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Fall history workshops set through Nov. 18

10:46 a.m., Sept. 12, 2003--The University’s fall “History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture” lecture series, begins Sept. 16 and continues through Nov. 18. The free public lectures are held from 12:15-1:45 p.m., Tuesdays, in 203 Munroe Hall. Participants are invited to bring a brown bag lunch.

Speakers and their topics include:

• Sept. 16—Owen White, assistant professor of history, “Paths in the Desert: Catholics in Search of a Mission in the French Sahara”;
• Sept. 23—Gabriella Petrick, a Hagley fellow, “Frozen Fantasies: The Development of Freezing Technology from the Depression to the Baby Boom”;
• Sept. 30—Warren Belasco, University of Maryland, “Three Perspectives on the Future of Food”;
• Oct. 7—Paula Viterbo, Bryn Mawr College, “Counting the Days: The History of Natural Birth Control in the United States”;
• Oct. 14—H. Viscount Nelson, University of California at Los Angeles, “American Leadership at a Crossroads: Black Leaders as a Test Case”;
• Oct. 21—Linzy Brekke, Harvard University, “`A Genteel Mania’” Fashion, Consumption and Cultural Crisis in Post-Revolutionary America”;
• Oct. 28—Thomas Allen, University of Richmond, “Marking Time: Clock Design and American Identity, 1800-1860”;
• Nov. 4—Amalia Amaki, curator of the Paul Jones Collection and an assistant professor of Black American Studies; Margaret Andersen, professor of sociology; and Carole Marks, professor of Sociology; “Paul Jones and the Paul Jones Collection: Some Challenges—and Opportunities—for Historians”;
• Nov. 11—Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania, “The Librarian was a Spy”; and
• Nov. 18—Susanne Lebsock, Rutgers University, “History and Mystery: A Murder in Virginia, 1895.”

For more information, call 831-2371.

Article by Jerry Rhodes

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