History Workshops, 2011-2012
history department
Four or five times per semester, the department will hold a History Workshop. This will consist of presentations of work in progress by current doctoral candidates, Boston College Faculty, and outside historians. Students will serve as commentators on the presentations.
The purpose of this workshop is threefold. First, it provides BC graduate students with the opportunity to present their doctoral research in a public forum. Second, it gives them the opportunity to see working historians at work. Third, it gives them the opportunity to practice a major subgenre of academic engagement by serving as commentators.
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
September
Tuesday, September 13 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
2nd-Year PhD Student Conference
Moderator: Devin Pendas
Wednesday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Prof. David Edgerton, Imperial College London
“Never alone and always strong: Britain at war, 1939-45”
Comments: Jonathan Kuiken
Friday, September 30 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Prof. Edward Blum of San Diego State
"Satan, the First Secessionist: Rethinking Religion and the Origins of the Civil War"
Comments: Ian Delahanty
October
Friday, October 21 at 3:00 p.m. in Devlin 026
Joy S. Kim of Princeton University
"Representing Slavery: Class and Status in Late Chosen Korea"
Comments: Jingge Li
November
Friday, November 18 at 3:00 p.m.
Mimi Cowan, Boston College
"Honorable Citizens, 'Lick-Spittles,' and the 'Vicious Classes:' Ethnic Militias in Chicago, 1855-1880"
Comments: Grainne McEvoy
December
January
Friday, January 27 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College
"Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1837-1883"
Comments: Seth Meehan
February
Friday, February 10 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Michael Mezzano, Boston College
"Speaking for Science: Racial Nativism and Scientific Revolutions in Progressive America"
Comments: Ted Miller
Friday, February 24 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Tara Zahra, University of Chicago
"Travel Agents on Trial: Policing Mobility in Late Imperial Austria"
Comments: Natalia King
March
Wednesday, March 21 at 12:00 p.m.
Richard White, Stanford University
"Don't Necessarily Follow This Advice: How I Write about What I Do"
Friday, March 30 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
James Barrett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"'The Irish Way': Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic City"
April
Friday, April 13 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Sarah Ross, Boston College
"The Last Thoughts of a Humanist in Late-Renaissance Venice"
Friday, April 20 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 429
Alessio Ponzio, Wellesley College
“Balilla and Hitlerjungen as ambassadors of the Fascist and Nazi regimes”