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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.

All are welcome to participate in the seminars at no charge; an RSVP is required. You should, however, subscribe to the series if you wish to receive advance copies of the papers that will be discussed. The modest subscription fee for the series also underwrites the suppers that accompany each program.

To RSVP: if you do not require an advance copy of a paper and wish to leave reservations only, you may phone 617-646-0568. Please give your name, the name of the seminar you would like to attend, and the number of guests

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2010-2011 Season

30 September 2010, 5:15 PM
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
Comment: Mary Lui, Yale University

28 October 2010, 5:15 PM
Michael Ebner, Lake Forest College
Motives, Interests, and Mapmakers: Storylines about the Drawing of Boundaries in Metropolitan America
Comment: Sam Bass Warner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

18 November 2010, 5:15 PM
Yael Schacher, Harvard University
Discrimination, Persecution, and Alien Seamen in U.S. Ports, 1930s to 1960s
Comment: Vivek Bald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

27 January 2011, 5:15 PM
Llana Barber, Boston College
"If we would...leave the city, this would be a ghost town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
Ramon Borges-Mendez, Clark University

24 February 2011, 5:15 PM
Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How Filipino Veterans Joined the Greatest Generation, 1945-2009
Comment: Margot Canaday, Princeton University

24 March 2011, 5:15 PM
Mary Anne A. Trasciatti, Hofstra University
Athens or Anarchy? Soapbox Oratory and the Early Twentieth-Century American City
Comment: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University

28 April 2011, 5:15 PM
Timothy B. Neary, Salve Regina University
A Catholic "League of Nations": Redefining Ethnic and Civic Identity in New Deal Chicago
Comment: Howard P. Chudacoff, Brown University




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