'Fashion Forward?' series opener
History Workshop lunchtime speaker series announces spring lineup
12:03 p.m., Feb. 13, 2015--Environmental historian Adam Rome of the University of Delaware will lead off spring semester’s History Workshop lunchtime speaker series on Tuesday, Feb. 17, with a talk about fashion and the environment.
Rome, who is the Unidel Helen Gouldner Chair for the Environment in the departments of History and English, will seek to answer the question: Can fashion be sustainable? His talk, titled “Fashion Forward? The Environmental History of Style, from Beaver Hats to iPhones,” begins at 12:30 p.m. in 203 Munroe Hall.
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Rome studies the environmental history of the United States and is co-director of the College of Arts and Sciences environmental-humanities initiative. His first book, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, won the Organization of American Historians’ Frederick Jackson Turner award. His second book, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, was published in 2013.
The workshop series will continue throughout the semester with 10 other speakers. All the sessions are held on Tuesdays at the same location and time, with the meetings beginning at 12:15 p.m., followed by a 12:30 p.m. presentation and then a discussion period, ending at 1:45 p.m. Those attending are welcome to bring a lunch.
Following are the other speakers and their topics.
Feb. 24 Arwen Mohun, professor of history and chair of the department at UD, “Dealing with the Scourges of Grade Griping and Academic Dishonesty: Prevention, Detection and Treatment.”
March 3 Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University, “Three Dogmas of Postindustrialism.”
March 10 Mike Jarvis, University of Rochester, “The Pen and the Trowel: Archaeology, History and Atlantic World Microhistory in Bermuda, 1610-2015.”
March 17 Lawrence Duggan, professor of history at UD, “Sense and Nonsense about Machiavelli.”
March 24 Paul E. Johnson, University of South Carolina, emeritus, “Mr. Potter, the Ventriloquist.”
March 31 Spring break, no workshop.
April 7 No workshop.
April 14 Cheryl R. Richardson, assistant director of UD’s Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning, “Implementing Inclusive Teaching Techniques in Your History Classroom.”
April 21 Rafia Zafar, Washington University in St. Louis, “‘There Is Probably No Subject More Important than the Study of Food’: George Washington Carver, Early Advocate of Farm-to-Table Eating and Sustainable Agriculture.”
April 28 Philip Mead, Museum of the American Revolution, “George Washington’s Disappearing Ribbon and the Memory of the American Revolution.”
May 5 Anna von der Goltz, Georgetown University, “The Other Side of ‘1968’: Activism of the Center-Right in West Germany’s Age of Campus Protest.”
May 12 Alison Kreitzer, UD doctoral student in history, “Race Men: African American Participation in 20th Century Dirt Track Automobile Racing.”
Article by Ann Manser
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