Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease. He also was the guest editor, along with J. Kehaulani Kauanu, of a special issue of the journal, The Contemporary Pacific, entitled "Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge," (Fall 2001).

Jose Torre. "Things Absent or Fictitious: The Political Economy of Beauty and the Imagination in the Early Republic."

Jose Torre is an advanced graduate student in the Binghamton University History Department, currently working on his dissertation entitled: "The Political Economy of Sentiment: Money and Emotions in Boston During the Early Republic." He plans to complete the dissertation and graduate in the spring. The research underlying this talk was done during a recent Winterthur Research Fellowship.

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra. "Writing the History of the New World in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic: Whose Centers and Peripheries?"

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, who received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995, is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research focuses on the intellectual and cultural exchange in the Iberian/Atlantic World from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. He has been a visiting fellow at the National Humanities Center, the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Charles Warren Center of American Studies at Harvard University. His many publications include a major article, "New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Indian and Creole Bodies" in American Historical Review and a book on the historiography of the New World in the early modern period, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford UP, 2001).

Laurent Dubois: Tentative title: "Slavery and emancipation in the French Caribbean, with reference to Haiti and Guadeloupe."

Laurent Dubois is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Michigan State University. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Rebecca Scott. He is author of Les ésclaves de la République: l'histoire oubliée de la première emancipation, 1789-1794, published by Calmann-Lévy in 1998, in which he examined the place of slaves and free people of color in Guadeloupe during the first half of the French Revolution. He was also the recipient of a postdoctorate grant from the Dubois Center at Harvard University, where he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies. He is co-coordinator of a series of conferences supported by the German Marshall Fund and sponsored by the Centre d'Etudes des politiques de l'immigration, d'intégration, et de citoyenneté, with the goal of providing new, interdisciplinary perspectives - particularly by integrating the history of slavery, emancipation, and colonialism, on contemporary debates about immigration and integration in Western European and the United States. His forthcoming book extends his examination of Guadeloupe into the 19th century.

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The Department of History, the Department of English, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies present: "The Lord of the Rings and the Middle Ages" Open to the Public, All Are Welcome.

The Department of History, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies present:
"Was Queen Fredegund a Serial Assassin?" Open to the Public, All Are Welcome.