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Department Brown Bag:
Syllabus Construction: Do's and Don'ts
All grad students and faculty welcome.
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Tuesday,
January 24th
12:00-1:00 |
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Edward Steinfeld
UB School of Architecture and Planning
"Changing Paradigms from Accessibility to Universal Design."
Sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies
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Wednesday
February 1st
4:00 |
Museum of disABILITY History
3826 Main St., Amherst |
Erik Seeman
Department of History
"Speaking with the Dead in the American Enlightenment"
Pre-circulated paper available via UB Online Reserves under HIS 000
Sponsored by the Early Modern Research Workshop
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Friday,
February 10th
12:00-1:30 |
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Dean Pavlakis
Department of History
“King Leopold's Nemesis: Exorcising the Devil in the Heart of Darkness”
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Friday,
February 17th
3:00-5:00
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Debates on secularism and Islam in the late Ottoman Empire
Asia at Noon sponsored by Asian Studies
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Friday,
February 24th
12:00-1:00
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M. Beth Tauke
UB School of Architecture and Planning
" A Sens-ible Home"
- a lecture on a prizewinning model home designed to be responsive to people's changing needs throughout the course of a lifetime.
Sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies
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Friday,
March 2nd
4:00 |
Museum of disABILITY History
3826 Main St., Amherst |
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“China's Roles in World History and Historiography”
pre-circulated paper available in History Department
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Friday,
March 9th
3:00-5:00 |
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Ellen Samuels
Departments of English, Gender and Women's Studies, Disability Studies Cluster, University of Wisconsin
"Ranges of Motion: Disability, Biocertification, and the Parking Permit Paradox."
Sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies
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Friday,
March 23rd
3:00 |
280 Park Hall |
Steve Ross
University of Southern California
Plesur Alumni Lecture: "Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics."
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Friday,
March 30th |
Screening Room,
UB Center for the Arts |
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Keynote at 1:00 pm:
Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont
"Physique Models, Cinema Idols, and Porn Stars: Selling the Beautiful Man in Britain, 1954-1980"
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Saturday,
March 31st
9:00 - 6:00
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Mark Ruff
Department of History, St. Louis University
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany: The Controversies over Pope Pius XII in the 1960s
Sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute
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Friday,
April 20th
3:00-5:00 |
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Conference:
Disability and Citizenship
Allison Carey, Sociology, Shippensburg University
Kim Nielsen, History, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Richard Scotch, Sociology, Public Policy, and Political Economy, University of Texas, Dallas.
Sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies
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Friday,
April 27th |
280 Park Hall |
PAST EVENTS
Michael Rembis
UB Department of History and Center for Disability Studies
The New Asylums: Gender, Race, Madness, and Mass Incarceration in the Neoliberal Era
Sponsored by the UB Gender Institute
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Thursday, September 15th
5:00-6:00 |
207 UB Commons |
New York Conference on Asian Studies 2011
Sponsored by the UB Gender Institute and Asian Studies
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Friday,
September 16th
12:30-7:30 |
Ramada Hotel, Grand Ballroom |
Gail Hershatter
Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
The Girl Who Burned the Banknotes: A Child Daughter-in-Law’s Story and the Shape of Social Change in Early Socialist China
Sponsored by UB Asian Studies
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Saturday,
September 17th
12:00-1:30 |
Ramada Hotel, Grand Ballroom |
David Herzberg,
UB Dept. of History
The Drug War in the Medicine Cabinet: Prescription Drug Addiction in the Age of Miracle Pills
Sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute
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Friday,
September 23rd
4:00-6:00 |
Hallwalls |
Bob Plumb
Department of History alumnus and independent scholar
Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier's Odyssey
History Department Alumni Speakers Series
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Monday,
October 3rd
2:00-4:00 |
532 Park Hall |
Michael Pearson
Professor Emeritus, University of New South Wales
Maritime History: Past, Present, and Future
Sponsored by the UB History Department, Baldy Center, the UB Geography Department, and Asian Studies
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Friday,
October 14th
1:00-3:00 |
532 Park Hall |
Leslie J. Reagan
University of Illinois, College of Law
Dr. Reagan will talk about her book Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
Sponsored by the UB Center for Disability Studies
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Friday,
October 14th
3:30-6:00 |
280 Park Hall |
Camilo Trumper
UB Department of Transnational Studies
Ephemeral Histories: Politics, Public Space and Public Art in Allende's Chile
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute
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Friday,
October 14th
4:00-6:00 |
Hallwalls |
Seong-Kon Kim
Seoul National University
East & West: Never the Twain Shall Meet?
