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Fall history workshops set through Nov. 18
10:46 a.m., Sept. 12, 2003--The Universitys fall History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture lecture series, begins Sept. 16 and continues through Nov. 18. The free public lectures are held from 12:15-1:45 p.m., Tuesdays, in 203 Munroe Hall. Participants are invited to bring a brown bag lunch.
Speakers and their topics include:
- Sept. 16Owen White, assistant professor of history, Paths in the Desert: Catholics in Search of a Mission in the French Sahara;
- Sept. 23Gabriella Petrick, a Hagley fellow, Frozen Fantasies: The Development of Freezing Technology from the Depression to the Baby Boom;
- Sept. 30Warren Belasco, University of Maryland, Three Perspectives on the Future of Food;
- Oct. 7Paula Viterbo, Bryn Mawr College, Counting the Days: The History of Natural Birth Control in the United States;
- Oct. 14H. Viscount Nelson, University of California at Los Angeles, American Leadership at a Crossroads: Black Leaders as a Test Case;
- Oct. 21Linzy Brekke, Harvard University, `A Genteel Mania Fashion, Consumption and Cultural Crisis in Post-Revolutionary America;
- Oct. 28Thomas Allen, University of Richmond, Marking Time: Clock Design and American Identity, 1800-1860;
- Nov. 4Amalia Amaki, curator of the Paul Jones Collection and an assistant professor of Black American Studies; Margaret Andersen, professor of sociology; and Carole Marks, professor of Sociology; Paul Jones and the Paul Jones Collection: Some Challengesand Opportunitiesfor Historians;
- Nov. 11Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania, The Librarian was a Spy; and
- Nov. 18Susanne Lebsock, Rutgers University, History and Mystery: A Murder in Virginia, 1895.
For more information, call 831-2371.
Article by Jerry Rhodes
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