Spring Semester Department Events
Sarah Maza
Professor, Northwestern University
"Notes on the History of Scandal: Violette Nozière, 1933"
Carla Hesse
Professor, UC Berkeley
(Respondent)
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)
Cal Day April 12, 2008
"Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Movies"
2-4pm, 145 Dwinelle Hall
Join us to hear five distinguished historians discuss marriage (and its alternatives) as depicted in famous international films.
2:00 Welcome and Introduction
2:10 Professor Carla Hesse on Marie Antoinette
2:30 Professor Randolph Starn on Dangerous Beauty
2:50 Professor John Connelly on The Marriage of Maria Braun
3:20 Professor Prachi Deshpande on Jodhaa Akbar
3:40 Professor Mary Elizabeth Berry on Casablanca and The End of the Affair (1999)
The End of the Old Regime in the Iberian World Conference
Friday, February 8, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
223 Moses Hall
Friday, February 8, 7:30 pm
Goya Lecture, University Art Museum
Saturday, February 9, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Morrison Library, Doe Library
Well-established and younger specialists in history, literature and the history of art will come together for a two-day conference marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and Spain that set off events leading to the end of their absolute monarchies and the break-up of their American empires. The conference will draw on new research and the experience of senior scholars to rethink the significance of these developments for the cultural, social, and political life of the Iberian world on both sides of the Atlantic. Presented by the UC Berkeley Spanish Studies Program and Portuguese Studies Program of the Institute of European Studies.
The conference program is available online.
Jana K. Lipman
Assistant Professor, St. Joseph's College
"Guantanamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution"
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)
David Suisman
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
"Towards a Prehistory of the Culture Industries: The Political Economy"
Rebecca McLennan, Professor, UC Berkeley (Respondent)
Reception to Follow
Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)
Mark D. Metzler
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
"Japan at the Margins of the International Great Depression of 1873-1896"
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)
Edward G. Miller
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth University
"Grand Designs: Making and Unmaking of America's Alliance with Ngo Dinh Diem, 1954-1963"
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)
Mark J. Ravina
Associate Professor, Emory University
"Revolution, Reaction, and Resurrection: Samurai Political Violence in the Early Meiji Era"
Date: Monday, January 28, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)
Luke S. Roberts
Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
"Politics of the Living Dead: Lords and Inheritance in Tokugawa Japan"
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)
Massimo Mazzotti
Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
"The Politics of Purity: mathematics and social order in the age of revolution"
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (C Level)