Social Sciences Forum — Low Lecture “Bringing the São José Back into Memory” Paul Gardullo, Curator, National Museum of African American History and Culture Wednesday, April 5, 4 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th floor From No Return – Dr. Gardullo’s talk will focus on the complex ongoing vectors of collaborative international research, archaeology, and memory …
Social Sciences Forum “Silent Partners: Women as Investors in Britain’s First Stock Market, 1690-1750” Amy Froide, Associate Professor and Acting Chair of History Tuesday, March 14, 4 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery One of the world’s first stock markets emerged in the coffeehouses of London in the 1690s. Up to one third of investors …
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Social Sciences Forum Wednesday, April 8 | 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth Fenn, Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Elizabeth Fenn’s lecture tells the story of North Dakota’s Mandan Indians, widely known for hosting Lewis and Clark during the winter of 1804-1805. The challenges the Mandans faced included epidemics …
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Social Sciences Forum Wednesday, April 2 | 4:00 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, 7th Floor The annual Low Lecture is co-sponsored with the Department of History. From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture represented the American South by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, …
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Social Sciences Forum Wednesday, November 6 | 4:00 p.m. “Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters,” Kate Brown, Professor of History, UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery This Social Sciences Forum is o-sponsored with the Department of History and the Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. UMBC Department of History …
Wednesday, May 1 | 4:00 p.m. John Jeffries, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC “A Life in History: Reflections on Studying Politics and Policy in Twentieth-Century America” Performing Arts and Humanities Building Theatre Followed by a retirement reception in the Black Box Theatre, hosted by President …
