IHW: Jenifer Van Vleck, Yale University
“Building the World: Construction and the Business of Global Modernization”
January 2016
American Experience: The Mine Wars, featuring Beverly Gage premieres tonight
The story of small people going up against very big forces for a better nation. In the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over labor conditions and unionization. “The Mine Wars” premieres on PBS January 26 at 9/8c. Visit the PBS website for more information on the show.
CHESS Annual Lecture: Jean Strouse, New York Public Library
CHESS Annual Lecture
Jean Strouse, Director, The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
New York Public Library
CHESS: Sid Tarrow, Cornell University
“The Dark Side of Pluralism: The Ambivalences of Infrastructural Power”
CHESS: Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College
“Pirates Into Frenchmen: Shifting Imperial Perceptions of a Hidden Community in Eastern Panama”
CHESS: Michele Lamont, Harvard University
“What is Missing? Cultural Processes and Causal Pathways to Inequality”
CHESS: William Ian Miller, University of Michigan
“Drawing Lines in the Sand: Of Outlaws, Cod, Strangers, Barking Dogs, Babies, and Sanctuary”
CHESS: Andrew Sabl, Yale University
“Toleration Isn’t What It Used To Be: From Enlightened Magistrates to Democratic Constitutionalism”
Elm Institute Table Talk Series, Beverly Gage
The Elm Institute Table Talk series offers students the opportunity to join a member of the Yale faculty for dinner and conversation.
Book Panel: The President and the Apprentice
The Elm Institute and Yale University Press proudly present Irwin Gellman, who will discuss his new book, The President and the Apprentice, on the relationship of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower