Sept. 19, Ben Fine, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London “Cluttered Landscapes of Consumption: An Economist’s Gaze”

Oct. 10, John Giggie, University of Texas-San Antonio “Tracking Jesus: Railroads, Ex-Slaves and the Transformation of Black Religion in the American South, 1865-1917”

Nov. 14, Catherine Fisk, Loyola Law School “A Free Labor Ideology for the Ingenious Tinkerer: Class and the Ownership of Intellectual Property in the Employment Relation, 1890-1930”

Dec. 12, Steven Mihm, New York University “Ghosts in the Machine: Counterfeiters, Bank Notes, and the Industrialization of Engraving in Antebellum America” Jan. 9, Kevin Borg, James Madison University “Tinkering with Socio-technical Hierarchies: Reconfiguring Automobiles and Recreating Mechanics, 1918-1940”

Feb. 13, Roberta M. Moudry, Cornell University “The Corporate and the Civic: Metropolitan Life's Home Office”

March 13, Matt Roth, University of Southern California and Automobile Club of Southern California “The Last New Deal Project: Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Creation of the Los Angeles Freeway Network, 1939-1944”

April 10, Reggie Blaszczyk, Chemical Heritage Foundation “Color Rx: Tales of Color and Fashion from the Modern Era”

May 8, 2003, Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University “National Cultures of Risk: Radiation Protection in Nuclear Industries”

Seminars commence at 6:30 p.m., preceded by an informal half-hour reception, and take place in the Copeland Room of Hagley’s Library building. Papers are distributed in advance. To join the seminar mailing list contact the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the address below, or email Carol Lockman.

The Hagley Museum and Library contains one of the leading collections of research materials on the history of business and technology in the United States, with more than 30,000 linear feet of manuscript material, 200,000 printed sources, and more than one million photographs. We invite scholars to apply for a Hagley fellowship that supports research in our collections.

Please contact us for more information on our research collections and fellowship programs.