Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 Programs
EMPIRE
Fall 2004 Program
September 22
SEMINAR
?Legacies of Spanish Imperial History: The Strange Histories of ?Race? and ?Caste??
Patricia Seed, Rice University
October 13
SEMINAR
The Russian-Soviet Empire: A Test of Neo-realism??The Russian-Soviet Empire: A Test of Neo-realism
William Wohlforth,Dartmouth College
November 17
SEMINAR
Uneven Development in the History of US Empire??Uneven Development in the History of US Empire
Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke College
December 8
SEMINAR
Empire in the Metropolis: Japan?s Manchurian Enterprise, 1931-1945??Empire in the Metropolis: Japan?s Manchurian Enterprise, 1931-1945
Louise Young, New York University
November 6
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Distinguished Lecture in History and Public Affairs
America?s Place in the World in the 21st Century??America?s Place in the World in the 21st Century
John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
December 1
History Graduate Students Association Inaugural Annual Lecture
"Jazz Folk Here and There: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation"
Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University
Spring 2004 Program
February 9
SEMINAR
"Skulls on Display: Scientific Racism at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, 1928-1945."
Alice Conklin, University of Rochester
February 16
FACULTY WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
"Encounters of Empire: The British, the Xhosa and the Making of an Imperial Culture 1830-1870."
Richard Price, University of Maryland
March 1
SEMINAR
"A Black fin de si0?5cle Critic of Empire: Dr. Theophilus Scholes versus Joseph Chamberlain."
Winston James, Columbia University
March 15
SEMINAR
"The Web of Empire: Marriage, Succession and Class in the Aztec State."
Ross Hassig, University of Oklahoma
April 5
SEMINAR
"Empire and Identities: British and Other Empires in Comparative Perspective"
Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia
April 20
SEMINAR
"The Uses of History in Contemporary Debates about Empire"
Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
April 30- May 1
CONFERENCE
0?8Imperial Questions0?9
Linda Colley, Princeton University
Patricia Crone, Princeton University
Toyin Falola, University of Texas
Erich Gruen, University of California at Berkeley
John Judis, The New Republic
John Lampe, University of Maryland
David Landes, Harvard University
Steven Schuker, University of Virginia
Mrinalini Sinha, Pennsylvania State University
Ernest Wilson, University of Maryland
Robin Yates, McGill University
Vladimir Zubok, George Washington University
Monday, April 4
0?6Historians/Art Historians at Work: Interpreting the Visual0?7
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 p.m. 0?4 6:00 p.m.
Steven Mansbach and Sally Promey, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
Saverio Giovacchini and Paul Landau, History Department, University of Maryland
Sunday and Monday, April 17-18
"Shaping the Middle East: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an Age of Transition, ca. 500-800 C.E."
Art/Sociology Building 2203, Sunday, April 17 & Holzapfel 0140, Monday, April 18
Co-Sponsors: Jewish Studies, Department of History, Art History and Archaeology, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the College of Arts and Humanities
Friday, May 6
"The Colonial and the Visual"
Holzapfel 0142, The Conference Room at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas, Austin
Frances Gouda, University of Amsterdam
Lynn Lees, University of Pennsylvania
Sonya Michel, University of Maryland
Hudita Mustafa, David Driskell Center and Emory University
February 23
Annual Alumni Lecture
"The Historian as Filmmaker"
Donald Miller, Lafayette College
May 3
THE WALTER RUNDELL LECTURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
"Brown v. Board and the Mystification of Race"
Charles Payne, Duke University
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