2018-2019 Seminar Schedule

October 5, 2018, (Friday) 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.   

“Citizen Technologies: The U.S. Post Office and the Transformation of Early American Literature” (Joint Rutgers-Camden/McNeil Center Seminar)

CHRISTY POTTROFF, Assistant Professor of English, Merrimack College

Location: Faculty Lounge, Armitage Hall, 3rd Floor

 

November 16, 2018 (Friday) 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

“Capital Colony: The Project of the Third World in Washington, D.C., 1960-1980”

 ANDREW FRIEDMAN, Associate Professor of History, Haverford College

Comment: Penny Von Eschen, Professor of History & William R. Kenan Professor of American Studies, University of Virginia

 

February 1, 2019 (Friday) 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

“Vagrants, Thieves, and Unruly Children: Delinquency and Discourses of Childhood in Colonial Senegal, 1888-1928”

KELLY DUKE BRYANT, Associate Professor of History, Rowan University

Comment: Owen White, Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware

 

March 1, 2019 (Friday) 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

“Experiencing Slavery in the Ceded Islands, 1763-1773”

TESSA MURPHY, Assistant Professor of History, Syracuse University

Comment: Roderick McDonald, Professor of History, Rider University

 

April 26, 2019 (Friday) 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

‘Six Feet of Soldier with Brass Buttons’: Dressing Men for War

 SARAH WEICKSEL, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Center for the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

Comment: David Niescior, Old Barracks Museum