Departmental Research Colloquium Schedule -- Fall 2009

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Fri. Sept. 11, 2:30pm:

Sarah Bond, “From the Crypt to the Clergy: Associations of Roman Funeral Workers”

Chris Cameron, “Slave Resistance and Organized Abolitionism among Massachusetts Blacks, 1720-1788”

Ian Barrett (King’s College London), “Representing Slavery: Information, Media and Communications in the Political Campaign to Prevent the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain c.1788-1807”

Comment: Professor Harry Watson

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Fri., Oct. 9, 3pm:

Georgina Gajewski, “Visual Culture and Education in Early North Carolina: the Case of Raleigh Academy”

Gleb Tsipursky, “Enthusiasm, Leisure, and Reformism: Youth Initiative Clubs in the Post-Stalin Years"

Comment: Professor William Barry

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Fri., Nov. 13, 3pm:

Hilary Green, “Commemorating Richmond Colored Normal: Collective Memory and the Struggle for African-American Education in Richmond, VA, 1881-1897”

Katy Smith, “’I Give My Opinion Freely’: Elite Southern Mothers and Female Networks of Advice, 1750-1820”

Comment: Professor Fitzhugh Brundage

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Fri., Dec. 4, 3pm:

Patrick Tobin, “Three Paths to Ulm: The Postwar Lives of Holocaust Perpetrators in West Germany”

Brad Proctor, “The Murder of Decatur Depriest: Violence and the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction-era North Carolina”

Comment: Professor Louise McReynolds

Click here for December 4 DRC abstracts.