2010-11
Fall Semester
Friday, September 24
Carol Greenhouse , Princeton University
Question Authority: Emile Durkheim and the Paradox of Political Consensus
Commentator: Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University
Friday, October 1
Julia Adams, Yale University
Sovereignty and Historical Sociology: From State Theory to Theories of Empire
Commentator: Yair Mintzker, Princeton University
Friday, October 8
Nasser Hussain, Amherst College
Colonial Air Control: Political Authority and Air Power in the Interwar Years
Commentator: Bhavani Raman, Princeton University
Friday, October 15
Matthew Butler, University of Texas at Austin
The "Totonac Luther": Patriarch Perez and the Failed Christianization of the Mexican Revolution
Commentator: Robert Karl, Princeton University
Friday, October 22
Dan Edelstein, Stanford University
How to Think About Revolutions
Commentator: David Bell, Princeton University
Friday, October 29
Mayke de Jong, University of Utrecht
Scandalum: Public Offense and Public Authority in the Carolingian World
Commentator: Helmut Reimitz, Princeton University
Canceled -- Friday, November 12
Caroline Elkins, Harvard University
Resurgence of Empire: Britain, Palestine, and Counter-Insurgency after the Second World War
Commentator: Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
Friday, November 19
Eric D. Weitz, Davis Center Fellow/University of Minnesota
Toward a Critical History of Human Rights
Commentator: G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University
Friday, December 3
Tobie Meyer-Fong, Johns Hopkins University
The Politics of Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century China
Commentator: Susan Naquin, Princeton University
Friday, December 10
Katherine Verdery, Davis Center Fellow/CUNY Graduate Center
Secrets and Truths: Romania's Secret Police and Dilemmas of Legitimation
Commentator: Jan Gross, Princeton University
Friday, December 17
Mridu Rai, Davis Center Fellow/ Trinity College, Dublin
Geographies of Justice: Caste and Violence in Colonial North India
Commentator: Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
Spring Semester
Friday, February 4
Michael Gordin , Princeton University
Skirmishes on the Edge of Creation: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Legitimacy of Science
Commentator: Matthew Stanley, Gallatin School, New York University
Friday, February 11
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
A Whole World Talking: Petitions and Peoples before the Mandates System of the League of Nations
Commentator: Robert Tignor, Princeton University
Friday, February 18
Monica Black, Davis Center Fellow/University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Folktales: The German and Central European Lives of Alfred Karasek, Folklorist
Commentator: Adam Beaver, Princeton University
Friday, February 25
Mary S. Morgan, Davis Center Fellow/London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam
A History of Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Social Sciences: Authoritative but not Legitimate?
Commentator: Mitch Duneier, Princeton University
Friday, March 4
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, New York University
Law, Scholasticism, and the Authentication of Authority: A Clash of Epistemologies in Thirteenth-Century Europe
Commentator: William C. Jordan, Princeton University
Friday, March 11
Sabrina Mervin, Davis Center Fellow/CNRS, Paris
Organizing Disorder -- Religious Authority in Contemporary Shiite Islam
Commentator: Max Weiss, Princeton University
Friday, March 25
Eva Giloi, Rutgers University, Newark
Culture, Genius, and the Politics of Fame: Paving the Way for Charisma in Germany, 1871-1933
Commentator: Dagmar Herzog, CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, April 1
Andres Resendez, University of California, Davis
The Greatest Insurrection of the Southwest as a Slave Rebellion?: Revisiting the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Commentator: Wendy Warren, Princeton University
Friday, April 8
Paula E. Findlen, Stanford University
After the Trial: Galileo, His Early Biographers, and the Catholic Church
Commentator: Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Friday, April 15
Hugh Thomas, Davis Center Fellow/University of Miami
English Secular Clergy during the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Commentator: Celia Chazelle, The College of New Jersey
Friday, April 22
Rachel St. John, Davis Center Fellow/Harvard University
The Imagined States of America: Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century America
Commentator: Jonathan Levy, Princeton University
April 26-28
Lawrence Stone Lectures
Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University