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Previous History Department Events - ArchiveRichard S. Wortman: Nicholas II Revisited The annual Phi Alpha Theta Lecture.   Dr. Wortman is
Professor of Russian History at Columbia University and the author of the award-winning 2-volume Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. His
distinguished career has included seminal works on populism, the
development of legal consciousness, and intellectual history. His
most recent project, a massive two-volume study of myth and ceremony
in the Russian monarchy from Peter the Great to Nicholas II, was
awarded the George L. Mosse prize of the American Historical
Association. The Phi Alpha Theta Lecture is open to the public and
will be followed by a reception in the East Well, 2nd floor of Ten
Broeck Hall.
Fredrika Teute:Turks, Turbans, Ladies, and Indian Chiefs The annual Fossieck Lecture on early American History.  The Janice D. and Theodore H. Fossieck Lecture on early American History is presented annually by the University at Albany History Department. Dr. Teute's presentation will discuss and demonstrate the larger political and cultural significance of self-representation and claims to authority in
early nineteenth-century Washington.After receiving an M.A. from the College of William and Mary and a B.A. (cum laude) from Radcliffe, Dr. Teute earned her doctorate at Johns Hopkins (1988). She is a distinguished historian of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American cultural history. She has written chapters for two books she co-edited, Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998) and Through A Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), as well as many other chapters and articles on a wide range of subjects. She has also co-edited several volumes of The Papers of James Madison (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973, 1975, 1977), and The Papers of John Marshall (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983, 1984). Dr. Teute was elected a Member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1998, and has been awarded a number of fellowships, including an NEH and a Mellon. A member of the faculty at the College of William and Mary, Dr. Teute has chosen to make her career as an editor of other historian's books, working in that capacity at the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia. Based on that experience, she has written articles and papers on the subject of history editing. Her most recent project, scheduled for publication in March, 2001, centers on the life and writings of Margaret Bayard Smith, a major figure in early Federal Washington. (Washington Society in the Early Republic: Writings of Margaret Bayard Smith by Margaret Bayard Smith, Fredrika J. Teute and Joyce Appleby, eds.) Wednesday, March 14, 2001 ~ 7:00 PM Persico is also the author of Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey from OSS to CIA, Piercing the Reich; The Spiderweb, My Enemy, My Brother: Men and Days of Gettysburg,, numerous articles on American history. He received his baccalaureate degree from the State University of New York. He originally became a member of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's staff as speech writer during the 1966 gubernatorial campaign, and worked with Rockefeller until he retired from public life in 1977. This presentation is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries, the New York State Writers Institute, the History Department, Rockefeller College and the Greater Capital Region Teacher Center.
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
4 PM University at Albany Humanities 354 Remi P. Clignet, Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), University of Madagascar, and currently University of Maryland Visiting Professor, will deliver a lecture titled "Don't Shoot the Messenger: Gustave de Beaumont and American Slavery, c. 1830" on Thursday, September 14th in Humanities 354 on the uptown campus of the University at Albany. Remi P. Clignet is the Educational Advisor to the government of Burkina Faso and the author of many books and articles including Du Temps pour les Sciences Sociales, Death, Deeds, and Descendants: Inheritance in Modern America, and "Efficiency, Reciprocity and Ascriptive Equality: the Three Major Motivations Governing the Selection of Heirs in America" (Social Science Quarterly, 1995). The lecture is free and open to the Public.
Twentieth Annual Phi Alpha Theta Lecture. Angela Zito, of New York University, will deliver a lecture titled "The Emperor's Body in Eighteenth Century China: The Uses of Anthropology in Writing History" on Thursday, April 13th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Campus Center Terrace Lounge on the University at Albany Uptown Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Angela Zito received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 1989. While there, she did the entire course sequence for Cultural Anthropology, and wrote an historical dissertation on the relation between ritual and writing in the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor for the 18th century. She was an early methodological student of Bernard Cohen and Ronald Inden, anthropologist-historians of India, and took full advantage of Chicago's encouragement of interdisciplinary training. Professor Zito went to Beijing to do her dissertation research in the first year of revived scholarly exchanges with the People's Republic, remaining there from 1979-1982. While there she spent hours in the Forbidden City working with a curator and historian of the 18th century court learning to read the ritual sources for her dissertation. Zito is also is a co-founder and member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Positions: East Asian Cultures Critique which has been published three times a year by Duke University Press since 1993. Her anthology Body, Subject and Power in China, edited with Tani Barlow, combined essays in anthropology and history on these subjects. Professor Zito has served in history (MIT) and religion departments (Williams College, Barnard College and Columbia University) before joining the Anthropology Department at NYU in the fall of 1999, where she also serves in the Program in Religious Studies. Thursday, April 27, 2000 Mary Beth Norton was educated at the University of Michigan, where she received a B.A. with high honors in 1964, and Harvard University, where she earned an M.A. (1965) and a Ph.D. (1969). Since 1971 she has taught at Cornell University, where she is now the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History. A specialist in early American and women's history, Norton has written The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 (1972);Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (1980; 1996); and Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996). She has coauthored the basic American history textbook A People and a Nation (soon to be in its 6th edition), has coedited two volumes of original essays and one compilation of reprinted articles and documents on American women's history, and served as the general editor for the American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (3d ed., 1995). She has written scholarly essays for such journals as the American Historical Review, Signs, and the William and Mary Quarterly. She is currently working on a new study of the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Norton has held numerous research fellowships, including ones from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She has also been awarded the Allan Nevins Prize for the best-written dissertation in American history (1970), the Berkshire Conference Prize for the best book by a woman historian (1981), and four honorary degrees. Her most recent book, Founding Mothers & Fathers, was one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History. Active in professional associations, she has been a member of the council of the Organization of American Historians and vice-president for research of the American Historical Association. She served as a presidential appointee on the National Council for the Humanities, 1978-1984.
Tuesday, October 26, 1999 3 PM Campus Center 375 University at Albany Uptown Campus 
History and Biography—Betty Friedan, the American Left, and the Origins of Modern Feminism. Danial Horowitz, Professor of American Studies at Smith College, will discuss his recent work, one that looks at the political and intellectual origins of Betty Freidan's feminist ideas. Wednesday, November 10, 1999
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"DAVID ISAY and the Art of Radio Documentary Production." Talking History: Aural History Productions (Department of History, SUNY-Albany) is co-sponsoring—along with Friends of WRPI and The Arts Center of the Capital Region—a presentation on audio documentary production by radio documentarian David Isay. Isay was recently awarded the prestigious MacArthur Award for his "extraordinary originality and dedication" to his craft. Isay's presentation will take place Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 7:30 PM at The Arts Center of the Capital Region,
265 River Street, Troy, New York. For more information on Isay and the event, go to:
Thursday,
April 13th, 2000
Mary
Beth Norton, Professor of American History at Cornell University, will
deliver this year's Fossieck Lecture. Her talk is titled, “Sex, Religion,
and Society in Early America; or, a 17th-Century Maryland Mènage a Trois
and its Consequences." The lecture is scheduled for Thursday, April
27th from 4:00 to 5:00 in Campus Center 375. A reception will follow
the talk in the Ten Broeck 2nd floor East Well.