English Department
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Friday,
October 21st
2:00-4:00 |
306 Clemens |
Jim Downs
Connecticut College, Department of History
Diagnosing Reconstruction: Disabled and Dependent Freed Slaves in the Age of Emancipation
Sponsored by the UB Center for Disability Studies
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Friday,
November 4th
3:30-6:00 |
280 Park Hall |
Brodwyn Fischer
Northwestern University
The Everyday Life of Inequality in an Age of Abolition: Recife, Brazil, 1870-1890
Sponsored by the Transamericas Research Workshop and the UB Department of History
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Friday,
November 11th
1:00-3:00 |
830 Clemens |
Martin Norden
University of Massachusetts, Department of Communications
Disability, Gender, and Nationhood in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July
Sponsored by the UB Center for Disability Studies
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Friday,
November 11th
3:30-6:00 |
280 Park Hall |
Jennifer Gaynor
UB Department of History
Archipelagic Mobility and Sama Narrative Transformation
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute
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Friday,
November 18th
4:00-6:00 |
Hallwalls |
Sasha Pack
UB Department of History
Europe’s Deepest Border: The Making of the Modern Strait of Gibraltar
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute
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Friday,
December 2nd
4:00-6:00 |
Hallwalls |
UB Center for Disability Studies presents
Susan Burch
Associate Professor of American Studies at Middlebury College
"Dis-remembered: Disability and Removal in US History "
co-sponsored y People, Inc. |
Thursday,
February 24th
5:00-7:00 |
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UB Center for Disability Studies presents
Susan Burch
Associate Professor of American Studies at Middlebury College
"Dis/covering Junius Wilson: Disability, Sources, Subjects, and Public History"
co-sponsored y People, Inc.
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Friday, February 25th
4:00-6:00 |
Museum of disABILITY History 3826 Main St., Amherst |
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Patrick McDevitt
Department of History
"Great Britain, Ireland, and the Haitian Revolution"
Scholars at Muse
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Friday,
March 4th
4:00 |
Albright Knox Gallery
1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo |
Marcus Vink
Professor of History, Fredonia
"Mission to Madurai: Dutch embassies to the Nayaka court of Madurai in the seventeenth century"
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Friday,
March 11th
3:00-5:00 |
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Mark Lempke
Doctoral Candidate UB Department of History
Defense: A Prophetic Moment: George McGovern's Presidential Campaign and the Crucible of Protestant Politics
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Monday,
March 28th
1:00-3:00 |
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Claire Schen
will present precirculated paper
"Learning from the Seas: Temporal and Spiritual
Traffique"
to the Early Modern Research Workshop's
"Faculty Works in Progress Series"
For a copy of the paper, contact Prof. Schen
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Friday,
April 1st
12:00 - 1:00 |
306 Clemens |
Robert Tignor
Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus, Princeton University
Prof. Tignor will address recent events in the Middle East and North Africa
Co-sponsored by the Baldy Center and W.W. Norton & Co.
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Friday,
April 1st
3:00-5:00 |
Baldy Center 509 O'Brian Hall |
CONFERENCE:
Transformations of Populism in Europe and the United States: History, Theories and Contemporary Tendencies
C0-sponsored by the Department of History |
Friday and Saturday,
April 8 & 9
9:00 |
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Erica Lehrer
Assistant Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology
Concordia University, Montreal
Curating dissensual community in post-Holocaust, post-Communist Poland
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Friday,
April 15th
3:00-5:00
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Tina Kibbe
Doctoral Candidate UB Department of History
"The Origins of the Connections Between the Eugenics and Public Health Movements in the U.S."
