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ANNUAL EVENT SERIES: LABOR IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

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The Lepage Center will spend the 2024 – 2025 academic year exploring diverse and interconnected historical perspectives on labor, and on democracy.


The series of panels and talks will examine several historical topics including questions of race, class, and gender in labor history, as well as historical perspectives on gig labor, labor and incarceration, child labor, and migrant labor. The Lepage Center will alternate with a series on Democracy and its Discontents, focusing a historical lens on elections, citizenship rights, and other aspects of historical struggles for democracy.

 

Fall 2024 Labor, Democracy, and Special Events

Titles link to registration for upcoming events

Wednesday, September 11, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: (Topper Theatre, Mullen Center for Performing Arts, ÄÌÌÇÖ±²¥ University)

Featuring

  • Tom Nichols, PhD., staff writer at The Atlantic; professor emeritus at the Naval War College
  • Co-sponsored by the History Department, Political Science Department, Russian Area Studies, and Office of the Moulden Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Tuesday, September 24, 6:00 p.m. â€“ 7:15 p.m.: American Democracy on the Eve of November's Election

Featuring

  • , Professor of Political Science and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University
  • , Professor of History at Georgetown University
  • , Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University
  • Moderated by Paul C. Rosier, PhD, Professor of History and Director of the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at ÄÌÌÇÖ±²¥ University

Tuesday, October 1, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Labor and the Carceral State in Historical Perspective

Featuring

  • , Mandell Endowed Professor in Literature and Human Rights at Babson College
  • , Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma
  • , Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University
  • Moderated by Anna Duensing, PhD, Assistant Professor of History at ÄÌÌÇÖ±²¥ University

Tuesday, October 22, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Music and Protest in Historical Perspective

Featuring

  • , Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia
  • , Associate Professor of History, Intern Coordinator for History/Public History/American Studies, and Director for the Social Justice Minor at Marist University
  • , Associate Profess of History and Director of Museum Studies and the Public History Minor  at SUNY Brockport
  • Moderated by Paul C. Rosier, PhD, Professor of History and Director of the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at ÄÌÌÇÖ±²¥ University

Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Labor and Immigration History

Featuring

  • , B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia Athens; President of the Labor and Working-Class History Association; and Co-organizer of the Athens Film Project
  • , Professor of Labor History at Cornell University
  • , Associate Professor in the Department of History and the American Studies Program at Georgetown University
  • Moderated by Daniel Cortes, JD, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Clinic for Aslyum, Refugee, and Emigrant Services (CARES) at Charles Widger School of Law, ÄÌÌÇÖ±²¥ University

Wednesday, November 20, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: The 100th Anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act in Historical Perspective

Featuring

  • , Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico
  • , Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
  • , Assistant Professor of American Studies, Dean of New Students, and Chair of Education, Amherst College
  • Moderated by Paul C. Rosier, PhD, Professor of History and Director of the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at ÄÌÌÇÖ±²¥ University

Spring 2024 Cities in Historical Perspective Events

Spring Labor, Democracy, and Special Events to be announced

  

The Lepage Center records most of their events, making them accessible to the wider community. You can watch these recorded events on YouTube.