Past Events
Regional Mellon Conference on British Studies (For Conference Participants Only)
January 13-14, 2006
Dissertation Workshop:
Penelope Anderson (English Dept), "Honoring Friendship's Shadows: Marital Love and Political Identity in Lucy Hutchinson's Writings"
Penelope Anderson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English, UC Berkeley. She is currently completing her dissertation,
Friendship's Shadows: Women's Ethical Friendship and Political Identity in the English Civil Wars.
Abstract: My larger project argues that the republican Lucy Hutchinson and the royalist Katherine Philips both appropriate amicitia, the classical discourse of men's friendship, in order to shape an ethical response to the incommensurable obligations occasioned by the crises of the English Civil Wars and Restoration. The extremity of political circumstances replicates, on a national scale, the preexisting condition of married women's internally fissured subjectivity. In this chapter, I present new evidence, drawn from her manuscript commonplace books, that Hutchinson's use of amicitia transforms our sense of her seemingly reactionary gender politics and her republicanism. The origin of her notes, from the French Jesuit Nicolas Caussin's The Holy Court, complicates our sense of Hutchinson's Puritanism and republicanism by foregrounding friendship's associations with royalism (through French préciosité and neo-Platonism). Hutchinson also utilizes amicitia's republican tradition, in which the virtuous friends stand against tyranny, to rewrite marriage's hierarchy as friendship's equality. By deploying a strategic gender conservatism against friendship motifs, she imagines a post-Restoration republican community that allows for both forgiveness and rebellion.
Sample of text here.
February 9, 2006, 4 pm, 201 Moses Hall
The Cultural Work of the Dead: Cremation in late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Britain
Professor Tom Laqueur, Department of History, UCB
February 21, 2006, 4 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Sixth Annual Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley (GMB); Co-sponsored by CBS
For details, visit http://www.vagantes.org/
March 2-5, 2006
Can Newspapers Survive and Serve the Public Interest?
Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian newspaper
Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, will talk with Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian newspaper in London. The Guardian, which was founded in 1821, is a leading national newspaper with a long history of editorial and political independence. He has been editor of The Guardian since 1995. Rusbridger was previously a reporter, columnist, features editor and deputy editor of The Guardian. Rusbridger worked for The Observer and as Washington Editor of the London Daily News before returning to The Guardian in 1987. He is a member of the main board of The Guardian Media Group and of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.
March 6, 2006, 7:00 pm -- 8:30 pm, Sibley Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism
European Jewry, British Immigration Policy and the Americans, 1933-1948
Louise London, Visiting Scholar, IGS
The British response to Jews seeking refuge from Nazi persecution is the subject of Louise London’s book, Whitehall and the Jews, British immigration policy and the Holocaust, 1933-48. Her talk looks at Whitehall’s thinking about the role of the United States of America – both as a refuge for Jews and as the senior partner in the crucial Anglo-American relationship – and shows how these ideas influenced British refugee policy.
March 8, 2006, 12 pm, Moses 119
Co-sponsored by Institute of Governmental Studies
Reading Between the Lines: the Love Letters of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
Suzette Macedo, Visiting Scholar, Portuguese Studies Program
Suzette Macedo will talk about Ted Hughes’ The Birthday Letters drawing on her close relationship with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Macedo was friends with the couple during and after their marriage and was part of the inner circle that included Assia Wevill.
Macedo is an academic and literary translator of Portuguese/English works including: “Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters”, English Department, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2005. “Sylvia Plath e Ted Hughes”, Faculty of Letters, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, 2005. She was also a Graduate Tutor in English Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a Lecturer in English Literature, Hillbrow University, Johannesburg, South Africa.
She has contributed interviews to the following books: Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: a Life of Sylvia Plath, Viking,London,1989.
Ronald Haymen, The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath, Heinemann, London, 1991.
Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: a Marriage, Little, Brown, 2004.
March 13, 2006, 1 pm, Moses 201
Co-sponsored by Portuguese Studies Program
Two talks by Prof. Amanda Anderson:
George Eliot's Long Argument
Professor Amanda Anderson, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
Amanda Anderson specializes in Victorian literature and contemporary literary, cultural, and political theory. Her work on the Victorian period has focused on the relation between forms of modern thought and knowledge (across both literature and the human sciences) and understandings of selfhood, social life, and ethics. She is the author of Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell, 1993) and The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton, 2001). She has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton, 2002). Her most recent book, The Way We Argue Now (Princeton, 2005), analyzes a number of influential theoretical debates over the past decade, with special attention to the forms of argument that shape work in pragmatism, feminism, cosmopolitanism, and proceduralism.
Abstract: This paper explores the anti-theoretical George Eliot. While Eliot was a thinker who made careful differentiations between more and less desirable forms of philosophy and method, and who ultimately romoted a doctrine of moral evolution based on achieved forms of self-awareness and conscious reconciliation with one's history and closest relations, there remains reflected or refracted throughout her writings an underlying skepticism about translating her philosophy into a way of life. My analysis will span several novels and involve a return to, and reframing of, the longstanding dissatisfaction with Eliot's idealized characters, on the one hand, and her intrusive philosophizing, on the other.
March 16, 2006, 4 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Trollope and the Fate of Sincerity
Professor Amanda Anderson, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
The Nineteenth-Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies Working Group will host a March meeting with Professor Amanda Anderson. For a copy of the pre-circulated reading, please contact Mark Allison at mallison@berkeley.edu.
March 15, 2006, 5pm, English department lounge, 330 Wheeler Hall
Dissertation Workshop
Jane Gingrich (Pol Sci),
"Manipulating Markets: The New Partisan Politics of Social Services"
Jane Gingrich is a graduate student in the political science department, currently completing her dissertation before joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota in January 2007.
