World History Seminars 1999-2000

October 12  Sucheta Mazumdar, Duke University

"Sex Gender Systems in Transition: Asian and Asian American Women in the Age of Capital"

November 8  Liu Xinru, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

"Migration and settlement of Yuezhi-Kushans -- interactions and interdependence of nomads and sedentary societies"

December 1  Adam McKeown, Northeastern University

"From Opium Farmer to Astronaut: The Transformations of Diasporic Chinese Businessmen since 1850."

January 12  Pamela Brooks, Northeastern University

"Buses, Boycotts, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in Montgomery and Johannesburg"

January 26  Patrick Manning, World History Center

"Hector E. Melo and Global Studies in Latin American Migration"

March 8  Dirk Raat, SUNY - Fredonia

"The Americas in World History"

March 15  John Wills, University of Southern California

"Salvation, Participation, and Print Capitalism: A Scholar of Seventeenth-Century China Looks at the Strangeness of Europe"

April 19  David Kalivas, Northeastern University

"Conceptualizing Zones of Interactions in World History: What can we learn from Fernand Braudel and Owen Lattimore?"

April 27  Cynthia Enloe, Clark University

"What Do Feminists Reveal About the Current State of International Politics?"

May 17  Sarah Swedberg, Mesa State College

"The Cranch Family, the Republic of Letters, and the Imaginary World"