The Lockmiller Seminar

THE LOCKMILLER SEMINAR, established in 2005 and named in honor of alumnus David A. Lockmiller (MA, 1928), meets to discuss pre-circulated papers of departmental and outside presenters. Readings for each seminar will be available in the History Department, 221 Bowden Hall, or through the Woodruff Library online electronic reserve under HIST 998, Instructor: Dr. Gyan Pandey. The aim is to make this a forum for ongoing conversations about research in history being undertaken within the department as well as outside.

For more information, contact Allison Rollins (allison.rollins@emory.edu or 404-727-0012).

Lockmiller Seminar Schedule for 2007-2008

Fall 2007

Monday, October 1: Marina Rustow, Emory University
"From the Palace in Cairo to the Synagogue in Fustat: Petition to a Woman at the Fatimid Court"

Monday, November 5: Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University
" ‘Mob Law Triumphant’: Anti-Abolitionist Rioting and the Secession Crisis in Syracuse"

Monday, December 3: Mrinalini Sinha, The Pennsylvania State University
"Civis Britannicus: The Strange Death of an Imperial Ideal"

Spring 2008

Monday, February 11: Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
"Middlebrow, Erotic Display and the Spirit of the Blitz"

Friday, March 28: Ronald Suny, University of Michigan
"Breaking Eggs, Making Omelets: Explaining Terror in Lenin and Stalin’s Revolutions."

Monday, April 28 : Alon Confino, The University of Virginia
"Narrative Form and Historical Sensibility: On Saul Friedländer’s The Years of Extermination"