Graduate Workshop in Modern History

Leslie's Paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its fifth meeting of the Spring 2008 semester on Friday, April 4. History graduate student Leslie Schumacher will workshop his paper, "“The one great man whom Bulgaria has produced”: A British Vision of the Balkans, or The Murder of Stefan Stambolov and Its Coverage in The Times." Opening comments will be made by Professor Anna Clark of the history department. We will meet from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (next to the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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Drew's paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its fourth meeting of the Spring 2008 semester on Friday, March 7. History graduate student Drew Thompson will workshop his paper, "From Dakar to New York: African Americans Struggles to Re-Appropriate their ‘Lost’ Histories and Ethnic Identities through Artistic Production and Exhibition." Opening comments will be made by Professor Malinda Lindquist of the history department. We will meet from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (next to the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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Jessica's Paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its third meeting of the Spring 2008 semester on Friday, Feb. 22. History graduate student Jessica Namakkal will workshop her paper, "Playing with Others? Colonial Toy Soldiers and the Making of the ‘Racial State’ in the Initial Years of France’s Third Republic, 1870-1900." Opening comments will be made by Professor MJ Maynes of the history department. Please note the time and room change! We will meet from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 710 Social Science Building (Ford Room) and a light lunch will be served.

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Tony's paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its second meeting of the Spring 2008 semester on Friday, Feb. 15. History graduate student Tony Yu Jiang will workshop his paper, "State Building, Capitalism, and Development:The State-Run Industrial Enterprises in Fengtian Province, China, 1920-1931." Opening comments will be made by Professor Ann Waltner of the history department. Please note the time change from last semester! We will meet from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (next to the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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Mike's paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its first meeting of the Spring 2008 semester on Friday, Feb. 1. History graduate student Michael Wise will workshop his paper, "Oil for Bison: Animals, Race, and Energy in Progressive-era Montana, 1905-1924." Opening comments will be made by Professor David Chang of the history department. Please note the time change from last semester! We will meet from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (next to the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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Kate's Paper

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History and the Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender and Sexuality will co-sponsoring its next meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Friday, December 7. History graduate student Kate Williams will workshop her paper, "Domesticating Through Domesticity: Women and Language as 'The Perfect Instruments of Empire' in 19th Century Welsh and American Indian Cultures." Sarah Chambers from the History Department will be commentating. Kate's paper will be workshoped 3:30 p.m. in Room 710 Social Sciences (Ford Room). Snacks will be provided.

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Boyd's Paper

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History and the Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender and Sexuality will co-sponsoring its next meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Friday, December 7. History graduate student Boyd Cothran will first workshop his paper, "Listening for Modoc Ghots and Other Ways of Deconstructing the Silence of Colonialism." Kevin Murphy from the History Department will be commentating. Following Boyd, Kate Williams will workshop her paper (Please refer to the posting above for it). We'll meet from 2:30 p.m. in Room 710 Social Sciences (Ford Room). Snacks will be provided.

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Kelly's paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History and the Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender and Sexuality will co-sponsoring its next meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Friday, November 30. History graduate student Kelly Donahue will workshop her paper, "Fanning the Sparks: Elizabeth Fry and the British Women’s Prison Reform Movement in the Early 19th Century." Barbara Welke from the History Department will be commentating. We'll meet from 3:30 p.m. in Room 760 Social Sciences. Snacks will be provided.

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Clements Paper

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its next meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Friday, November 16. History graduate student Clement Masakure will workshop his paper, "Always on the Margins: Rethinking Operation Murambatsvina in Historical Perspective." Opening comments will be made by Professor Keletso Atkins of the African-American Studies Department. We'll meet from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (next to the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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Seth's paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its next meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Friday, Nov. 9. History graduate student Seth Epstein will workshop his paper, "The Circuit-Riding Rabbi." The faculty commentator will be Riv Ellen Prell from the American Studies Department. We will meet from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (in the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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Zhiguo's paper
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its third meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Friday, October 5. History graduate student Zhiguo Ye will workshop her paper, "Cities under Siege: flood in 1931 and the downside of urban modernization in China." Opening comments will be made by Professor Liping Wang of the history department. We'll meet from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (next to the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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Xiangyu's Paper

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its second meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Friday, September 28. History graduate student Xiangyu Hu will workshop the paper, "Sex, Law, and Status: A Study of Illicit Sex Cases Involving Imperial Clansmen in the Late Qinq." Opening comments will be made by Professor Chris Isett of the history department. We'll meet from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Anderson Library Room 308 (next to the IHRC) and a light lunch will be served.

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SPECIAL BLIZZARD MAKE-UP SESSION!

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History will hold its final meeting of the semester on Friday, April 27. History graduate student Chantal Norrgard will workshop her paper, "Monumental Encounters: Politics, Historical Memory, and the Reconstruction of a Fur Post on the Grand Portage Reservation, 1922-1958." Opening comments will be made by Professor Patrick McNamara of the history department. We'll meet from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Social Sciences room 710 (the Ford Room) and a light lunch will be served.

Copies of Chantal's paper are available in Social Sciences room 636 (the history copy room) or by emailing manu0014@umn.edu.

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Please join the GWMH for our next meeting this Friday, April 20, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Political Science grad student Robyn Linde will workshop the paper, "Early Abolition of the Death Penalty for Child Offenders: The United Kingdom, 1925-1959." History professor Anna Clark will provide the opening comments.

As always, we will meet in Andersen Library room 308 (next to the IHRC). A light lunch will be provided. We hope to see everyone there!

Robyn's Paper

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Please join us this Friday, April 6, at noon, for the Graduate Workshop in Modern History. We will be meeting in Room 308 of Andersen Library, where the IHRC is located.

Rachel Neiwert, of the History Dept., will be presenting her paper:

"Creating Community through Schoolwork: Charlotte Mason, the Parents’ Union School, and the British Empire."

Professor Andrew Elfenbein of the English Department will be providing faculty comment.

The paper is available online at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/manu0014/gwmh/. Hard copies of the paper will be available in room 636 (the copy room) on Wednesday. If you are interested in receiving the paper by email, please contact Andy Urban at urba0090@umn.edu.

Lunch will be provided. We hope to see everyone there.

Rachel's Paper

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