3:22 p.m., Feb. 14, 2008--The spring semester lineup for UD's History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture runs the gamut from women singing the blues to Amish use of technology.

The free talks, which are open to the public, run from 12:30-1:45 p.m., Tuesdays, and are held in 203 Munroe Hall. Each lecture is preceded by an informal discussion beginning at 12:15 p.m., and participants are encouraged to bring brown-bag lunches to enjoy with colleagues.

The following is the schedule.

Tuesday, Feb. 19: John Hurt, professor of history at UD, will lecture on “Odyssey of a Bombardier: the POW Log of Richard Mason.”

Tuesday, Feb. 26: Pieter Judson, from Swarthmore College, will lecture on “Did Nationalism Matter? Battles for the Borderlands of East Central Europe, 1880-1945.”

Tuesday, March 4: Rita Krueger, from Temple University, will lecture on “Performing Sovereignty: Maria Theresa as King and Empress.”

Tuesday, March 11: Donald Kraybill, from Elizabethtown College, will lecture on “From the Buggy to the Byte: How the Amish Tame Technology.”

Tuesday, March 18: Michelle Scott, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will lecture on “Uncovering Blues Women's Lives: The Origins of an 'Empress.'"

Tuesday, March 25: Mary Ryan, from Johns Hopkins University, will lecture on “Democracy Rising: The Monuments of Baltimore, 1809-1842.”

Tuesday, April 8: Todd Shepard, from Temple University, will lecture on “A Great Muslim Nation: France and Algeria, 1955/1958.”

Tuesday, April 15: Michael Les Benedict, from Ohio State University, will lecture on “'The Favoured Hour': The Constitutional Politics of Civil and Political Rights after the Civil War.”

Tuesday, April 22: Jonathan Rose, from Drew University, will lecture on “Winston Churchill and the Literary History of Politics.”

Tuesday, April 29: Amani Marshall, a postdoctoral researcher in UD's Black American Studies Program, will lecture on “Performing Freedom: Enslaved Women Runaways in Antebellum South Carolina.”

For more information on the series, which is sponsored by the Department of History, call (302) 831- 2371.