The following lectures are either being sponsored by the history department or other campus organizations that have substantial participation by history faculty and students. Consider this a “save-the-date” message. Further details will follow:
* Thursday, September 4, 5:30 PM, Special Collections Reading Room Bailey/Howe Library, John Duffy and H. Nicholas Muller III, “Inventing Ethan Allen.”
*Monday, September 8, 4:00, PM, Silver Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, Timothy H. Breen, Northwestern University and UVM James Marsh Professor at Large, “Washington’s Political Genius: Performing the New Government for the People.” (part 1 of a 3-part lecture series)
* Monday, September 15, 7:00 PM, Waterman Memorial Lounge (Room 338), Peter Hoffmann, McGill University: “The German Resistance to Hitler and the Persecution of the Jews.”
* Thursday, September 18, 5:30 PM, Billings North Lounge, Alan Taylor, University of Virginia, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.”
* Thursday, September 25, 4:00 PM, Silver Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, Timothy H. Breen, Northwestern University and UVM James Marsh Professor at Large, “Washington’s Mission:Countering Arguments for State Sovereignty.” (part 2 of 3-part series)
* Thursday, Oct. 9, 6:00 PM, Fleming Museum 101, Renate Blumenfeld-Koskinski, University of Pittsburgh,“Roles for Women in Colonial Fantasies of Fourteenth-Century France: Pierre Dubois and Philippe de Mézières.”
*Monday, October 13, 4:00 PM, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, will be presenting on her work on the visual culture of South Asia. Details TBA.
* Monday, 27 October, (perhaps at lunch time), Professor Erika Rappaport (UC-Santa Barbara), discussing her work on tea and tea consumption in the British Empire. Details TBA.
* Monday, 27 October 27, 7:00 PM, Waterman Memorial Lounge (Room 338) (The Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture) David Cesarani, Royal Holloway College, London: “The Nazis, their Wars, and the Fate of the Jews, 1938-1945.”
* Monday, November 3, 2014, 7:00 PM, Waterman Memorial Lounge (Room 338), Wendy Lower, Claremont-McKenna College: “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields.”
Also:
The Vermont Humanities Council is having its Fall conference at UVM (in the Davis Center), on the topic “A Fire Never Extinguished: How the Civil War Continues to Shape Civic and Cultural Life in America,” Nov. 14-15. Several eminent historians are among the featured speakers.
