2007-2008 Events
November 27, 29 and December 4, 6

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Students in Ed Slavishak's Work and Play in the USA course will present their original research projects on such topics as the working life of a Gloucester fisherman, 1930s football instruction, late nineteenth-century sheep shearing contests, and Isadora Duncan's use of her body as a medium of expression.

March 13 Dr. Barbra Mann Wall, Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, will present "Disaster Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century Texas." Dr. Wall will explore two disasters that occurred in early twentieth-century Texas, following ordinary men and women as they tried to make sense of their experiences. The talk will consider several questions: How did contextual factors of time and place shape disaster narratives? How did language shape narratives, as noted in newspapers, letters, and memoirs? How did persons affected by disasters choose to remember the traumatic events?

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The MHI welcomes Under the Skin, a collaborative lecture/workshop by Hope Mohr, choreographer and dance instructor at Stanford University, and Douglas Rosenberg, Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Click on the poster for more information.

April 21, 23, 25: students in Karol Weaver's History of American Medicine class will present reports on pathographies. Click on the poster for more information.

See events from previous years.