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Friday,
April 22nd
3:00-5:00 |
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Hal Langfur
Department of History
"Making the Wilderness Wild: Misadventures in the Backlands of Colonial Brazil"
Scholars at Muse
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Friday,
September 17th
4:00 |
Albright Knox Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo |
Jonathan Spence
Former MacArthur Fellow and Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University
Prof. Spence will be giving a talk as part of a fundraiser to endow a scholarship in Alison Des Forges' name.
The talk, "Matteo Ricci and His Legacy in China," is free and open to the public and begins at 7:00.
A reception for those who donate $50 or more will precede the talk at 6:00. |
Tuesday, September
21st
7:00 |
City Honors School
186 E. North St.
Buffalo |
Georg Iggers
Emeritus, Department of History
"An Examination of the Relevance
of Marxist Perspectives for Historical Writing Today" |
Friday,
October 15th
3:00- to 5:00 |
532 Park Hall |
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Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh.
"Rethinking the Amistad Rebellion"
The talk will be co-sponsored by the Department of History, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Department of African and African American Studies, Department of American Studies |
Friday,
November 5th
3:00-5:00 pm |
Baldy Center
509 O'Brian Hall |
Michael A. Rembis
Visiting Scholar in the Center for Disability Studies and the Department of History
“Athlete First”: A Note on Passing, Disability and Sport
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Friday December 3, 2010
4:00 – 6:00 |
280 Park Hall |
Department Colloquium - Work in Progress
Morgan Denton , doctoral student, Department of History
"Prostitution and the Irish Free State: Amending the Criminal Law Amendment Act"
The paper will be pre-circulated |
Friday,
January 29th
3:00-5:00 |
532 Park Hall |
Department Colloquium - Work in progress
Ramya Sreenivasan
History Department
"Remembered Origins: Old and new genealogies in early modern Rajasthan"
The paper will be pre-circulated |
Friday, February 26th
3:00-5:00 |
532 Park Hall |
Department Colloquium - Work in Progress
Mark Lempke, doctoral student, Department of History
"Forging a Concerned Evangelism: Evangelicals for McGovern and the Prophetic Priority"
The paper will be pre-circulated
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Friday,
March 5th
3:00-5:00 |
532 Park Hall |
Michael H. Fisher
Oberlin College, History Department
"Journeys to the West: Asian Travelers to Early Modern Europe"
This public lecture is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Research Workshop on Travel in the Early Modern World. |
Friday,
March 19th
12:30-2:00 |
120 Clemens Hall |
Michael H. Fisher
Oberlin College, History Department
"The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo -Indian M.P. and Chancery 'Lunatic'."
This discussion is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Works-in-Progress series. Participants should read the pre-circulated paper. Contact Ramya Sreenivasan for details. |
Friday,
March 19th
3:00-5:00 |
Venue TBA |
Crossing Divides: The 19th Annual Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference |
Saturday,
March 27th
9:00-5:00 |
Center for Tomorrow |
4th American-Canadian Conference on German and European History
For details, contact Andreas Daum |
Friday,
April 9th
10:00-6:00 |
203, Old Main Building, Canisius College |
Lecture in Honor of the Scholarship and Career of Richard E. Ellis
"The Power to Say No:
Constitutional Politics and Constitutional Law in the Nineteenth Century"
Michael Les Benedict
Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University
Sponsored by the History Department and The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy |
Thursday,
April 15th
4:00 pm |
509 O'Brian Hall |
"American Influences on Nazi Eugenics,"
Michael Rembis
Post-doctoral scholar, History Department
Sponsored by the UB Center for Disability Studies and the History Department |
Friday,
April 16th
3:00-5:00 |
280 Park Hall |
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