University at Buffalo Department of History

Fall 2009

Department Colloquium - Work in progress

Carole Emberton

History Department

"A Tale of Two Souths "

From her book manuscript, "Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence and the American South after the Civil War"

Friday,

September 18th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Michael Seidman

University of North Carolina, Wilmington, History Department

"The Spanish Counterrevolution and Civil War (1936-9) in Comparative and Global Perspective"

Friday, October 2nd

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Ken Mills

University of Toronto, History Department

"The Eyes of Faith Will See: Sacred Journeying in the Early Modern Spanish World"

This public lecture is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Research Workshop on Travel in the Early Modern World. 

Friday,

October 9th

12:30 pm

280 Park Hall

Ken Mills

University of Toronto, History Department

"The Desert of Pariacaca in Passing, November, 1603."

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,

October 9th

3:00-5:00

Silverman Room, 3rd floor, Clemens Hall

Philip Stern

Duke University, History Department

"'The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice': Providence, Piety, Proselytism, and the Late Seventeenth-Century English East India Company."

Friday,

October 23rd

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Interdisciplinary Atlantic Studies Workshop

Sponsored by the Provost's Office for Strategic Strengths

Papers by Dalia Muller, Hal Langfur, Hershini Bhana, Justin Read

Comments by Carine Mardorossian, Carl Nightingale

Wednesday,

November 4th

Time TBA

9 Norton Hall

History Department Work in Progress Colloquium

Craig Miller, doctoral student, Department of History

"The Pequot War: Contrasting Systems of Power and Production in Southern New England."

The paper will be pre-circulated

Friday,

November 13th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

 

 

Spring 2009

Benjamin Schmidt

University of Washington, History Department

"Effacing Imperial Difference, Inventing European Exoticism:
Geography circa 1700"

Organized by the Early Modern Reading Group

Friday,

February 20th

12:30-2:00

532 Park Hall

Benjamin Schmidt

University of Washington, History Department

"Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol"

This discussion is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Works-in-Progress series.  Participants should read the paper and the powerpoint presentation with images, posted on UB's online course reserve, under HIS 000.

Friday,

February 20th

3:30-5:30

Silverman Room, 3rd floor, Clemens Hall

Department Colloquium - Work in Progress

John Maclean

“'Reckless of Consequences'- British Government reactions to American Fenianism, 1865-1868”

Friday, February 27th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Claire Schen

History Department

"Apostasy: The Christian Traveler's Detour"

This discussion is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Works-in-Progress series.  Participants should read the paper which will be posted on UB's online course reserve, under HIS 000.

Friday,

March 6th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Susan O'Donovan

Harvard University, African and African American Studies and History Departments

"Runaways, Ladies Maids, and Slaves on the Move: Operationalizing the Grapevine Telegraph"

Thursday,

April 2

12:30-2:00

509 O'Brian Hall

Paul Freedman

Yale University, History Department

"High-End Dining in New York City before the Gilded Age"

Friday,

April 10th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Department Colloquium - Work in Progress

David Head

"Cruising the Gulf of Mexico: French and South American Privateering from Louisiana, 1810-1815"

Friday,

April 24th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

 

PAST  EVENTS

Fall 2008

Department Colloquium - Work in Progress

Erik Seeman

"Across the Waters: African American Deathways in the Eighteenth Century"

 

Friday, September 12th,

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Erik Seeman

"Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800"

Scholars at Muse

Thursday,

October 10th

4:00

Albright Knox Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave

Nabil Matar

University of Minnesota, English Department

"The Priest, the Sufi, and the Chaplain: Three Travelers to the Holy Land in the Seventeenth Century"

Thursday,

October 16th

12:30-2:00

532 Park Hall

Nabil Matar

University of Minnesota, English Department

Title to be announced

This discussion is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Works-in-Progress series.  Participants should read the paper which will be posted on UB's online course reserve, under HIS 000.

Thursday,

October 16th

4:00-6:00

Clemens 318

“Should I Become a Social Studies Teacher?”

Department of History Workshop

Presenters: Professors Catherine Cornbleth and Sarah Robert of UB's Graduate School of Education, Department of Learning and Instruction

Friday, October 17

1:00-2:00 p.m.

280 Park Hall

Weili Ye

Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of Massassuchetts, Boston

"Walking a Fine Line: Telling Our Life-Stories in the Mao Years"

Friday, November 21

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Carole Emberton

"Between the Law and the Lash : Race, Violence, and American Citizenship in the Age of Slave Emancipation"

Scholars at Muse

Friday,

December 5th,

4:00

Albright Knox Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave

 

April 2008

 

Jonathan Glassman

Professor of History, Northwestern University

“Abolitionism, Racial Violence, and the Invention of Historical Memory in Twentieth Century East Africa”

Friday,

April 4th,

3:00-5:00

280 Park Hall
Plesur Conference Saturday, April 5th Clemens 120

 

Graduate Colloquium/Roundtable

on

"Identity"

with

Hal Langfur, Kristin Stapleton, David Herzberg, Susan Cahn , David Gerber

 

Friday, April 11

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Philip Gould

Brown University, English Department

Public Talk:  "Early Black Atlantic Writing and the
Cultures of Enlightenment"

Friday,

April 18th

12:30-2:00

280 Park Hall

Philip Gould

Brown University

We will read and discuss chapter 4 of Gould's _Barbaric Traffic_, and a forum on "Historicizing Race in Early American Studies," _Early American Literature_ 41:2 (2006): 305-37, which includes a contribution from Gould.