This paper builds on my dissertation research examining the introduction of market forces in health, education, and long-term care in the UK. Much of the political and academic debate on market forces in public services in the British context has focused on the value and appropriateness of markets; by contrast, this paper argues that we need to unpack the logic of markets and look at how market structures vary and serve different political and economic aims. While both Conservatives and Labour politicians have used markets as way of reforming public services, they have done so differently and under different conditions. The paper first develops a typology of markets in public services - distinguishing structures of competition based on how they serve the interests of the state as a buyer of services, the consumers of services, and the producers of services. The paper then moves to examine the reform efforts by the Conservatives and Labour parties, showing how they have used market reforms differently across policy areas. While the convergence on using market mechanisms as a way of reforming public services demonstrates a shift in both Conservative and Labour approaches to welfare state, the parties have used markets as a way of redistributing power across social groups in different ways to serve competing political aims.
Reading selection here.
March 21, 2006, 4 pm, 201 Moses
Mars v. Venus: America, Europe and the Future of the West
This two day conference will engage the key issues of current debate in historical perspective: does a set of common values still link Americans and Europeans? How have the United States and the EU defined democratic values and liberal democratic institutions since 1945? How do trade policies influence the Euro-American relationship? To what extent has the post-9/11 war on terrorism had an impact on relations? What are the prospects of a common approach on climate policy, privacy regulation, intellectual property, and weapons of mass destruction? The conference will be distinctive in two ways. It will highlight the importance of an historical perspective for the understanding of present and future trajectories. Secondly, by keeping the number of participants relatively small it seeks to encourage fruitful and wide-ranging discussion.
Cosponsored by Institute of European Studies (IES) Institute of International Studies (IIS)
April 6, 2006, 9 am-5 pm, and April 7, 2006, 9 am-12 pm, 223 Moses Hall
Paleography, Codicology, and Literary History: Observations and Medieval English Examples
Ralph Hanna, Professor of Paleography, Oxford
These two sessions, offered in the syllabus and scheduled class time of Medieval Studies 200 (a graduate methods course offered biennially), have been planned as focal events of a broad workshop on medieval English manuscripts, available to all interested students and faculty.
In the two lecture-format sessions, Professor Hanna will exemplify his general aim, to demonstrate "how palaeography, narrowly conceived, interfaces with literature and/or literary history." The first session (April 6) will introduce some basic notions of medieval book-production, then put the production evidence in dialogue with evidence of textual transmission. Focal exhibits for this session will be three early thirteenth-century books in English: Lambeth Palace MS 487 (homilies) and the Royal and Bodley MSS of 'the Katherine Group'. The second session (April 13) will subject to similar analysis two monuments of early English literature, 'the Beowulf MS' (c. 1000) and 'the Hengwrt MS' of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1390s).
In addition to these two classes, Prof. Hanna will offer at least six further scheduled hours of instruction to discuss medieval English book production and texts. Those who wish to arrange an individual or small-group meeting with Professor Hanna during his visit should e-mail Prof. Anne Middleton (middletona@berkeley.edu), who will arrange times and places for these sessions. Advance requests for group sessions should ideally be made before March 17 to facilitate room-scheduling. Please specify in your request some times when all members of your proposed group would be available for a scheduled discussion; these can then be announced at the lecture sessions.
Co-sponsored by Medieval Studies, English, and the Florence Green Bixby Chair in English.
April 6, 2006, 12-2 PM and April 13, 2006, 12-2 PM,
315 Wheeler Hall (Maud Fife Room)
Dissertation Workshop
Jami Bartlett: "Working Knowledge: Deliberation and the Novel"
Jami Bartlett is a graduate student in the English department, completing a dissertation called "Working Knowledge: Deliberation and the Novel."
The selection to be discussed comes from the student’s chapter, “‘I will if you will’: or, Meredith and Ends,” the first part of a larger project about the propositional content of novel form. This chapter, on George Meredith’s The Egoist, revises the idea of a narrative system predicated on ends through a study of Meredith’s dramatic use of an “I will if you will” intentional form, a narratological version of what philosophers of intention call grounds for acting, or the moment of “deciding what to do” that situates action in propositional content. By resolving all action into unknowable degrees of intention, Meredith does two things: he uses an impacted narrative style to indicate his obedience to the forms that emerge around and through deliberation, and he throws those forms up against the abstractions—like comedy, character, or image—whose hovering-up ideality demands our intentional engagement.
Download a sample of the dissertation here (.pdf).
April 18, 2006, 4 pm, 201 Moses
British Folk Studies Conference (part of the Western States Folklore Society Annual meeting on 21-23 April, 2006.
http://www.westernfolklore.org/Meetings.htm
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/britconference06.html
For details, contact Maria Teresa Agozzino, organizer and recipient of CBS Graduate Colloquia Fund
April 20, 2006, 370/371 Dwinelle Hall
Reinventing Britain? Constitutional Reform in Britain Under New Labour
Andrew McDonald, UK Department for Constitutional Affairs
Since 1997 Britain has undergone radical constitutional reform. Scotland now has its own parliament and Wales has a national assembly. Britons now have a bill of rights. A new supreme court is to be established.
How have these and other reforms come about and what do they add up to? These questions will be addressed by a panel of academics and practitioners from Britain, the US and Canada.
Co-sponsored by Institute of European Studies, Institute of Governmental Studies
April 24, 2006, 9 am - 5:30 pm, 223 Moses
How will the New Labour Governments in Britain be Remembered?
Tony Blair has said he will not fight another general election. Thoughts are increasingly turning to the succession and to the prospects for the next general election (in 2009 or 2010), which all three major parties will be contesting with new leaders. What has been achieved during New Labour’s time in government and how will historians remember the Blair premiership?
A panel discussion, including Peter Riddell (assistant editor, The Times of London), Professor Kate Malleson (Queen Mary College, London) and Kenneth MacKenzie (formerly of the UK Cabinet Office). Chaired by Professor Nelson Polsby.
