Discussion of historian Dipesh Chakrabarty's "The Climates of History: Four Theses." The article can be found at: http://www.library.umaine.edu/auth/EZProxy/test/authej.asp?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/596640
Description: In the 1960s, Henry David Thoreau became an symbol of American dissent: a Walden Pond drop-out, an anti-war anarchist, a theorist of civil disobedience, and even a drug-user. Dr. Judd will describe this unprecedented notoriety as an episode in Thoreau’s rise from obscurity in 1862 to near universal recognition a century later. The intense […]
On February 6th at 3:10pm Michael Socolow, an associate professor in Communication and Journalism, will speak on "Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics." The link for the symposium poster can be found below. Six Minutes in Berlin
On March 27th, at 3:00pm, Joy Giguere, an associate professor of the History Department at Penn State University, will speak on "People Seem to go there to Enjoy Themselves: Public (Mis)behavior & the Rural Cemetery Movement in America."
On Thursday, March 30th, Svanhildur Óskarsdóttirof, of the University of Iceland, will speak on the manuscripts of Njáls saga, one of the masterpieces of medieval literature. The flyer for the Symposium is attached below. March 30 2017 Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir Flyer
On April 6th, Rhonda Y. Williams, a professor of history and director at Social Justice Institute Case Western Reserve University, will speak on "Concrete Demands: Black Power History and Legacies in the 21st Century" for the annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace & Social Justice Lecture. There will be a reception and book signing to follow. […]
On April 10th, at 12Noon, Sean Mills, a professor at the University of Toronto, will speak on a transnational history of jazz musicians and their travels between New York and Montreal.
Dr. Kimmerer, a professor of Environmental Science and Forestry at SUNY College in Syracuse, NY, will be giving her talk on "The Personhood of Plants: Land, Language and the Rights of Nature" at 7:00 p.m. on May 15th in the McIntire Room at the Buchanan Alumni House. This presentation will explore on our relationship to […]
