The George and Dorothy Carson Memorial Lecture Series
For over 30 years, the George and Dorothy Carson Lecture Series
has brought internationally renowned scholars to OSU.
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The George and Dorothy Carson History Lecture is made possible by
a private endowment founded in honor of the late George Carson, for many years
professor of Russian history at Oregon State University, and his wife Dorothy.
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Silencing the Past:
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The Future of SyriaJoshua Landis(2011-2012) |
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Spectator at the Feast:
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The Coins on Vermeer’s Table:
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Extreme Ethnography:
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Blackness Beyond Borders:
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Prior Lectures
2006-07 (Feb) Leslie Peirce, NYU
“Unequal Justice? Gender, Islamic Law & Local Courts in the Premodern Ottoman Empire”
2005-06 (Apr) Anthony Grafton, Princeton (rescheduled from April 2005) (cancelled – weather in Denver again)
“Times Past: Visions of World History in Pre-Modern Europe”
2005-06 (Oct) Carlos Eire, Yale University
“When Nuns and Witches Flew: Writing a History of the Impossible”
2004-05 (Apr) Anthony Grafton, Princeton (cancelled due to weather in Denver)
“Times Past: Visions of World History in Pre-Modern Europe”
2003-04 Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University
“Orthodoxy & Women’s Spirituality in Late Imperial Russia”
2002-03 Inga Clendinnen, La Trope University, Bundoora, Australia
“Representing Suffering”
2001 (Oct.) Heinrich von Staden, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
“Reading as Therapy: Literacy and the Practice of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World”
2001 (Feb.) Barbara Engel, University of Colorado
“Sisters of their Sisters? Russian Women, the Revolutionary Legacy and the Denial of Personal Life”
1999-00 James H. Merrell, Vassar College
“Back to the Frontier”
1998-99 Emily Rosenberg, Macalester College
“Consuming Women: Image of Americanization in the American Century”
1997-98 Arch Getty, University of California, Riverside
“The Terror of Texts: Pursuing the Politburo under Stalin”
1996-97 Juan R. I. Cole, University of Michigan
Civilizations in Collision: Bonaparte’s Invasion of Egypt, 1798”
1995-96 Lawrence W. Levine, University of California, Berkeley
“All the Nations of the World: The Search for American Identity”
1994-95 Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis University
“Subversive Piety: Canonization and Political Culture in Late Imperial Russia”
1993-94 Colin L. MacLachlan, Tulane University
“The Historical Roots of the Politics of Scarcity: Mexico in the Modern Era”
1992-93 Donald Worster, University of Kansas
“Nature and Wealth: The Historical Roots of Our Environmental Predicament”
1991-92 William G. Rosenberg, University of Michigan
“Problems of Democracy in Revolutionary Russia: Historical Perspectives on the Current Soviet Scene”
1990-91 Jonathan Wiener, University of California, Irvine
“William Appleman Williams and the Rise of Radical History”
1989-90 David R. Coffin, Princeton University
“Art, Nature and Illusion: The Orsini Garden of Bomarzo”
1988-89 Ronald G. Suny, University of Michigan
“Beyond Psycho-History: The Young Stalin and the Revolutionary Movement in Georgia”
1987-88 Caroline W. Bynum, University of Washington
“Women and Christian Religious Practice in the Middle Ages”
1986-87 Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
“Reagan and the New U.S. Foreign Policy: A Historian’s Perspective”
1985-86 Herbert Ellison, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
“Is There a Soviet-Asian Policy?”
1984-85 Joan Hoff-Wilson, Indiana University
“The State of the Art: Women’s History”
1983-84 Sheldon Wolin, Princeton University
“The Politics of Marx”
1982-83 Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, University of California, Berkeley
“Soviet Perspectives on the Cold War”