Co-sponsored by Institute of European Studies, Institute of Governmental Studies
April 25, 2006, 12 pm, Moses Hall, Institute of Governmental Studies Library
Sex, Gender and Empire: How Did Britain Read Asian Sexualities?
Philippa Levine, History Department, USC
'In the late 1880s, a brothel club movement had become popular in the Straits Settlements colony in which colonial surgeons appointed by the British government entered into private arrangements with the brothel keepers to provide regular medical supervision of their employees. The system had begun at a time when the legal regulation of prostitution in the British Empire was under attack, and turned into a considerable scandal early in the 20th century when the clubs were found to have persisted in the wake of the wholesale abolition of regulation under mainly feminist pressure. The upset over the system was about a great deal more than the apparent flouting of the will of the British Imperial Parliament, although it certainly was also about that. This paper takes as its starting point this upset in the Malay Peninsula as a means of discussing readings of Asian sexualities, and particularly of the sex trade, at a time of imperial expansion and deep racial differentiation. Its intent is to read sexuality through the critical and central lens of colonialism, and seeking to critique universalist understandings of the history of sexuality.
Professor Levine studies race and sexuality in the British Empire, with a particular focus on sexually transmissible diseases and prostitution. She has published extensively on Victorian feminism and the development of professional history in nineteenth-century Britain.
April 27, 2006, 4 pm, 201 Moses
Co-sponsored by Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Dissertation Workshop
Ryan McDermott, "Reading from a Distance: Walter Pater, Codedness, and the Moment of Identification"
Abstract: As part of a larger work that explores the formative role of reading in the emergence of Victorian homosexual identities, this paper begins with a consideration of the relationship between hermeneutics and early forms of gay world-making in the work of Walter Pater. Against the phenomenological backdrop of Paterian impressionability, it examines the role that readerly identification played in what Christopher Nealon has recently called “feeling historical”—an interpretive strategy taken up by Pater and other gay Victorian writers and readers to reanimate historical forms of (mainly Greek) same-sex desire. Taking Pater’s dialogic correspondence with his (putatively) gay readers as a cue, this essay elaborates on the affective and identificatory transactions that take place within the penumbra of what critics have only inadequately theorized as the gay “code of reading.” This paper complicates such a proposed semiotic by taking a closer look at readerly dynamics that cut across the idea of codedness itself—namely, the hermeneutic distance between reader and text that is "traversed" in the “moment” of readerly identification. As a formal strategy of world making, gay reading would seem to duplicate Pater’s own efforts to theorize historical forms of feeling in the coded language of homosexual experience.
For a copy of the paper, download here.
Ryan McDermott is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English. His dissertation is entitled The Gay Hermeneutic: Victorian Genealogies of Homosexuality and the Practice of Reading.
November 30, 4 pm, 2005, 201 Moses Hall
November 16, 4 PM 201 Moses Hall
Professor Michael Mascuch, Chair, Department of Rhetoric, U.C. Berkeley
" The Godly Child’s “Power and Evidence” in the Word: Orality and Literacy in the Ministry of Sarah Wight"
Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper. To view pdf file, click here.
Abstract: This paper looks at the functions and effects of orality and literacy in the representation of the extraordinary experience of the fifteen year-old female “child” Sara Wight who, in 1647, after at least four years of profound anxiety about her spiritual condition as the “chief of sinners,” collapsed blind, deaf, and motionless, spending three months in bed. Despite her physical incapacities Wight remained conscious and discursive throughout her convalescence; she spoke avidly and at length about her spiritual condition with a multitude of bedside visitors, both high- and low-born. Her conversations were written down verbatim and published by the then-Baptist minister Henry Jessey, in a book entitled, The Exceeding Riches of Grace Advanced by the Spirit of Grace to an Empty Nothing Creature, Mistress Sara Wight, which appeared in seven editions between 1647 and 1658. In the experience of Sarah Wight we encounter a powerful and historiographically undervalued alternative to the Reformation’s own preoccupation with writing, and literacy in general, as the cornerstone of true religion.
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November 8, 4 PM, 201 Moses Hall
Dissertation Workshop
Daniel Ussishkin, "Take the Word Morale Out of Its Italics": The Emergence of a Military Concept
Abstract: This
chapter demonstrates that during the 19th century, and
especially from the 1870s onwards, increasing attention
was paid to the moral forces involved in battle. By paying
attention to both the continental and the peculiarly British
colonial trajectories, it argues that 'morale' very slowly
emerged as a concept that brought together old and
new concerns under a new intellectual management. This
concept, 'morale,' will
acquire its position as central to our understandings of
human collective action only in the 20th century.
Daniel Ussishkin is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, UC Berkeley, and is completing his dissertation titled "Morale: Social Citizenship and Democracy in Modern Britain," which charts the history of 'morale' from the 18th century until the aftermath of the Second World War.
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November 1, 4 PM, 201 Moses Hall
Workshop on "The New Governance: Interpreting Situated Agency"
Professor Mark Bevir (Pol Sci, UCB), on
"Interpretation and Its Others" and
Professor R.A.W. Rhodes on "Everyday Life in a Government Ministry"
Abstract: This talk seeks to answer two questions. What do we know about the work of the elected politicians (or ministers) and the officials (permanent secretaries) who head British government departments? How do we know what we know about ministers and permanent secretaries? To do so, it describes a research project on life at the top of British government departments and discusses the issues raised by trying to do research and to write a political anthropology of the daily life of ministers and civil servants.
