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Historians!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Join us for the next meeting of the History
Club in the Richardson Library, seminar room 308, on Friday, May 19 at
3:30. We will have refreshments (snacks or pizza)!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>At an
earlier meeting, club members recommended that we inaugurate an informal series
roughly entitled "How (and why) historians do what they do" (with History
Department faculty talking about their research adventures and
results).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial ><FONT size=2>In
the first presentation of our series, Dr. Roshanna Sylvester will discuss some
of the main themes of her recent book <EM>Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and
Civility in a City of Thieves </EM>(Northern Illinois University Press,
2005): </FONT>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>"How did Odessans in the last
years of tsarist rule understand modernity, the city and their place in
it? Newspapers of the day covered everything from acid-throwing women to
villainous "gentlemen-vampires" and even a rampaging elephant, whose
"conviction" and eventual execution formed the basis of a civic epic. Such
tales of everyday life offer insights into the many complexities of the modern
age."</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Be prepared to bring summer reading suggestions for a
later recommended reading list!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>And, please RSVP (hit "Reply") so that we can get a
count for the food order....</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>See you there!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dr. B</P></FONT>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Eugene Beiriger, Ph.D.<BR>
Associate Professor<BR>
Department of History<BR>
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences<BR>
DePaul University<BR>
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.<BR>
Chicago, IL 60614<BR>
773/325-7454 (phone)<BR>
ebeirige@depaul.edu<BR>
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