2011-12 Faculty Calendar
Please mark your calendars.
ALL YEAR: Fall, Winter and Spring, every Monday, 3:30 pm-5:00 pm, Leighton 202, History department meeting time
ALL YEAR: Fall, Winter and Spring, every Tuesday, 12:00 noon-1:00 pm, Leighton 202, alternate History department meeting time
SPRING TERM 2011-12
Monday, March 26 first day of Spring term.
Monday, March 26, 2012, 3:30 pm, Leighton 202: Dept mtng review of Comps grades, distinctions, comments for letters.
Tuesday, April 10, 11:45 am All-College Employee Recognition Luncheon, Weitz Ctr
April 12, 13, 19, 20 Accepted Students Events History Dept Volunteer Schedule:
- Apr 12 dinner, 6:00-8:30 pm, Great Hall Thabiti Willis (History), Victoria Morse (History/MARS/European Studies)
- Apr 19 dinner, 6:00-8:30 pm, Great Hall, Susannah Ottaway (History), Bill North (MARS/History/European Studies)
- Apr 13 office hours:
9:30-10:50 am Adeeb Khalid (History), Bill North (History/MARS/European Studies)
1:00-2:20 pm Andrew Fisher (History/Latin American Studies), Bill North (History/MARS/European Studies); Victoria Morse (History/MARS) - Apr 20 office hours
9:30-10:50 am: Bill North (History/MARS/European Studies)
1:00-2:20 pm: Andrew Fisher (History/Latin American Studies), Bill North (History/MARS/European Studies); Victoria Morse (History/MARS)
Thursday, April 19, 5:15 pm, Library Athenaeum, Celebrating the Shahnameh, Panel discussion: Professor Adeeb Khalid, Professor Yaron Klein, and Dr. William N. Buffet '55, The Shahnameh is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c.977 and 1010 AD. It tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century.
Wednesday, April 25, 5:00 pm Susannah to meet new Soph majors, History lounge.
Thursday, April 26, 12:00-1:00 pm Leighton 304, Mandatory Juniors Comps Pizza Lunch with Annette Igra, Comps Tsarina.
Thursday, April 26, Leighton 304, 5-6 pm Keepers of the Record: Careers in Archives, Records Management, and Intellectual Property with Peter Hirtle (History, ’74), Senior Policy Advisor, Cornell University Library, with a special mandate to address intellectual property issues. Refreshments event.
Monday, April 30, MIDTERM BREAK
FIRM: Tuesday, May 1, 5:00-6:00 pm Senior History Majors Comps Panel #1, Leighton 304: Nicholas Bellos, Laura Michel, maybe others tba, (event approved by Cliff, Thabiti and Annette 2011-12 Comps Tsars/ina). Refreshments!
Tuesday, May 1st, 7 pm (Amna) two short documentaries, And She Dances On... and The Vigil, with guest, Director Tehreema Mitha, will present intros to films & Q & A. Weitz Cinema.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 8:00 pm public talk, Authorizing Moral Crusades to Save Muslim Women: Literary Trafficking and Rights - Talk in the Public Sphere, by Lila Abu-Lughod, '74, Great Hall.
Thursday, May 3rd, 5-6 pm (Adeeb) History Department Special Wine and Cheese Reception for Lila Abu-Lughod '74, 5:00 p.m., Weitz Center LOME
Thursday, May 3rd, 7:30 pm, (Amna) Tehreema Dance Company Performance. Weitz Cinema.
Tuesday, May 8, 12-1 pm (Annette) Danielle McGuire public talk, At the Dark End of the Street, Leighton 305.
Tuesday, May 8, 5:00-6:00 pm Senior History Majors Comps Panel #2, Leighton 304:Lina Feuerstein, Robin Reich, maybe others tba, (event approved by Cliff, Thabiti and Annette 2011-12 Comps Tsars/ina). Refreshments!
Monday, May 14, 7:30 pm (Victoria) From Inspiration to Illumination: An Introduction to the St. John’s Bible. through various media, participants are guided through the story of the Bible. Explore artworks, handle vellum samples and a quill, see reproductions. Weitz Cinema
Tuesday, May 15, 5:00-6:30 pm Leighton 202, front yard of Leighton, 2nd Leighton hallway, Annual Department Picnic
Tuesday, May 22, 5:00-6:00 pm Alumni Guest House Dining Room and Patio, History Dept Faculty hosted Senior History Majors Elegant Cocktail hour.
Friday, May 25, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm History Award winners Pre-Honors Convo Toast - annual brief 1/2 hour event prior to going to Honors Convo (History lounge, Leighton 204)
Wednesday, May 30, Last day of Spring term classes.
Thursday, May 31, 12:00-1:00 pm Faculty Appreciation of Student Workers luncheon, St. Olaf Snack Bar or the Ole Store, please tell Nikki if you will be a faculty volunteer driver. Meet at History dept lounge at noon.
Thursday, June 7, 8:00 am -4:30 pm, Department Retreat at Mt. Olivet Retreat Center, 7984 257th Street West, Farmington, MN 55024-9243, www.mtolivetretreat.org, 952-469-2175, 8:00 am-4:30 pm (includes breakfast, beverages, lunch and afternoon break snack)
Friday, June 8, 2:30-3:30 pm Parents/Majors/Faculty Reception, Leighton front lawn, rain location - inside Leighton
Friday, June 15, Afternoon Reunion Reception, details tba.
