FALL 2009

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

September 17th
Rebecca Scott
University of Michigan
w/ respondent Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University)
“Microhistory Set in Motion: Six Generations of a Creole Family”

October 1st
Kenneth Pomeranz
University of California, Irvine
“Land Rights, Resources, and Chinese Development in
Long-run and Comparative Perspective”

October 15th
William H. Sewell, Jr.
University of Chicago
Jointly sponsored with the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789-2009”
*Founders Room, Alumni Center

October 29th
George Sánchez
University of Southern California
Keynote for the Latina/Latino Studies Conference
“Population Removals in Times of Crisis: Mexican Repatriation
and Slum Clearance in the (Last) Great Depression”

November 19th
Sharon Farmer
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Landscapes of Power, c. 1300: Social and Cultural
Interactions at the Garden-Park of Hesdin” 

December 3rd
Miranda Johnson
University of Michigan Society of Fellows
“When the Settlers Don’t Go Home: Indigenous Rights and
the Re-Founding of Settler Societies”