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Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
2011-2012
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies schedule for academic year 2011-2012:
FALL 2011
Monday, September 26
Julie Livingston, Rutgers University
“Regarding the Pain of Africans:
Making Historical Sense of Ethnography in an African Oncology Ward"
4:00 pm, Taliaferro 2110
Monday, November 7
Jake Hamblin, Oregon State University
"Arming Mother Nature: How Modern Science and the Cold War Gave Birth to Catastrophic Environmentalism"
4:00 pm, Taliaferro 2110
Monday, November 21
Roy Bin Wong, UCLA
"Revisiting 'China's Response to the West': Self-Strengthening in 19th-Century World History"
4:30 pm (Refreshments at 4:00), Taliaferro 2110
Friday, December 9
Walter Rundell Lecture in American History
David Hall, Harvard Divinity School
"The Experience of Authority in Early New England"
5:00 pm, McKeldin Library Special Events Room (6137)
SPRING 2012
Monday, February 6
Scott Nelson, College of William and Mary
"America's First Great Depression: Monkey Jackets,
the Uncorked Mississippi, and the Panic of 1819"
4:00 pm Meet and Greet, 4:30 pm Workshop
Taliaferro 2110
Monday, February 27
Ben Cowan, Dalhousie University
"Dancing with the Devil in Maracanã: Moral Crisis, Modernity,
and the Christian Right in Brazil at the Crossroads"
4:00 pm Meet and Greet, 4:30 pm Workshop
Thursday, April 5
2011-2012 Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Ray Smock ('74), Executive Director
Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies
"I Did It My Way, By Accident: Lessons from an Unconventional Career"
7:00 pm, Key 0106
Monday, April 9
Thomas Bisson, Harvard University
Title TBA
4:00 pm Meet and Greet, 4:30 pm Workshop
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