Washington Area Early American Seminar

18 October 2005 (Tuesday)
Room 6137, McKeldin Library, 7:30-9 PM
Mark Leone (Department of Anthropology, UMCP)
“Archeological Discoveries from Annapolis ”

10 November 2005 (Thursday)
Room 7121, McKeldin Library, 7:30-9 PM
David J. Silverman (Department of History, The George Washington University )
“The Curse of God: Indian Conversations about Race on New York 's Revolutionary Frontier”

6 December 2005 (*Tuesday)
Room 7121, McKeldin Library, 7:30-9 PM
Andrew Shankman (Department of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , Camden Campus)
“A New Epoch Has Arisen”: Political Economy, Slavery, and the National Republicans”

The papers are circulated electronically to members of the Seminar prior to each presentation. Please contact Whit Ridgway ( ridgway@umd.edu ) for a copy of the paper.

• History Department Commencement, Sunday, May 22, 2:00 p.m., Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union.
  
  Mary Kay Vaughan, Department of History, University of Maryland, Speaker.
  
• Thursday, February 3, 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, room 2110. The first 2005 meeting of the Maryland Colloquium in History of Technology will begin at 4:00 pm, Thursday, February 3 in Taliaferro Hall, room 2110. Our speaker will be Martin Collins, Curator in the Space History Division of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. His topic will be "Iridium and the Global Age: Technology, Markets, and Historiography in a Satellite Telephone." Dr. Collins is the author of Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force and the American State, 1945-1950. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002) and has overseen many of the Air and Space Museum's Oral History Projects over the years. A draft introductory chapter of the in-progress work on the Iridium communications system will be available to members of the colloquium about a week prior to the meeting. Those wishing to receive electronic copies should send their request to the colloquium convenor at friedel@umd.edu. As always, the colloquium will convene for socializing at 4:00 pm, with the formal proceedings extending from 4:30 to 6:00. Members of the colloquium are invited to join in dinner at a near-by restaurant afterwards.
  
  
• Monday, February 7, at 4:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, room 2110. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar. James Cahill, University of California, Berkeley will present a seminar entitled, "Paintings Done for Women in Ming-Qing China." Copies of Professor Cahill's essay will be available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.

• Monday, February 14, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a Faculty Work-in-Progress Seminar. David Grimsted, University of Maryland, will present a paper entitled, "Mammon, Mobbing and the Moral Economy of Capitalism in Antebellum America." James Henretta will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 22, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the HUA Film Festival: "End of an Era." Our next movie will be: Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott. Dr. Kenneth G. Holum will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and Snacks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Monday, February 28, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar. Joan Neuberger, Texas University, will present a seminar, entitled "Unlikely Flâneur: Eisenstein and the Problem of Visual Evidence in History". Copies of Professor Neuberger's essay will be available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, March 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The Maryland Colloquium in History of Technology will feature Sabrina Baron, Lecturer in the History Dept., University of Maryland, speaking on "The Technological Burden of Print, 1500-1700." Those wishing to receive electronic copies of Dr. Baron's paper should send their request to the colloquium convenor at friedel@umd.edu. The colloquium will meet for socializing at 4:00 pm, with the formal proceedings extending from 4:30 to 6:00. Members of the colloquium are invited to join in dinner at a near-by restaurant afterwards.
  
  
• Thursday, March 3, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Dr. Sean Patrick Adams, University of Central Florida and Research Fellow in the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in Early American Economy and Society, will present a paper for discussion entitled, "Wedding Fire and Benevolence: Fuel Philanthropy and Consumption in the Early Republic." Please feel free to join the speaker for dinner at 5:30 PM at The Calvert House Inn, 6211 Baltimore Avenue in Riverdale, just let us know beforehand so that we can reserve a suitable table. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (ridgway@umd.edu). The paper will be distributed electronically.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 8, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the HUA Film Festival: "End of an Era." Our next movie will be: Dark Blue World. Guest Speaker to be announced. The Quest Speaker will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and Snacks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Monday, March 14, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a Faculty Work-in-Progress Seminar. Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland, will present a paper entitled, "African-American Self-Image and the Business of Fraternalism." David Sicilia will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Wednesday, March 16, 3:30-5:30 in 2120 Francis Scott Key. The Center for Historical Studies and the Inter-College Committee on East Asian Studies are pleased to announce a talk by Dr. Vera Mackie entitled, "Toward a Visual History of 1960s Japan." Professor Mackie, an Australia Research Council Professional Fellow and a member of the Department of History, University of Melbourne, is also a recipients of the 2005 Twentieth- Century Research Award offered by the Center to support work in the Prange Collection. In addition, Professor Mackie is the author of Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality.
  
