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Department of History

2011-12 Departmental Seminar Series and Annual Nugent Lecture

Annual Nugent Lecture:[Sutherland Hall 202 at 5:30 p.m.]

November 3:

"Medieval History Meets Geopolitics: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."

David Nirenberg

Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought, University of Chicago



Fall Seminar Schedule: [Watson 517 at 11:30 a.m.]

October 6:

Frank Lewis, Professor of Economics, Queen's University

"Reinterpreting Aboriginal-European Interactions: Lessons from Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade."


November 24:

Allan Greer, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America, McGill University

"Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land-Surrender Treaties."


Winter Seminar Schedule: [Watson 517 at 11:30 am]

February 9:

Ariel Salzmann, Associate Professor of History, Queen's University

"Muslim Slaves, Christian Masters: The Religious Economy of Galley Slavery in

the Early Modern Mediterranean."


March 15:

Joseph C. Miller, T. Cory Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia

"Investing in Poverty in Africa – Financial Aspects of the Global Historical Dynamics of Commercialization."


March 29:

Michael Kwass, Associate Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University

"The Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Fiscal State in Eighteenth-Century France."

 


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