ANNUAL EVENT SERIES: LABOR IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
The Lepage Center will spend the 2024 – 2025 academic year exploring diverse and interconnected historical perspectives on labor, and on democracy.
The series of panels and talks will examine several historical topics including questions of race, class, and gender in labor history, as well as historical perspectives on gig labor, labor and incarceration, child labor, and migrant labor. The Lepage Center will alternate with a series on Democracy and its Discontents, focusing a historical lens on elections, citizenship rights, and other aspects of historical struggles for democracy.
Fall 2024 Labor, Democracy, and Special Events
Titles link to registration for upcoming events
Wednesday, September 11, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: (Topper Theatre, Mullen Center for Performing Arts, ÃÛÌÒTV)
Featuring
- Tom Nichols, PhD., staff writer at The Atlantic; professor emeritus at the Naval War College
- Co-sponsored by the History Department, Political Science Department, Russian Area Studies, and Office of the Moulden Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, September 24, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: American Democracy on the Eve of November's Election
Featuring
- , Professor of Political Science and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University
- , Professor of History at Georgetown University
- , Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University
- Moderated by Paul C. Rosier, PhD, Professor of History and Director of the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at ÃÛÌÒTV
Tuesday, October 1, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Labor and the Carceral State in Historical Perspective
Featuring
- , Mandell Endowed Professor in Literature and Human Rights at Babson College
- , Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma
- , Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University
- Moderated by Anna Duensing, PhD, Assistant Professor of History at ÃÛÌÒTV
Tuesday, October 22, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Music and Protest in Historical Perspective
Featuring
- , Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia
- , Associate Professor of History, Intern Coordinator for History/Public History/American Studies, and Director for the Social Justice Minor at Marist University
- , Associate Profess of History and Director of Museum Studies and the Public History Minor at SUNY Brockport
- Moderated by Paul C. Rosier, PhD, Professor of History and Director of the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at ÃÛÌÒTV
Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Labor and Immigration History
Featuring
- , B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia Athens; President of the Labor and Working-Class History Association; and Co-organizer of the Athens Film Project
- , Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, Professor of History, and president of United Faculty of Florida-UF (NEA/AFT/FEA/AFL-CIO) at the University of Florida
- Moderator TBA
Wednesday, November 20, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: The 100th Anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act in Historical Perspective
Featuring
- , Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico
- , Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
- , Assistant Professor of American Studies, Dean of New Students, and Chair of Education, Amherst College
- Moderated by Paul C. Rosier, PhD, Professor of History and Director of the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at ÃÛÌÒTV
Spring 2024 Cities in Historical Perspective Events
Spring Labor, Democracy, and Special Events to be announced