[Fwd: Fw: DC working class history research group]

[Bill Harvey]

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Subject:	Fw: DC working class history research group
Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:14:47 -0800 (PST)
From:	Thurman Wenzl <tbw...@yahoo.com>
To:	Bill H <bha...@smart.net>

'Thought you might be interested in this.
Keep me posted on the plans for the May followup on your book.

Thurman Wenzl
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--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Seth Wigderson <se...@MAINE.EDU> wrote:

> From: Seth Wigderson <se...@MAINE.EDU>
> Subject: DC working class history research group
> To: H-L...@H-NET.MSU.EDU
> Date: Monday, February 21, 2011, 6:38 PM
> From: Cindy Hahamovitch <cxh...@wm.edu>
> 
> Dear Labor Network and LAWCHA members,
> 
> Jennifer Luff and I are starting a Working Class History
> seminar
> series to be held a couple of times a semester at
> Georgetown
> University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the
> Working Poor or
> at William & Mary’s Washington, D.C. conference
> space. Seminars will
> be held for four hours on occasional Saturdays, followed,
> we hope, by
> eating, drinking, and more informal discussion. So long as
> they fit
> within the broad rubric of working class history, topics
> may concern
> any part of the world and any discipline. Our plan is to
> pre-circulate
> two works-in-progress (usually chapters or articles of no
> more than
> 9,000 words) before each session. The seminar is free and
> open to
> interested faculty and ABD graduate students.
> 
> Our first seminar is scheduled for 1-5 p.m., Saturday,
> April 30, 2011.
> We will discuss two draft papers: A chapter from Professor
> Beth
> English’s (Princeton University) book-in-progress, “The
> Road to the
> Big House: Class, Culture, and Contested Control in the
> Reformatory
> Prison Movement”  and Professor Eric Arnesen’s
> article, "Civil Rights
> and the Cold War At Home: Post-War Activism, Anticommunism,
> and the
> Decline of the Left."
> 
> We invite you to participate in the seminar series. Please
> let us know
> if you plan to participate and whether you have a paper
> ready for a
> collegial discussion. If you know of others who might also
> be
> interested, please pass the word, though space will be
> limited.
> 
> RSVP to Jen Luff at jd...@georgetown.edu
> or Cindy Hahamovitch at
> cxh...@wm.edu
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jennifer Luff
> Research Director
> Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Class
> Poor
> Georgetown University
> Washington, D.C.
> --
> Cindy Hahamovitch
> Professor of History
> The College of William & Mary
> P.O. Box 8795
> Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
>