November 3, 4 PM, 201 Moses Hall
Professor R.A. W. Rhodes, "Blair, Prime Ministerial Power and Iraq"
Rod Rhodes is Professor of Political Science and Head of Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is an authority on policy networks, governance and British government. He is Australia’s foremost expert on the comparative study of public policy and administration. His most recent books include: Understanding Governance (1997); and Interpreting British Governance (2003). He is editor of Public Administration: an international quarterly. His research interests include: comparing Westminster systems and a political anthropology of government departments.
Abstract:This talk focuses on the debate about the ‘Blair Presidency. I ask the deceptively simple question, ‘'how do we understand the relationship between the prime minister, ministers and the rest of Westminster and Whitehall?’ The prime minister wins, loses and draws as one might expect given the volatile nature of high politics. Prime ministerial practice is equally varied. And the best way to understand this volatility and variety is through decentered studies of the beliefs and practices of politicians and civil servants.
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Irish Poetry Reading by Greg Delanty and Liam Ó Muirthile
October 14, 11-12:30; Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler
Greg Delanty was born in Cork in 1958. His collections are Cast in the Fire (Mountrath, The Dolmen Press, 1986); Southward (Dublin, Dedalus, 1992); American Wake (1995); The Hellbox (Oxford, The Oxford University Press, 1998); The Blind Stitch (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2001); and The Ship of Birth (Carcanet Press, 2003).
Liam Ó Muirthile was born in Cork in 1950. His poetry collections include Tine Chnámh (Sáorséal Ó Marcaigh, 1984), which was awarded the Irish-American Cultural Institute Prize; and Dialann Bothair (Gallery, 1992). Tine Chnámh was produced in the Project Theatre, Dublin, in 1993, followed by Fear an Tae at Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin and An Taidhbhearc, Galway in 1995. His novel Ar Bhruach na Laoi (Comhar, 1995) won the Duais chuimhneacháin Sheáin Uí Éogeartaigh. He is a member of Aosdána, and lives in Dublin.
Free and Open to the Public. This event is sponsored by the new Irish Studies International Speaker Series, the Center for British Studies, the Dept. of English, and the Irish Consulate of San Francisco
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October 11, 4 PM, 201 Moses Hall
Dissertation Workshop
Mark Allison, Dept of English
""History without Events": Marx, the Middle Class, and The Changing Tactics of Historical Materialism."
Abstract: This paper argues that the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte introduces a crucial innovation in Marx’s thought: a radically revised conception of the bourgeoisie. This new understanding of the middle class casts light on several of the most controversial concepts in theoretical Marxism--class consciousness, the role of the state, the falling rate of profit. More importantly, it encourages us to interpret Capital’s silence on the subject of revolution as neither a rhetorical gambit nor a symptom of diminished faith, but as a theoretically informed adjustment in the tactics of historical materialism.
Mark Allison is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English. His dissertation is entitled "Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Victorian Concept of History and the Problem of 'Middleness.'"
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September 23-24, 8:30 AM- 6 PM, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Mellon Consortia on Economic Modernization
(For conference participants only)
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September 22, 5-7 PM Morrison Room, Doe Library
Third Annual CBS Fall Reception
Please join us to celebrate the new year.
RSVP only to ctrbs@berkeley.edu or 642-4508
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The "Old British and Irish Histories": Where Do We Go From Here?
Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin
This talk will reflect on the historiographical debates around what we once called the 'New British and Irish Histories' and suggest alternative routes forward (i.e. using a 'three kingdoms' approach as a way of promoting comparative history, history that is multi-centered and encourages multi-disciplinarity and that looks to the 'wider worlds' of Europe, the Atlantic and Empire).
Sponsored by the new Irish Studies International Speaker Series. Co-sponsored by Center for British Studies, Consul General of Ireland, Western Institute for Irish Studies, Department of History, Celtic Studies.
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Workshop with ProfessorJane Ohlmeyer
Revisionism: Debates on Irish History
Tuesday, September 13, 3-5 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Readings: J. G. A. Pocock, “British History: A Plea for a New Subject,” Journal of Modern History 47:4 (1975): 601-21; Nicholas Canny, “Writing Early Modern History: Ireland, Britain, and the Wider World,” The Historical Journal 46:3 (2003): 723-47. (Linked files are .pdfs)
Sponsored by the new Irish Studies International Speaker Series. Co-sponsored by Center for British Studies, Consul General of Ireland, Western Institute for Irish Studies, Department of History, Celtic Studies.
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September 15, 6 PM, Maud Fife Room, 330 Wheeler Hall
Climate Change: The International Perspective
Sir David King, Chief Science Advisor to the British Government, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University, in conversation with Sandy Tolan, Director, Project on International Reporting, Graduate School of Journalism, and Michael Pollan, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Free and open to the public
Harry Kreisler's Interview with Sir David King for "Conversations with History" can be found at
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people5/King/king-con0.html
There you will also find the podcast link. The satellite television schedule is at
http://www.uctv.tv/cwh/
The first broadcast will be on
on November 18th and then again throughout the week, see
http://www.uctv.tv/schedule3.asp?keyword=11193
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April 27, 2005, 4PM, 201
Moses Hall
'Worth Seeing, Worth Living In, Only
Not for Long': Women, Education, and Cross-Channel
Exchanges in the First Half of the 19th Century
Christina de Bellaigue , PhD, is a National Academy of
Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and an Affiliated Scholar,
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University.
Abstract:
This
paper examines the lives of the many English schoolgirls
and teachers who crossed the Channel in order to
study and to teach in France in the nineteenth
century, comparing their experiences with those
of French girls and women who travelled to England
for educational purposes in the same period. This
paper explores how the women who crossed the Channel
as teachers and pupils responded to their French
or English colleagues and counterparts and how
far their experiences on crossing the Channel were
shaped by received notions of ‘French femininity’ or
'English womanhood’. It
examines the degree to which, through such educational
journeys, middle class women were led to question
conventional understandings of gender in their
own countries. The
paper also considers the contribution these women
made to the development of education as an area
of research.
