Mark Mazower, of Columbia University, will be at UC on Thursday and Friday, February
27-28. He will give a public lecture at 4 on Thursday entitled
"The Greek War for Independence in Global Perspective" and this will
take place in the Taft Research Center at One Edwards. There will also be a book
seminar on his latest book Governing the World: The History of an Idea from 9:30-11:30 (after
meeting with students at 9) on Friday. The book seminar will be in the
VR room. There will be copies of the book available soon for the book
seminar; all three graduate lit seminars are reading the book this semester and
will be participating in the seminar, which should make for a lively gathering. Ethan
Katz and Steve Porter have arranged this visit.
Deborah Cohen, of Northwestern University, Sunday and Monday,
March 2-3. Professor Maura O'Conner will have a reception at her home for Deborah on Sunday at
4 and she will participate in Professor Kwan and Professor O'Connor's combined seminar on Monday March 3
at 3:30 in 475 Langsam with History 3000 students who are reading her
latest book Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain.
Earlier in the day, Jason Krupar, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Professor O'Connor will organize a pizza lunch for undergrad
majors and minors, grad students and faculty.
Kate Brown, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will deliver a
lecture on her new book Plutopia, on Tuesday March 4 from 2-3:15,
room to be announced. Department Head Willard Sunderland has helped to arrange for this visit.
Vanessa Schwartz, of the University of Southern
California, will deliver the plenary lecture at this year's annual QCC held in the Taft Research Center on Friday, 11 April. The lecture takes place at 12:30 and Schwartz's paper is entitled "Obsolescence,
Technology and The Aesthetic of Expendability at the Dawn of the Jet
Age." The graduate students, especially Vanessa de los Reyes and the
QCC committee, have arranged for this visit.
Many of you in the UC History Community may find this play and discussion forum of
particular interest as it explores racial and class change in an urban
neighborhood that closely parallels similar changes in neighborhoods in
Cincinnati both in the past and the present.
As many of you know, tumultuous neighborhood racial change
occurred in Cincinnati and elsewhere during the 1950s and 1960s. Now, whites
are beginning to move back into some of these neighborhoods, ones that have
been largely black since the middle of last century. The best known of these is
Over-the-Rhine, of course, but less well-known is that this is occurring in
other neighborhoods in the city.
The play, Clybourne Park raises questions about how we might respond to
such changes in our own neighborhoods and the forum sponsored by Housing
Opportunities Made Equal and the U.C. Sociology Department provides a place to
discuss these issues with Kathryne Gardette, a longtime Cincinnati activist and
currently president of the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation; Jeffrey
Timberlake, a UC sociologist who is an expert on race and residence; and
Timothy Douglas, the director of the play.
Playhouse in the Park is performing Clybourne Park Jan.
18 - Feb. 16, 2014. Called “ferociously smart” by The New York Times and
“uproariously funny” by Entertainment Weekly, Clybourne Park is
one of the most acclaimed plays of the decade — winner of the Pulitzer Prize
and Tony Award for Best Play. The play is a spin-off of Lorraine Hansberry’s
classic “A Raisin in the Sun.” In two acts set 50 years apart, the same Chicago
bungalow sits at a volatile intersection of race and real estate, initially in
1959 with its sale to the neighborhood’s first black family and then in 2009
during the first wave of role-reversing gentrification.
Click here for the flyer for the performances.
Dear UC History Community and
Friends,
Feel like traveling to warmer
climes during this deep freeze?
See the attached flyer and details
below for information about an upcoming lecture by Professor Elizabeth Frierson
on the Arabian Nights. The lecture is being offered in conjunction with
the UC Archive and Rare Books Library's speaker series "Fifty Minutes --
One Book" -- a series of talks by local experts highlighting interesting
facts and stories about intriguing books in the library's collections.
Talk: A Thousand Nights and A Night:
The Thousand and One Nights and the Middle East
Lecturer: Professor Elizabeth
Frierson (UC History Department)
When: Thursday, January 16,
12:00-1:00 PM
Where: 814 Blegen Hall, UC Clifton
Campus
For more information on Prof.
Frierson's lecture and the speaker series, please contact:
Kevin Grace
Head and University Archivist
Archives & Rare Books Library
P.O. Box 210113
2602 McMicken Circle-805 Blegen
Library
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0113
