The workshop ordinarily meets at 4:30 PM on odd Thursdays in the Social Sciences Tea Room (Social Sciences 201). Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact the workshop coordinator in advance.

-SPRING 2008-

April 3: Sarah Potter, "Family Matters: Domesticity and the Everyday Life of Race, Class, and National Belonging in Postwar Chicago."

April 17: Nancy MacLean (Northwestern), "Southern Dominance in Borrowed Language: The Regional Origins of American Neo-Liberalism."

NOTE: This download includes the article, but not the book proposal, that will be discussed in this session. For the latter, please email a request to the workshop coordinator and she will provide it directly.

April 24: Dorothy Sue Cobble (Rutgers & Charles Warren Center), "Transnational Labor Feminism and U.S. Social Policy, 1914-1975."

NOTE: This meeting will take place from 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224).

May 15: Tara Zahra (U. Chicago), author of Kidnapped Souls.

NOTE: We will be discussing two articles, both of which are available in hard copy in front of Social Sciences 225. The Zahra article can be downloaded from the campus network.

(1) Tara Zahra, "The 'Minority Problem' and National Classification in the French and Czechoslovak Borderlands," Contemporary European History 17.2 (2008): 137-165.

(2) Rogers Brubaker, "Ethnicity without Groups," in Ethnicity without Groups, ed. Brubaker, (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004), ch. 1.

May 29: Toussaint Losier, "We are one people: The New York City jail rebellions and the practice of solidarity."

June 12: Zachary Callen, "Intergovernmental Relations and State Building: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Federalism in American Political Development."

-WINTER 2008-

Jan. 31: Neil Verma, The Kaleidosonic Era: Imagining Space, Time and Coalition In 1930’s Dramatic Radio. (NOTE: large file, 2.5MB)

This session will take place in Harper 151 at the regular time (4:30-6:00).

Feb. 5: Sister Republics? Trans-Atlantic Contexts of Jacobin Revolution in France and the United States, jointly sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France Workshop:

• "Democratic Republicans and the Regeneration of the World," by Matthew Hale (Assistant Professor, Goucher College)
• "Atlantic Political Economy and the Breakdown of Franco-American Commerce, 1787-1800," by Allan Potofsky (Maître de Conférences, Université de Paris)

The date and location for this session will be different from our usual venue. It will take place on a Tuesday from 12:00-1:30 PM, in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224).

Feb. 15: Chicago-Madison Workshop, Crisis and Continuity in a Globalized Political History

The date and location for this session will be different from our usual venue. It will take place on a Friday from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224).

Feb. 21: Joseph Crespino (Emory), author of In Search of Another Country

This session will take place at the regular time (4:30pm) in the Lounge of Pick Hall (ground level).