Fall history workshop series set

3:19 p.m., Sept. 25, 2006--Sex, insanity and murder, solitary confinement, an all volunteer army and black power are all topics included in the History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture lecture series scheduled this fall by the Department of History.

With the exception of election day, Nov. 7, all lectures, free and open to the public, take place at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays, in 203 Munroe Hall. The lectures are followed by discussions that end at 1:45 p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch.

The series opens on Tuesday, Sept. 26, when Carol Haber, chairperson of the Department of History at UD, will present “The Trials of Laura D. Fair: Sex, Insanity and Murder in Victorian America.”

October's lecturers include:

Francois Weil, directeur d'études and director of the Center for North American Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, who will present “A Genealogy of Genealogy: The Quest for Ancestors in American History,” Oct. 3;
Kate Brown, assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who will present “Out of Solitary Confinement: The Gulag in Comparative Perspective,” Oct. 10;
John Bodinger de Uriarte, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Susquehanna University, who will present “Where is Now, When is Here? Navigating the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Time and Space,” Oct. 17;
Christopher Brown, a Rutgers University historian who is an expert on the early British empire and the comparative history of slavery and abolition, Oct. 24;
Beth Bailey, professor of history at Temple University, who will speak on “The Army in the Marketplace: Recruiting the All-Volunteer Force,” Oct. 31.

The first lecture in November, which will be on Friday, Nov. 10, features Matthew Countryman, assistant professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan, who will present “Up South: The Social Movement Origins of Black Power in the Urban North.”

Other November lectures include:

“Science and Modernization in Brazil: Economists and Development of the Northeast Hinterland, 1948-1959,” presented by Eve Buckley from the University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 14;
“Hard Treatment and Determined Resolution: Enslaved Saint Dominquans in Philadelphia, 1793-1820,” presented by John Davies, a UD graduate student in history, Nov. 21; and
A talk by Adam Goodheart, director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, Nov. 28.

For more information, call (302) 831-2371.

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