All seminars are held at 4:00 in Carswell 118
Fall 2002 Speakers
September 5
"Before NASCAR: The Corporate and Civic Promotion
of Automobile Racing in the American South, 1903-1927"
Randal Hall, Department of History, Wake Forest University
September 19
"Environmental Stressors: The Mental Health
Impacts of Living Near Industrial Activity"
Liam Downey, Department of Sociology, East Carolina University
October 3
Stuart Rojstaczer, Department of
, Duke University
October 24
"German Enterprises in Hungary. Reframing the
Production Model for New Global Challenges"
Michael Fichter, Department of Political Science, Free
University of Berlin
November 21
Ronald Ehrenberg, Department of Economics, Cornell University
Spring 2002 Speakers
April
4
"On the Need to be Different: Military Uniqueness & Civil-Military
Relations in Modern Society--The Case of the British Armed Services"
Christopher Dandeker, Department of War Studies, King's College London
March 21
"Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power"
Lilian R. Furst, Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
February
18
"When the Personal Becomes Political: The Case of Obesity"
Rogan Kersh, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University
February
7
"Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, & Race in a Modern American
City"
Heather Thompson, Department of History, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
Fall 2001 Speakers
September 14
Martin Lewis and Karen Wiger, Departments of History and Geography,
Duke University
October 11
"Expo Fascism? Architecture, Atavism, Economics"
Angus Lockyer, Department of History, Wake Forest University
October 25
"Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector"
Chris Ruhm, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
November
8
Robert Weinburger, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro
November
29
Jurg Steiner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spring 2002 Speakers
February 7
"From Struggles in the Streets to Clashes in the Courtroom:
Deciding the Fate of Postwar Urban America"
Heather Thompson, Department of History, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
Late February (date to be announced)
Rogan Kersh, Department of Politics, Syracuse University
March 21
"Eyeing the Instituion: The Twentieth-Century Hospital"
Lillian Furst, Department of History, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
April 4
"Does the Military Have a 'Right to be Different'? A Comparative
Prespective on Tensions in Contemporary Civil-Military Relations"
Christopher Dandeker, Professor of Military Sociology, Department of
War Studies, King's College, London, UK
April 25
Kate Chavigny, Department of History, Sweet Briar College
Spring 2001 Speakers
April 26
"Trajanic Responses to Augustan Diplomacy: The Denigration
of Diplomatic Hostages in the Early Second Century, CE"
Joel Allen, Department of History and Classics, Ohio University
April 12
"Social Resourcefulness: its relationship to social support
and wellbeing among caregivers of dementia victims"
Stephen R. Rapp, Department of Psychaitry and Behavioral Medicine,
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
February
8
"What Political Space is Left in Tony Blair's Britain?"
Joel Krieger, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
January 25
"Urban Demographic Stagnation in Early Modern South Germany"
Terence McIntosh, Department of History, The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Professor McIntosh has since published the paper he gave and asks that
anyone interested in it consult the Journal of Interdisciplinary History
31 (2001): 581-612.
Fall 2000 Speakers
November 30table.1
"Is Mexico Sewing Up Development?" Inter-firm networks and
regional integration in the North American apparel industry"
Jenn Blair, Department of Sociology, Duke University
November
8
"Immigrant Lives at the Intersection of Family, Capital, and the
State"
David Griffith, Department of Anthropology, Institute for Coastal and
Marine Resources, East Carolina University
Oc tober
27
"Understanding the New Economy Debate: The Endgame"
Patrick Norton, Sarkisian Professor of Business Economics, Director,
The New Economy Institute, Bryant College
September
28
"Choice is a Moving Target," from Beggars and Choosers: How
the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare (forthcoming)
Rickie Solinger, feminist scholar and independent historian.
Spring 2000 Speakers
April 25
“From the Bird’s Eye View: The Aerial Making of Sprawl”
Christopher Sellers, History Department, State University of New York,
National Humanities Center
February
17
"Who Should Pay? Redistributing War's Burdens in (West) Germany"
Michael Hughes, History Department, Wake Forest University
March
2
"Ethnic Diversity and Economic Growth: the Search for Stability
in Benin"
Sylvain Boko, Economics Department, Wake Forest University
March 23endnotes
"'Unlimited Mothering': Rooming-In and Postwar Culture"
Elizabeth Temkin, Nurse-midwife and historian, Planned Parenthood of
Connecticut
March
30
"New Class Forces, Old Class Realities"
David Coates, Politics Department, Wake Forest University
May 2
David Altman, Wake Forest University Medical School
Fall 1999 Speakers
September
8
"A Reexamination of the American State Constitutional Tradition"
John Dinan, Politics Department, Wake Forest University
October 1
"Behavioral Choice Treatment Promotes Continuing Weight Loss:
Preliminary Results of a Cognitive Behavioral Decision Based Treatment
for Obesity"
Tracy Sbrocco, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed
Services Universtiy of the Health Sciences
October 25
"Why Corruption is a Crucial Precondition for the Creation of Markets
and Constitutional Government: The Case of Russia"
[Also available in Adobe PDF format, hough.pdf,
(smaller page count, better formatted)]
Professor Jerry Hough, Department of Political Science, Duke University.
October
29
"A 'Switch in Time' Beyond the Nine: Civil Liberties and the
'Constitutional Revolution' of the 1930s"
John Wertheimer, Department of History, Davidson College
December
1
"Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American
Economic Association"
Bradley W. Bateman, Department of Economics, Grinnell College
Spring 1999 Speakers
January 28
"Party System Continuity and Transformation in Chile's 'Model' Transition"
Peter Siavelis, Department of Politics, Wake Forest University
February 11
"With all the Means that Prudence Would Suggest: 'Procedural Culture'
and the Writings of Cultural Histories of Power in Nineteenth-Century MesoAmerica"
John M. Watanabe, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
March 18 and
Tables
"Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime's
Worth of Difference?"
Frank Sloan, Economics Department, Duke University
April 15
"A Tudor Deborah? The Coronation of Elizabeth I and the Problem
of Female Rule"
Dale Hoak, History Department, The College of William and Mary
April 29
"Monetary Policy in a Democratice Society"
John Wood, Economics Department, Wake Forest University
Fall 1998 Speakers
September 4
"Learning to do Low-Cost Actice Learning"
Greg Lilly, Douglas Redington and Thomas Tiemann
Department of Economics, Elon College
September 28
"Enterprise and Culture: Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New
York and London, 1880-1914," Andrew Godley, Department of Economics,
University of Reading (UK)
September 30
Roundtable Discussion of the Elections in Germany, Helga Welsh,
Politics Department, Wake Forest University. Professor Welsh has been invited
by the German government to spend a week in Germany to analyze the elections.
She will share her insights with the seminar.
October 16
"Science, Technology and Democracy,"
Daniel Kleinman, Georgia Tech
November 6
"The Cashless Society (Russia): An Unintended Result," Marshall
Goldman, Harvard University--This seminar alone will be held at 2:00 p.m.
in Worrell 1308 (Law School)
November 13
"The Role of Dialogue in European Approaches to Vocational Training,"
Jonathan Winterton, Department of Employment Research, Napier University
Business School, Edinburgh, Scotland
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the paper given on that day.
