Related Events, Spring 2000

Jan. 31 Candidate for early American history:
  Monica Najar, St. Olaf College,
  "'Disorder Can't be Countenanced': Constructing the Evangelical Household"
  When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 325
   
Feb. 8 Candidate for early American history
  Peter Kastor, University of Virginia,
  "'Motives of particular urgency': Local Diplomacy in Louisiana, 1803-1820"
  When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 102
   
Feb. 15 Student Presentation: Ben Jenkins '00
  Afrikaner national identity
  When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 102
   
Mar. 2 Candidate for early American history
Melanie Perreault, University of Central Arkansas
"Contesting Masculinities in the Atlantic World: English Encounters Along the Gender Frontier"
When and Where: 4:30 in ARH 305
   
Mar. 6 REES Lecture: Professor David Frick, University of California at Berkeley, "Cultural Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius"
  When and Where: 8:00 p.m. in South Lounge
   
Mar. 14 Honors Presentations
Greta Bliss: "Dien Bien Phu and France in Indochina: A Paradigm for America's Vietnam"
Gabe Rodriguez: "The Immigrant Women of Lordsburg: Creating Stability in a Small, Anglo-Hispanic Town"
   
Apr. 3 Job Talk
Sarah Purcell, Central Michigan University: "'A Gentleman and an Officer': Isreal Putnam and American Heroism"
When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 102.
   
Apr. 5 Candidate for modern US and US Women's history
Rebecca Plant, Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins
"Reinterpreting 'Momism': Maternalism and Anti-Maternalism During World War II."
When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 102.
   
Apr. 10 Honors Presentations
Katherine Kleinworth: "The Paris Peace Agreement and the End of the Vietnam War"
Martha Klovstad: "Early Dissent: "Senator J. William Fulbright and
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings of 1966"
Julian Zebot: "Ethno-religious Identity in the Anglicization of the Dutch in Colonial New York"
When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 102.
Apr. 11 Candidate for modern US and US Women's history
Jan Doolittle, Ph.D. candidate at SUNY-Binghamton.
When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 102.
   
Apr. 13 Honors Presentations
Regan Golden-McNerney: "Motherhood vs. Masculinity: The Transformation of American Motherhood in Response to the Peace Movement and the Vietnam War"
Lindsay Hagy, "Three Duchesses: The Political Influence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Elizabeth, Duchess of Somerset, and Melusine, Duchess of Kendal Under Queen Anne and King George I."
When and Where: 4:15 in ARH 102.
   
Apr. 20 Scholars' Convocation
Brian Ladd, '79, adjunct professor of Urban Studies
"The Phoenix and the Ashes: the Burden of History in the New Berlin."
  There will also be a discussion of Berlin in the 1990s at 4:15, location to be announced.
   
Apr. 21 Roberts Lecture
Professor Yue-him Tam, Professor of Japanese and Chinese history and Director of the East Asian Studies Program at Macalester College, "The Japanese History Text Book Question"
When and Where:: 4:15 p.m., ARH 102
   
May 12 Department Spring Picnic
  When and Where: 5:00 p.m. at 1710 N. Broad (Ms. Sortor's house)
   

Fall 1999 Events


Department of History, Grinnell College, 1210 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112-1670
Phone: 641-269-3173, Fax: 641-269-4985


Grinnell College
Home Page

 
History
Home Page
 

Web pages maintained by pricel@grinnell.edu
Last modified: July 27, 2000