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Event this Friday (4/5): “Japan: Two Years after the 3/11 Earthquake-Tsunami”

April 1, 2013 By

On Friday, the University of Mary Washington will be hosting a series of lectures, a live music performance, and documentary film screening devoted to the topic of Japan’s 3/11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Schedule:

2:00-3:00 pm — Dr. Steve Rabson lecture, “Aftershocks: Political and Social Reverberations of 3/11 and other Recent Earthquakes in Japan”

3:00-4:00 — Dr. Susan Fernsebner (Dept. of History and American Studies) lecture, “Sichuan 2008, Fukushima 3/11, and Sino-Japanese Relations”

4:00-5:00 — Live Performance of Traditional Japanese Koto Music by Miyuki Yishikami

5:00-6:30 — “Live Your Dream” Documentary Film centering on the life of Virginia native Taylor Anderson, one of the two Americans to die in the tsunami at Fukushima, where she taught English after graduating from Randolph-Macon College. It features interviews of local residents, including her students, and of her family who describe her lifelong interest in Japan and her adjustments–sometimes humorous–to living there.

Location for all events: Lee Hall 412

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies

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Talk: “Educational Opportunities for Women in the Early American Republic”

March 11, 2013 By

 On Thursday, April 4th, Dr. Lucia McMahon will share a talk entitled “Educational Opportunities for Women in the Early American Republic.”

In her new book, Mere Equals:  The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic, Lucia McMahon narrates the experiences of educated women in the new nation.  Emboldened by access to new educational opportunities, young women envisioned lives of intellectual equality, but they did so in a world marked by continued gender inequality in legal and political realms.  Yet in their social and personal relationships, women attempted to live as the “mere equals” of men.  Their efforts reveal how early national Americans grappled with both the promises and constraints embedded in their understandings of gender roles and relations.

Dr. McMahon is associate professor of History and assistant chair at the Department of History at William Patterson University.

The talk will be held at 7 pm in Lee Hall room 411.

Sponsored by the Department of History and American Studies, the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library,
the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Women’s and Gender Studies.

For more information, please contact Will Mackintosh at wmackint [at] umw.edu

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Women’s History Month Lecture: “A Liberal, Modern Movement towards Greater Sexual Freedom: Rethinking Sexuality in the 1950s US”

February 25, 2013 By

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Departments of History and American Studies and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies present Dr. Joanne Meyerowitz, OAH Distinguished Lecturer:

“A Liberal, Modern Movement towards Greater Sexual Freedom: Rethinking Sexuality in the 1950s US”

Dr. Meyerowitz is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, and the author of Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 and How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.

Tuesday March 12 / Combs 139 /7:30pm

This speaker is cosponsored by CARC

For more information contact

Dr. Allyson M. Poska, program chair, Women’s and Gender Studies aposka@umw.edu

 

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Black History Month Lecture: Dr. Donna Murch, “A Time Before Crack” (2/18)

February 12, 2013 By

In honor of Black History Month, the Departments of History and American Studies and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies present Dr. Donna Murch (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University), who will offer a talk entitled “A Time Before Crack: The Destruction of the Southern California Black Panther Party and the Transformation of Black Youth Culture in Late 20th Century Los Angeles.”

Monday, February 18

Red Room, Woodard Campus Center

7 pm

This speaker is cosponsered by CARC.

For more information contact Dr. Allyson M. Poska, program chair, Women’s and Gender Studies (aposka [at] umw.edu).

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Talk Tonight (11/15): “Red Cross, Double Cross”: Race and America’s World War II Era Blood Program

November 15, 2012 By

Thomas A. Guglielmo, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, will speak this evening on the topic of “‘Red Cross, Double Cross’: Race and America’s World War II Era Blood Program.” The talk begins at 7 pm in Lee Hall 412. All are welcome.

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Talk (11/15): “Red Cross, Double Cross”: Race and America’s World War II Era Blood Program

November 5, 2012 By

On Thursday, November 15th, Thomas A. Guglielmo will present a talk entitled “‘Red Cross, Double Cross’: Race and America’s World War II Era Blood Program.” Dr. Guglielmo is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University.

Time:  7 pm on Thursday, 11/15

Location: Lee Hall 412

This talk is sponsored by the American Studies Program at UMW. For more information or questions, contact Professor Krystyn Moon at kmoon@umw.edu.

 

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Talk on Wednesday (10/24): “Prisons and the Politics of Punitive Justice Policy: Civil Rights and the 21st Century”

October 23, 2012 By

“Prisons and the Politics of Punitive Justice Policy: Civil Rights and the 21st Century”

A talk by Professor Heather Thompson

 Heather Thompson is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Temple University. She is the author of Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City (Cornell University Press: 2001). Her new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy, will be released next year. Heather was also recently named to a National Academy of Sciences panel to study the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States. 

Wednesday, October 24th, 6 PM.
Monroe 116.

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