Co-sponsored
by French Studies
May
4, 2005
2nd
Chauncey Leake Lecture
Kalmanovitz Library, 530 Parnassus, Lange Reading Room,
UCSF
"War, Disease and the World, 1450-2000" Jeremy Black , PhD, d istinguished British historian,
will be offering the second 2005 Chauncey Leake Lecture hosted
by the Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine with
commentary by George
Rutherford, MD.
Prof.
Black is Professor of History at the University
of Exeter, U.K.. He has authored nearly
60 books, covering many any aspects of European
social and political history and world military
conflict.
Dr.
George Rutherford is Director of the Institute for
Global Health, Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor of
Preventive Medicine, and Head of the Division of
Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the Department
of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of
Medicine at UCSF
May 5, 2005, Noon, 201 Moses Hall
Constitutional
Justice in Northern Ireland
Shane O'Neill, PhD, Professor of Political
Theory, Queen's University, Belfast, currently the Fulbright Scholar
and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Solomon Asch Center for
the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania.
May 5, 2005, 5-6 PM 109 Moses Hall
General Election Night Coverage
The Institute of Governmental Studies
Center on Politics and the Center for British
Studies at UC Berkeley will be hosting a British
General Election Night Event on May 5. We will
have live
t.v. coverage (including election data, news
analysis, and t.v. political commercials used
in the election cycle) as well as commentary,
provided by Simon Hix (LSE) and Mark Bevir (UCB).
Light refreshments will be provided. The event is
Open to the Public.
Saturday, November 13, 2004,
at 10:00 a.m.
NATION AND EMPIRE SEMINAR
The first meeting of the Huntington Nation and Empire Seminar for 2004-2005 will
be held in the Munger Research Center Classroom 1 & 2.
The seminar will be led by Professor Erika Rappaport, Department of History,
UC Santa Barbara, and her topic will be "Packaging China: Foreign Articles
and Dangerous Tastes in the Mid-Victorian Tea Party." All scholars and graduate
students with an interest in modern Britain and the British Empire are cordially
invited to attend. For further information, please contact
Lisa
Cody, Claremont McKenna College ([909] 607-2830) or
Erika
Rappaport, UCBS.
November 1, 2004, 12:30-1:45
PM
Peter King, Professor of History, University College Northampton.
" Rethinking the Early History of the Juvenile Reformatory in Late Eighteenth
and Early Nineteenth Century England".
co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Law & Society
Seminar Room of the Center for the Study of Law and Society (aka JSP Building),
2240 Piedmont Ave.
October 25 5 PM
Fall 2004 Berkeley-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology, and
Medicine
Alison Winter, Department of History, University of Chicago
"Wilder Penfield and the Surgical Extraction of Memory, 1930-1970"
140 Barrows Hall
October 20, 2004 4 PM
CBS Dissertation Workshop
Heather Wiebe (Music)
" Performing Faith: Britten and the Mystery Play Revival in the 1950s"
Moses Hall 201
October 18, 2004 5
PM
Professor Madge Dresser
"Atlantic Slavery and Bristol, England: Race, Enslavement and Gentility in
Britain's Second City c. 1655-1776"
Moses Hall 201
Madge Dresser is Principal Lecturer at the School of History, University of the
West of England, Bristol
Co-Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies
September 29, 2004 4PM
CBS Dissertation Workshop
Ben Graves (English)
" Society Does Not Exist: Jonathan Coe and the Post-Consensus
Novel"
201 Moses Hall
For a copy of the sample chapter, contact Julie Taddeo at
ctrbs@berkeley.edu Second Annual Fall Reception for the Center
for British Studies
September 22, 2004
5-7PM
Toll Room, Alumni House
September 20, 2004, 4 PM
Duncan Bell, Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge
'From Ancient to Modern: The Uses of History and the Idea
of America in Victorian Imperial Thought'
201 Moses Hall
Duncan S. A. Bell is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
He recently completed a PhD in the history of imperial political
thought in the Faculty of history at Cambridge. He spent the year
2000-1 as a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Political Science
at Columbia. His research interests are in eighteenth and nineteenth
century British political thought, and contemporary political theory.
Co-Sponsored by Political Theory/Philosophy
Women and Education in Britain, 1800-1920: Extending the
Boundaries
Date:
2004-08-09
Recent scholarship has considerably expanded
our knowledge and understanding of the history of women’s education in Britain
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, shedding light
on movements to ‘reform’ and develop girls’ schooling
and higher education and uncovering the ambiguous legacies of pioneering
teachers and lecturers. This conference seeks to build on such work
by approaching the theme from a variety of historical perspectives.
It hopes to investigate the broader cultural, economic and political
dimensions to educational reform. A one-day conference to be held
at University College and Merton College, Oxford, 9th September
2004 Speakers include: Dinah Birch, Michèle Cohen, Joyce
Goodman, Janet Howarth, Jane Martin, Gillian Sutherland and Ruth
Watts Themes include: Conservatism and Anglicanism Cultural and
social capital Identity and community in women’s colleges
British women’s education in comparative perspective Deadline
for Registration – 9th August 2004. For accommodation and/or
to attend the conference dinner – 21st June 2004 Conference
organisers: Christina de Bellaigue and Kathryn Gleadle. For
more info., contact:
Kathryn Eccles,St Hilda's College,Oxford OX4 1DY
Email: kathryn.eccles@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
ORIENTALISM AND MODERNISM: CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERARTISTIC
CONNECTIONS, King's College, Cambridge, England,
June
17-19, 2004 This three-day conference brings together scholars working
on the significance of East Asian cultural sources in the development
of
literary, visual and musical modernism in Europe and America,
and the contemporaneous and related development of East Asian modernisms.
The conference will cross cultural, national and artistic
boundaries
and will bring scholars into dialogue from across humanities
disciplines.