  
• Thursday, March 17, 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The "First Annual Undergraduate History Conference" sponsored by Janus (with additional support from the Center for Historical Studies). Approximately a dozen History undergraduates will present summaries of their papers. Commentary and questions will be offered by the student editors of Janus and audience participants. Awards will be presented for the three most successful undergraduate history papers and all papers will be considered for publication in the Janus online journal. Please join us for this event. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and friends and members of the campus community are most welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided. For questions or additional information, please contact: janus@umail.umd.edu.
  
  
• Monday, March 28, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the HUA Film Festival: "End of an Era." Our next movie will be: Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Dr. David Sicilia will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and Snacks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Thursday, March 31, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110The Department of History is pleased to announce the Graduate Student Colloquium. Donald Keel will present "Struggles for Survival: Maryland Indians in the Clash of Empires." Andrew Means will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Monday, April 4, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a Seminar Series on 'Historians and the Visual'. Steven Mansbach and Sally Promey, University of Maryland, Department of Art History and Archaeology, and Saverio Giovacchini and Paul Landau, Department of History, will present a workshop entitled "Historians/Art Historians at Work: Interpreting the Visual."
  
  
• Thursday, April 7, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in 2120 Francis Scott Key. The Maryland Colloquium in History of Technology will feature Peter B. Meyer, a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, discussing his paper, "Turbulence, Inequality, and Cheap Steel: Implications of Technological Uncertainty in the U.S. Steel Industry, 1865-1880." Those wishing to receive electronic copies of Dr. Meyer's paper should send their request to the colloquium convenor at friedel@umd.edu. The colloquium will meet for socializing at 4:00 pm, with the formal proceedings extending from 4:30 to 6:00. Members of the colloquium are invited to join in dinner at a near-by restaurant afterwards.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 12, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the HUA Film Festival: "End of an Era." Our next movie will be: The Lion in Winter, directed by Anthony Harvey. Guest Speaker to be announced. The Quest Speaker will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and Snacks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Friday, April 15, 3:00 p.m. at the Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, MD. The Washington Area Early American Seminar, in conjunction with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, is jointly sponsoring a seminar featuring Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University, on "Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean, ca. 1550-1624." There will be a tour of the Maryland Historical Society immediately after the seminar which will be followed by a lite supper and social hour. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (ridgway@umd.edu). The paper will be distributed electronically.
  
  
• Monday, April 25th, 2-4 p.m., in room 2120 Francis Scott Key Hall. The European Workshop Seminar is very pleased to announce a lecture/seminar by Professor Richard Overy of the Department of History of King's College in the University of London, entitled, "New Approaches to the Bombing War in World War II in Europe." For further information, please contact Jeffrey Herf.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 26, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the HUA Film Festival: "End of an Era." Our next movie will be: Doctor Zhivago, directed by David Lean. Guest Speaker to be announced. The Quest Speaker will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and Snacks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Thursday, April 28th, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.. The final meeting of the 2004-05 academic year of the Maryland Colloquium in History of Technology. Please note that this departs from our customary "first Thursday" meeting. Our speaker will be Prof. Timothy Lenoir of Stanford University and currently visiting at Duke University. Prof. Lenoir will report on a large-scale multi-author study, "Inventing the Entrepreneurial University: Stanford and the Co-Evolution of Silicon Valley." His paper will be available about a week before the colloquium, and attendees wishing to receive electronic copies should send a request to the colloquium convener Robert Friedel.
  
  
• Monday, May 2nd, 4:00 p.m. Multipurpose Room of the Nyumburu Cultural Center. The Walter Rundell Lecture in American History, Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at NYU, will speak on "American History as Global History." He is among the leading scholars of U.S. intellectual and urban cultural history. Reception to Follow.
  
