Speakers
Speakers, 2006-2007
C. Mildred Thompson Lectures
The Struggle for Security: A History of Health Insurance and Social Security in Modern America
Jennifer Klein, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar and Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
How Jewish is German Sexuality? Sexual Politics and Holocaust Memory in Post Nazi Germany
Dagmar Herzog, Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, CUNY
Do Oil and Democracy Mix? The Hydrocarbon Forms of Postwar Politics
Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Politics, New York University
Charles Griffin Memorial Lecture
The Past and Future of the Bush Doctrine
John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University
Co-sponsored Lectures
The Legacy of Ella Baker and the Challenge of Building a Social Justice Movement in the 21st Century
Eddie Daniels, Anti-apartheid activist
Co-sponsors: Africana Studies, Geography, Political Science
Towards a Counter-Memory of German Colonialism: Uwe Timm's "Morenga"
John K. Noyes, Professor of German Studies
Co-sponsors: German Studies, Africana Studies, Dean of the Faculty Office
Halifax, the Hudson Valley, and Amistad's Atlantic Tour
Greg Belanger, President of Amistad America
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies, American Culture, and the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project
Why We Always Get Russia Wrong
Suzanne Massie
Co-sponsored with Russian Studies
Apartheid, Robben Island and Nelson Mandela: The Eddie Daniels Story
Eddie Daniels
Co-sponsored with Political Science and Africana Studies
Maps and the Spaces of America since 1507: Five Centuries of Creative Intellectual Construction
Matthew Edney, Director of the History of Cartography Project, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin
Co-sponsored with the Vassar College Library and the Department of Earth Science and Geography
What is The Question? The Use of Torture in Armed Conflicts from the Algerian War of Independence to Iraq
Henri Alleg
Co-sponsored with the French Department, Africana Studies, and Political Science
'A Wentche, a Gyrle, a Damsell': Defining Girlhood in Early Modern England
Jennifer Higginbotham
Co-sponsored with Medeival and Renaissance Studies
Opposite Sides of the Same Crazed Coin: The Contributions of African Americans and European Americans to the Evolution and Erosion of African American Family Life in America
Hugh Florenz Butts, M.D.
The Norman Hodges Endowed Lecture in Africana Studies