2009-10
FALL SEMESTER
Friday, October 2
Julia Smith , University of Glasgow
Gathered Together from Everywhere: Mapping Early Medieval Relic Collections, c.700-c.1100
Friday, October 9
Ania Loomba , University of Pennsylvania
Re-orienting the English Renaissance
Friday, October 16
Adam McKeown , Columbia University
The Movement and Meaning of Mobility 1830-1940
Friday, October 23
Eve Troutt Powell , University of Pennsylvania
Bodies Caught on Film: Photographing Sudanese Slaves in the Early Twentieth Century
Friday, October 30
Mae Ngai , Columbia University
The True Story of Ah Jake: Translation and Justice among Chinese Miners in Nineteenth-Century California
Friday, November 13
Elizabeth Mancke , University of Akron
Spatially Radical Empires: European Expansion and the Making of Modern Geopolitics
Friday, November 20
Thomas Lekan , Davis Center Fellow/University of South Carolina
Green Tourism: Consumption and Conservation in Twentieth-Century Germany
Friday, December 4
Petra Goedde , Davis Center Fellow/Temple University
Cold Peace: The International Discourse on Peace during the Cold War
Friday, December 11
John McNeill , Georgetown University
Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles Quadrimaculatus , 1780-81
Friday, December 18
Dorothy Noyes , Davis Center Fellow/Ohio State University
From the Camel's Mouth: The Moving Local of Seventeenth-Century Languedoc
SPRING SEMESTER
Friday, February 12
Daniel Botsman , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Freedom Without Slavery? The Case of the Maria Luz and the Meanings of Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Japan
Friday, February 19
Patrick Geary , University of California, Los Angeles
The "Living Dead:" Disputing Texts and Claiming Languages in the Nineteenth Century
Friday, February 26 -- postponed to Friday, April 30
Jocelyn Olcott , Davis Center Fellow/Duke University
The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History: The 1975 International Women’s Year Conference and the Challenge of Transnational Feminism
Friday, March 5
Mary Nolan , Davis Center Fellow/New York University
Europe and America in the Twentieth Century
Friday, March 12
Pamela Smith , Davis Center Fellow/Columbia University
Knowledge in Motion: A History of Science in the Early Modern World
Friday, March 26
Webb Keane , University of Michigan
Materiality, Deep Time, and Cultural Comparison
Friday, April 2
Cemil Aydin , George Mason University
Debating the Ottoman Caliphate and the “Muslim World,” 1839-1924: A Global Intellectual History
Friday, April 9
Michael David-Fox , Davis Center Fellow/University of Maryland
Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to Soviet Russia, 1921-1941
Friday, April 16
Elena Isayev , Davis Center Fellow/University of Exeter
Paradoxes of Place: Pausing Motion in Ancient Italy and Now
Friday, April 23
Steven Shapin , Harvard University
Eating Good in the Neighborhood: The Medical and Moral History of Dietary Localism
Stone Lecture Series
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine
"Why Is China So Big?"
010 E. Pyne ~ 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27
"Almost Under Heaven: Making and Remaking a "Civilized" Empire"
Wednesday, April 28
"Land, Water, Marriage, and Migration: Regional Economics and Imperial/National Politics"
Thursday, April 29
"One Nation Under Gods: Religion, Culture, and the Containment of Local Loyalties"