The Center for the United States and the Cold War’s Spring 2020 seminar schedule:

• February 13- Andy Battle (The City University of New York)- “On the Auction Block: Competition, Runaway Shops, and the Collapse of the Northeastern Garment Industry.”
  Commentator- Miriam Frank (New York University)
• February 20- Michelle Nickerson (Loyola University Chicago)- “How to Put a War on Trial: The 1973 Case of the “Camden 28.” Commentator- Ellen Schrecker (New York University)
• February 27- Jeremy Varon (The New School)- “Reconciliation, Not Revenge”: The Antiwar Response to 9/11.” Commentator- Mary Nolan (New York University)
• March 12- Ian Rocksborough-Smith (University of the Fraser Valley)- “Ecumenical Liberalism and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago.”
  Commentator- Sara Rzeszutek Haviland (St. Francis College)
• March 26- Melissa Redwood (Yale University)- “Policing the Boundaries of Inclusion: Japanese American Radicals and the Pro-China Left in an Age of Surveillance, Deportation and Military.” Occupation, 1945-1952″ Commentator- Monica Kim (New York University)
• April 9- Yana Skorobogatov (Williams College)- “From Death to Life: Soviet Death Penalty Abolition and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
  Commentator- Anne O’Donnell (New York University)
• April 23- Seth Blumenthal (Boston University)- ‘Architect of the Republican Revival:’ Bill Brock and the Post-Watergate GOP.” Commentator- Timothy Naftali (New York University)

Please note that all of the seminars will be held in room 253 (second floor of Bobst Library) from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM.
RSVP: email tamiment.events@nyu.edu with guest name(s) & event title.

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LOCATION

Tamiment/NYU Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
Room 253
New York, NY 10012

RSVP: Please RSVP via the NYU events calendar.

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NYU Special Collections – Fales Library, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives, and University Archives – is undergoing a major renovation. All repositories will be closed to researchers from May 21, 2020 – September 7, 2020. For more information, please visit: https://wp.nyu.edu/library-renovation or email special.collections@nyu.edu. As there may be an impact on services and collections during our opening times, we request all patrons to make appointments to use materials.

*** As a part of these renovations, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives will additionally be closed from January 4th-January 22, 2021. ***