Lectures and Conferences for 2007-2008
All lectures are held at Taft House at Stratford Heights, 2625 Clifton Avenue, unless otherwise noted.

September 27, 2007 - Ali Behdad, UCLA
Photography, Orientalism, and Modernity in Iran
4:00 p.m.
Department of History

September 28, 2007 - Christine Ivanovic, University of Tokyo
Juste memoire? History and Memory in German Post-Holocaust Literature. On the Occasion of Gunter Grass' Peeling the Onion
Department of German Studies (Lecture held at the Max Kade Center, Old Chemistry)

October 12,2007 - Helena Albrecht Araujo
Latin American Women's Literature Today
3:00 p.m.
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

October 18, 2007- Alan Taylor, University of California at Davis
John Graves Simcoe's Counter-Revolution: The Northern Limits of the American Revolution
7:30 p.m.
Department of History

October 19, 2007 - Christian J. Murray, University of Washington
2:00 p.m.
Department of Economics (Lecture held at 1216 Crosley Tower)

October 25, 2007 - George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Economics and Politics of Immigration
5:30 p.m.
Department of Economics (Lecture held at 450 Richard Lindner Center)

October 26, 2007 - Wendy Katz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Regioinal to National: Artists and Art Patrons in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati
3:00 p.m.
Taft Museum 75th Anniversary Lecture

November 9, 2007 - Noriaki Matshuima, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan
Inviting Entrants may Help Incumbent Firms
2:00 p.m.
Department of Economics

January 22, 2008 - Simona Sharoni, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Compassionate Resistance as Pedagogy: Using Popular Culture to Put a Human Face on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflice
7:00 p.m.
Department of History (Taft Research Center Seminar Lecture)

February 6, 2008 - Laila Farah, DePaul University
Ethnographies of Performance in the Middle East and its Diasporas
7:00 p.m.
Department of History

February 12, 2008 - Malcolm Schofield, University of Cambridge, UK
Aristotle on Democracy
4:00 p.m.
Department of Philosophy (lecture held in 043 McMicken)

February 21, 2008 - Christian Liedtke, Heinrich-Heine Institute, Germany
Heinrich Heine: Poet of Love and Revolution
4:00 p.m.
Department of German Studies (lecture held in Max Kade German Cultural Center, Old Chemistry Bldg.)

February 22, 2008 - John C. Green, University of Akron
The Bible and the Buckeye State: Religious Faith and the 2008 Presidential Campaign in Ohio
3:00 p.m.
Department of Political Science

February 27, 2008 - Julie Peteet, University of Louisville
Subversive Spaces and Popular Protests
7:00 p.m.
Department of History

February 29, 2008 - Chris Murray, University of Houston
Inflation Persistence and the Taylor Prinicple
2:00 p.m.
Department of Economics (lecture held in 1216 Crosley)

March 6 , 2008 - Henrik Shahgholian, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
The Obstacle Problem and its Ramifications
4:00 p.m.
Department of Mathematical Sciences (lecture held in 301 Braunstein)

March 7, 2008 - Henrik Shahgholian, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
The Two Phase Membrance Problem and Regularity of the Free Boundary
3:00 p.m.
Department of Mathematical Sciences (lecture held in 301 Braunstein)

April 28-29, 2008 - Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego
Tales from the Dark Side: Lucas Alaman and Mexican Conservatism in the Nineteenth Century and The Cuautla Lazarus: History in a New Key
3:00 p.m.
Department of History

Taft Research Center Annual Symposium
May 6-9, 2008

May 15 , 2008 - Kathleen Gerson, New York University
Children of the Gender Revolution: Unexpected Consequences of Work and Family Change.
3:00 p.m.
Department of Sociology

May 15 , 2008 - Paul Churchland, Valtz Professor, University of California, San Diego
On the Genesis of Conceptual Frameworks: The Hebbian Learning of Casual Processes
5:30 p.m.
Department of Philosophy (lecture held at the Max Kade Center, 736 Old Chemistry Bldg)

 May 16 , 2008 - Patricia Churchland, President's Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
Neurophilosophy: Early Days and New Directions
4:00 p.m.
Department of Philosophy (lecture held at the Max Kade Center, 736 Old Chemistry Bldg)

 May 20 , 2008 - Frank Palmeri, University of Miami Conjectural History, Cultural Anthropology and Darwin's DESCENT OF MAN
3:00 p.m.
Department of History

May 21 , 2008 -David Hurst-Thomas, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Repatriating Science, Race, and Identity: Are we Still Fighting the Skull Wars?.
4:00 p.m.
Department of Anthropology

May 22 , 2008 - Andrew Hurley, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Historic Preservation and Community Revitalization: Problems and Possibilities.
4:00 p.m.
Department of History

May 27 , 2008 - Carole Woodall, Taft Research Seminar Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Addictions and Afflictions: Rethinking Early Turkish Republican History
4:00 p.m.
Department of History

May 30, 2008 - Gerhild Scholz Williams, Washington University
Pictures and Papers: War in the 17th Century Media
2:00 p.m.
Department of History (lecture held at the Max Kade Center, 736 Old Chemistry Bldg)

June 6 , 2008 - Matthew Connelly, Columbia University
The Perils of Global Governance and the Promise of Global History
3:00 p.m.
Department of History

June 18 , 2008 - Uffe Haagerup, University of Southern Denmark
The Invariant Subspace Problem: Linear Algebra in Infinitely Many Dimensions
2:30 p.m.
Department of Mathematical Sciences (lecture held in 601 Old Chemistry Bldg)