Events

April 27 -- 8:55a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

American Civilization Dissertation Colloquium
Thompson Room, Barker Center

Advanced students will present for discussion chapters of dissertations-in-progress.

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May 3 -- 8:55 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

American Civilization Dissertation Prospectus Conference
Thompson Room, Barker Center

Third-year students will present for discussion their dissertations proposals.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 5-7pm

AmCiv Workshop
Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133

Timothy McGrath
“Happy Cows: Intensive Farming and the Science of Animal Emotion”

Stephen Vider
“‘Let it always be summer’: Fire Island, Friendship, and the Limits of the Household”

Thursday, October 27, 2011, 5-7pm

AmCiv Workshop
Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133

Cedric Essi (University of Nuremberg/Erlangen, Germany)
"A House Divided"? Interracial Genealogies in Contemporary American Life Writing

Sandy Placido
"A Common Battle: Ana Livia Cordero and the Development of African American and Puerto Rican Solidarity"

Tuesday, November 15, 5-7pm

American Civilization Workshop
McFadden Room (Barker 024)

Shirley Thompson (University of Texas at Austin)
"The Lives of Black Folk: The Atlanta Life Insurance Company and the Business of Black Posterity."

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5-7pm

AmCiv Workshop
Kresge Room , Barker Center

David Roman (University of Southern California)
"’The Hydrants are Open’: Latinos and Broadway in the 21st Century"

December 1st and 2nd, 2011-- morning sessions beginning at 8:45

American Civilization Dissertation Colloquium

Advanced students will present for discussion chapters of dissertations-in-progress.

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Tuesday, February 14, 5-7pm

AmCiv Workshop
Finnegan Room (Barker 403)

Anna Su (Harvard Law School)
"A God-Fearing Democracy: FDR, Religious Liberty and the Creation of the Postwar Order"

Jacob Spencer (AmCiv) will present parts of his dissertation in progress on autobiography in the early republic.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 5-7pm

AmCiv Workshop
Kresge Room, Barker Center 403

Ann Laura Stoler (New School, NY) on U.S. imperialism.

Tuesday, March 26, 2012, 5-7pm

AmCiv Workshop
Kresge Room, Barker Center 403

Prof. Suleiman Osman (George Washington University)
“The New Localism”: The Global Neighborhood Movement in North America and Europe in the 1970s

April 17 -- 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

AmCiv Workshop
Finnegan, Barker Center 403

Summer A. Shafer - "The Galveston Spirit: How  a Hurricane Remade American Politics"

Brian Goodman - "The Cowards: An Epigraphy"