The Friday Workshop
noon-2pm
Tisch 1014

Fall, 2009

September 18
“What Did Freedom Mean? Analyzing Sources from the
Caribbean and West Africa, 1775-1817”
Rebecca Scott (History), Jean Hébrard (History),
and Edgardo Perez Morales (PhD candidate, History)

October 2
“World History as a Research Field, or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love (Some) Meta-Narratives”
Kenneth Pomeranz, Charles Bright (History),
Krista Goff (PhD candidate, History), and Monica Kim (PhD candidate, History)

October 16
“Economic Crises as Transformative Events”
William H. Sewell Jr., Bertrand Metton (PhD candidate, Anthro/History),
Maintainability (PhD candidate, History), and Janam Mukherjee (PhD candidate, History)

November 6
“Becoming a World Historian”
Kerry Ward (Rice University) and Aims Mc guinness (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

November 20
“Recovering Forgotten People in History”
Sharon Farmer, Paolo Squatriti (History/ Romance Languages and Literatures),
Megan Raphoon (PhD candidate, History), and Emily Price
(PhD candidate, History)