"On the Biographies of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz"
Russell Rickford is assistant professor of History at Dartmouth University.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
6:30 PM
Searles 315
2011 Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture
"Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming"
Naomi Oreskes
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Kresge Auditorium, VAC (Visual Arts Center) 7:30 PM
Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and an internationally renowned historian of science and author.
Professor Oreskes has a long-standing interest in understanding the establishment of scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent. Her early work examined the 20th century transformation of earth science, in The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science (Oxford, 1999) and Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (Westview, 2001). She has also written on the under-acknowledged role of women in science, and on the role of numerical simulation models in establishing knowledge about inaccessible natural phenomena.
"Rosa Parks and the Contemporary Uses of Civil Rights History"
Jeanne Theoharis is professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.
Friday, November 11, 2011
6:30 PM
Searles 315
"A Teach-In: Ten Years of War in Afghanistan: What Have We Learned? What Can We Do?"
PeaceWorks, Brunswick, Maine
Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald
Friday, September 30, 2011
3-5 PM
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall
Keynote speakers Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald are the authors of Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of the American Empire.
History Department Prospective Majors/Minors & Study Away Informational Meeting
Thursday, October 27, 2011
4:00 PM
Hubbard Hall, Conference Room West (2nd Floor)
"Venezuela: From Model Democracy to Bolivarian Republic"
Miguel Tinker Salas , Professor of History at Pomona College.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
7:00 PM
Beam Classroom, VAC (Visual Arts Center)
"Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston"
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:30 PM Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Michael Rawson received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and spent two years as a Humanities Fellow at Stanford University.
Accra Shepp
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 7:00 PM
Beam Classroom, VAC
Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Environmental Science and Visual Art
Accra Shepp is a graduate of Princeton ('84) and has taught at a wide variety of colleges and universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Wellesley, City College of NY, and RISD. His work engages the issues touching upon the environment, social justice, and the intersection of memory and geography, while employing strategies of story-telling and scientific cataloguing. He has work in the collections of the Whitney, MOMA, the Victor and Albert Museum of London, to name a few.
"Suicide Bombers Become Goddesses: Women, Apotheosis, and Scarificial Violence in South Asia"
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 4:30 PM
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Religion
Dr. William Harman has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is a professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.
"The End of Western Water "
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 4:00 PM
ES Common Room, Adams Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Environmental Studies
Antonio Rossmann is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and teaches water resources and land use law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
"Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante's Divine Comedy"
Wednesday, March 27, 2011 - 7:00 PM
Beam Classroom, VAC
Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Romance Languages, Government and Legal Studies, the Africana Studies Program, and Lectures and Concerts
Dennis Looney is a professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, and will lecture from his soon to be published book Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (University of Notre Dame Press, Devers Series in Dante Studies, forthcoming 2011).
"Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbing and the Nature of Risk"
Wednesday, March 27, 2011 - 7:30 PM
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Environmental Studies
Joseph "Jay" Taylor is associate professor of history and geography at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. A specialist in environmental history and the history of the American West, his forthcoming book, Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbing and the Nature of Risk (Harvard University Press, 2010), is the first scholarly treatment of how the sport evolved in this iconic American landscape.
2011 Kemp Symposium
"Labor and Human Emancipation: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Histories"
Friday, May 6, 2011 - All Day
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
