Department Colloquium Series (Spring 2009)
Friday, February 27th, 2009
All events will take place at SBS (Social and Behavioral Sciences Building) N-318
FROYLÁN ENCISO
The Author as Bureaucrat: Debates around the Diplomatic Works of Octavio Paz and the Latin American Traveler-Writers
3/4 (W) 12:50 PM
JUAN PABLO ARTINIAN
Politics of Visual Representation in Argentina; State Power and Popular Creativity: Antonio Berni and Ricardo Carpani (1950-1963)
3/25 (W) 1:00pm
ARIE PERLIGER
Understanding the Politics of Counterterrorism – A Comparative Analysis
4/16 (Th) 2:20pm
TOM BALCERSKI & STEPHEN SANFILIPPO
“The Little Spark of Manhood I Have Left:” Ballads, Petitions, and the “Aged, Decrepit, and Worn-out Seamen” of Sailors’ Snug Harbor
4/22 (W) 1:00pm
JEFF HALL
Olympic Village or Prison Town?: Building the Federal Prison at Ray Brook, New York, 1975-1990
4/29 (W) 1:00pm
JANIS MIMURA
Technocratic Modernity: Planning, Empire, and the State in Wartime Japan
5/6 (W) 1:00pm
Time and location are subject to change.
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