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History Welcomes Speakers for Autumn 2006
Posted: August 21, 2006
The UH Department of History and Center for Public History welcome an exciting series of lecturers in publishing, digital history, historical documentaries, and legal history.
On Thursday, September 14, Susan Ferber (Oxford University Press) will speak about " Everything You Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing& But Were Afraid to Ask. "Dr. Ferber is the Executive Editor of Trade and Academic History Books at Oxford. Her talk will be in Room 520 from noon to 1 p.m. All graduate students and faculty are welcome.
On Thursday, September 28, Douglas Seefeldt will discuss " History in the Digital Age. " Dr. Seefeldt is a member of the history department and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (http://cdrh.unl.edu/) at the University of Nebraska. He previously worked at the Virginia Center for Digital History (http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/). Dr. Seefeldt's talk will be in Room 520 from noon to 1 p.m.
On Thursday, November 2, and in conjunction with the UH Honors College, we will show the documentary, The Strange Demise of Jim Crow. A Q&A session with the filmmaker, Dr. Thomas Cole, will follow immediately thereafter. Dr. Cole is the Beth and Toby Grossman Professor and Director of the McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He is also a Professor of Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. In 1984, Cole discovered Eldrewey Stearns in a Galveston psychiatric hospital. Working with Stearns over the next 13 years, Cole reconstructed his life and with it the untold story of Houston's peaceful desegregation, much of which is recounted in this film. The film and discussion will be held in the Honors College from 4-6 p.m.
On November 10 (time and location to be determined), and in co-sponsorship with the UH Empirical Legal Studies Group, we welcome Arthur McEvoy to discuss "The New Legal Realism." McEvoy is the J. Willard Hurst Professor of Law and History at the University of Wisconsin Law School. McEvoy is the author of, among other things, The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1895-1980, which won awards from the Law and Society Association, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Environmental History, and the North American Society for Oceanic History. McEvoy charts a distinct strand of new legal realist thought, arguing that it is not a canon but rather an emergent style of research in legal studies - one that can be traced through the past twenty years. This emergent style of research examines the reciprocal constitution through recursive interaction of law, environment, and culture. Salient characteristics of McEvoy's conception of NLR research include its focus on situated analysis, on law as it emerges in social interactions, and on how the complex interplay of ideas and action often denominated legal consciousness.
We thank the Tenneco Lecture Series for its gracious support of all of these speakers.
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