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Spring 2008 Events

Mount Holyoke College (Joint Event)

The Department of German Studies presents:
Edeltraut P. Barrett Memorial Lecture
Entangled Histories & Lost Memories:
Jews and Allies in Occupied Germany

Atina Grossman

Atina Grossmann teaches Modern European and German History, and women's and gender studies at The Cooper Union. Her publications include numerous books and articles on gender, modernity, war, and genocide, and German and Jewish memory in 20th century Germany. Her publications include Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform 1920-1950 (1995), co-edited collections: When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (1984), and Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the 20th Century (2002), and numerous articles on gender, modernity, war and genocide, and German and Jewish memory in twentieth century Germany. Her new book, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (2007) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library, London.

Wednesday, April 3

4:15 p.m.

Mount Holyoke College

Dwight Hall 101

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Smith College

Atina Grossmann

Conversation with students and faculty entitled

"Intellectual Autobiography and the Archive"

Friday, April 4

Noon-2:00 p.m.

Smith College

Neilson Library Browsing Room

Government Department Sponsored Film Premiere & Discussion

Guenny Pieres, Film-maker

Film Showing - "The Journey of Cape Verde (In Search of Identity)"

Thursday, April 3

7:30 p.m.

McConnell Hall 103

Nancy Sinkoff

Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University

"The Pursuit of Secular Heresy: Neoconservatism's Campaign against Jewish Communism"

Nancy Sinkoff is author of Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands (Brown Judaic Studies, 2004), for which she was awarded a Korot Foundation Publication Prize. She is currently working on an intellectual biography of historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz entitled Seeing Red: The Political Life of Lucy S. Dawidowicz . In summer 2008, her introduction, "'Yidishkayt' and the Making of Lucy S. Dawidowicz," will accompany a reissue of Dawidowicz's memoir, From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947 . Her lecture will focus on the secularization of the typology of heresy, using the Jewish romance with Communism as a case study.

Date: Monday, March 31, 2008

Time: 12:15 p.m.

Location: Neilson Library Browsing Room

Women, Race and Culture Lecture Series -- Spring 08

Storming the Borders: Anti-Racist Activisms in the Americas

Program for the Study of Women and Gender

Smith College

Erika Lee

Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota

"Asian Exclusions and Migrations in the Americas: Border Making, Border Crossing, Border Communities"

Thursday, March 6

4:30 p.m.

Neilson Browsing Room

Tanya K. Hernandez

Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law,

George Washington University Law School

"The Role of the State in the Regulation of Race in Latin America"

Tuesday, March 11

5:00 p.m.

Seelye Hall 201

Jennifer Clarke Kosak

Associate Professor of Classics, Bowdoin College

"Masculinity and Medicine in Ancient Greece"

Thursday, March 13, 2008

5:00 p.m.

Seelye Hall 201

Annelise Orleck

Professor of History, Dartmouth College

"Storming Caesars Palace: What Happens When Poor Mothers Demand a Share of the American Dream?"

Tuesday, April 8

5:00 p.m.

Seelye Hall 201

For more information, http://www.smith.edu/swg/wrclecture.html

All events are free and open to the public.

Fall 2007 Events

Documentary film on Jamaican migrant farmers in the Massachusetts Pioneer Valley

Screening and discussion with filmmakers Allan Shinohara, Nozomi Ito and Peter Scheehle to follow.

Date: Wed., September 12, 2007

Time: 8:00 p.m. Location: Seelye 106

Lesley Gill

Professor of Anthropology

American University

"The Unreal Thing: Coca-Cola in Columbia"

Date:  Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Time:  7:30 p.m.

Location: Neilson Library Browsing Room

Don't miss the first

History Department Salon!

Featuring a film viewing and commentary by

Sergey Glebov and Ernest Benz

Date:  Monday, October 15

Time:  6:00 p.m.

Location:  Seelye 306

Pizza and soda will be served

The Frank and Lois Green Schwoerer '49

Annual History Lecture

Kathy Peiss

Professor of  History

University of Pennsylvania

"'Weapons in the War of Ideas': Preserving Culture in World War II"

Date:  Thursday, October 25, 2007

Time:  4:30 p.m.

Location:  Neilson Library Browsing Room

Sally Hastings

Department of History

Chair of East Asian Studies Program

Purdue University

Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Committee, the Lecture Committee and the Connections Fund at Smith College

"Mother of the Family State: Images of the Showa Empress, 1926 to 1945"

Date:  Monday, October 29, 2007

Time:  4:30 p.m.