  
• Tuesday, May 3, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the HUA Film Festival: "End of an Era." Our next movie will be: The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Michael Mann. Guest Speaker to be announced. The Quest Speaker will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and Snacks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Friday, May 6th, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00p.m., 2110 Taliaferro Hall. The Center for Historical Studies announces a conference on "The Colonial and the Visual," with Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas, Austin; Geraldine Forbes, SUNY at Oswego; Frances Gouda, University of Amsterdam; Marilyn Lake, LaTrobe University, Melbourne; Lynn Lees, University of Pennsylvania; Sonya Michel, University of Maryland; Hudita Mustafa, David Driskell Center and Emory University.
  
  
• Monday, May 9th, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., 2110 Taliaferro, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30 p.m.. A seminar for Historians and the Visual Series, Debora Silverman of UCLA; "'Modernite sans frontieres'? Culture, Politics, and Paradoxes of the Belgian avant-garde, 1880-1900."
  
  
• Thursday, May 12th, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Dr. David Grimsted, University of Maryland - College Park, will present a paper for discussion entitled, "The Moral Economy of Capitalism: The Roots of the Early Republic." For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (ridgway@umd.edu). The paper will be distributed electronically.
  
  Fall 2004

• Friday, August 27, 2004. Department of History Graduate Student Orientation. Click here for details.
  
  
• Thursday, September 2, 4:30-6:00, in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The Maryland Colloquium on the History of Technology presents a talk by John Cloud, currently working as a historian with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), entitled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering the History (and Prehistory) of Geographic Information Systems." The discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which should be requested through an email to Prof. Robert Friedel friedel@umd.edu. Social hour begins at 4:00.
  
  
• Monday, September 13, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar in its "Historians and the Visual" series. Peter Burke, Cambridge University, will present a paper entitled, "Interrogating the Eyewitness: Further Thoughts on the Uses of Images as Historical Evidence." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Wednesday, September 15, 3:30-5:00 p.m. in McKeldin Library, Room 6137. The Office of International Programs, University of Maryland cordially invites you to its 2004 Ambassadorial Lecture Series. His Excellency Ryozo Kato, Ambassador of Japan to the United States will speak on, "150 Years of U.S.-Japan Relations."
  
  
• Friday and Saturday, September 17-18 in The Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall. The Center for Historical Studies announces a Conference on "African American Identity Travels." Participants are: 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. For more information, visit the conference website at http://www.driskellcenter.umd.edu/programs/2004-2005/conf/AfricanAmericanIdentityTravels/, email: identitytravels@umd.edu or call 301-405-4290.
  
  
• Wednesday, September 22, 3:30-5:30 pm in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117. The Center for Historical Studies and the Committee on East Asian Studies Speaker Series announces a Film – "Shanghai Triad." For more information, contact agoldma5@umd.edu
  
  
• Thursday, September 23, 3:30-5:30 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The Center for Historical Studies and the Committee on East Asian Studies Speaker Series announces a Talk by Dr. James Polachek, Independent Scholar. He will present a paper entitled, "Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad Reexamined." Discussant will be Dr. Saverio Giovacchini, History Department, UMCP. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114. Film will be shown on Wednesday, September 22 (see above). For more information, contact agoldma5@umd.edu
  
  
• Thursday, September 23, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Dr. John Wallis, UMCP, will present a paper for discussion entitled, "The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American Economic and Political History." Please feel free to join the speaker for dinner at 5:30 PM at The Inn and Conference Center's Garden Room, just let us know beforehand so that we can reserve a suitable table. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (ridgway@umd.edu). The papers will be distributed electronically. To request an electronic copy, please email: (daking@umd.edu).
  
  
• Wednesday, October 6, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Kelly Quinn, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies will present "Just Enough for the City: Landscape, Labor and Leisure at Langston Terrace Dwellings." Jason Guthrie will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114. Email copies are available by request from davidjahunter@hotmail.com.
  
