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Heather Cox Richardson Lecture: Government Shutdowns & Partisan Risk

Dr. Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College, will present a public lecture exploring the partisan nature of recent federal government shutdowns by recounting the forgotten history of the nation’s first government shutdown in 1879. A reception will follow the event. This lecture is part of the Russell Library's annual observance of Congress Week, an event created by the Association of the Centers of Congress in 2009 to…


Guest Lecture: Mariana Ivanova

Mariana Ivanova, assistant professor of German, Miami University of Ohio, will speak about "The American West in Cold War Eastern European Cinema: Transnational Agenda and Commentary on Race in DEFA's Indianerfilme." The event includes the lecture, film screening at 3:30 p.m., and Q&A with Ivanova. Sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies with additional support from the Department of Theatre and Film…


Dirty History Workshop's Annual Guest Lecture: Jason Moore

Jason Moore, Associate Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, will give the annual Dirty History lecture: "Slaveship Earth: Climate Crisis, Planetary Justice, and the Rise of Capitalism." From the author's web site: "Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso,…


Book tour guest lecture: David Silkenat

David Silkenat presents a talk on his new book,  Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Silkenat is a senior lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the author of Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina. He is a co-host of The Whiskey Rebellion, an American History podcast. This is a FREE and public event.


Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series: Cassia Roth

Cassia Roth, History and Latin American & Caribbean Studies, presents: "Policing Pregnancy: Statecraft, Poverty and Reproductive Health in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."


Birth and Risk in the Roman Empire

A guest lecture by Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan), sponsored by the Departments of History and Classics and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts. Under the Roman Empire, family fertility was valorized in imperial ideology in unprecedented ways. In this context, how did Romans theorize and work to mitigate the risks of generation, gestation, and birth? Approaches to managing these risks were rooted in constructions of the…


Franklin-Liverpool lecture: Dr. Christienna Fryar

Franklin-Liverpool visiting faculty lecture. Dr. Christienna Fryar will be presenting, “Fears of Jim Crow: British Sovereignty, American Expansionism, and the 1907 Kingston Earthquake.” This is a FREE and public event.


"Seven Propositions on Slow Time," Dr. Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University

Jonathan Sachs is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal and Principal Investigator of the Montreal-based Interacting with Print Research Group. His work focuses on British literature from 1750-1850, where his research explores the role of literature in constructing historical and temporal experience, including the uses of antiquity, the anticipation of the future, and practices of reading. His research has been…


Dr. Cassia Roth: "Specters of the Womb: Enslaved Women, Childbirth, and Pain in 19th Century Brazil"

The Romance Language Colloquium Series present Dr. Cassia Roth: "Specters of the Womb: Enslaved Women, Childbirth, and Pain in Nineteenth Century Brazil." Dr. Roth is Assistant Professor in History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.


Mock Job Talk:"“Settling Down for the Long Haul”: The Struggle for Freedom Rights in Southwest Georgia, 1945-1995”

Doctoral alumnus James Wall will present a mock job talk, ““Settling Down for the Long Haul”: The Struggle for Freedom Rights in Southwest Georgia, 1945-1995 .” All are welcome, graduate students and faculty are strongly encouraged to attend.
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