This discussion is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Works-in-Progress series.  Participants should read the paper available through UB's online course reserve, under HIS 000.

Friday,

April 18th

3:00-5:00

Clemens 436

Doris L. Bergen

Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto

Public talk:  "Antisemitism, Opportunism, and Family Ties: The
Ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe and the Holocaust"

Friday,

April 25th

3:00 - 5:00

532 Park Hall

September 2007

Third American-Canadian Conference (ACC)

In German and Modern European History.

Click here for a program.

For more info, please contact Prof. Daum.

September 14-15 Canisius College

Isabel V. Hull

John Stambaugh Professor of History, Cornell University

Keynote address:
"Might versus Right": International Law and the German Foreign Office in World War I

Friday, September 14th

5:00 - 6:00

Campus of Canisius College, Old Main 223

Graduate History Association Brown Bag Discussion:
The Graduate Student Lifestyle

Thursday, September 20th,

12:00-1:00

532 Park Hall

Asia at Noon Brown Bag Talk:

Michael Lazich

Associate Professor of History, Buffalo State

              “American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century China”

Friday, September 21st

12:00-1:00

280 Park Hall

Geoffrey Parker

Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History,

The Ohio State University

"Climate and Catastrophe: The World Crisis of the
Mid-Seventeenth Century"

Friday, September 21st

2:30-4:30

280 Park Hall

Jennifer Morgan

Associate Professor of History, NYU
"Racial Thinking and Colonial Numeracy: Gender and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade."

Thursday, September 27th

12:30-2:00

280 Park Hall

Jennifer Morgan

Associate Professor of History, NYU

Seminar with the Early Modern Reading Group

For readings go to UB's online reserves and type in "HIS000"

Thursday, September 27th

3:00-5:00

Clemens 306
October 2007

Asia at Noon Brown Bag Talk:

Jennifer Gaynor

Assistant Professor of History, UB

              “Narrative transformation in Sama social memory” (Maritime peoples of Southeast Asia) 

 

Friday, October 5th

12:00-1:00

1004 Clemens Hall

Graduate Colloquium/Roundtable on Historiography, with Tamara Thornton, Georg Iggers, Roger Des
Forges, and Jonathan Dewald

Friday, October 12th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

Vincent Carretta

Professor of English, University of Maryland
"Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa (1745?-1797), Founding Father of Abolition."

Thursday, October 18th

12:30-2:00

Park 280

 

Vincent Carretta

Professor of English, University of Maryland

Seminar with the Early Modern Reading Group

For readings go to UB's online reserves and type in "HIS000"

Thursday, October 18th

3:00-5:00

Clemens 306

Graduate History Association Brown Bag Discussion:

How To Organize a Conference Panel

Thursday, October 25th,

12:00-1:00

532 Park Hall
November 2007

 

Asia at Noon Brown Bag Talk:

Tae-Hyung Kim,

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Daemen College

              “The Shifting ROK-US Alliance”

Friday, November 2nd

12:00-1:00

280 Park Hall

Graduate Colloquium/Roundtable on Religion and Historical Method with Bruce Hall, Ramya Sreenivassan, Claire Schen, and Erik Seeman

Friday, November 2nd

3:00-5:00

Park 532

Humanities Institute New Faculty Seminar Series
Carole Emberton

will be discussing her article"The Limits of Incorporation: Violence, Gun Rights, and Gun Regulation in the Reconstruction South," published in the Stanford Law and Policy Review (vol. 17, no. 6, 2006).

Friday, November 9, 1-2:30 p.m 280 Park Hall

Humanities Institute Fall Open House
Two Lives in Uncertain Times: Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as Scholars and Citzens
Drs. Georg and Wilma Iggers

November 14, 4-6 p.m

420 Capen Hall

     
December 2007
     
January 2008


Glenda Gilmore

Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale

"From Tuskegee to Moscow: The Intellectual Journey of a Black Communist, 1919--­1939"

 

January 25th, 2:00- 4:00 280 Park Hall

Kristin Stapleton

Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies, UB

&

Jessie Poon

Professor of Asian Studies, UB

will give a presentation on US – China Trade Policy

as part of the International Institute of Buffalo’s
Great Decisions Foreign Affairs Discussion Series

Monday, January 28th

  5:30 – 7:00 pm

864 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo
February 2008

 

Hershini Young

UB English Department

"The Strange Case of Tryntjie of Madagascar: Cape
Slavery, Sex, and Consent, 1694-1722."

This discussion is part of the Early Modern Reading Group's Works-in-Progress series.  Participants should read the paper available through UB's online course reserve, under HIS 000.

 

Tuesday February 26, 3-5pm Clemens
306

 

Sherman Cochran

Hu Shih Professor of History, Cornell University

"Chinese Business Dynasty: Family Survival Strategies in War and Revolution"

co-sponsored by Asian Studies and History with support from the School of Management

 

Friday, February 29th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall
March 2008

Graduate Colloquium/Roundtable

on

"Nationalism"

with

Carol Emberton, Patrick McDevitt, Sasha Pack & Jennifer Gaynor

 

Friday,

March 21st

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall

 

William Tsutsui

Professor  of History and Executive Director of the Confucius Institute, University of Kansas

"War & the Environment: The Case of Japan during World War II."

sponsored by Asian Studies

 

Monday, March 24th

3:00 - 4:30

280 Park Hall

 

Eric Jennings

Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto

"Empire of Spas: Hydrotherapy and French Colonialism, 1848-1945"

Wednesday, March 26th

3:00-5:00

532 Park Hall
     

 

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