Colloquium Series

The History Department, in conjunction with Phi Alpha Theta, the History honorary society, offers a series of three colloquia each semester. The speakers are members of Hope's History department, or guests from other institutions, or students who have produced particularly fine pieces of research. The purpose of the colloquia is to show students in our courses and other members of the Hope community that the study of history is more than what goes on in the classroom. There is a lively process of research and exchange of ideas that makes history the vibrant discipline it is.

The department has established the following policy: All students enrolled in history courses numbered higher than 201 are required to attend at least two colloquia during the semester.

Colloquium Series Fall 2007

Thursday, September 27 at 4 P.M. in the Herrick Room

Professor Jeanne Petit, Department of History

"Immigration Restriction during a Time of War: The Literacy Test Debate in the World War I Era"

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Wednesday, October 24 at 4 P.M. in the Maas Conference Room

Professor Tamba M'bayo, Department of History

"Interpreting Colonial Power in Senegal, 1850s-1920s: Muslim African Interpreters and the French Colonial Administration."

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Thursday, November 15 at 4 P.M. in the Maas Conference Room

Professor George Marsden, Department of History, University of Notre Dame

"Human Depravity: A Neglected Explanatory Category"

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Colloquium Series Spring 2008

Thursday, January 24 at 4 P.M. in Phelps Lounge East

Jonathan Hagood, University of California, Davis

"Universal Health Care in the Time of Evita: Social Medicine in Argentina, 1943-1955"

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Thursday, February 7 at 4 P.M. in the Otte Room

Dr. Deborah Oropeza, El Colegio de México

"The Immigration of Orientals to Colonial Mexico, 1565-1700"

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Tuesday, March 25 at 4 P.M. in the Maas Conference Room

George Klupchak, Hope History major, Class of 2008

"Paradoxes of Persecution: Banishment and the Ban among 16th Century Anabaptists"

Co-sponsored with the Department of Religion