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Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 Programs
HISTORIANS AND THE VISUAL

Fall 2004 Program

September 13
SEMINAR
"Interrogating the Eyewitness: Further Thoughts on the Uses of Images as Historical Evidence"
Peter Burke, Cambridge University

October 18
SEMINAR
"Racial Anxieties, Liberal Sentiments and the Visual Politics of Culture in Post-Revolutionary Oaxaca"
Deborah Poole, Johns Hopkins University

November 1
SEMINAR
"Melville J. Herskovits and the Visualization of the African Diaspora"
Vincent Brown, Harvard University

November 15
FACULTY WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
"Images and Narratives of Anti-Semitism: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two"
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland

September 17-18
"African American Identity Travels"
Marie Mount Hall, The Maryland Room
Herbert Brewer, University of Maryland
James Campbell, Brown University
Yvette Green Pittman, University of Maryland
Sandra Gunning, University of Michigan
Patrick Hill, Bowling Green State University
Maureen Mahon, University of California, Los Angeles
James Miller, George Washington University
Kelly Quinn, University of Maryland
Julius Scott, University of Michigan
Rhondda Thomas, University of Maryland
Shaundra Thomas, University of Maryland
Penny Von Eschen, University of Michigan
Laura C. Williams, University of Maryland
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October 14-16
"The Cultures of Dictatorship: Historical Reflections on the Brazilian Golpe of 1964"
Celso Castro, Funda‹o Getœlio Vargas
Christopher Dunn, Tulane University
Carlos Fico, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Jo‹o Roberto Martins Filho, Universidade Federal de S‹o Carlos
Jan Hoffman French, Northwestern University; John French, Duke University
Seth Garfield, University of Texas
James N. Green, California State University, Long Beach and Brown University
Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Victoria Langland, Lafayette College
Bryan McCann, Georgetown University
Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Kenneth P. Serbin, University of San Diego
JocŽlio Teles dos Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Cliff Welch, Grand Valley State University
Barbara Weinstein, University of Maryland
Daryle Williams, University of Maryland
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THE ANNUAL HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT LECTURE
November 17
"The Age of Revolution through Slaveholding Eyes"
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University

THE NATHAN AND JEANETTE MILLER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
December 6
"Before the Beatles: The 1950s in Historical Perspective"
Nyumburu Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room, 4:00 p.m.
Tony Judt, New York University

Spring 2005 Program

HISTORIANS AND THE VISUAL

February 7
SEMINAR
"Paintings Done for Women in Ming-Qing China"
James Cahill, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

February 14
FACULTY WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
"Mammon, Mobbing and the Moral Economy of Capitalism in Antebellum America"
David Grimsted, University of Maryland

February 28
SEMINAR
"Unlikely Flaneur: Eisenstein for Historians of the Visual"
Joan Neuberger, University of Texas

March 14
FACULTY WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
"Fraternalism, Banking, and African American Self-Image: The Photographic Imagination of Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke"
Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland

March 28
SEMINAR
"Racializing the Virile Body: Eadweard MuybridgeÕs Locomotion Studies, 1883-1887Ó
Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto

April 11
SEMINAR
"Trophy Heads: Art, Violence, and Diplomacy in 13th-15th Century Ife (Nigeria)"
Suzanne Blier, Harvard University

May 9
SEMINAR
" 'ModernitŽ sans frontires'? Culture, Politics, and Paradoxes of the Belgian avant-garde, 1880-1900"
Debora Silverman, University of California, Los Angeles

April 4
"Historians/Art Historians at Work: Interpreting the Visual"
Steven Mansbach and Sally Promey, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
Saverio Giovacchini and Paul Landau, History Department, University of Maryland

April 17-18
"Shaping the Middle East: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an Age of Transition, ca. 500-800 C.E."
Co-Sponsors: Jewish Studies, Department of History, Art History and Archaeology, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the College of Arts and Humanities

May 6
"The Colonial and the Visual"
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

ANNUAL ALUMNI LECTURE
April 21
"The Past Meets the Press: Historians and the News Media"
Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate Historical Office

THE WALTER RUNDELL LECTURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
May 2
"American History as Global History"
Thomas Bender, New York University


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