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Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar

The Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar is an academic forum for local scholars as well as members of the general public to discuss all aspects of American immigration and urban history and culture. Programs are not confined to Massachusetts topics.

Most seminar meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the Society serves a light buffet supper. We request that those wishing to stay for supper make reservations in advance.

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2008-2009 Season

2 October 2008, 5:15 PM
Matthew Garcia, Brown University
"Nature's Candy: Grapes, Immigrants, and Race in Early 20th-Century California"
Comment: Thomas Guglielmo, George Washington University

30 October 2008, 5:15 PM
Lisa Maya Knauer, University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth
Panel Discussion: "Maya in New Bedford: Politics, Community and Identity in the Wake of ICE"
Comment: Deborah Levenson-Estrada, Boston College; Robert Hildreth, Boston, MA; and Aviva Chomsky, Salem State College

20 November 2008, 5:15 PM
Charlene Mires, Villanova University
"Imagining the City at the End of World War II: Intersections of Anti-Urbanism and Civic Boosterism at the United Nations"
Comment: Craig Wilder, MIT

29 January 2009, 5:15 PM
Diana Williams, Wellesley College
"Through a Glass Darkly: Staging 'The Octoroon' in Postbellum New Orleans"
Comment: Thomas DeFrantz, MIT

26 February 2009, 5:15 PM
Sarah Nytroe, Boston College
"Azusa Street and the Pioneer Jubilee: Public Space and the Formation of Religious Identity"
 Comment: Stephanie Yuhl, College of the Holy Cross

 26 March 2009, 5:15 PM
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College
"Italian Immigrant Women and Anarchist Feminism in the Industrializing U.S."
 Comment: Judith Smith, University of Massachusetts--Boston

 30 April 2009, 5:15 PM
Alison Isenberg, Rutgers University

"Second-hand Cities: Urban Inheritance and the Racial Origins of the American Antique Trade, 1860s-1920s"


 Comment: Briann Greenfield, Central Connecticut State University


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