History workshop series set for fall

4:49 p.m., Sept. 26, 2005--The Department of History’s fall series, “History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture,” is set for 12:30-1:45 p.m., Tuesdays, through Nov. 22, in 203 Monroe Hall.

The series will feature a variety of guest speakers who will cover a wide range of topics:

“French Émigrés in Philadelphia: Some Explorations on the United States and the French Atlantic, ca. 1789-1803,” with François Furstenberg, Université de Montréal, Sept. 27;
“The Material Culture of Letter Writing and Economic Capabilities in Early America: Getting, Spending, Patronizing, Using, Exploiting,” with Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University, Oct. 4;
“The Fruits of Anatomy: Anatomical Storytelling and the Performance of Medical Identity in 19th Century America; Or, the Case of Dr. Charles Knowlton (1800-50), An ‘odd,’ ‘body snatching,’ ‘atheistical’ physician of antebellum New England,” with Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, Oct. 11;
“Empires and Affinities,” with Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University, Oct. 18;
“Making Sense of American Skulls,” with Ann Fabin, Rutgers University, Oct. 25;
“Immigrants and the Gold Standard in the Late Gilded Age,” with Michael O’Malley, George Mason University, Nov. 1;
“Explaining Human Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Mid-20th-Century Social Thought,” with Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University, Nov. 8;
“The Meaning of Japanese Immigration Nationalism: A Taboo in Asian American Historiography,” with Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 15; and
“Material Culture and the Labor of Cooking in Working-Class Kitchens, 1880-1930,” with Katherine Turner, UD, Nov. 22.

The free public workshop meets at 12:15 p.m., and the presentations begin at 12:30 p.m., followed by discussions, which end promptly at 1:45 p.m. Bagged lunches are welcome. For more information, call (302) 831-2371.

Article by Kim Sharrah, AS ‘06

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