History
Workshop in Technology, Society, and Culture
The
HISTORY WORKSHOP in Technology, Society and Culture brings together History
Department faculty and graduate students with scholars from across the discipline
for discussion of their research. Every Tuesday at 12:15, we gather in 203
Munroe for a brown-bag lunch and a talk that begins promptly at 12:30. The
final half- hour of the Workshop is devoted to discussion. The Workshop
has been a regular part of History Department life for thirty years now,
and provides singular opportunities for intellectual conversation and exchange
of ideas. In 2004, the Workshop marked the 50th Anniversary of the Hagley
Program with a series devoted to talks by Hagley alumni.
In recent years, audiences at History Workshop have heard from such
speakers as:
Mia Bay, Rutgers University
David H. Bell, Johns Hopkins University
Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College
Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California at Santa Barbara
Alice Conklin, Ohio State University
Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
Martha Hodes, New York University
James Oliver Horton, George Washington University
Lois E. Horton, George Mason University
David A. Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University
Winston James, Columbia University
Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
Angela Lakwete, Auburn University
Stephen H. Long, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania
Noliwe Rooks, Princeton University
Robert Tignor and Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
Barbara Dianne Savage, University of Pennsylvania
Clarence Walker, University of California at Davis
as well as scholars from University of Delaware faculty, students, and
staff.
As you arrange your semester’s schedule, plan to make History Workshop
a regular part of your Tuesday activities.
History Workshop Schedule
Recently Held Events
Hagley Conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions and History
October 30 and 31, 2009 -- Wilmington, Delaware
Sponsored by the Hagley Museum and Library and German Historical Institute
A conference to recognize the contributions of Ernest Dichter, and to celebrate the opening fo his business records at the Hagley Museum and Libray.
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society holds conferences twice a year, in the spring and fall. The conferences (usually one or two days) assemble a group of scholars, students, and members of the public who deliver papers, meet in discussion sessions, and address issues of current scholarly concern, for more information contact Carol Ressler Lockman, clockman@hagley.org.
Archive of past conferences
Seminar Series
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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society Research Seminar series
Oct. 1, 2009
Jennifer Armiger (University of Delaware), "Gender, Beauty & Fraternity: The Western Electric Kearny Works and the Industrial Family, 1965-1985"
Nov. 12, 2009
Janneken Smucker (University of Delaware), "The Amish Brand: Cottage Industries Making and Selling Quilts"
Dec. 10, 2009
Victoria Saker Woeste (American Bar Foundation), "Henry Ford: Unmasking the Self-Made Myth"
Feb. 11, 2010
Melanie Gustafson (University of Vermont), "Beautiful Faces, Strong Bodies: Harriet Hubbard Ayer and the Business of Beauty Culture in Gilded Age America"
March 11, 2010
Thomas Zeller (University of Maryland), "Consuming Landscapes: The View from the Road in the United States and Germany, 1920-70"
April 15, 2010
Jonathan Rees (University of Southern Colorado), "Inventing the Cold Chain: Technology and Marketing in the Nineteenth Century American Natural Ice Industry"
The Center's Research Seminar on the second Thursday night of the month during the academic year. The audience is drawn widely from Hagley's membership, scholars and researchers, students in the Mid-Atlantic area, and the general public. Papers are circulated in advance. An informal reception at 6 p.m. precedes the commentary and discussion at 6:30 p.m. The seminar is held in the Copeland Room, Hagley Library. To be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers (or paper), contact Carol Ressler Lockman, clockman@hagley.org.
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