Upcoming Events
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Wednesday Workshop - “Selling the German Democratic Republic: DEFA’s ‘Foreign Ministry Films” 12:15pm
3/20
Wednesday Workshop - “Selling the German Democratic Republic: DEFA’s ‘Foreign Ministry Films”
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Walter Childs Wood Hall
The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker presents their research-in-progress and then engages in a Q&A with the audience. Workshops generally take place from 12:15 – 1:15 in the Wood Hall Basement Lounge. Please contact Professor Nancy Shoemaker at nancy.shoemaker@uconn.edu if you are interested in presenting at or attending a Wednesday Workshop.
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UCHI Talk: Elizabeth Della Zazzera on Early 19th-Century French Poetry Almanacs 3:30pm
3/20
UCHI Talk: Elizabeth Della Zazzera on Early 19th-Century French Poetry Almanacs
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
On the May souvenir page of her 1814 copy of Hommage aux dames, Henriette François Louise Rigano recorded that her husband, Albert Prisse, had traveled to Paris on May 19. On that same page, she wrote that “the French left Maastricht on May 4,” juxtaposing the movements of her family members with the history of the collapse of Napoleon’s European empire. Hommage aux dames was one of a series of very similar almanac titles (Almanach des dames, Almanach dédié aux demoiselles, etc.) produced in France and marketed to women in the first decades of the nineteenth century. This talk will explore how these almanacs, which were primarily poetry anthologies with calendars and sometimes souvenir pages attached, shifted the almanac’s relationship to locality and to time, not only because of their content and format, but also because of how they were used.
Elizabeth Della Zazzera is an assistant professor in residence in the University of Connecticut’s History department and Director of Communications & Undergraduate Outreach at the UConn Humanities Institute. A historian of modern Europe, she received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Her scholarship focuses on how ideas move on the ground—how their method of transmission and dissemination affects the ideas themselves—with a particular emphasis on the intellectual history of material texts and urban environments in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France. Her current book project explores the role of the periodical press, the theatre, and literary sociability in the bataille romantique: the conflict between romantics and classicists. She is also working on a project about French literary almanacs in the early nineteenth century. Her article, “Translating Revolutionary Time: French Republican Almanacs in the United States” was awarded the 2015 Book History essay prize.
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History Honors Research Workshop 1:00pm
3/25
History Honors Research Workshop
Monday, March 25th, 2024
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Wood Hall
Please join us as this semester’s honors thesis writers present their research thus far.
Refreshments will be served.