  
• Monday, October 11, 4:00 in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The European Caucus Colloquium presents Prof. Karen Hagemann of Glamorgan University. . Prof. Hagemann will speak on "Burghers, Citizens and Conscripts: Masculinities, Politics, and the Military During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars."
  
  
• Tuesday, October 12, 6:30-9:00 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the 4th HUA Film Festival: "Mystical History." Our next movie will be: The Seventh Seal, directed by Ingmar Bergman. Jeannie Rutenburg will be our guest speaker. She will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Wednesday, October 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117. The History Undergraduate Association presents an Ice Cream Social. Come see your favorite professors scoop ice cream for you.
  
  
• Wednesday and Thursday, October 13-14, 2004. The Center for Historical Studies announces a Graduate Student Conference: Historical Perspectives on Latin American Dictatorships. Graduate students from the Universities of Maryland, Chicago, Pennsylvania, New York-Stony Brook, and Georgetown University will present papers drawn from current research. The two-day program includes a screening of La Batalla de Chile, la lucha de un pueblo sin armas. La insurreción de la burguesia (Patricio Guzmán, 1975) and a presentation by Michael Hussey (National Archives and Records Administration) on "Sources and Records at the National Archives." Complete program available online: http://www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/2004-05/conf/Brazil64/gradconf.html.
  
  
• Thursday, October 14, 4:30-6:00, in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The Maryland Colloquium on the History of Technology presents a talk by Stuart W. Leslie, The Johns Hopkins University, entitled "Heart of Steel, Heart of Glass: Modern Materials and Modern Architecture in Toledo and Pittsburgh." The discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which should be requested through an email to Prof. Robert Friedel friedel@umd.edu. Social hour begins at 4:00. Attendees are invited to adjourn to a local restaurant with the speakers following each talk.
  
  
• Thursday-Saturday, October 14-16. The Center for Historical Studies announces an International Symposium: "The Cultures of Dictatorship: Historical Reflections on the Brazilian Golpe of 1964." Marking the fortieth anniversary of the coup d'etat that instituted twenty-one years of military rule in Brazil, and began a wave of military coups throughout Latin America, the symposium brings together twenty US and Brazilian scholars to share innovative research on modern military rule in Latin America, and to consider the particular contribution that historical research can make to the study of the cultures of military regimes. Participants are: Celso Castro (CPDOC/Fundação Getúlio Vargas), Christopher Dunn (Tulane University), Carlos Fico (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), João Roberto Martins Filho (Universidade Federal de São 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), Jocélio Teles dos Santos (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Antonio Pedro Tota (Pontífica Universidade Católica, S ão Paulo), Cliff Welch (Grand Valley State University), Mary Kay Vaughan (University of Maryland), Barbara Weinstein (University of Maryland), Daryle Williams (University of Maryland). Please Note: Friday morning sessions in Taliaferro 2110; Friday afternoon sessions in Archives II, Lecture Room A; all other sessions in Marie Mount Hall, The Maryland Room. Precirculated papers and complete program available online: http://www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/2004-05/conf/Brazil64/.
  
  
• Monday, October 18, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar in its "Historians and the Visual" series. Deborah Poole, Johns Hopkins University, will present a paper entitled, "Racial Anxieties, Liberal Sentiments and the Visual Politics of Culture in Post-Revolutionary Oaxaca." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Tuesday, October 19, 6:30-9:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the 4th HUA Film Festival: "Mystical History." Our next movie will be: Chinese Ghost Story, directed by Siu-Tung Ching. Andrea Goldman will be our guest speaker. She will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Wednesday, October 20, 3:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The HGSA Graduate Student Colloquium. Andrew Kellett, Ph.D student, Department of History will present "American Blues and British Rock and Roll, 1960-1975." Erik Christiansen will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on pre-circulated readings available in the History Department Lounge, 2nd Floor of Francis Scott Key Hall or by email from davidjahunter@hotmail.com.
  
  
• Wednesday, October 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117. The History Undergraduate Association will host a "Celebrity Scoop Night" Ice Cream Social featuring ice cream from Maggie Moo's Ice Cream and Treatery. Come see your favorite professors scoop ice cream for you.
  
  
• Tuesday, October 26, 6:30-7:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents "The Election From A Historian's Perspective" featuring Dr. Howard Smead, History Department. Pizza and snacks will be served.
  