Sponsored by the British Academy and King's College Research
CentreFor conference programme, speakers' details and abstracts
and registration see the conference webpage.
Dr Judith Green, King's College, Cambridge CB2 1ST England
+44 (0)1223 331326
Email: judith.green@kings.cam.ac.uk
Visit the website at
people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/jtg22
Colonial
Monuments & Collective Memory
Friday, 23 July 2004
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
Australian National University
Colonial monuments have increasingly
emerged as key sources in understanding the political, social
and culture interactions of
empire. Monuments have been used to explore the experiences
and perceptions of diverse colonial communities and to analyse
the global
visions of imperial authorities. Despite the growing scholarship
on collective memory, studies of memory and colonialism have
remained largely fragmented into the separate fields of history,
anthropology,
cultural studies and art history.
This conference seeks to
bring together scholars working on differing colonial empires, global
regions and forms of representation to
examine how the study of colonial monuments can contribute
to a new cultural and social history of empire. The conference is
intended
to create a forum for discussion and debate between scholars
working on the British, French, Dutch and Iberian empires.
Convenor
Dr Laurence Brown, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU
Email: laurence.brown@anu.edu.au
Phone: (02) 6125 5859
Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine 2004
Chauncey D. Leake Lecture in the History of Health Sciences : ‘Dying
on AIDS’:Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth Century
Roger
Cooter, Ph.D.
Professorial Fellow, The Wellcome Trust Center for the History
of Medicine
University College London
Friday, April 23rd, 2004
3:30 – 5
pm
The Kalmanovitz Library, UC San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue
Abstract: This paper is concerned with
how – visually --
our perception of modern medicine and its corporeal subject was
constructed -- in particular, by means of public health posters
(PHPs). I argue that Oliviero Toscani's profane photo-ad for Benetton,
'Dying on AIDS', by destabilizing the epistemology aesthetically
mediated in PHPs dealing with epidemical subjects, serves to illuminate
an untold twentieth-century history. Further, Toscani’s
conception, by challenging the boundaries between commercial
art and medical humanism, forces us rethink the whole genre of pictorial
representation in public health. My text is richly illustrated
by
images treated as text.
The Chauncey Leake Lecture is made possible with support from
the Chauncey Leake Lecture Funding.
Professor Liz Borgwardt
""Once You Start a Moral Principle You are Stuck With It":Churchill,
Roosevelt, and the 1941 Atlantic Charter as a Human Rights
Instrument"
April 29, 2004; 4PM, IES Seminar Room, Moses Hall
Professor Borgwardt is Assistant Professor of History at
the University of Utah. She specializes in the history of
U.S. foreign relations, international law, and historical perspectives
on human
rights and globalization. She currently is a Visiting Scholar
at UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society.
Sponsored by Center for the Stduy of Law and Society and
the Center for British Studies
International Conference:
Re-Presenting the British Past: Women, Gender and History
in the British Isles
April 2-4, 2004
A conference of Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales;
Llafur: the Welsh People's History Society; and the University
of Glamorgan at University of Glamorgan Treforest South Wales United
Kingdom April 2 - 4 2004. Workshop papers will cover a wide
range
of issues, from the Early Modern and Modern periods, including
The
Conference will be preceded on Friday April 2 by the West of
England and South Wales Women's History Network Study Day, which
is free and open to all.
Contact: Ursula Masson ,University
of Glamorgan ,School of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences,
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL Wales
UK
Dr. Jane Shaw, Dean of New College, Oxford, will speak
on
" From Holy Text to the Visionary: The Making of a British
Female Messiah and her Millenarian Community, 1914-1933"
April 1, 2004, 4:30 PM, 223 Moses Hall
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
March 26-28, 2004 at UC Berkeley
Local
info and Registration form: download here (.doc, 36kb)
Conference program: download here (.pdf, 30kb)
Stefan Collini
Tuesday, March 30
330 Wheeler Hall, 5:00pm
"The Literary Critic and the Village Labourer: 'Culture' in the Twentieth-Century
Britain"
Presented by the Ninteteenth-Century and Beyond British Cultural
Studies
Working Group and the Center for British Studies
Please contact
Mark Allison at mallison@uclink.berkeley.edu for a copy of
the pre-circulated paper
Light Refreshments provided
STEFAN COLLINI is Professor of Intellectual
History and English Literature at Cambridge, and also a Fellow of
Clare Hall. He has
held visiting appointments at the Australian National University
in Canberra, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, and the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society and a Fellow of the British Academy.His publications
include Liberalism and Sociology (1979), That Noble Science of Politics
(1983, co-authored with Donald Winch and John Burrow), Public Moralists
(1991), Matthew Arnold: a Critical Portrait (1994), and English
Pasts: Essays in History and Culture (1999). He has edited
works by John Stuart Mill, Umberto Eco, Matthew Arnold, and
C.P. Snow, and he is a frequent contributor to the Times
Literary Supplement
and the London Review of Books.He is currently at work on
a book about 'the Question of Intellectuals' in 20th-century
Britain.
Professor John Beattie
"The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of Eighteenth Century
London"
March 8, 12:3-1:45 PM; Seminar Room of the Center for the
Study of Law and Society, 2240 Piedmont Ave. (next to Boalt Hall)
John Beattie is University Professor Emeritus of History
and Criminology, University of Toronto.
Co-Sponsored by CBS, the Center for the Study of Law and
Society, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the History
Department.
Sir Keith Thomas
"Friendship and Sociability in Early Modern England"
February 2, 2004; 4:10 PM; 370 Dwinelle
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He
was formerly President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the
Natural World,
and The Oxford Book of Work. (March 2003)
Co-Sponsored by
the UCB History Department.
