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Past Workshops
Spring 2009 Workshops
Lindquist & Vennum Conference Room, Law School
(unless otherwise noted)
Papers pre-circulated electronically a week in advance. For questions or to be added to the mailing list, contact Kristen Gandrow, kgandrow@umn.edu or 612-626-5048.
Schedule of Speakers
FEBRUARY
Friday
2/20/09
1:30 PM |
Danny LaChance, 2008 Erickson Graduate Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, American Studies, University of Minnesota
"State of Confusion: Social Engineering, Vigilante Distrust, and Capital Punishment in the Contemporary United States."
Room 471 (Mondale Hall)
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Friday
2/27/09
10:30-
11:30 AM |
Kirsten Nussbaumer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
"'A Fundamental Article of Republican Government': Fixity of Suffrage Law in the U.S. Constitution of 1787-88." |
MARCH
Friday
3/6/09
12:15-
1:15 PM |
Eva Van Dassow, Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota
"Freedom in the Ancient Near East." |
Friday
3/13/09
12:15-
1:15 PM |
Mary Lou Fellows, Everett Fraser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
"Æthelgifu's Will as Hagiography."
Note: This session will be held in Room 475 of the Law School. |
APRIL
Friday
4/3/09
10:30-
11:30 AM |
Andy Urban, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota
"Thieves in the Home: Criminal Law, Domestic Servants, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries." |
Friday
4/10/09
1:30-
2:30 PM |
Xiangyu Hu, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota
"The Emperor's Men or the Manchu Lords' Slaves? The Bannerman, the Emperor, and the Manchu Banner Lord." |
Friday
4/17/09
12:15-
1:15 PM |
Masako Nakamura, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota
"Prostitutes and Illegitimate Mixed-Heritage Children in the U.S. Occupation of Japan and the Law"
Note: This session will be held in Room 475 of the Law School. |
Monday
4/20/09
4:00 PM
Room 50 |
2009 Erickson Distinguished Lecture
Richard Helmholz, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
"Individual Conscience in European Legal History, 1200-1650"
Reception: 5 PM, Lindquist & Vennum Conference Room |
Friday
4/24/09
12:15-
1:15 PM |
Jeff Manuel, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota
"Taconite's Life in the Law: A Non-Modern History." |
MAY
Friday
5/1/09
12:15-
1:15 PM |
Erika Lee, Fesler-Lampert Professor in the Public Humanities Associate, Professor Department of History and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota
"The 'Yellow Peril' and Immigration Restriction in North and South America in the 1920s and 1930s." |
Fall 2008 Workshops
Room 45, Law School
Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Papers pre-circulated electronically a week in advance. For questions or to be added to the mailing list, contact Susanna Blumenthal, blume047@umn.edu.
For abstracts and further details on the presentations, click here.
Schedule of Speakers
SEPTEMBER
Thursday
9/18/08 |
Douglas Baynton, History, University of Iowa
"Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Law, 1882-1924" |
Thursday
9/25/08 |
Amalia D. Kessler, Law, Stanford University
"Deciding Against Conciliation: The Nineteenth-Century Rejection of a European Transplant and the Rise of a Distinctively American Ideal of Adversarial Adjudication" |
OCTOBER
Thursday
10/2/08 |
Jennifer Mnookin, Law, UCLA
"Machineries of Truth: X-Rays and Experts in the American Courtroom." |
Thursday
10/16/08 |
Adriaan Lanni, Law, Harvard University
"Social Norms in the Ancient Athenian Courts" |
Thursday
10/30/08 |
Daniel Smail, History, Harvard University
"Goods and Debts in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe" |
NOVEMBER
Thursday
11/6/08 |
Rebecca J. Scott, History and Law, University of Michigan
"Rosalie of the Poulard Nation" (co-authored with Jean Hebrard) |
Thursday
11/20/08 |
Deborah Malamud, Law, New York University
"Letting in the Company: White-Collar Unionization in the Long New Deal" |
DECEMBER
Thursday
12/4/08 |
Nicholas Parrillo, Law, Yale University
"The Rise of Non-Profit Government in America: The Case of Tax Collection" |
SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE
| Feb. 5 |
Susanna Blumenthal
"'Death by His Own Hand:' Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation" |
| Feb. 19 |
Masako Nakamura
"Families Precede Nation and Race?: The 1947 Amendment of the War Brides Act and the American Family" |
| Feb. 26 |
Sarah Chambers
"A Legal Right to Support: Holding the State Responsible for Family Welfare in 19th-Century Chile" |
| March 4 |
Yaffa Epstein
"From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890–1910" |
| April 8 |
Tom Romero II
"Creating and Containing the Multiracial Heterotopia: Kelo, Parents and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetropolis" |
| April 22 |
Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa
Distinguished Lecture in Law and History: "Stateless in America"
Law School Room 25 at 7 p.m. |
| April 29 |
David Stras
"Justice Pierce Butler: Undistinguished or Unappreciated?" |
| May 6 |
Ruth Mazo Karras
"Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris" |
FALL 2007 SCHEDULE
| Sept. 21 |
Stephen R. Porter, Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Chicago
"Human Rights and the Problem of Formal Equality: American Policies of Refugee Relief at Home and Abroad in the Early Cold War" |
| Sept. 28 |
Didier Lett, Maître de Conférences en Histoire Médiévale, Université de Paris
"Women, Testes Inhabiles but Talkative Witnesses. The Testimony of Women in the Canonization Process During the XIVth Century: Between Legal Mistrust and Social and Probatory Need" |
| Oct. 5 |
Michael Willrich, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University
"The Politics of Pox: Epidemic Disease and the Making of the Modern American State" |
| Oct. 12 |
Risa Goluboff, Professor of Law and History, University of Virginia
"The Lost Promise of Civil Rights"
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007) |
| Oct. 19 |
Ariela Gross, Professor of Law and History, USC
"Racial Science, Immigration, and 'The White Races,'"
(From book manuscript What Blood Won't Tell: Racial Identity on Trial in America) |
| Nov. 2 |
Julietta Hua, University of Minnesota 2007-08 Race, Gender, and Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, San Francisco State University
"Women's Human Rights and the Politics of Representation" |
| Nov. 9 |
Matthew Sommer, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
"The Adjudication of Illegal Wife Sales in Qing Dynasty China" |
| Nov. 16 |
Ed Balleisen, Associate Professor of History, Duke University
"Fixing the Boundaries of Fraud: Commercial Innovation and Legal Contingency in the Progressive Era" |
| Nov. 30 |
Sueann Caulfield, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
"The Right to a Proper Name: Paternity Suits and Changing Notions of Responsibility in Twentieth-Century Brazil" |
| Nov. 30 |
Sarah C. Chambers, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota
"Paternal Rights and Responsibilities: Legal Disputes over Child Support and Custody in Santiago, Chile, 1790-1860" |
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