The
Lees
History Seminars - Sixth Series
February
- April 2012
The
Graduate History Program at Rutgers-Camden announces its research
seminars for spring, 2012, where scholars present work-in-progress
through pre-circulated papers. In our Armitage Hall Faculty
Lounge (3rd
floor), seminars open with an author’s introduction and a
formal comment, followed by discussion and light refreshments. We
gratefully acknowledge an endowment gift from Professor Andrew
Lees, which helps support this series.
- Friday, February 24,
5:00 pm Paper Presentation:
"Spies
and Lies:
Cold War Psychiatry and the CIA", Andrea
Tone, Ph.D., Canada
Research Chair in the Social
History of Medicine, McGill University
*N.B.
Because
of funding and
legal rules concerning materials in this presentation, it cannot be
circulated
in advance.
The author will present
the
paper and a question-and-answer
session will follow.
- Friday, March 23, 5:00 pm Paper
Presentation: "Barbary
Slavery, American Freedom: Race, National Power, and Natural Rights in
the New
Nation", Nicholas Wood, University of Virginia;
Presiding:
Daniel K. Richter, Ph.D.,
Richard S. Dunn Director, McNeil Center for Early American
Studies
*N.B. This
seminar is co-sponsored by
the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania.
- Friday April 13, 5:00 pm Paper
Presentation:
"A Paper Age:
Banks and Banking
in Micropolitan America, 1783-1817” , Rick
Demirjian, University
of Delaware; Commentator:
Andrew Shankman,
Ph.D. Gradate
Program Director Rutgers
University, Camden
Papers
are precirculated. To join the mailing list and receive a copy
of the paper please contact Ms. Leona Pellot in the History
Department
at pellot@camden.rutgers.edu.
Members will receive e-mailed copies of
each paper two weeks in advance
of sessions, along with a reply form. Each seminar is followed by
snacks and a social hour. Please let us know if you plan to come so we
can have adequate refreshments. Maps and directions are available at
the RUCamden website:
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