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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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2009-2010 Season

19 November 2009, 5:15 PM
Sandy Zipp, Brown University
"Culture and Authority in the Superblock World: East Harlem Plaza and the Conflict over Public Space"
Comment: Jeff Melnick, Babson College

28 January 2010, 5:15 PM
Rosalyn Negron Goldbarg, University of Massachusetts-Boston
"Situational Ethnicity for the 21st Century"
Comment: Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Tufts University

25 February 2010, 5:15 PM
Linda L. Barnes, Boston University School of Medicine
"Chinese Medicine's Eight Branches of Practice: Their Roots in American Culture, Therapeutic, and Religious History"
Comment: Bridie Minehan, Bentley University

25 March 2010, 5:15 PM
Emily Lieb, Columbia University
"'A Street's Last Chance': Dollar Houses and the Great New Baltimore"
Comment: Brent Ryan, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

29 April 2010, 5:15 PM
Gunther Peck, Duke University
Trafficking in Race: Locating the Origins of White Slavery, 1660-1815
Comment: Claire Potter, Wesleyan University




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