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Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 Programs
HISTORIES of GLOBALIZATION

Fall 2005 Program

September 26
SEMINAR
The Shameful Times of Torture and Terrorism"
Temma Kaplan, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey

October 17
SEMINAR
"Vermeer's Hat, VermeerÕs Dish: An Intercultural History of the 17th Century"
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

November 14
SEMINAR
"Wal-Mart: How Ozark Parochialism Succeeds in the Global Marketplace"
Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara

November 21
FACULTY WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
"The Portrait of the Intrepid Mariner Sim‹o, or, Social and Visual Histories of the Luso-Atlantic at the End of the Slave Trade"
Daryle Williams, University of Maryland

December 5
SEMINAR
"The Origins of European Economic Integration, 1000-500 BC"
George Grantham, McGill University

September 15-17
"Nations, Democracy and Globalization, 1880-2005"
Ellen DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles
Ruth Feldstein, Brandeis University
Saverio Giovacchini, University of Maryland
Maria Heller, ELTE, Budapest
Alessandra Lorini, Universitˆ de Firenze
Adam McKeown, Columbia University
JosŽ Moya, University of California, Los Angeles and Barnard College
Saul Sosnowski, International Programs, University of Maryland
Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland

SECOND ANNUAL ALUMNI LECTURE
October 6
"The Past Meets the Press: Historians and the News Media"
Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate Historical Office

THE NATHAN AND JEANETTE MILLER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE October 31
"Gender and History: Reaching from the Past into the Future"
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University

Spring 2006 Program

HISTORIES OF GLOBALIZATION

February 13
SEMINAR
"Studying the History of Globalization through the History of Cotton"
Sven Beckert, Harvard University

March 13
SEMINAR
"The Integrities of History in Africa"
Joseph Miller, University of Virginia April 24
SEMINAR
"Empires, Imperialism, and ÔCivilizingÕ Missions in Comparative Perspective"
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine

POPULAR AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD
History Graduate Student Association Conference
February 9-10

AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME: THE LIFE OF JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN AND THE STATE OF THE FIELD IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
March 10
Co-Sponsored with the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora
Ira Berlin, University of Maryland
Lonnie G. Bunch, Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture
John Hope Franklin
Louis Harlan, University of Maryland, Emeriti
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University
Alfred Moss, University of Maryland

"WE SHALL BE ALL": TOWARD A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE CLASS
April 27-29
Susanne Eineigel, University of Maryland
Michael Ervin, Central Washington University
Abel Ricardo L—pez, University of Maryland
Robert Johnston, University of Illinois, Chicago
Prashant Kidambi, University of Leicester
JŸrgen Kocka, Social Science Research Center, Berlin
Marian Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Brian Owensby, University of Virginia
David Parker, Queen's University, Ontario
JosŽ Pablo Silva, Grinnell College
Andrea Volpe, Harvard University
Daniel Walkowitz, New York University
Michael West, Binghamton University

THE WALTER RUNDELL LECTURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
May 1
"New Orleans: The Making of an American Pompeii?"
Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University


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