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The Boston Seminar in Immigration and Urban History is an academic forum=
for
scholars as well as interested members of the public to discuss all aspects
of American immigration and urban history and culture. Programs are not
confined to Massachusetts topics.
Most seminar meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated
paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned
commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each
session, the Society serves a light buffet supper. We request that those
wishing to stay for supper make reservations in advance.
The Boston Seminar in Immigration and Urban History group meets
approximately once a month between September and April. Sessions begin at
5:15 in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. For directions, see
our website at www.masshist.org.
To receive advance copies of seminar papers for the year, please send a
$25.00 check payable to the Massachusetts Historical Society. This fee
covers papers for the full academic year. Back copies are provided to those
who subscribe late in the season. Participants may also find copies of the
papers at several area institutions.
To subscribe, make dinner reservations, join our mailing list, or for more
information, please contact Erin Pipkin at the Massachusetts Historical
Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215. Call her at (617) 646-0505
or send email to epipkin@masshist.org
The Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Schedule for 2001-2002
September 20
Nancy Foner, State University of New York at Purchase
Immigrants in the Empire City: Past and Present Perspectives
Comment: Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University
October 25
Kevin Kenny, Boston College
An Irish Diaspora?
Comment: Nathan Glazer, Harvard University
November 15
Davarian Baldwin, Boston College
Mapping the Black Metropolis: An Institutional Geography
of Black Chicago, 1915-1935
Comment: Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University
January 31
Peter D'Agostino, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Order Sons of Italy in America, Roman Catholicism,
and Italian Nationalism, 1905-1920
Comment: James O=92Toole, Boston College
February 28
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
They Prayed in Boston and It Rained in Brazil:
Comparative Perspectives on Transnational Religion
Comment: Nazli Kibria, Boston University
March 28
Heather Fryer, Boston College
Vanport, Oregon: A Study of Citizenship in a Federal Community
Comment: James Green, University of Mass. Boston
April 25
Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College
Blacks and Jews on the Urban Frontier
Comment: Robert Hall, Northeastern University
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