History Department Seminar Series

Winter/Spring 2012

26 January        Christopher Landon, UWO
Title: "An Empire of the Mind:  Politics and Religion in Ninth-Century Saxony"

2 February        Kristine Alexander, UWO
Title: "Citizens of the World:  Imperialism, Intarnationalism, and the Early History of the Girl Guides"

16 February      Karen Priestman, UWO
Title: "The Waldorf Schools as Modern Havens of Nazism?:  The Continuing Debate and the Abuses of History"

8 March            Forrest Pass, Saguenay Herald, Office of the Governor General
Title:  "Strange Whims of Crest Fiends:  Telling History with Heraldry in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America"

29 March         Nina Verheyen, University of Cologne
Title:  "Passion for Discussion.  A History of the 'Better Argument' in West Germany"

5 April             David Schimmelpenninck, Brock University
Title:  "What is Russian Orientalism?"