FALL TERM 2011-12
Monday, September 12, classes begin.
Monday, September 19, 3:30 p.m., Leighton 202, FIRST DEPARTMENT MEETING
Tuesday, September 20, 5:00-6:00 p.m., Leighton 202 (2nd Leighton Hallway and History Lounge) for Annual History Fall Welcome Back Reception: Susannah Ottaway introduces Amna Khalid., Bill North introduces Paul Petzschmann
Friday, October 14, 2011, Seniors Comps Proposals due at noon, collect papers
Monday, October 17, MIDTERM BREAK
Thursday, October 20, 5:00 p.m. History Lefler lecturer Giancarlo Casale, the early-modern Ottomanist, University of Minnesota, title and location tba. (Adeeb Khalid, host)
Thursday, October 20, Wine half-hour begins at 6:30 p.m., Dinner at 7 pm, Fall Lefler Invitation-only Faculty dinner, location tba.
Thursday, October 27, 5:00-6:00 p.m., Library Athenaeum, Jane & Raphael Bernstein Asian Studies & History Professorship public talk by Prof Adeeb Khalid, title forthcoming.
Wednesday, November 16, last day of Fall term classes.
WINTER TERM 2011-12
Wednesday, January 4, classes begin.
Thursday, January 5, 4:30 p.m., So/An Lounge, Reception invitation from the SoAn Dept for visiting sociologist, Daniel Williams, Daniel is about to complete his PhD in Sociology at the University of Maryland-College Park. His dissertation is titled "Citizenship and Germanness: States, Immigrants, and Immigrant-Citizens in the Making of Membership in Contemporary Germany." He has taught courses on race, ethnicity, social problems, ineqaulity, gender, and media. In winter term, he will teach SOAN 115: Inequality in American Society and SOAN 272: Race and Ethnicity and two courses (tbd) in spring term.
Thursday, January 5, 5:30-6:30 p.m.,First-ever History Department Chair & Senior Majors Conversation and Pasta Dinner at the Weitz Center LOME (WCC 215-216 - NE balcony overlooking the Commons Area). Location, invitations, dinner (negotiated w/Bon Appetit from $18 to $8 pasta dinner/person.
Wednesday, January 11, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Edward "Ted" Mullin 2011 Winners’ Presentations, Leighton 304: 1) Laura Michel: A New Jerusalem: The Experience of Jews in Early Modern England, went to England to study documents and records of Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation at the London Metropolitan Archives; 2) Ben Somogyi: Portuguese Collective Memory of Its Jewish Population & the Colonizing of São Tomé and Principe. Ben went to Lisbon and São Tomé/Principe to gather archival sources from Portuguese National Archives and had casual interviews with residents of both countries; 3) Callie Millington: 19th Mormon Pioneers' Interactions with "Gentiles" in the deserts of Southern Utah. Callie worked at the U of Utah library and the Brigham Young University Library. Invited the donors (Rick Mullin and Mary Henry), history majors, faculty, friends of dept., families; arrange room & light refreshments; Pres. Pozkanzer attended this year because he knew Laura Michel.
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 5 p.m., Library Athenaeum, Kathleen Vongsathorn '07, "What Suffering Will Be Saved": Replacing Stigma with Charity in the History of Leprosy from the Middle Ages to the Present, Gould Library Athenaeum, free and open to the public, light refreshments event, sponsored by MARS and the History Dept Herbert P. Lefler Speaker endowment.
Monday, January 23, 2012, 3:30 p.m., Leighton 202, FIRST WINTER DEPARTMENT MEETING
Monday, January 30, 2012, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Winter term Herbert P. Lefler speaker, Michael Gomez, NYU, Leighton 305, public talk, attendance 40+. Andrew Fisher host (Thabiti Willis co-host)
Monday, January 30, 2012, 6:00 p.m.Herbert P. Lefler wine half hour,6:30 p.m.dinner buffet, Alumni Guest House Dining room, faculty and special guests attendance 25+.
Monday, February 6, MIDTERM BREAK
Tuesday, February 7,5 pm Thabiti Willis Off Campus Studies Dubai information session
Tuesday, February 7, 5 pm, Library Athenaeum - Viz Rare Looks talk, Bill North "A Rare Look at Papal Ecumenism in the 16th c.
Wednesday, February 8, 4:30 pm New Student Interest in the History Major meeting with the Chair, followed by SDA session to explain History comps.
Friday, February 17 (revised), Ted Mullin Prize Fellowship Applications due
Thursday, February 16, 5 pm, Leighton 304, Brendan Kane, History Dept, UConn, "Elizabeth I on Rebellion in England and Ireland: semper eadem?”
Monday, February 27, 3:45 pm Meeting with St. Olaf faculty in the Lome Commons (balcony of the Weitz). The plan is simply to get acquainted. Susannah invited them to also leave at 4:45 pm to attend Mihaela's Humanities Center Foucault talk in the library at 5 pm.
Friday, March 2, final Comps due (2011-12 Hist 398 Comps Tsar/inas: Annette, Cliff and Thabiti)
Monday, March 5-Thursday, March 9, Comps defenses.
Friday, March 9, last day of Winter term classes.