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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS CHS co-sponsors conferences on appropriate topics. Anyone interested in presenting a proposal should contact the director. In 2007-2008 CHS co-sponsored two conferences: "1968/2008: The Aesthetics of Engagement" (June 6, 2008) and "From Villas Miseria to Colonias Populares: Latin America's Informal Cities in Comparative Perspective" (June 13, 2008). *************************************************************************************** In 2008-2009 CHS is inaugurating a new program of INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS with one in Ireland in the Fall and one in Germany in the Spring. A small group of History graduate students from NU will meet their peers in other parts of the world, network, compare notes on the state of the profession, and engage in discussions of their research. Attention History Graduate Students--CALL FOR PAPERS First CHS International Workshop ***************************************************************************************
The annual CHS Graduate Fellows organize one-day faculty/graduate student mini-conferences or workshops that are FREE and OPEN to the public. Second 2007-2008 workshop RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL HISTORY IN A POST-STRUCTURAL WORLD Saturday, May 17 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201) Convener: Lonnie ROBBINS (CHS Fellow) 9:30-9:45 Introduction 9:45–11:15 Keynote address by Keith WRIGHTSON (Yale University)--whose numerous publications include Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700 (co-authored with David Levine 1979), English Society, 1580-1680 (1982) and Earthly Necessities. Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (2000)--on “Mutualities and Obligations: Changing Social Relationships in Early Modern England”
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-1:00 Workshop 1 Crystal SANDERS (NU) - "From the Field to the Classroom: The Child Development Group of Mississippi and Opposition to the War on Poverty, 1965-1967" Katie TURK (University of Chicago) – "‘A Fair Chance To Do My Part of Work': Black Women, War Work and Fairness at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, 1941-1945" Commentator: Brodwyn FISCHER (NU), author of A Poverty of Rights: Ciizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro (2008) 1:00-2:30 Lunch (a light lunch will be served) 2:30–5:00 Workshop 2 Lonnie ROBBINS (NU) – "The Path of the Poor Scholar: Poverty in Tudor and Stuart Oxbridge" Andy WEHRMAN (NU) – "‘A Sore Distemper is Crept in': Public Health in Revolutionary Marblehead, Massachusetts" Commentator: Suzanne DESAN (University of Wisconsin, Madison), author of Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France (1990) and The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (2004) ***************************************************** First 2007-2008 workshop ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Saturday, April 5 Harris 108 (at 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston) Convener: Strother ROBERTS (CHS Fellow)
10:45 a.m. Opening Comments by T.H. BREEN (Director of CHS) 11:00 a.m. Keynote Address by RICHARD WHITE (Stanford University), whose books include The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (1995) and The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991) 12:00 p.m. Lunch (a light lunch will be provided) 1:00 p.m. Panel A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century (1998) 15-minute presentations: WILL CAVERT (Northwestern University)--"'No Smoke or Annoyance at All': Projects for Clean Air through Technology in Seventeenth-Century London" ANGELA GUGLIOTTA (University of Chicago)--"Pittsburgh: 'Child of Nature and Necessity'" ALPHONSE OTIENO (Northwestern University)--"Alienating Landscapes: Forestry Policy in Western Kenya 1940-1963" STROTHER ROBERTS (Northwestern University)--"The New England Forest and the Origins of Conservation in Early America" MIKAEL WOLFE (University of Chicago)--"The Rational Folly of Rehabilitation: The Laguna's 'Second Agrarian Reform,' Mexico, 1950-1975" Comments by JAMES McCANN (Boston University), author of Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 (2005) Questions from the audience 3:30 p.m. Closing Comments by T.H. Breen **************************************************** Richard White giving his keynote address
James McCann and the panelists
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