Category: What’s New?

This is a reminder that our first Lees Seminar this semester will take place on Friday, March 6th at 4pm. Rick Demirjian will present “THE REAL SOURCE OF OUR REVOLUTION”: EARLY NATIONAL COMMERCIAL POLICY AND AMERICA’S SECONDARY PORTS, 1783-1814. Andrew Fagal will serve as commentator. 

The Alice Paul Institute (Mount Laurel, NJ), a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the life and work of suffragist Alice Stokes Paul, is seeking a Co–Facilitator for our Lead-A-Way programs. This semester we are teaching at LEAP Academy Charter School (Camden, NJ) and Holbein Middle School (Mount Holly, NJ) on Monday and Thursday afternoons.  $500 per 10 week workshop series is available ($1,000 total if available for both Monday and Thursday workshops from Feb-May).

 If interested please email Kris Myers at kmyers@alicepaul.org or call 856-231-1885 right away. For more information about the Alice Paul Institute see: www.alicepaul.org

 The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides will hold its annual training series on city history, architecture and culture on two weekends this March, and the public is invited.

“A Guide’s View of Philadelphia” runs 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, March 14 and 15, and on March 21 and 22. The first weekend covers the city’s founding by William Penn up to its time as the Nation’s capital. The second looks at 19th and 20th century Philadelphia and into the future.  The program includes lectures by top local professors and authors, plus guided walking tours and coach tours by senior APT guides

 Attendance may be limited, advance registration is recommended, and you can choose to take the whole series, one weekend or even just one day. Costs are $285 for the complete program; $175 for one weekend; and $100 for one day. APT members, who pay annual dues of $40, get a 20% discount.

Those successfully completing an exam can be certified as tour guides by the APT. The exam fee is $35.  For more information, visit the website of the Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides at www.phillyguides.org  or email info@phillyguides.org

The Eastern States Penitentiary is hiring seasonal tour guides.  For  more information go to: https://www.easternstate.org/seasonal-tour-guides-and-visitor-services-positions

Nick Kapur is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia with an emphasis on transnational and comparative perspectives. He received a BA and MA from Stanford University, and a PhD from Harvard University, His current book manuscript, entitled The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Crisis and the Origins of Contemporary Japan, explores the impact of the massive 1960 protests in Japan on US-Japan relations, Japanese society and culture, and the Cold War international system. Professor Kapur also has research and teaching interests in environmental history, gender and the family, the history of imperialism, literature and film, and the history of nationalism. He has recently published research on environmental relations between China, Japan, and the United States since 1970. He also has a longstanding interest in digital humanities, and recently served a two-year stint as the manager of an interactive digital archive of Japan’s 2011 disasters (jdarchive.org). This spring, he will be teaching a course on international environmental relations called “Topics in Global History: The Globalization of the Environment.”

The Rutgers-Camden History Department presents the second Lees Seminar of the season.

The event will take place on Friday, October 24th at 4pm (please note the earlier start time) in the first-floor seminar room followed by a reception in the second-floor conference room in 429 Cooper Street. 

We welcome Jennifer Jones from Rutgers, New Brunswick, who will present her work on Therese Levasseur (Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mistress) and the Enlightenment. Our commentator will be Joy Deborah Wiltenburg, who teaches and publishes on early modern Europe and women’s history at Rowan University.

The Lees Seminar series was endowed by Andrew Lees, Distinguished Professor of History to promote research endeavors. Scholars present work-in-progress through pre-circulated papers. Seminars open with an author’s introduction and a formal comment, followed by discussion and a reception. 

Our first event will take place on Friday, September 26th at 5pm in the first-floor seminar room followed by dinner in the second-floor conference room in 429 Cooper Street.

We welcome Naomi Taback who completed her PhD in early modern European history in 2013 at UCLA, where she currently teaches. She will present a book chapter titled “Making Artificial Man: Thomas Bray on the Education of American Indians”, which examines several British plans for the education of American Indians in the eighteenth century. Our very own Andrew Shankman will serve as commentator.

Please RSVP for our first event by September 19th to Professor Susan Mokhberi at s.mokhberi@rutgers.edu

Our second event will take place on Friday, October 24 at 5pm and will feature our colleague from Rutgers New Brunswick, Jennifer Jones, who will present her work on Therese Levasseur (Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mistress) and the Enlightenment. Our commentator will be Joy Deborah Wiltenburg, who teaches and publishes on early modern Europe and women’s history at Rowan University.