Seminar Series
Fall Poster (PowerPoint, 2005)
Spring Poster (PowerPoint, 2006)
Fall Poster (Powerpoint, 2006)
Spring Poster (PDF, 2007)
Fall Poster (Powerpoint, 2007)
Winter Poster (Powerpoint, 2007)
Fall Poster (PDF, 2008)
Winter Poster (PDF, 2008)
Please contact history-inquiries@uwo.ca if you require information in an alternate format, or if any other arrangements can make these events accessible to you. The campus accessibility map can be found at: http://accessibility.uwo.ca/floorplans/campus.pdf You will note that the accessible entrance to Social Science is off the Social Science parking lot (off Elgin Road). Elevators to the fourth floor are the A/B elevators just inside the door.
2009-2010 Schedule
All seminars are located in Room 4317 at 12:00 pm, unless otherwise indicated.
17 Sept John Weaver, McMaster University
“A Social History of Self-Destruction: Suicide in Twentieth-Century New Zealand”
22-24 Sept
2009 Joanne Goodman LecturesLocation: McKellar Room, University Community Centre Harvey Levenstein, McMaster University
"Fear, Faith and Hope: The Transformation of Food and its Consequences in Modern America
Lecture 1: Germophobia and Yogurt, “The Elixir of Life”
Lecture 2: “Poisonous” Foods and Politics
Lecture 3: The Perils of Processing: “The Happy, Healthy, Hunza” and Natural Foods.
1 Oct
Don Smith, University of Calgary “Lord Bury, An English Aristocrat as Canada’s Superintendant of Indian Affairs, with special reference to his visit to London, October 18, 1855”15 Oct
J.M. Beattie, University of Toronto“The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of Eighteenth-Century London”
29 Oct
Gregg Dahl, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non-Status Indians “A Halfbreed's Perspective on Being Metis” CANCELLED4 Nov (WED) Judith Bennett, University of Southern California
"History and the Future of Feminism"
Conron Hall UC 224, 4:45 pm. Co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research
19 November
Emily Abrams Ansari, UWO ‘“A Serious and Delicate Mission”: American Orchestras and Cold War Diplomacy’26 November Mel Usselman, UWO “The Challenges of Scientific Biography: The Case of the Early 19th Century Chemical Entrepreneur William Hyde Wollaston”
2008-2009 Schedule
September 18, 2008
Nick Rogers (York University), ‘Law, Disorder and the British State: The Smuggling Wars of the 1740s’
October 2, 2008
Eli Nathans (UWO), ‘Interpreting the United States for West Germans: Peter von Zahn’s Radio and Television Broadcasts from the 1950s’
October 23, 2008
Brian Fagan (University of California, Santa Barbara), ‘And on that day the earth will be burned to ashes’: Looking at Ancient Climate Change
November 6, 2008
Rosemary Gartner (U of T), ‘Trends in Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide by Males, 1900-1999’
November 20, 2008
Matthew N. Eisler (UWO), ‘Pursuing the Power Panacea: The Fuel Cell and Energy Technopolitics, 1945-2003’
January 15, 2009
Rob Nelson (Windsor), ‘From Manitoba to the Memel: Frontiers, the Baltics, and Colonialism in the German Mindscape.’
January 29, 2009
Brock Millman (UWO), ‘Administration of Justice in the British Proctectorate in Somaliland’
February 12, 2009
Rande Kostal (UWO), ‘The Alchemy of Occupation: Karl Loewenstein and the Legal Reconstruction of Germany, 1945-48’
February 26, 2009
Steve Burgess-Whiting (UWO), “Political Humanitarianism: How the Mackenzie King Government Saved Norman Bethune’s Canadian Blood Transfusion Unit and the Canadian Aid Spain Campaign”
March 12, 2009
Valerie Korinek (University of Saskatchewan), "'Meat Stinks!'/ 'Eat beef dyke!': Food signposts of Lesbian & Gay Activism & Community Building in the West"
March 19, 2009
Neville Thompson (UWO), “Winston Churchill: A Canadian Imperial View”
April 2, 2009
Greg Marchildon (University of Regina), "Drought and Regional Decline: The Prairie West in the Great Depression"
2007-2008 Schedule
September 20, 2007
Stefan Haas (University of Toronto) "Designing a Virtual Habitat: Housing Strategies as Sense Making in the History of Global Migration"
September 25-27, 2007
October 11, 2007
Pat Ryan (King's College, UWO) "Six Blacks from Home: Childhood, Motherhood, and Eugenics in America"
October 25, 2007
Stefan Creuzberger (UWO) "Empire and Civilizing Mission: Russia’s Eastern Expansion in the Nineteenth Century"
November 8, 2007
