Thursday, February 12, 2009; 4:30-6:00 p.m.
“Reassembling the Strange: Science and the Control of 19th Century Madagascar”
Thomas Anderson, Department of History, Binghamton University
Thursday, February 26, 2009; 4:30-6:00 p.m.
“’Combining the Whole in One Firm System’: Redefining the Imperial Relationship, 1764-1773”
Heather Schwartz, Department of History, Binghamton University
Thursday, March 12, 2009; 4:30-6:00 p.m.
“In the Vortex of Nations and Empires: A Revisionist History of Human Rights from the French Revolution to the Present”
Eric D. Weitz, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Thursday, March 26, 2009; 4:30-6:00 p.m.
“Reconsidering the Rise of Slavery in Virginia”
John Coombs, Department of History, Hampden-Sydney College
Thursday, April 23, 2009; 4:30-6:30 p.m.
“Families and Fortunes: Economic Reflections on Failure in Early Modern Europe” (Shriber Lecture)
Thomas Max Safley, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, April 30, 2009; 4:30-6:30 p.m.
“The Indiana Murderess:” Gender, Justice and Gilded Age Political Culture
Wendy Gamber, Department of History, Indiana University
Thursday, May 7, 2009; 4:30-6:00 p.m.
“Malthus refuted, or qualified?: World History and the New Science of Abrupt Climate Change”
John Brooke, Department of History, Ohio State University