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IBIS EventsPUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT BY SUBSCRIBING TO IBIS-L IBIS maintains, IBIS-L, a listserve that keeps subscribers informed about British and Irish Studies events in the LA-area. This listserve is open to students as well as faculty and to all local people who are interested in British and Irish Studies. If you would like to subscribe, send a message to listproc@usc.edu, leave the subject line blank, and type this text in the message area: SUBSCRIBE IBIS-L YOUR NAME (e.g., SUBSCRIBE IBIS-L JANE DOE). Every subscriber can post notices to the list. Once you have subscribed, you can publicize an area event by sending the information directly to IBIS-L@usc.edu. FORTHCOMING Events in 2009-10SPEAKERS FOR 2009-10 WILL INCLUDE:
--Rachel Weil (Cornell University)--Martha Vicinus (University of Michigan)
--Maryanne Kowaleski (Fordham University). . . details of each visit will be posted in the fullness of time PAST EVENTS IN 2008-9: Christopher Whittick (Deputy Archivist, East Sussex Record Office) will speak on "The Words We Have Lost: Archival Anti-Matter and Medieval Illiteracy" on Thursday, 6 November at 2 p.m. in SOS 250. ***************************************** Past Events in 2007-8:IBIS is sponsoring or co-sponsoring the following visits this academic year (further details will be posted as they come available): October 6, 2007: CV/Research Proposal Workshop (for graduate students) at the Huntington Library. October 24, 2007. Richard Ross (Univ. of Illinois School of Law), speaking on "Legal Communications and Imperial Governance," 12:30-1:30, Law School. February 28, 2008: Film Screening: "The Other Boleyn Girl" with author, Philippa Gregory. LOCATION: University of Southern California, Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre, time tbd. For more information on this venue, http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/event_venues/norris.html February 28 and March 1. Two events for the MDA course Image/Word/Object: rethinking the history of books and reading taught by Deborah Harkness and Daniela Bleichmar:
March 27: Christine Casey (School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College, Dublin),’River, rivalry and revolt: history and the built fabric of Dublin City’ Location: Gamble House, Pasadena, time TBA March 28-29: A reception at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies annual meeting Location: The April 2: Josephine McDonagh (King's College, *****************************************PAST EVENTS IN 2006-7: October 9, 2006: Dennis Dworkin (Chair and Professor of History, University of Nevada, Reno) on "Class Struggles: Recent Debates in Social and Cultural History." SOS 250, 4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the History Department.) October 30, 2006: Angela John (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) on "Words in Deed: Henry W. Nevinson, Evelyn Sharp and Women's Suffrage in Britain" SOS 250, 4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the History Department.) November 27, 2006: Thomas Laqueur (Professor of History, UC-Berkeley) on "Regarding Death." SOS 250, 2-4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by USC's History Department and Literary, Visual, and Material Culture Initiative.) January 22, 2007: Ruth Mazo Karras (Professor of History, University of Minnesota) will speak on "The Policing of Non-Marital Sex in Late Medieval London and Paris." SOS 250, 4-6 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.) 26 February, 2007: Susan Dwyer Amussen (Professor, Graduate College of the Union Institute) will talk about "To the Caribbean and Back: Caribbean Settlement and English Society in the Seventeenth Century." SOS 250, 2-4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.) March 5, 2007: Deborah Valenze (Professor of History, Barnard College) will talk about her new work on money in English culture as part of a forum on "Heads or Tales: Representations of/as Money in 18th-Century Britain and 20th-Century China." SOS 250, 4-6 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the History Department.) April 9, 2007: Lucie Skeaping will give a illustrated lecture-recital on "The English Broadside Ballad: Street Songs of the 17th Century." (Co-sponsored by the English Department, the EarlyModern Studies Institute, and the early music program in theThornton School of Music.) Doheny International Commons, 5 p.m. ***************************************** PAST EVENTS IN 2005-6: October 15, 2005: Overseer's Room, Huntington, 10 a.m.- Michelle Tusan (University of Nevada Las Vegas) will be speaking to the Nation/Empire seminar on her work on women and print journalism in the early 20th century. January 21, 2006: Early Modern British History Seminar at the Huntington Library: Anthony Parr, University of the Western Cape Edmund Campos, Swarthmore College February 13, 2006: USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, John Demos, Yale University "Witchcraft in Early Modern England and America: An Overarching Perspective?" February 18, 2006: Early Modern British History Seminar, Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California "Edward Barlow's Books: Collecting and Circulating Scientific, Medical, and Technical Books in Elizabethan London" February 25, 2006: Nation and Empire Seminar, Maya Jasonoff, University of Virginia. "Imperial Exiles: Loyalists in the British Empire" March 16-20, 2006: Celtic Studies Association of North America/California Celtic Conference Joint Annual Meeting USC guest speakers: Niall Ó Ciosáin (NUI Galway), "The Celtic Languages in Print 1700-1900: Contrasting Fortunes" (March 17, 5 p.m.) John Patrick Montaño (University of Delaware), "Civilize This: Irish Responses to the Tudor Plantations" (Marcy 20, 10 a.m.)
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