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September 2006
New Student Open House for Freshmen
Date: September 22, 2006
Time: 1:00 - 3:30
Location: Room 302 the History Lounge on the 3rd floor, Building 200, Lane History Corner
October 2006
Ancients and Moderns workshop
Title: The Ruins of Rome: Antiquarianism and Collecting from the Renaissance to Romanticism
Date: October 6, 2006
Time: 1:00 - 4:30
Location: Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
*Reception with refreshments to follow
Talk by Jonathan Sperber
Title: Incident on a Commuter Train Between Mainz and Bodenheim: A Micro-history of Bismarck's Germany
Date: October 12, 2006
Time: 4:15
Location: Lane History Corner, Room 205
Lecture by Professor Gail Lehnhoff
Title: Russian Orthodox Historical Vision and Literary Art
Date: October 18, 2006
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: CREES Library, Building 40-41J
Lecture by Miguel Cabrera
Title: Trends in Spanish Historiography
Date: October 25, 2006
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street
Lecture by Miguel Cabrera
Title: Postsocial History
Date: October 26, 2006
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Lane History Corner, Building 200, Room 307
Undergraduate Halloween Lunch for anyone interested in finding out more about a History course or History as a Major or Minor
Faculty and Staff will be available for questions. Current History Majors and Minors are also welcome!
Date: October 31, 2006
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Building 200 Room 302
November 2006
Lecture by Professor Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History Vanderbilt University
Title: The Mirror Turn Lamp: Senses of the German Nation before Nationalism
Date: November 2, 2006
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Location: Lane History Corner, Room 205
Lecture by Professor David Frick, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Ruthenian Identities in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius
Date: November 6, 2006
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Lane History Corner, Room 219
Lecture by Martial Staub
Title: The Discipline of the Republic and the Knowledge of the Citizens: What we may learn from late medieval endowment practices
Date: November 9, 2006
Time: 12:00
Location: Building 460, room 426
For a copy of the paper contact: ncm@stanford.edu
Hot Dates in History!
Presenter: Professor Philippe Buc
Title: July 15, 1099: The First Crusaders Seize Jerusalem From the Muslims
Date: November 14, 2006
Location: Building 420, Room 041
Ancients and Moderns Fall workshop
Lecture by Sabrina Ferri
Title: The Great Fragments of Antiquity: Natural History and Antiquarianism in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Date: November 14, 2006
Time: 5:15
Location: Baker Room, Stanford Humanities Center
Hot Dates in History!
Presenter: Professor Robert Proctor
Title: November 24, 1859: Evolution Proven
Date: November 30, 2006
Location: Building 200, Room 307
Pizza to follow
December 2006
Mediterranean Studies Forum
Presenter: Noel Valis
Title: Martyr Narratives of the Spanish Civil War Date: December 4, 2006
Time: 4:15
Location: Encina Hall East, Room E 008
This lecture is open to the Stanford community.
Ancients and Moderns Fall workshop
Lecture by Grant Parker
Title: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff, South African
Date: December 5, 2006
Time: 5:15
Location: Baker Room, Stanford Humanities Center
Mediterranean Studies Forum
Presenter: Molly Greene
Title: Networks of protection in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Date: December 7, 2006
Time: 4:00
Location: Building 200, Room 307
This lecture is open to the Stanford community.
January 2007
AHA Convention, Atlanta
Date: January 4th - 7th 2007
For further information visit: http://historians.org/annual/2007/index.cfm
Stanford's AHA Annual Reception
Date: Saturday, January 6, 2006
Location: Hilton Atlanta, Grand Salon B
Hot Dates in History!
Presenter: Professor James Sheehan
Title: June 28, 1914: The assassination of the Archduke of Austria opens World War
Date: January 24, 2007
Location: Building 200, Room 302
Time: 12:00 noon
Please RSVP to sharig@stanford.edu for lunch
February 2007
March 2007
Hot Dates in History!
Presenter: Professor Norman Naimark
Title: July 11, 1995: Srebrenica falls to the Bosnian Serbs
Date: March 1, 2007
Location: Building 200, Room 302
Time: 12:00 noon
Please RSVP to sharig@stanford.edu for lunch
Lecture by Caroline Elkins, Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor, Harvard University, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian
Subject: The Most Expensive Form of Illness: Counter-Insurgency and the End of the British Empire
Date: March 6, 2007
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Location: Lane History Corner, Room 205
April 2007
Dot-Com Careers for History Graduates: Where you Fit in and What to Expect in the Dot-Com Industry
Date: Wednesday, April 11
Time: Noon, Lunch will be provided. Please R.S.V.P to sharig@stanford.edu
Location: Lane History corner, Room 302
This event is open to prospective and current History Majors and Minors
Prospective History Majors Dinner
Thinking about Majoring in History? Come join History Faculty, Alumni, Upperclass students and Staff from the School of Humanities and Sciences, Undergraduate Advising and Research, and the Career Development Center for an informal presentation over dinner.
Date: Wednesday, April 11
Time: 6:00 p.m., Dinner will be provided. Please R.S.V.P to hs_grd_ugrd_studies@stanford.edu
Location: Lane History corner, Room 302
This event is open to prospective History Majors and Minors
British Studies Lecture Series - Peter Lake, Princeton University
Subject: Buckingham Does the Globe: Shakespeare's Henry VIII and the Origins of the Personal Rule
Date: April 12, 2007
Time: 4:15
Location: Lane History Corner, Room 034*(room change)
History Department Alumni/Career Reception
Visit with History alumni to find out what career paths they have taken. The reception will be followed with a Q & A panel.
Date: Thursday, April 19
Time: 6:15 p.m. in room 302 (Q & A starts at 6:45 p.m. in room 307)
Location: Lane History Corner, Building 200 Please RSVP to shari@stanford.edu.
This event is open to prospective and current History Majors and Minors
May 2007
Hot Dates in History!
Presenter: Professor Estelle Freedman
Title: June 27, 1969 From Stonewall to City Hall: The Origins of Gay Liberation and the Freedom to Marry Movement
Date: May 3, 2007
Location: Building 200, Room 302
Time: 12:00 noon
Please RSVP to sharig@stanford.edu for lunch
Department of History’s Undergraduate Advising Tea
Join us for tea with History Department faculty and staff and Undergraduate advising to have your questions answered about a History degree.
Date: May 8th, 2007
Location: Lane History Corner, Room 302
Time: 4:00 p.m.
R.S.V.P to sharig@stanford.edu
Hot Dates in History!
Presenter: Professor Peter Stansky
Title: September 7, 1940: The German London Blitz Begins
Date: May 17, 2007
Location: Building 200, Room 302
Time: 12:00 noon
Please RSVP to sharig@stanford.edu for lunch
This event is open to prospective and current History Majors and Minors
British Studies Lecture Series - Richard Price, University of Maryland
Subject: Empire and Its Encounters: The British and the Xhosa, 1820-1860
Date: May 24, 2007
Time: 4:15
Location: Lane History Corner, Room 307
June 2007
Department of History Commencement Ceremony
Date: June 17, 2007 - Sunday
Time: A buffet lunch will be available beginning at 11:45 a.m. The ceremony will begin at approximately 12:30 p.m.
Location: Citrus Courtyard (located behind Lane History Corner)