History Department Welcomes Spring Speakers
Posted: March 10, 2008

C. Stephen Jaegar, professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, will speak on "Charisma and its Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Death of a Religious Leader and his Postmortem Authority" on March 4, 2008, 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion of the MD Anderson Library (http://www.uh.edu/campus_map/buildings/L.php). Dr. Jaeger is the author of The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtley Ideals, 935-1210 (Choice Magazine outstanding book of the year - 1985); The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and European Social Ideals, 950-1200 (1994l Barzun Prize in Cultural history from American Philosophical Society, 1995); and Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (1999). The UH Honors College is a co-sponsor of Dr. Jaeger's talk.

On March 10, the Department of History, the Tenneco Lecture Series, and the Conrad Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management welcome Andrew Sandoval-Strausz to speak about "A History of American Hospitality: The Importance of Accommodating Strangers." His recently published book, Hotel: An American History (Yale, 2007), has received national and international attention and was selected by Library Journal as one of the best books of 2007. The New York Times Book Review (December 2, 2007) prasied the book: "Sandoval-Strausz, who teaches history at the University of Mexico, develops social, moral, economic, legal and political connections with originality and insight. His impassioned reading of our 'built environment' is fascinating, his research prodigious. And the subject merits his talent as a historian." The talk will be on March 10 at 4 p.m. in the Rockwell Pavilion of the MD Anderson Library.

Deirdre Moloney, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 2007-2008, will speak on "Differential Regulation: Female Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the Early 20th-Century United States". This lecture addresses the ways in which unmarried women entering the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were scrutinized at the borders based on notions of race, economic dependency, and sexual behavior. She also demonstrates that the regulation of prostitution among immigrants along the Mexican border differed from the regulation of European immigrant prostitutes in New York. This talk is drawn from her current book-in-progress, "National Insecurities: U.S. Immigrants and Deportation Policy Since 1882." This talk is sponsored by the Tenneco Lecture Series, UH History Department, Rockwell Pavilion in the M.D. Anderson Library (http://www.uh.edu/campus_map/buildings/L.php ) on March 31 at 4 p.m. A reception follows. Please contact Landon Storrs, lstorrs@uh.edu, with questions. This lecture is sponsored by the UH History Department, UH Women's Studies, and the Tenneco Lecture Series.

Paul Sutter of the University of Georgia will discuss "Let Us Now Please Famous Gullies: Georgia's 'Little Grand Canyon' and Conservation in the South" on April 10, 2008. Dr. Sutter has published numerous scholarly and popular articles on the wilderness movement and the southerne environment. One commentator noted that his book, Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Wilderness Movement (2002), is "an important and much-needed book capturing the social, cultural and intellectual milieu at the dawn of the organized wilderness movement in the United States." The Tenneco Lecture Series also sponsor this talk. Dr. Sutter's talk will be held in Agnes Arnold 520 from 4:00-5:30 p.m.

On April 22, the UH Department of History and the Tenneco Lecture Series welcomes Sterling Evans, a specialist in Latin American history and environmental history from Brandon University. Dr. Evans will speak about "Nothing New About NAFTA: The History of Commodities and Interconnections in Mexico, the United States, and Canada." Evans is the author of The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica (1999) and Bound in Twine: Transnational: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 188-1950 (2007). He also is the editor of The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the 49th Parallel (2006). The talk will be in Agnes Arnold 520 at 4 p.m.

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