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Friday, November 13th, 2015

Adrian Mulligan: “I Breath, and Lo! The chattel becomes a man’” The transformation of Frederick Douglass in the Emerald Isle” – April 24, 2008

Frederick Douglass may not have been the first African American to visit Ireland, but …

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Friday, November 13th, 2015

Julian Bourg: “ ‘Your Sexual Revolution is Not Ours’: French Feminist ‘Moralism’ and the Limits of Desire – March 20, 2008

Bourg will examine the heated debates during the 1970s between French feminists and male…

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Friday, November 13th, 2015

Sue Ellen Henry: “Social Class as Liminal Position: Understanding Experiences of First Generation College Students” November 13, 2007

How is social class experienced by the growing number of working class and first …

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Friday, November 13th, 2015

Coralynn Davis “Talking Tools, Suffering Servants and Defecating Men: The Power of Storytelling and Subaltern Registers in Maithil Women’s Tales” October 25, 2007

What can we learn about the functions of folk storytelling by examining the telling …

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Friday, November 13th, 2015

Michael Drexler: “Hurricanes and Slave Revolts” – April 18, 2007

Throughout the colonial and antebellum period, Anglo—Americans used a stunningly similarly conceptual vocabulary to describe …

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Posted by trjs001 on November 13, 2015