  
• Wednesday, October 27, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2108. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Daniel Rubin, Ph.D. Student, Department of History will present "Pawns of the Cold War: John Foster Dulles, the PRC, and the Imprisonments of John Downes and Richard Fecteau." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, 2nd Floor lounge, or by request from davidjahunter@hotmail.com.
  
  
• Thursday, October 28, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Jim Horn, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will present a paper for discussion entitled, "Slaughter at Roanoak: Finding the Lost Colonists and a Tale of Two Virginias." Please feel free to join the speaker for dinner at 5:30 PM at Lupo's Italian Chop House, just let us know beforehand so that we can reserve a suitable table. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (ridgway@umd.edu). The papers will be distributed electronically. To request an electronic copy, please email: (daking@umd.edu).
  
  
• Monday, November 1, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar in its "Historians and the Visual" series. Vincent Brown, Harvard University, will present a paper entitled, "Melville J. Herskovits and the Visualization of the African Diaspora." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Wednesday, November 3, 3:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Jim D'Angelis, Ph.D Student, Department of History will present "Speaking for Southern Values: The Rhetoric of Jefferson Davis." Thanayi Jackson will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, 2nd Floor lounge, or by request from davidjahunter@hotmail.com.
  
  
• Thursday, November 4, 4:30-6:00, in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The Maryland Colloquium on the History of Technology presents a talk by Robert Friedel, University of Maryland, entitled "The Culture of Improvement: Some Efforts at Making Sense of the Big Picture." The discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which should be requested through an email to Prof. Robert Friedel friedel@umd.edu. Social hour begins at 4:00. Attendees are invited to adjourn to a local restaurant with the speakers following each talk.
  
  
• Monday, November 8, 4:30 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The Center for Historical Studies announces a talk. Alessandra Lorini (Universita' di Firenze) will present "W.E.B. Du Bois and Josi Martì as Prophetic Leaders: A Comparative Approach on Race and Nation."
  
  
• Wednesday, November 10, 3:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The HGSA Graduate Student Colloquium. Claire Goldstene, Ph.D student, Department of History will present "America was Promises: The Great Society and the Limits of Equal Opporutnity." Tom Castillo will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on pre-circulated readings available in the History Department Lounge, 2nd Floor of Francis Scott Key Hall or by email from davidjahunter@hotmail.com.
  
  
• Monday, November 15, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a Faculty Work-in-Progress Seminar. Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, will present a paper entitled, "Images and Narratives of Anti-Semitism: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 16, 12:15-1:45 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110.. The European Workshop Seminar is pleased to announce a talk by Nancy Green, Directrice des Etudes at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Dr. Green will speak on "Americanizing Europe from the Bottom Up: U.S. Businessmen and Lawyers in France in the First Half of the Twentieth Century."
  
  
• Tuesday, November 16, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the 4th HUA Film Festival: "Mystical History." Our next movie will be: Pieces d'Identities, directed by Mweze Ngangura. Professor David Gordon will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and snacks will be served. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• THIS EVENT CANCELLED -- Wednesday, November 17, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in LeFrak Hall, Room 2205. The Center for Historical Studies is pleased to announce The Annual History Graduate Student Lecture. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University will present a lecture entitled, "The Age of Revolution through Slaveholding Eyes." For further information, visit the HGSA website.
  
  
• Thursday, November 18, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Benjamin Irvin, McNeill Center for Early American Studies will present a paper for discussion entitled, "Not Worth a Continental? A Social and Cultural Perspective on Congressional Finance, 1775-1781." Please feel free to join the speaker for dinner at 5:30 PM at the Inn and Conference Center's Garden Room on campus, just let us know beforehand so that we can reserve a suitable table. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (ridgway@umd.edu). The papers will be distributed electronically. To request an electronic copy, please email: (daking@umd.edu).
  
