Graduate Workshop

The workshop provides an informal forum for graduate students to present their research or papers in progress to an audience of their peers. The meetings take place from 4.15 - 6.00 pm in the Center at CGIS S-422. Please contact the workshop organizers James Martin and Josh Specht with presentation proposals for the following semester.


 

Spring Semester 2013 Program

 

February 14 2013
Josh Specht
Amity with the United States

February 28 2013
Cristina Groeger
Service to Selection: Constructing the Boston Public School System, 1900-1930

March 7 2013
Sarah Shortall
Catholicism in the State of Exception: A History of the French Church under the Third Republic from the Perspective of Jersey

March 14 2013
Nick Crawford
Hunger Accounts: Slave Subsistence and Plantation Finance in the British Caribbean, 1790-1815

March 28 2013
Shirley Ye
German Shipping and Empire and the Making of the China Coast, 1831-1914

April 4 2013
Caroline Spence
Spanish Laws and the Amelioration of British Slavery

April 11 2013
Yael Merkin
'We were much afraid of our voices for a long time': Intellectual Capital and Gilded Age New York's Female Elite

April 18 2013
Jeremy Zallen
Piney Light: Slaves, Seamstresses, and Treacherous Lamps in Antebellum America

April 25 2013
Bryant Etheridge
Countervailing Trends and Contradictory Developments: Human Capital and Class Formation in Houston, 1929-1941

May 2 2013
Stefan Eich
From History to Evolution: Jürgen Habermas and the Philosophy of History

May 9 2013
Katrina Forrester
The Problem of Civil Disobedience in American Political Philosophy, 1964-1977

 

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