Location:  Neilson Library Browsing Room

Caterina Romeo

Università La Spineza, Rome, Italy

"The Construction of Whiteness in Italy: Representing Race in Migrant and Post-Migrant Women's Literature

Sponsored by the Lecture Committee, the Program of Comparative Literature, the Department of History and the Department of Italian Language and Literature

Date:  Monday, October 29, 2007

Time:  4:30 p.m.

Location:  Graham Auditorium (Hillyer Hall)

Presentation of the Major and Minor in History & History Fair

Date:  Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Time:  4:30 p.m.

Location:  Seelye 207

A REEL STORY FOR VETERANS DAY
Sunday, November 4, at the Smith College Weinstein Auditorium

Presented by the 2007 Northampton Independent Film Festival
Co-sponsored by The Veterans Education Project, the Northampton Office of
Veterans Services, the Smith College School of Social Work, the Smith College History Dept.
and the Smith College Theatre Dept.

No Unwounded Soldiers
followed by discussion with veterans
Date:  Sunday, November 4, 2007

Time:  6:30 pm
Location:  Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall (next to Neilson Library), Smith College
$8 general admission, $6 students & seniors

Many American veterans who served in Vietnam are troubled by the uncanny
parallels between their own experiences and the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq. No Unwounded Soldiers follows a small group of these vets as they
explore – through their work in drama therapy – the ways war changes those
who fight. The documentary shows the devastating ripple effects those
changes have on veterans and on their families, linking the lessons of the
Vietnam era to the impact of the Iraq war. Through their original work of
drama, the vets explore the universality of war’s impact on those who
serve, share their emotional struggle to find healing, and reach out to
today’s generation of veterans and military families. Audience discussion
with veterans and counselors in the film will follow.

Books to Blogs and Back -  November 15 and 16, 2007

The transition surrounding the dawning of the "information age" has engendered speculation about the shift from the printing press using movable type to the computer with its keyboard and mouse.  How has this shift affected the production and distribution of information, and the access to it?  Two days of dynamic programming at Mount Holyoke College will explore a range of issues associated with the history and the future of the book. 

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Keynote Lecture

Robert Darnton, recently named Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of Harvard University Library

"The Research Library in the New Age of Information"

Date:  Thursday, November 15, 2007

Time:  7:00 p.m.

Location:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Gamble Auditorium

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Books to Blogs Expo

Mount Holyoke College Library, Information, and Technology Services (LITS)

Time:  9:00-11:00 a.m.

Location:  Mount Holyoke College Miles-Smith Wing, Information Commons

Lecture

Jason Epstein

"A Farewell to Gutenberg"

Time:  11:00 a.m.

Location:  Mount Holyoke College LITS, Dwight 101

Panel Discussion

"The Past and Future of the Book"

Time:  1:30 p.m.

Location:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Gamble Auditorium

Moderator: Corey Flintoff, National Public Radio

Panelists:

Terry Belanger, University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia

Sven Birkerts, essayist and literary critic, has taught writing at Emerson College and Mount Holyoke College and is currently lecturer at Harvard University

Lisa Gitelman, Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

Reception

Time:  3:30 p.m.

Location:  Mount Holyoke College LITS, Williston Library Courtyard

For more information on this interactive symposium, please visit: www.mtholyoke.edu/go/booksblogs07 or contact: Tony Maroulis, Project Coordinator, Museums10, 413-687-2757, amaroulis@fivecolleges.edu

Latina Performance Art: Creativity as the Antithesis to Violence

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

4:00 pm Lecture : "Gendering Nuyorican Aesthetics: The Feminist Acts of Sandra María Esteves" by Patricia Herrera, Research Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College . Herrera, a Ph.D. in Theater from the Graduate Center , CUNY is a specialist on Latino theatre and performance, as well as co-founder and co-director of Rubí Theater Company and a member of the music group Doo Wop Moderno.

4:45-6:00 pm Poetry Workshop

"Documenting Personal Identity: Poetry Writing Workshop" led by Sandra María Esteves

Esteves is an award-winning poet, visual artist, and founding member of the Nuyorican poetry movement. She is also the first Puerto Rican-Dominican-Nuyorican woman to have published a volume of poetry in the United States .

Location for both events: Neilson Browsing Room

8:00 pm Performance by Sandra María Esteves

"Samba Rumba Cha-Cha Be-Bop Hip-Hop: A Cultural Dialogue"

Location: Carroll Room, Campus Center

All events organized by the American Studies Program and co-sponsored by the History Department, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program, The Poetry Center, Dean of the College, and the Endowed Lecture Fund at Smith College .

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