  
• Tuesday, November 30, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents the 4th HUA Film Festival: "Mystical History." Our next movie will be: Excalibur, directed by John Boorman, starring Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson and Gabriel Byrne. Speaker to be announced – Professor ???? will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and snacks will be served. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Wednesday, December 1, 3:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The HGSA Graduate Student Colloquium. Tony Glocke, Ph.D student, Department of History will present "A Land of Contradictions: Austrian Images of Bosnia-Herzegovinia in the Era of Annexation." Stefan Papaioannou will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on pre-circulated readings available in the History Department Lounge, 2nd Floor of Francis Scott Key Hall or by email from davidjahunter@hotmail.com.
  
  
• Monday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center. The Center for Historical Studies is please to announce The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Distinguished Lecture. Tony Judt, New York University will present a lecture entitled, "Before the Beatles: The 1950s in Historical Perspective."
  
  
• Tuesday, December 7, 10:00 a.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar. Tony Judt, New York University will present a seminar entitled, "The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe." Copies of Professor Judt’s essay are available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, December 9, 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, room 2110. The Maryland Colloquium in History of Technology announces its next meeting. David A. Kirsch, Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Organization of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, will present a paper on "The Birth of the Dot Com Era: Building the history of digital entrepreneurial technology ventures." Members of the colloquium are encourage to explore the website created to promote Prof. Kirsch’s project at: http://www.businessplanarchive.org. Additional material can be requested by an email to the Colloquium convener: Robert Friedel, Department of History at friedel@umd.edu. Socializing begins at 4:00.
  
  
• Please direct inquiries about the Center for Historical Studies' lectures and seminars to Claire Goldstene, the Center's administrative assistant, by email (historycenter@umail.umd.edu) or telephone (301-405-8739).
  
  

• Wednesday, February 18, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117.. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents " Historical Comedies." This film festival features movies which comically portray historical events or figures. Our next movie will be: Modern Times. Dr. David Sicilia will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Pizza and snacks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Monday, February 23, 4:00 p.m. in Susquehanna Hall, Room 1120. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program announces the 2nd Annual Spring Lecture Series: Queer(ing) Citizenship Before and After Lawrence. George Chauncey will present "Lawrence v. Texas: Sexual Identity/Politics in the 20th Century." George Chauncey is a professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous publications including Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic, 1994). He is currently working on The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second World War to the Stonewall Era. This series is sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program, a unit within the Division of Undergraduate Studies. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies, The David C. Driskell Center or the Study of the African Diaspora, the Department of English, and the Department of History.
  
  
• Monday, February 23, 7:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center, with reception to follow. The Center for Historical Studies announces the Annual Alumni Lecture. Donald Miller, Lafayette College, will present a lecture entitled, "The Historian as Filmmaker."
  
  
• Tuesday, February 24, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117. The History Department presents a lecture by Professor Teresa Meade, Union College, New York: "Good Neighbors" At Last? Popular Culture in Latin America and the US. Professor Meade's lecture will focus on the cross-fertilization of Latino/US popular culture with special emphasis on music, sports and television. Approaching cultural influence in the Americas as a two-way street, she will discuss the extent to which we are witnessing a veritable fusion of the two popular cultures. Enjoy pizza and drinks after the lecture. This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Historical Studies and the Latin American Studies Center.
  
  
• Monday, March 1, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar in its "Empire" series. Winston James, Columbia University, will present a paper entitled, "The Political Economy of Claude McKay's Jamaica, 1889-1912." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Wednesday, March 3, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents " Historical Comedies." This film festival features movies which comically portray historical events or figures. Our next movie will be: A League of Their Own. Kelly Ryan will be our guest speaker. She will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Thursday, March 4, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Francisco Gonzalez will present "Continuing Relations in a New Era: The Second U.S. Intervention in Cuba, 1906-1909." Herbert Brewer will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, March 4, 4:30-6:00, in 2110 Taliferro Hall. The Maryland Colloquium on the History of Technology presents a talk by Dalit Baranoff, University of Maryland: "The Evolution of Fire Insurance Rating, 1790-1920." The discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available by writing to tzeller@umd.edu. Social hour begins at 4:00.
  
