2008-09
All seminars are held in 211 Dickinson, on Fridays at 10:15 a.m., unless otherwise noted.
Fall Semester
Friday, September 19
Frederick Cooper, New York University
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: France and French Africa , 1945-1960
Friday, September 26
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA
A Roomful of Mirrors: On the Circulation of Textual and Visual Representations between Early Modern India and Europe
Commentator: Bhavani Raman, Princeton University
Friday, October 3
Molly Greene, Princeton University
Documents for the Pirates: The Use of Consular Authority in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Commentator: Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
Friday, October 10
James Turner, Notre Dame
Altertumswissenschaft in Motion: British Adaptations of German Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century
Commentator: Constanze Guthenk, Princeton University
Friday, October 17
Frank Guridy, University of Texas
Performing Garveyite Culture in Cuba , 1919-1930
Commentator: Joshua Guild, Princeton University
Friday, October 24
John Carson, University of Michigan
Between Medical Authority and Legal Precedent: Adjudicating “Unsoundness of Mind” in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Jurisprudence
Commentator: Michael Gordin, Princeton University
Friday, November 7
Phyllis Whitman Hunter, University of NC at Greensboro
Title: Improvising Identity: The Arts of Asia in Early America
Commentator: John Murrin, Princeton University
Friday, November 14
Alan Bewell, University of Toronto
Colonial Natures in Translation
Commentator: William Howarth, Princeton University
Friday, November 21
Mimi Sheller, Swarthmore College/Davis Fellow
Out of the Ground, Into the Sky: How Aluminum Put the World in Motion
Commentator: Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
Friday, December 5
Susan Pennybacker, Trinity College/ Davis Fellow
Political Exile in Postwar London: The South Africans
Commentator: Jan Gross, Princeton University
Friday, December 12
Clifford Rosenberg, City College of New York
Between France and Algeria : TB and TB Control, c. 1890-1940
Commentator: Helen Tilley, Princeton University
Friday, February 6
Linda Colley, Princeton University
Power, Gender, and Obsession: The world-wide political thought of Philip Francis
Commentator: D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University
Friday, February 13
Harold J. Cook, Wellcome Trust Centre, University College London
Creating a medical movement in the early Enlightenment: Chinese medicine, the Jesuits, and the Dutch East India Company
Commentator: Benjamin Elman, Princeton University
Friday, February 20
Andrés Mario Zervigón, Rutgers University
Modernity Inverted. Looking Closely at Erna Lendvai-Dircksen's Face of the German Race
Commentator: Michael Jennings, Princeton University
Friday, February 27
Thomas Bender, New York University/Davis Fellow
America: A Global History
Commentator: Eric Weitz, Princeton University
Friday, March 6
Barbara Metcalf, University of Michigan
Nawab Shah Jahan Begum: Dress, Design, and Decorum in Colonial India and England
Commentator: Susan Naquin, Princeton University
Friday, March 13
Celia Applegate, University of Rochester Davis Fellow
Musical Itinerancy in the World of Nations: the Case of Germany, its Music, and its Musicians
Commentator: Philip Nord, Princeton University
Friday, March 27
Nira Wickramasinghe, University of Colombo/Davis Fellow
Perception, Reception and Reinvention of a Commodity: The Singer Sewing Machine in Colonial Sri Lanka
Commentator: Brad Simpson, Princeton University
Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28
"Ideas in Motion" Conference in 211 Dickinson Hall
Friday, April 3
David Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University/Davis Fellow (tentative)
Islam and the Making of Medieval Jewry
Commentator: Mark Cohen, Princeton University
Friday, April 10
April Masten, SUNY Stony Brook/Davis Fellow
The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture
Commentator: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Friday, April 17
Robert Stam, New York University/Davis Fellow
Transmutations of a Trope: The Figure of the Radical Indian
Commentator: TBA
Friday, April 24
Sven Beckert, Harvard University
The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Commentator: Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University
Stone Lectures, located in Frist Room 302:
Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, April 28
Race and Redemption: Barack Obama and the Memory of Civil Rights
Wednesday, April 29
Obama and the Truly Disadvantaged: The Politics of Race and Class
Thursday, April 30
Post-Racial America?