Events

The Gipson Institute is pleased to present Dr. Patricia A. Matthew, associate professor of English at Montclair State University for her talk, "I Have No Master: Marriage and/as the Transatlantic Slave Trade" to be held on March 28 at 4:10 p.m. in STEPS 290.

This lecture focuses on The Woman of Colour, A Tale and Mansfield Park and shows how the anonymous author of Woman of Color and Jane Austen use the marriage market and its laws to comment on women’s oppression and its links to institutions of slavery. With heroines whose subject positions shift as they travel from slave culture to slave culture (Olivia Fairfield from Jamaica to Bristol and Fanny Price from Portsmouth to Northampton and the world of Mansfield Park) and for whom marriage offers tantalizing access to security, both novelists use metaphors and narrative tropes that evoke the slave trade—the middle passage, slave markets, and women’s slave narratives, and the 1772 Somerset decision settled by Lord Mansfield. Further, Olivia and Fanny both rely on enslavers for their material stability. Both women are willing to “yield up” their independence, but, as Amma Asante makes clear in her film “Belle” their doing so highlights the limits of abolitionist sentiments, protest, and respectability politics.

Patricia Matthew is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University and writes about the history of the novel and British abolition-ist literature and culture. Her work has been published in various journals and magazines including Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the Keats-Shelley Journal, PMLA, European Romantic Review (with Manu Chander), The Atlantic and Lapham's Quarterly. She is currently writing a book on sugar, gender, and protests in nineteenth-century literature. She is also a specialist in diversity and inclusion in higher education and the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (UNC Press, 2016).

Please be sure to save the date for the memorial in honor of John Pettegrew to be held at Lehigh on Friday, September 7th at 5PM in the Asa Dining Room. We will send a reminder closer to the date, but for now, please share with anyone who may be interested in attending.

We have one more Brown Bag lecture left in the spring 2018 series. As always, the talk is in Maginnes 342 at 12:10 and all are welcome to attend!

Wed. 5/2 Professor Michelle LeMaster, “'You must all give the war-hoop': The Tuscarora World of Violence."

We have two more Brown Bag lectures left in the spring 2018 series. Both talks are in Maginnes 342 at 12:10 and all are welcome to attend!

Thur. 4/12 Nick Stark, Ph.D. candidate, “Bleeding the Bloody Empire: Stirring Franco-Irish Insurrection in the Revolutionary Era.”

Wed. 5/2 Professor LeMaster, “'You must all give the war-hoop': The Tuscarora World of Violence."

The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) would like to remind everyone of upcoming seminars, workshops, and other events during this Spring 2018 semester. Please visit https://citl.lehigh.edu/events for additional details and to see a complete list of upcoming events and register to attend. They will host the following workshops scheduled for February:

CITL: Working within Googlization: Assignment Design in the Age of (Mis)Information

Wednesday, February 21, 2:00 pm

Google's omnipresence as an information-retrieval engine is often perceived as a barrier to the quality of student research due to its filter bubbles, skewed algorithms, advertisements, and overwhelming mass of results which often include unreliable sources. But what makes Google problematic also makes it a valuable teaching tool in helping students understand the power structures underlying ostensibly neutral information networks. This workshop will discuss how to incorporate Google into classroom activities and assignments as a means for parsing the politics inherent in information retrieval. Register now.

CITL: Using Story Maps: More story...less map

Friday, February 23, 10:00 am

ESRI's Story Map templates allow users to quickly produce and share their stories using dynamic data and interactive maps. While including maps can be useful, some of the best story maps include more story than they do map and some contain no map at all. Telling your story (with or without a map) has never been easier. This workshop will guide users, step-by-step, through the tools and process of creating a great story map. No story, no map, no problem...we will provide the story and the maps, we will even discuss less conventional ways to use the story map framework for things like promoting events, publishing websites or creating presentations. Register now.

Professor Tamara Myers is holding a series of professional development workshops this semester, and the upcoming workshop, "The Teaching Portfolio," will take place this Friday in STEPS 490 at 12:30 PM. All history graduate students are encouraged to attend. Lunch will be provided.

For upcoming workshops, please see the flyer above. For additional information, contact Tamara Myers at tam410@lehigh.edu.

South Side Initiative presents "Public Gratitude and Perpetual Warfare" by Evan Reibsome, United States Army veteran, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, and co-director of the Veterans Empathy Project. Reibsome's talk covers the dangers of the "Thank You for Your Service" phenomenon, which depersonalizes combatants and apoliticizes America's global war on terror, and will be held on Thursday, October 26 at 7PM in Bethlehem City Hall Rotunda.

Graduate Students Zachary Arms and Everett Hardy are hosting a talk titled, "From Appomattox to Charlottesville: Jim Crow and the Origins of Today’s Violence" at Lit Coffee Shop on September 30th at 3:00PM. Come for a cup and a meaningful talk about how history has affected our outlook on race today.

Over the summer, Professor Nitzan Lebovic traveled to Israel, where he helped to organize the general assembly of "Academy 4 Equality, a movement of 350 registered academics including Jews, Arabs, women and men who claim that true equality starts at home.