  
• Thursday, March 11, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Herman Belz will present "Liberty and Liberalism in Twentieth Century American History." Jeff Coster will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, March 11, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Dr. Karin Wulf, American University, will present a paper for discussion entitled, "Generation, Genealogical Representation and the Histories of Colonial New England: Or a Tale of Many Mathers." Please feel free to join the speaker for dinner at 5:30 PM at Adele's in the Stamp Union, just let us know beforehand so that we can reserve a suitable table. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (wr9@umail.umd.edu). The papers will be distributed electronically. To request an electronic copy, please email: (dk12@umail.umd.edu).
  
  
• Friday, March 12, 9:30a.m.-4:00p.m, in the Special Events Room, 6137 McKeldin Library. A Symposium – Commodore Perry and Beyond: 150 Years of U.S.-Japan Relations. Everyone Welcome. For more information, contact Marlene Mayo (mmayo@umd.edu).
  
  
• Monday, March 15, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar in its "Empire" series. Ross Hassig, University of Oklahoma, will present a paper entitled, "The Web of Empire: Marriage, Succession and Class in the Aztec State." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 16, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0102.. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents " Historical Comedies." This film festival features movies which comically portray historical events or figures. Our next movie will be: Dr. Strangelove. Dr. David Rosenberg, a leading expert on nuclear weapons, will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Thursday, March 18, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120. The Center for Historical Studies announces a brown bag talk on "The History of Empires and U.S. Unilateralism: Is it All a Question of When?" by Dr. Kenneth Maxwell. Dr. Maxwell is Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Inter-American Studies, and Director of Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. The talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Historical Studies, the Latin American Studies Center, and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora.
  
  
• Thursday, March 18, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium presents Interregional Minor Fields.
  
  
• Thursday, April 1, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Mike Petersen will present "Engineering Consent: The V-2 Rocket, Peenemuende, and National Socialism, 1924-1945." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, April 1, 4:00 in Francis Scott Key Hall, room 2120. The European Workshop presents William Doyle of Bristol University. Prof. Doyle will speak on "The French Revolution and the Abolition of Nobility." Copies of the paper are available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, April 1, 4:30-6:00, in 2110 Taliferro Hall. The Maryland Colloquium on the History of Technology presents a talk by Robert Ferguson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: "One Thousand Planes a Day: Ford, General Motors, and the Arsenal of Democracy." The discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available by writing to tzeller@umd.edu. Social hour begins at 4:00.
  
  
• Monday, April 5, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar in its "Empire" series. Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, will present a paper entitled, "Empire and Identities: British and Other Empires in Comparative Perspective." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, April 8, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Giacomo Mazzei will present "Organizing Discontent: The Conservative Caucus and the New Right, 1974-1980." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114.
  
  
• Wednesday, April 14, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117.. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents " Historical Comedies." This film festival features movies which comically portray historical events or figures. Our next movie will be: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Jeannie Rutenburg will be our guest speaker. She will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Thursday, April 15, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Jill Reilly will present "Simone de Beauvoir and Vera Brittain's views on American women and American society during their visits to the US in the 1920s-1940s." Marcy Wilson will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114.
  
  
• Thursday, April 15, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Dr. Al Tillson, University of Tampa, will present a paper for discussion entitled, "Controlling the Revolution: Social Conflict and the War for American Independence in Virginia's Northern Neck." Please feel free to join the speaker for dinner at 5:30 PM at Adele's in the Stamp Union, just let us know beforehand so that we can reserve a suitable table. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (wr9@umail.umd.edu). The papers will be distributed electronically. To request an electronic copy, please email: (dk12@umail.umd.edu).
  
  
• Tuesday, April 20, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Maryland Room of Marie Mount Hall, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies announces a seminar in its "Empire" series. Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania, will present a paper entitled, "The Uses of History and American Empire Today." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2114.
  
  
• Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 1117.. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents " Historical Comedies." This film festival features movies which comically portray historical events or figures. Our next movie will be: Carlota Joaquina, Princesa do Brasil. Dr. Daryle Williams will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Thursday, April 22, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. David Hunter will present "Jim Crow Abroad: American GIs and the Problem of Race in World War II England." Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114.
  
  
• Monday & Tuesday, April 26 & 27 on the steps of Francis Scott Key Hall.. The History Graduate Student Association will hold a book sale. Will be contingent upon good weather. Contact Jon White if you have any questions.
  
