The Rev. Henry W. Casper, SJ, Lecture

The annual Casper was inaugurated by the History Department in 1993 to honor Rev. Henry W. Casper, S. J., a long-time member of the history departments at Creighton University in Omaha and at Marquette University (he retired as Professor Emeritus from Marquette in 1974). He was an expert in nineteenth century European History and in American church history; his most important work was a three-volume history of the Catholic Church in Nebraska. The Casper Lecture, as well as several programs for graduate students in history, is funded by an endowment from Dr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Ryan of Omaha. Dr. Ryan was a student of Father Casper’s at Creighton.

 

2008-2009
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
Title: TBA
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 7:30 PM
Cudahy Hall 001

Bruce Cumings is Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College at the  University of Chicago.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, NEH, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and the Abe Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council.  Among his books are: The Origins of the Korean War (2 vols). Princeton University Press (1981, 1990), which received the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association; War and Television (1993); Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1997); Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations (1999); North Korea: Another Country (2004), and the Cambridge History of Korea (forthcoming).  Find out more on his website at http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/cumings.html.

 

2007-2008

Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona

"Where Elites Meet: Harem Visits, Sea-Bathing,

and Sociabilities in Tunisia, c. 1830-1881"

2006-2007

Marianne Elliott, University of Liverpool

"Irish Protestantism and the Specter of Popery"

2005-2006

Jonathan Spence, Yale University

"Thinking it Through:

Chinese and Catholics in the Seventeenth Century"

2004-2005

Susan Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“The Politics of Love:

Marriage, Divorce, and Gender Relations during the French Revolution”

2003-2004

Paul Cobb, University of Notre Dame

“There Goes the Neighborhood:

The World of a Muslim Family in an Age of Crusades”

 

 2002-2003

John Merriman, Yale University

"Collaboration and Resistance in Vichy France."