[History_students] Next History Club meeting...Friday, May 19

[Beiriger, Eugene]

Historians!

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)!

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).

In the first presentation of our series, Dr. Roshanna Sylvester will discuss some of the main themes of her recent book Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005):  

"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."

Be prepared to bring summer reading suggestions for a later recommended reading list!

And, please RSVP (hit "Reply") so that we can get a count for the food order....

See you there!

Dr. B

Eugene Beiriger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
773/325-7454 (phone)
ebeirige at depaul.edu





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