  
• Wednesday, April 28, 6:30 p.m. in Plant Sciences, Room 1113.. The History Undergraduate Association proudly presents " Historical Comedies." This film festival features movies which comically portray historical events or figures. Our next movie will be: History of the World: Part 1. Dr. Bernard Cooperman will be our guest speaker. He will give an introduction, and provide background information for the movie. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Discussion to follow.
  
  
• Thursday, April 29, 2:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2103. The History Graduate Student Association Colloquium. Christina Hostetter will present "Hershey and Coca-Cola During World War II." Luc LeBlanc will provide commentary. Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, available in Francis Scott Key, Room 2114.
  
  
• Friday and Saturday, April 30-May 1 in Taliaferro 2110. The Center for Historical Studies announces a Conference, Imperial Questions: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Empires. Participants are: 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. For further information, contact Art Eckstein or Jeffrey Herf.
  
  
• Monday, May 3, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center, with refreshments served beginning at 3:30. The Center for Historical Studies is please to announce The Walter Rundell Lecture in American History. Charles Payne, Duke University will present a lecture entitled, "Brown V. Board and the Mystification of Race."
  
  
• Thursday, May 6, 4:30-6:00, in 2110 Taliferro Hall. The Maryland Colloquium on the History of Technology presents a talk by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania: "American Women Engineers: Breaking the Mold." The discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper, which is available by writing to tzeller@umd.edu. Social hour begins at 4:00.
  
  
• Thursday, May 6, 7:30-9 p.m, in room 7121 of the McKeldin Library. The Early American Seminar announces its next meeting. Dr. Jennifer Spear, University of California at Berkeley, will present a paper for discussion entitled, "Unmaking Race in Colonial New Orleans: Family Formation & Limpieza de Sangre in the Spanish Era." Please feel free to join the speaker for dinner at 5:30 PM at Adele's in the Stamp Union, just let us know beforehand so that we can reserve a suitable table. For further information, please contact Whitman Ridgway (wr9@umail.umd.edu). The papers will be distributed electronically. To request an electronic copy, please email: (dk12@umail.umd.edu).
  
  
• Monday, May 10, 4:00 in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110. The European Workshop presents Steven Remy, author of The Heidelberg Myth : The Nazification and Denazification of a German University. Prof. Remy will speak on "The Heidelberg Myth: German Universities and National Socialism."
  
  
• Wednesday, May 19, 4:00 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2108. The Center for Historical Studies, the Department of History and the Society for Military History are proud to announce a lecture by Professor Jeremy Black, Professor History at the University of Exeter. Jeremy Black is one of the most important scholars working today in the fields of early modern European history and world military history. Some of his major books include War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000; Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815; Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past; Maps and Politics; A Military Revolution?; and War in the Early Modern World, 1450-1815. He has been a major player in the "Military Revolution" debate that has dominated early modern military and political history for over a decade. Refreshments will be served.
  
  
• Thursday - Sunday, May 20-23, 2004. The Society of Military History 71st Annual Meeting: "What's on Our Minds: Critical Problems in Military History." Hosted by the Society for Military History and the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
  
  Previous annual meetings have been defined by a single theme. The location of the 2004 annual meeting in Washington, D.C., however, favors the adoption of a multi-theme approach. This is because the potential local audience will include the leadership of the American military, members of the executive and legislative branches of the American government, the staff and students of three major military educational establishments (National Defense University, Marine Corps University, and Naval Academy), and the civilian employees of the government whose work is related to military affairs, as well as the faculty and students of several major university campuses (Georgetown University, American University, Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University, Howard University, George Washington University, University of Maryland).
  
  The 2004 annual meeting thus presents an opportunity for th SMH to provide current and future practitioners of war/peace and diplomacy with a view of state-of the-art military history. For this reason, the theme of the 2004 annual meeting is a broad one that will offer an agenda of the critical military issues addressed by historical inquiry, which define the field as a serious scholarly activity.
  
  
• Please direct inquiries about the Center for Historical Studies' lectures and seminars to Claire Goldstein, the Center's administrative assistant, by email (historycenter@umail.umd.edu) or telephone (301-405-8739).