Book Reading and Lecture Series

 

Latest Event

Professor Leonard von Morze

"Exhibiting the Early Literature of Boston: A Look at Book History"

Wednesday, November4th

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 47 (English Lounge)

 

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2009-2010 Events

All Events Are Free; No Registration Required. Directions and Campus Map

 

Fall 2009

September

The Betty and Matt Flaherty Lecture, given by Professor Linda Levy Peck, Columbian Professor of History, George Washington University: "The Grocer's Apprentice," September 14, 5:30-7:30pm Healey Library 0011B Lecture, Discussion and Reception

October

First Atlantic Studies Event: Monday, October 19th, 2:30-3:45pm. M-4-624 (History Dept. Conference Room) Woodruff Smith, History, will present a discussion paper entitled "Atlantic Cities: Locating a Topical Field at the Intersecton of Atlantic History and Urban History"

RCUCH Faculty Seminar: Monday, October 26th, 2:00-3:30pm. W-6-47 (English Conference Room)Grants/Fellowships Workshopping Session: Malcolm Smuts (History), Nancy Stieber (Art), Rajini Srikanth (English, Honors), Patrick Barron (English)

November

Urban Populations Lecture: Lecture by Professor Len von Morze UMass Boston, English Department, "Exhibiting the Early Literature of Boston: A Look at Book History" Wednesday, November 4th, 2:00-3:30, ROOM CHANGED TO: Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 47 (English Lounge). Free and Open to the Public.

RCUCH Faculty Seminar: Eliza McCahill, UMB History, will present her paper "Pomp and Power: Papal Ceremonial in the Early 15th century"
Monday, November 9th, 2:00-3:00pm. M-4-624 (History Dept. Conference Room)

Documenting Cities Symposium: "Politics, Literary Culture, and Theatrical Media in London: 1625-1725," a presentation by Malcolm Smuts, History; Cheryl Nixon, English; Lisa Link, and Bandhavi Kukkamalia, IT Services, on their interactive scholarly and pedagogic website http://www.london.umb.edu
 Monday, November 18th, 2:00-3:30, Healey Library 0011A. Free and Open to the Public.

Second Atlantic Studies Event: Tuesday, December 1st, 2:30-3:45pm, M-4-624 (History Dept. Conference Room). Presented by Woodruff Smith, History, and Paul Tucker, Art

 

Spring 2010

February

RCUCH Faculty Seminar: Thursday, February 18th, 2:30-3:45. Presented by David Pruett, Performing Arts

March

RCUCH Faculty Seminar: Monday March 8th, 2:00-3:30pm. Presented by Stephen Sutherland, English

Urban Populations and Mobility Conference: "Women's Activism in Sites of Displacement and Violence," co-sponsored by RCUCH and The Center for Gender, Security, and Human Rights

Third Atlantic Studies Event: Comparative Analysis of Atlantic Cities. Presented by Leonard Von Morze. Time and location tba

April

RCUCH Faculty Seminar: Monday, April 19th, 2:00-3:30pm.Presented by Claudia Esposito, Foreign Languages

Annual Symposium for Students: "Monsters, Automata, Hybrids." Time and location tba

Fourth Atlantic Studies Event: Connections Between Systems of Commercial and Cultural Exchange Among Atlantic Cities in the18th and 19th Centuries. Presented by Tracy Good, History. Time and location tba

May

Fifth Atlantic Studies Event: Atlantic Diasporas. Presented by Ann Blum, Hispanic Studies and Marc Prou, Africana Studies

Flaherty Prize

 

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