The Department of History is pleased to announce its Transnational and Comparative History Speaker Series for Fall 2008. Unless otherwise noted, presentations begin at 3:30pm in the Strosacker Room at Park Library.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, University of Texas-Austin. "Between the global and the local: Empire, religion, patria, and natural history in Spanish America, 1750-1800." This presentation will be held in the President's Conference Room, Bovee University Center.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Michael Wala, Chair, Department of History, University of Bochum. "Representing the Weimar Republic: Ambassadors Wiedfeldt, Maltzan, and Prittwitz and German-American relations in the interwar period."
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas-San Antonio. "National Stories, Sexual Identity: The Kama Sutra in India, Great Britain, and the United States."
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Laura Fair, Michigan State University. "Transnational circuits, local reception: Cinema in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s."
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Charles Bright, University of Michigan. "The Global Condition in the Long Twentieth Century."
