History Workshops, 2012-2013
history department
The department holds History Workshops about six times per semester. These consist of presentations of work in progress by current doctoral candidates, Boston College Faculty, and outside historians. It provides BC graduate students with the opportunity to present their doctoral research in a public forum and it also gives them the opportunity to see working historians at work.
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
September
Friday, September 14th at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Dana Sajdi, Boston College
"Imagined in the Image of the Other: Narrations of Damascus and Constantinople/Istanbul"
Friday, September 28th at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Ian Delahanty, Boston College
"Embracing Emancipation in the Civil War: The American Irish as a Case Study"
October
Friday, October 12th at 3 pm in Room 429
Clayton Howard, Holy Cross
"Regulating Privacy: Zoning Adult Entertainment in the Bay Area Suburbs, 1968-1980"
Friday, October 26th at 3 pm in Room 429
Philipp Stelzel, Boston College
"Prof. Dr. Fischer or: How German Historians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Their American Colleagues"
November
Friday, November 9th at 3:00 pm in Room 429
Lynn Lyerly Boston College
“Memory, History, and Fiction: Writing a Biography of a Pathological Liar”
Friday, November 30th at 3:00 pm in Room 429
Andrey Ivanov, Boston College
"Davids and Goliaths: The Image of the Enemy in Russian Military Sermons from Charles XII to Napoleon, 1700-1812"
December
January
Friday, January 25th at 3:00 pm in Stokes S376
Lynn Johnson, Boston College
"The Quiet Revival: New Immigrants and the Transformation of Christianity in Greater Boston"
February
Friday, February 15th at 3:00 pm in Stokes S461
Grainne McEvoy, Boston College
"'Very Many Excellent Features': Immigration Restriction and American Catholic Social Thought, 1917-1924"
Friday, February 22nd at 3:00 p.m in Stokes S376
Rachel Ball, Boston College
"Shivaji on Screen: An Archival Perspective of Controversies over Marathi Films in the 1930s"
March
Friday, March 22nd at 3:00 pm in Stokes S376
Christopher Riedel, Boston College
"Translating Sanctity: Old English Hagiography and Popular Religion at the Turn of the Tenth Century"
April
Friday, April 5th at 3:00 pm in Stokes S376
Virginia Reinburg, Boston College
"Natural Rites: Pilgrims and Nature in Early Modern France"
Friday, April 19th at 3:00 pm in Stokes S376
Tara Zahra, University of Chicago
"Travel Agents on Trial: Policing Emigration in Late Imperial Austria"
May