Prof. Lebovic also traveled to Berlin to co-organize the first Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZFL) workshop dedicated to "prophetic politics," which won the German National Research Foundation prize.

The second workshop, "The Power of the Future: Prophetic Politics between Political Crises and Civil Rights," will take place at the Center for Jewish History in New York on September 13-14. The workshop is open to all majors and grad students. For more information and schedule, click here.

Calling all students of history! Join the angry mob that pulls down a statue of King George III. Wrestle with conflicting ideals of loyalty and independence. Face the enemy on the front lines of battle while risking everything for the uncertain hope of freedom.

The Lehigh Department of History will be taking students to the new Museum of the American Revolution on Friday, April 21. The bus will pick up at 10AM in front of Maginnes Hall and arrive back in Bethlehem by 5PM. If you are interested in attending, please contact Professor Monica Najar at najar@lehigh.edu.

Don't forget about Professor Jeff Horn's "(Re)writing the History of the World for the 21st Century: Putting the People Back into Global History," presented by History and Global Studies at 4:10 today in Maginnes 102. There will be light refreshments. Hope to see you there!

Graduate student Blake Michaels kicked off the department colloquium series today with his talk, "Political Practice and the Philadelphia Elections of 1764 & 1765." Don't miss out on the upcoming speakers in Spring 2017:

MARCH 23, THURSDAY
Zachary Arms: “"Brotherhood of the Hunt: Outing Magazine and the Progressive-Era Sportsman."

MARCH 28, TUESDAY
Prof. John Pettegrew: “American Football, Evolution, and the Cultural History of Sports and Athletic Violence.”

All lectures will take place in the History Dept. Commons Room, 342 Maginnes, 12:10-1:00.

The history department is kicking off the semester with our first event, the Historical Potluck featuring episodes of Drunk History. All history majors, minors, graduate students, and alumni are welcome to come engage, interact, and eat! Pizza will be provided, but attendees are encouraged to consider bringing a "historical" dish of their choosing, whether it be a recipe found in an old book or a traditional family recipe. Join us in Maginnes 342 on Thursday, February 16th @ 4PM!

The last brown bag lecture of the series will take place on November 11th at 12:00 PM in Maginnes 342. The talk will be "Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660-1740" by Professor Bill Bulman. We hope to see you there!

The history department continues the Brown Bag Series on November 3rd with Dr. Chris Dudley of East Stroudsburg University.  Dr. Dudley will be presenting "Voters and the Whig Oligarchy in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain" in Maginnes room 342 at 12:10pm. We hope to see you there!

The Africana Studies department hosted a meet and greet in Williams Hall to reconnect after the summer. Students who did summer research in Ghana presented posters about their work and experiences. Professor Essien encouraged the students to share their future research plans with current students who may be interested in applying for the 2017 summer Ghana programs. You can learn more about the Africana Studies program here.
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From Steel to Slots: Bethlehem’s Layered Landscape

Chloe Taft, Yale University

Professor Simon pointing out one of the first tenements in New York, 65 Mott Street. April 3, 2016

Professor Roger Simon took his class, Gangs of New York, on a field trip to New York.  The course uses the eponymous film (Martin Scorsese, dir., 2002) as a starting point to study life in nineteenth century New York.  The course alternates between an examination of life in the Five Points neighborhood (now Chinatown) depicted in the film and in the city generally.  The field trip included a stop at the Tenement House Museum (97 Orchard St.) where a tour focused on an Irish family who lived in the building in 1870.  Following lunch in Little Italy, Dr. Simon conducted a walking tour through Chinatown and the buildings around City Hall.  Despite high winds and a surprisingly chilly April day, it was a successful trip. The trip was supported by an anonymous donation from an alumnus. 

Class in Gangs of New York at Columbus Park, site of infamous Mulberry Bend. 

Speaker: Greg Dowd, University of Michigan

Speaker: John Pettegrew, Lehigh University 

Ann Little, Colorado State University, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeaster Borderlands,"  4:10 Global Commons, Williams Hall (Gipson Institute and Humanities Center)

Speaker: Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University 

Julie Gallagher, Penn State University-Brandywine,  "We Must Get Our Voices Heard”: Women and Gendered Peace Activism in the Liberian Civil War, 1989-2003

Douglas Boyd, University of Kentucky, Oral History and Digital Humanities: New Models for Oral History and Pedagogy (Mellong Digital Humanities Initiative)

Professor Simon pointing out one of the first tenements in New York, 65 Mott Street. April 3, 2016

Professor Roger Simon took his class, Gangs of New York, on a field trip to New York.  The course uses the eponymous film (Martin Scorsese, dir., 2002) as a starting point to study life in nineteenth century New York.  The course alternates between an examination of life in the Five Points neighborhood (now Chinatown) depicted in the film and in the city generally.  The field trip included a stop at the Tenement House Museum (97 Orchard St.) where a tour focused on an Irish family who lived in the building in 1870.  Following lunch in Little Italy, Dr. Simon conducted a walking tour through Chinatown and the buildings around City Hall.  Despite high winds and a surprisingly chilly April day, it was a successful trip. The trip was supported by an anonymous donation from an alumnus.
 

Class in Gangs of New York at Columbus Park, site of infamous Mulberry Bend.