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Department of History Speaker Series

Fall 2008 Speakers Series

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Past History Department lecture series:

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Spring 2008


Tuesday, February 19, 12:00 - 1:30, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Donald Quataert
Professor of History, Binghamton University
“The Ottoman Empire and Why it's important in Today's World”

Materials from Quataert's personal collection will be displayed in Special Collections on the second floor of the Bartle Library.
The exhibit will also feature selected materials from Special Cllections, including an 1844 map of the Ottoman Empire.
On the Bartle Library mezzanine, there will be a display of the Libraries' circulating materials relating to Turkey and Turkish history and culture


Wednesday, March 19, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Vicki Caron
Department of History, Cornell University
"Catholic Political Mobilization and Antisemitic Violence in Fin-de-Siècle France : The Case of the Union Nationale"


Wednesday, April 2, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Benjamin O. Fordham
Department of Political Science, Binghamton University
"The Evolution of Republican and Democratic Positions on Cold War Military Spending: A Historical Puzzle"


Friday, April 11, 12:00 - 1:30, President's Reception Room, Anderson Center
Martin Goodman
Wolfson College, Oxford University
Romano Lecture
"Rome and Jerusalem: the Clash of Ancient Civilizations"


Wednesday, April 16, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Julia A. Thomas
Department of History, University of Notre Dame
"Not Art but Politics: Photography and Postwar Japan's Reality"


Thursday, April 17, 3:30 - 5:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Umit Cizre
Levin Distinguished Scholar in Turkish Affairs, SUNY and
Professor of Politics, Bilkent University, Ankara
"Contemporary Turkish Politics: Demystifying Secularism and Political Islam"


Wednesday, April 30, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Sarah Tracy
Honors College, University of Oklahoma
"High Life: Ancel Keys and the 1935 International High Altitude Expedition"


Thursday, May 1, 5:15 - 6:45, Anderson Center Reception Room
1st annual Harvey and Elizabeth Prior Shriber Lecture
Dr. Kenneth T. Jackson
Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences,
Columbia University
"Empire City: Why New York is Different from the Rest of the United States "


Wednesday, May 7, 4:30 - 6:00, Reinhardt Room (LNG 332)
Gary Y. Okihiro
Department of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
"Tracings: An Intellectual Biography"

Free and Open to the Public

Binghamton University

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Fall 2007

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”

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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 ”

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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”

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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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