Note: The next day, Tuesday, Feb
3, 12-2 in the History Lounge, Thomas will speak with us and graduate
students over lunch
about an essay on his evolution as a historian for a forthcoming
festschrift. Please
contact the History Dept (Prof. Tom Lacqeuer) if you wish
to attend.
Ralph Fevre, Professor of Social Research and Deputy Director
of the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales,
will address the question, "What Motivates Active Citizenship
Amongst Politically Marginalized Groups in Britain"
January 28, 2004; 4 PM; Harris Room, Moses Hall
Synopsis of Talk: The identity politics of gender, race, origin/ethnicity
and sexuality have been less important in Britain than in the
US but there have been some recent British initiatives designed
to engage
the organisations of minorities in decision making. Survey
data from a study in Wales suggest that people who understand
their participation in terms of the politics of identity are
actually
among the least participatory members of these organisations.
Those who have the highest rates of participation are much
more likely to get involved for social reasons and their
participation is bolstered by one of two, quite different,
normative patterns:
one pattern emphasises a moral duty to participate for
the benefit of others while the other emphasises cultural
nationalism.
In
the latter case importance is attached to a (Welsh) national
and linguistic identity which may not be translatable into
the familiar
terms of identity politics. In fact, in their different
ways, both of these profiles of higher participation recall
older traditions
of active citizenship which were founded in religious faith.
While the politics of identity appears to produce civic partners
for
governments anxious to demonstrate their commitment to
a "modern" and "inclusive" governance,
it may nevertheless fail to facilitate engagement by these
more active citizens.
Nov. 14-15, 2003: Meet Playwright David Edgar
IGS Director Bruce Cain and Dean Orville Schell cordially
invite you to meet internationally acclaimed playwright
David Edgar and attend the worldpremiere of his two-play cycle Continental
Divide, at the Berkeley Repertory Theater.
David Edgar,
author of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas
Nickleby, turns to American politics with this two-play
cycle examining both sides of a gubernatorial campaign.
Edgar has graciously
agreed to join us for a reception and tasty hors d'oeuvres
catered by Chez Panisse prior to the performance of Daughters
of the Revolution
on Friday, November 14 and a discussion following the performance
of Mothers Against on Saturday, November 15.
Professor John
Pickstone, "Ways of Knowing: Some Steps Towards
a Long-History of Knowledge"
Wellcome Unit for History, Science, Technology and Medicine
at the University of Manchester, UK
Monday, November 17, 5:00-6:30 PM, 203 Wheeler Hall
Part of the Fall Colloquia Series of OHST
John Pickstone's research interests include: the history
of the biomedical sciences since 1750; hospital and medical services,
especially in industrial England; historical sociology of science,
technology and medicine. He is the author of Ways of Knowing: A
New History of Modern Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester
U Press, 2000).
Profesor John Pickstone, "Ways of Working in Recent Medicine:
Weber, Post-Modernity, and Biomedicalization"
Wellcome Research Professor, University of Manchester
Tuesday, November 18, 3:30 PM, Laurel Heights Room 474
Sponsored by UCSF History of Health Science/Medical Anthropology
Series
Dr. Ian Burney, "The Crime of Civilization: Secret Poisoning
and the Victorian Imagination"
Wednesday, October 22, 5PM, IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Synopsis: Criminal poisoning exercised a peculiar hold on
the Victorian popular and scientific imagination. This paper
explores the web of associations linking poison and civilization,
showing
how, in the interchange between a diverse range of sources,
poison emerged as a collective product of the Victorian popular and
scientific
imagination.
Ian Burney is a lecturer at the Centre for the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of
Manchester. He
is the author of Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics
of
the English Inquest, 1830-1926 (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000). His current work on the history of criminal poisoning
in Victorian Britain will be published by the University of
Manchester Press in 2004.
David Starkey in Conversation about "History,
Television, and the British Reformation"
Monday, October 6, 5 PM, Dwinelle 370
David Starkey is the author of Six Wives: The Queens of Henry
VIII (Chatto & Windus, 2003)
and Elizabeth (Chatto & Windus, 2000), and a visiting Fellow
at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge.
He is a leading commentator on the state of British politics,
leadership throughout the ages and society; intelligent,
sometimes controversial and always thought provoking. He
appears frequently
on television and radio, often invited on such programmes
as Question Time and Newsnight. In addition to his media
profile, David Starkey is
a respected academic; his research interests have developed
to include a broad spectrum of cultural, social and political
history. . He
is known throughout the United States because of his role
on CBS, communicating the recent sea changes in public opinion
within Britain
to a wider audience.
Garrett FitzGerald, "Northern Ireland
and the Normalisation of the Irish-British Relationship".
Tuesday, October 7, 4PM, Moses Hall 223
Former Foreign Minister (1973-1977), Taoiseach (Prime Minister)
of Ireland (1981-82,1982-1987) and President of the European
Council of Heads of Government (1984) Garrett FitzGerald is currently
Chairman
of the Future of Europe Committee at the Institute of European
Affairs. As Foreign Minister at the time of the Sunningdale Agreement
in
1973 and Taoiseach during the negotiations for the Anglo-Irish
Agreement of 1985, he has been a leading architect of the peace process
in
Northern Ireland. Moreover, his Ministerial experience has
also meant he has participated in and closely observed the process
of
European integration.
**Inaugural Reception for The Center
for British Studies**
Monday, September 15, 5-7PM
Morrison Library (Doe Library)
Members of CBS are invited to celebrate the launch of the
new Center and our exchange agreement with Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Food and cocktails will be provided.
Sir Joseph Pilling, "A Conversation
about the Peace Process in Northern Ireland and the Role of the Civil
Service"
Thursday,
Sept. 18, 12PM, IES Seminar Rm, 201 Moses Hall
Sir Joseph
Pilling has been the Permanent Under Secretary, Northern Ireland
Office, since 1997.
