The Lees History Seminars - Third Series

Eight Fridays at Rutgers-Camden

September 2007- April 2008

The Graduate History Program at Rutgers-Camden announces its research seminars for 2007-08, where scholars present work-in-progress through pre-circulated papers. At 3:30 pm in our Armitage Hall Faculty Lounge (3^rd floor), seminars open with an author’s introduction and a formal comment, followed by discussion and a reception at 5:00. We gratefully acknowledge an endowment gift from Professor Andrew Lees, which helps support this series.

• September 21 – Shobana Shankar, Lafayette College, "'Covering our Nakedness,' Coming of Age: Initiation Rituals, Young Refugees and Party Politics across the Chad/Nigeria Border in the 1960s and 1970s."
• October 13 – Margaret Marsh, Rutgers, "John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution of the 20th Century: The Early Years of Human In Vitro Fertilization Experiments."
• November 16 – Richard Shain, Philadelphia University, "The Sounds of Modernity: From Oral to Aural History in Twentieth Century Senegal."
• December 7 – James Carter, St. Joseph’s University, “Travels of Tan Xu: Buddhism and Nationalism in 20th Century China.”
• January 25 – Daniel Wilk, Fashion Institute of Technology, “Entrepreneurship in American Hotels, 1800-1945.”
• February 22 – Jennifer Armiger, University of Delaware, "Gendering Deindustrialization in the Long 1970s: Kyriazi v. Western Electric and the Kearny, NJ, 'Works'."
• April 4 – Janet Golden, Rutgers, “Baby Books: Glimpsing Memory, Medicine, and the Marketplace.”
• April 25 – Katherine Turner, University of Delaware, “Learning to Love Pilgrim Succotash: Food Reform and the Colonial Revival, 1875-1925.”

To join the Seminar, just e-mail Phil Scranton (scranton@crab.rutgers.edu). Members will receive e-mailed copies of each paper two weeks in advance of sessions, along with a reply form. Please let us know if you plan to come so we can have adequate refreshments and, as well, if you wish to join the author and commentator for dinner (at your expense). Maps and directions are available at the RUCamden website: How to Get to Rutgers-Camden. On-street metered parking is plentiful on Fridays (bring quarters).