- Janaki Nair, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India, 2019
- David Silverman, Georgetown University, 2018
- Kären Wigen, Stanford University, 2017
- Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2016- webcast
- Jacob Dlamini, Princeton University, 2015- webcast
- Laurent Dubois, Duke University, 2014- webcast
- Jeremy Suri, University of Texas at Austin, 2013- webcast
- Amanda Vickery, University of London, 2013
- Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego, 2011
- Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University, 2010
- Lou Perez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009
- Peter Duus, Stanford, 2009 (lecture for 2008-2009 academic year)
- Adam Hochschild, 2007 (A webcast of the 2007 Alfred E. Golz Lecture is available on iTunes)
- Peter Hayes '68, Northwestern University, 2006 (A webcast of the 2006 Alfred E. Golz Lecture is available through Hawthorne-Longfellow Library's Special Collections Archive)
- Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, 2005
- Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia, 2004
- Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago, 2003
- Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis 2002
- Weiming Tu , Harvard University, 2001
- Martin Schaffner, University of Basel, 2000
- Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, 1999
- Michael Blakey, Howard University, spring 1998
- Jonathan Spence, Yale University, fall 1998
- William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
- David Keightley, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
- Hans Guggisberg, University of Basel, 1995
- Abiola Irele, Harvard University, 1994
- James McPherson, Princeton University 1993
- Nancy Farriss, University of Pennsylvania 1992
- Pierre Sauvage, Los Angeles, 1991
- Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley, fall 1990
- Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University, spring 1990
- David Brion Davis, Yale University, 1989
2022: Bianca Premo
Alfred E. Golz Lecture Fund was established by Ronald A. Golz '56 in 1970 in memory of his father. This fund is used to support a lecture by an eminent historian or humanitarian to be scheduled close to the November 21 birthday of Alfred E. Golz.
The Golz Lecture for the 2021-2022 academic year will be delivered by Bianca Premo.
Doctors of History: Embodied Research and the Ethics of Writing about Latin America (17th Century to Today)
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
7:30 PM
Location: Kresge, VAC
For humanities and social science PhDs, our status as “doctors” sometimes inspires jest, derision, and defensiveness. In this talk, Bianca Premo asks whether historians are, indeed, like physicians and, if so, what it might mean to “first, do no harm.” Having published on subjects ranging from voiceless children of colonial Lima to unlettered litigants in courts through the Spanish Empire, much of her work has been about ordinary people who are long dead. But a current book project on Peru’s so-called “youngest mother in the world”--a five-year old who gave birth in 1939 and who is still, by all accounts, alive today-- has led her to reflect on the implicit differences we ascribe to studying living and dead subjects, the values that underwrite telling stories about marginalized subjects, and the future of historical expertise in the digital age.
Professor Bianco Premo, Professor of History at Florida International University is interested in a wide range of topics in Latin American history. Her most recent book, The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire is a comparative study that reveals how ordinary, often illiterate litigants made law modern in the courtrooms of vast regions of the 18th-century Spanish empire. Her first book, Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima (2005), reveals how Lima’s children were socialized into colonial hierarchies and how adults viewed and practiced their roles as authority figures over children in a legal culture that favored elite fathers and distant kings. She also co-edited Raising an Empire (2007) a volume of historical scholarship about children and childhood in early modern Spain, Portugal and colonial Latin America. She has authored over a dozen articles and multiple book chapters on colonial Peru and Mexico and early modern Spain in the fields of legal studies, ethnohistory, gender and family history and Atlantic history. Her next research projects involve delving deeper into the history of childhood and gender and expanding her research into the twentieth century. Less