Ramon Grosfoguel and Tyler Stovall, "Colonial Caribbean Minorities
in France, Great Britain, and the United States"
Thursday, September
4, 4PM, 652 Barrows Hall
Sponsored by The Center for Race and Gender
Dr Laura Gowing, Department of History, King's College, London
will speak on "The Body in Early Modern England," Tuesday
26 August 2003, 4.00pm in the English Department Lounge
(330 Wheeler). Dr Gowing's talk will draw on her new book,
Common Bodies: Women,
Touch, and Pwer in 17th-Century England, forthcoming from
Yale University Press.
This pioneering book explores for the first
time how ordinary
women of the early modern period in England understood and
experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature,
and detailed legal
records from courts that were obsessively concerned with
regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century
popular understandings
of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body
is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling
insights about
the extent to which early modern women maintained, or forfeited,
control over their own bodies.
Chauncey D. Leake Workshop
in the History of Medicine on "Food, Expertise and the
Science of Government" May
9, 2003 ; 2-5 PM; 470 Stephens Hall
Program:
Chair: Warwick Anderson (Department of Anthropology, History
and Social Medicine, UCSF)Steven Shapin (Sociology, UC San
Diego)"Trusting
George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense and Moral
Authority in Early Eighteenth-Century Dietetic Medicine"
Christopher Otter (Institute for Institute of Urban and Regional
Development, UC Berkeley) "Engineering Vitality: Meat, Milk
and the Healthy City in Britain 1840-1900
Ethan Shagan (History,
UC Berkeley) "Feeding the Hungry at
Society's High Table: The School Meal and its Nutritional
Technologies in early Twentieth Century Britain"
Discussants:
Dorothy Porter (Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine,
UCSF);Kenneth Carpenter (Professor
Emeritus, Nutritional Sciences &Toxicology, UCB).Papers will
be pre-circulated and will be available from Julie Taddeo
at the Center for British Studies, 246 Moses Hall, ctrbs@berkeley.edu
UK
Seminar: "The Public Meeting and Ideas of 'The Public'
in British Politics, 1900-1939"
Speaker: Jon Lawrence, (University of Liverpool, Harvard
University)
Monday, April 14, 2003
4:00 PM, IES Seminar Room, Moses Hall
Pacific Coast Conference
on British Studies
Sonoma State University
April 4-6, 2003
For further information, go to PCCBS
"How Empire Mattered: Imperial
Structures and Globalization in the Era of British Imperialism"
Dates: April 4-5, 2003
This conference
will examine the era of British imperialism as one of significant
globalization and articulate a vision for the
future of “new imperial history” one that emerges out
of the scholarly training and tradition that the participants
have received at Berkeley.
Participants include: Christopher
Bayly (St. Catherine’s
College, Cambridge); Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago);
Durba Ghosh (Wellesley College); Peter Hoffenberg (University
of Hawaii); Tom Laqueur (UC Berkeley); Lisa Pollard (University
of
North Carolina, Wilmington),;John Richards, Duke University;
Lisa Trivedi, Hamilton College; Closing Remarks by Tom Metcalf (UC
Berkeley)
For further information about the conference please go to metfest
The
Nineteenth-Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies Working Group
and the Center for British Studies present:
Mary Poovey, Professor, Department of English; Director,
Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, NYU,
" Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and
Secrecy in the Culture of Investment."
Sunday, March 30,
2003
10:00 AM, IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Please join us
for an in-depth discussion with Mary Poovey on her current
work-in-progress, "Writing
about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy
in the Culture of Investment." The Nineteenth-Century and Beyond
British Cultural Studies Working Group, sponsored by the Townsend
Center
for the Humanities, provides a forum for faculty and graduate
students to discuss works-in-progress on the literature and
culture of nineteenth-century Britain and its colonies. To receive
a copy
of Professor Poovey's pre-circulated paper, please contact
Rachel Teukolsky at Rachel. Refreshments will be provided.
The
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group/ UC Berkeley Faculty Lecture Series
Speaker: Thomas W. Laqueur, Professor of History, UC Berkeley
"Gender and the Question of 'Solitary Sex'"
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
4:00 PM, 370
Dwinelle Hall
Professor Laqueur will discuss his new book
that will be published shortly following this lecture: "Solitary
Sex: A
History of Masturbation."
UK Seminar: "New Labour's Welfare
State"
Speaker: Mark Bevir, Dept. of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
4:00 PM, Harris Room, Moses Hall
UK Seminar: "A Host of Scotch Sophists":
Jeremy Bentham and Scottish Moral Philosophy"
Speaker: Douglas Long, 202 Barrows
February 25th , 2003, 12 noon
Doug Long
is an associate professor of political science at the University
of Western Ontario. His D. Phil. was obtained from University
College London more years ago than he cares to acknowledge.
He is the author of Bentham on
Liberty (1977) and has worked for many years to exhume from
the early manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham several uncompleted
works concerned with what Bentham called 'Critical Jurisprudence'.
He has also published articles on Adam Smith and David Hume,
and is now at work on a book-length study
of early modern theories of the imagination.
UK Seminar: "New
Labour and the Universities: an Anglo-American Perspective"
Speaker: Robert Stevens, Fifth UCSC Chancellor (1987-1991)
and former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Thursday, February 27, 2003, 4:00 PM
Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall
More information at www.igs.berkeley.edu/
Co-sponsored with the Institute of Governmental Studies.
"
The
Muddled History of British Higher Education, 1950-2000: An
Anglo-American Perspective"
Speaker: Robert Stevens, Fifth UCSC Chancellor
(1987-1991) and former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Tuesday, February 25,
2003
12:00 - 1:30 PM
To receive a draft of the lecture manuscript,
contact Nathalie
Lajarige ;Co-sponsored with the Institute of Governmental
Studies.