Urs Obrist (UWO) "An Expedient North Atlantic Triangle: Canada, West Germany and The United States in the 1950s"
November 22, 2007
Michael Bliss (University of Toronto) "Harvey Cushing and the Birth of Brain Surgery"
January 10, 2008
Jeffrey Alexander (University of Wisconsin) "Japan's Motorcycle Wars: Postwar Industrial Competition and the Myth of "japan Inc"'"
January 24, 2008
Carl Young (University of Western Ontario) "Embracing Modernity: Administrative and Ritual change in the Ch'ondogyo Religion in Korea, 1905-10"
February 7, 2008
Jayeeta Sharma (University of Western Ontario) "Training Children for Empire? The St Andrew's Colonial Homes in Kalimpong, India"
February 21, 2008
Frank Schumacher (University of Western Ontario) '"Nobody was Seriously Damaged": The United States, the Debate over Torture, and the Military Conquest of the Philippine Islands, 1899-1902'
March 13, 2008
Roman Serbyn (Université du Québec à Montréal) 'Ukranian Genocide: Soviet Documents and the UN Convention'
March 27, 2008
Rob MacDougall (University of Western Ontario) 'King Crank: Technology and Democracy in the Golden Age of the American Eccentric'
April 3, 2008
James Alsop (McMaster University) 'European Expansion in Miniature? The Destruction of the Natural and Human Environments on St. Helena, 1670-1730'
2006-2007 Schedule
September 21, 2006
Edward Breuer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "The Politics and Polemics of the Jewish Enlightenment"
October 19, 2006
Michael Marrus (University of Toronto) "Law and History: French Railways and the Holocaust"
October 23-25, 2006
November 2, 2006
Marta Dyczok (The University of Western Ontario) "What Role is Mass Media Playing in Ukraine?"
November 16, 2006 - [POSTPONED]
Michael Bliss (University of Toronto) "Harvey Cushing and the Birth of Brain Surgery"
November 30, 2006
Pierre Reynard (The University of Western Ontario) "Transient Islands: Early Modern Attitudes Toward a Radically Unstable Environment"
January 25, 2007
Michael Szonyi, (Harvard University) "Islands on the Frontlines: Militarized Modernity and Quemoy Society, 1949-1992."
February 1, 2007
Jane Errington, (Royal Military College of Canada) "Webs of Affection and Obligation: Friends, Family and Migration in the 19th Century."
February 15, 2007
Diana Dicklich, (University of Western Ontario) "A View from Court: Lessons, Triumphs and Defeats in the Trial of Slobodan Milosevic."
March 22, 2007
Doina Harsanyi, (Central Michigan University) "Aristocratic Ethics and Democratic Politics in the Experience of French Emigres in Philadelphia, 1794-1800."
March 29, 2007
Melissa Bokovoy, (University of New Mexico) "The Gendering of Public History and Textbooks in Serbia."
2005-2006
September 15, 2005
Philip Scranton (Rutgers) "NASA and the Aerospace Industry - Design and Production"
Co-sponsored by Joy Parr, CRC.
September 29, 2005
David Webster (Harris Steel Fellow, UWO) "The Struggle for West New Guinea's History: Narratives of Colonization, Decolonization or Recolonization"
October 13, 2005
Sara Morrison (Metcalfe Fellow, UWO) "Contested Forests: English Royal Forests during the Interregnum (1649-1660)"
October 25-27, 2005
November 3, 2005
Donald Avery (UWO) "The Bioterrorism Threat: Myth or Reality?"
November 17, 2005
Ken Ledford (Case Western) "Prussian Judges and the Rule of Law in Imperial Germany"
January 12, 2006
Peter Henshaw (UWO) "How Ottawa makes external policy: History and historians and the example of Zimbabwe"
January 26, 2006
Deborah Fitzgerald (MIT) "Marketing Convenience: The Food Industry,
the Quartermaster, and World War II"
Co-sponsored by Joy Parr, CRC.
February 9, 2006
Darlene Abreu-Ferrerira (Winnipeg) "Women of Property and Women as Property in Early Modern Portugul"
February 23, 2006
Luz-Maria Hernandez-Saenz (UWO) "Healer or Witch? Tiburcia Reynantes and the Mexican Inquisition, 1782"
March 9, 2006
Amy Bell (Huron College, UWO) "Finding the Bodies: Suspicious Deaths in London, England 1933-1953"
March 23, 2006
Karl Hele (UWO) "Performing Myth and History at Sault Ste. Marie: Exploring the Dynamics of Two Ojibwa Plays, Hiawatha and How the Gospel Came to Algoma"
March 30, 2006
Graeme Morton (Guelph) "Tartan Day and 'Freedom' in Scottish Nationalism"
Monday April 3, 2006
Gerald Tulchinsky (Smallman Professor, UWO) Smallman Lecture: "Joe Salsberg: The Life and Times of a Toronto Jewish Communist"
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