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1. Wim Klooster (Mar 27-28): The Colonies Seminar presents Wim Klooster, Associate Professor of History, Clark University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He specializes in Europe’s expansion in the early modern Atlantic World, especially the Caribbean region. His books include Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 (Leiden, 1998), and The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800 (Providence, RI, 1997). He is currently writing a comparative history of the Atlantic Revolutions, 1775-1825, under contract with NYU Press. On Monday, March 27 Professor Klooster will present a public lecture and on Tuesday, March 28 he will present a pre-circulated paper to the Colonies Seminar.
   • March 27: “Skirmishes, Mutiny, and Iconoclasm: Military Violence in the Dutch Atlantic World”: 4pm; 302 SH
   • March 28: “Between Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the Maas Estuary: Natives and Strangers in the Atlantic Tobacco Business, 1620-1650″: 12pm; 273 SH

   To receive an advance copy of the paper, please RSVP to Mark Peterson
   

2. Graduate Students: The Graduate College announces this year’s competition for T. Anne Cleary Dissertation fellowships. These awards, usually in the amount of $1500 to $5000, support doctoral dissertation research outside the United States. The application deadline is Monday, March 27, 2006. For more information and application materials, click here.

Professor Laurent Dubois from Michigan State University will present work in progress to the Colonies Seminar.

• Feb. 1, 7:30 pm: Public Lecture–Gerber Lounge, (EPB) English & Philosophy Building
• Feb. 2, 12:00-2:00 pm: Colonies Seminar Meeting–302 Schaeffer Hall (The Commons Room)

Professor Dubois is a specialist on the French Caribbean, and author of A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004), (winner of the 2005 Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition) and of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004).

The Colonies Seminar meeting will be on Thursday, February 2, 12:00(noon)- 2:00 pm, in 302 Schaeffer Hall, the Commons Room. Lunch will be served. Anyone interested in receiving the pre-circulated paper and attending this event should contact me at mark-a-peterson@uiowa.edu.

Professor Dubois will also give a public lecture, “‘Dessalines Toro d’Haiti’: The Archive of Vodou,” on Wednesday evening, February 1, at 7:30 pm, in the Gerber Lounge of the English and Philosophy Building (EPB). This event is sponsored by the Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Program. All
are invited to attend.

Professor Hanson, College of Nursing, will speak on “Civil War Nursing”. For more information, contact Susan Lawrence.

(5:30 p.m. — Room 401, Hardin Library for Health Sciences)

Anybody visiting this site in the past 5 days may have noticed some problems and some inappropriate content. A problem with the server allowed a hacker/spammer to deface the site, but everything has been restored and the vulnerability has been addressed.

Hi everyone,
This is just a quick reminder that David Montgomery’s talk will be today at 5:30 at the Seamans Center (1505). The Seamans Center is the building on your left as you walk towards the Main Library from Schaeffer. The easiest way to get to 1505 is to enter through the South Entrance (there are a bunch of glass doors) and go down the stairs.

Also, for those who are interested, Professor Montgomery will be meeting with graduate students around 10:30 today at the Java House. This is a chance to meet with Professor Montgomery on an informal basis.

Events Tomorrow with Professor Montgomery:

• 10:30-meeting with interested graduate students at Java House (day 2)
• 12:00-Brown Bag lunch: current and future state of Labor History, moderated by Shel Stromquist
• Dinner time (specifics will be announced)-Dinner at the Sanctuary with anyone who interested in meeting Professor Montgomery in a relaxed atmosphere.

I hope to see you at any of these various events.

Cari Campbell

Dear Colleagues:
GHS is in the process of planning our colloquium program for the Fall Semester. We’d like to make the series as exciting and useful to the graduate student community as possible. I’d like to get a sense of graduate student interest with an informal email poll. Please email me with your vote for the sessions you are most interested in. If you have suggestions for completely different sessions, or ways to improve/redirect these proposals, it might be useful to have a forum on GHS-discussion.

Tentative Session Proposals:

1. Grant Finding, Grant Writing
2. Demystifying Conferences (part 1 of 2): Finding Conferences, Submitting Abstracts and Papers to Conferences, Finding Panels and…
   Navigating Conferences (part 2 of 2): Turning a Research Paper of Thesis Chapter into an oral presentation, Making the most out of the experience (handling questions, networking, etc).
3. Evaluating Academic Culture: responses to short article on the challenges (?) of gender and family in academic culture.
4. Job Search: creating CVs, writing cover letters, etc.

I look forward to reading your reactions.

Thanks,
Anna Bostwick

Did you know that the Main Library Reserve desk now offers document scanning options for your course reserves? If you provide them with photocopies (like you would with a traditional article resreve), they can scan the document into PDF for you and post it under course reserves electronically. That way your students can access it from anywhere…which means no more “it was checked out” excuses and complaints (or at least not as many). I found this very helpful and hope you will, too.

Thanks,
Colleen

Dear GHS,

Five copies of James Lipson’s Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success are available for checkout. Three copies are located in 280 Schaeffer Hall (see Jean) and two copies are in the Writing Center, 303 SH.

I highly recommend this book. In only fifty pages, Lipson covers a wide range of topics, from how to effectively participate in group projects to tips for reading effectively to determining when to cite. He organizes the book around three basic principles for academic honesty; these could prove very useful to you as you think about how to discuss plagiarism in your classes. Lipson
walks readers through practical ethical dilemmas (”Is it okay to consult Cliff’s Notes?” “What are the guidelines for studying with peers?”) with humor and clarity. The remainder of the book is devoted to various citation forms.

Karissa Haugeberg

Hello GHSers,

Well, here are the results of the GHS election, which you’ve all been awaiting with baited breath.

The GHS officers for 2005-06 are as follows:

President: Cari Campbell (in a very close race, I might add)
Sec/Treas: Kristen Anderson
Colloquium Officer: Colleen Kelley
Web Coordinator: Jason Verber
GSS Reps: Dauna Kiser (Europeanist), Mike Ridge (Americanist)
Faculty Reps: Eric Colvard (Europeanist), Karissa Haugeberg (Americanist)

Congrats to all the winners and thank you for your service on behalf of all of us.

Anita Gaul, Secretary

The Nation Digital Archive is now available as a 30 day trial. The trial will run from March 22, 2005, through April 20, 2005. It can be accessed from the Library’s Resources Under Evaluation page at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/evaluation.html.

A description from the Nation:

The Nation, America’s oldest weekly journal of politics and culture, has created a fully searchable electronic version of the magazine’s complete back file, containing over 6,800 Nation issues, nearly 200,000 pages in all.

This compendium of primary source material includes every article, editorial, poem, and cultural review published since Volume I, Number 1 on July 6th, 1865 – from the Civil War through the Millennium. Original illustrations and advertisements are also included.

Users can view high-resolution images of the original magazine pages. In addition, the full text of the entire collection is searchable by word or phrase and allows browsing by index categories as well as advanced full-text searching restricted by date range, author, and subject.

The Nation Digital Archive makes it possible for scholars and other researchers to access this invaluable historical material in ways never before possible. Says Nation publisher and editorial director Victor Navasky, “By making available in a searchable electronic form, materials which in many cases were ignored by the mainstream press at the time of their original publication, we hope to provide a unique window on the events and trends that have shaped the world in which we live.”