Jamie Kreiner, Professor of History, University of Georgia, will deliver a lecture on medieval monks’ diets, which is related to her forthcoming book The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction (W.M. Norton, January 2023)
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.
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."
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 […]
Mark Hineline: History, Climate Change, and the "Specific Sciences" Description
