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You are cordially invited to attend Northeastern University's inaugural Husky History Conference, a series of brief research presentations by faculty members and graduate students in the Department of History at Northeastern University. This workshop is cosponsored by the Association of Graduate Students in History at Northeastern and includes lively audience participation. All are welcome:
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000
Time: 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Place: 320 Curry Center, Northeastern University
Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
Program:
- 1:00pm-1:05pm Opening Remarks
Professor Tom Havens, Chair Northeastern University History Department
- 1:05pm-1:20pm
Tiffany A. Trimmer, MA program: "Revision of World History Bibliographies: Accessibility, Broader Definitions, and Goals for the Future"
- 1:20pm-1:35pm
Professor Jeffrey Burds: "Conflicted Loyalties: Reassessing the Role of Soviet Communist Party Members During the First German Occupation, 1941"
- 1:35pm-1:50pm
George Reklaitis, Ph.D. program: "Soviet Pacification Policies in the Non-Russian Borderlands"
- 1:50pm-2:05pm
Professor Anthony Penna, "Early Climate Change and the Evolution of the Human Species"
- 2:05pm-2:20pm
Robert Mitchell, MA program: "A Recent History of Cabinda, Angola: The Impact of the Oil Industry and a Military Presence on the Local Population"
- 2:20pm-2:35pm
Kathleen Simone, MA program: "Saving Sacco-Vanzetti from the Liberal Master Narrative"
- 2:35pm-2:50pm
Professor Laura Frader: "Gender and the Depression: Perspectives on the Male Breadwinner Ideal in France"
- 2:50pm-3:15pm
BREAK: Refreshments provided.
- 3:15pm-3:30pm
Professor Clay McShane: "The Gelded Age in Boston"
- 3:30pm-3:45pm
Michael Mezzano, MA program: "The Massachusetts Department of Public Works, the Inner Belt, and Community Tensions"
- 3:45pm-4:00pm
Jim Williams, MA Public History program: "Interpreting the Past Through Historic Houses: A Historical Perspective"
- 4:00pm-4:15pm
Professor Robert Hall: "Illegal Aliens From Africa: The Clandestine Slave Trade to the United States, 1808-1862"
- 4:15pm-4:30pm
Mark Johnson, MA program: "A Comparative Analysis of American Massacres: Sand Creek, Samar, My Lai"
- 4:30pm-4:45pm
Eric Martin, Ph.D. program: "Anti-Colonial Worldviews"
- 4:45pm-5:00pm
David Kalivas, Ph.D. program: "A World History World View: Owen Lattimore and the Eurasian Zone of Interaction"
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