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The Golz Lecture for the 2012-2013 academic year was delivered by Amanda Vickery.

History through the Key Hole

Thursday, April 17, 2013
7:30 PM
Kresge Auditorium, VAC

ÌÇÐÄvlog the Lecturer: Amanda Vickery

Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research interests include British society and culture, gender and family, as well as words and objects.  Vickery's first book, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (Yale, 1998), won the Whitfield prize, the Wolfson prize and the Longman-History Today prize.  Her essay 'Golden Age to Separate Spheres', was republished in 2007 in the Historical Journal's 50th anniversary edition of '20 classic papers' and is the most downloaded and cited article in the journal. Other publications include ‘An Englishman’s House is His Castle? Privacies, Boundaries and Thresholds in the Eighteenth-Century London House’, Past and Present (2008), 199 (2008), pp. 147-73; (ed), Women Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present (Stanford, 2001); and Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale, 2009). Amanda adapted her book Behind Closed Doors for a 3 part prime-time BBC2 series ‘’ in December 2010. She is currently working on a new project on fashion across the British world and is developing new long span social histories for BBC2. 

ÌÇÐÄvlog the Lecture: History through the Key Hole

Her talk, History through the Key Hole, reflects on the material culture of Georgian homes as it relates to the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century England.

Amanda Vickery was born and raised in Preston, Lancashire. Growing up in a matriarchal mill town where wives historically worked out of the house as well as in, fostered her love of social and economic history, and her fascination with the warp and woof of work and family, power and emotion.

The Golz Lecture for the 2011-2012 academic year was delivered by Naomi Oreskes.

"Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming"

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
7:30 PM
Kresge Auditorium, VAC
Open to the public

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and an internationally renowned historian of science and author. 
Professor Oreskes has a long-standing interest in understanding the establishment of scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent. Her early work examined the 20th century transformation of earth science, in (Oxford, 1999) and (Westview, 2001). She has also written on the under-acknowledged role of women in science, and on the role of numerical simulation models in establishing knowledge about inaccessible natural phenomena.

For the past decade, Professor Oreskes has primarily been interested in the problem of anthropogenic climate change.  Her 2004 essay (Science 306: 1686) has been widely cited, both in the United States and abroad, including in the Royal Society's publication, "A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change," in the Academy-award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, and in Ian McEwan's novel, Solar.  Her opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Nature, Science, The New Statesman, and elsewhere. Her book,  (Bloomsbury, 2010), co-authored with Erik M. Conway, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Time Book Prize.
Her current research projects include completion of a book on the history of Cold War Oceanography, Science on a Mission: American Oceanography in the Cold War and Beyond (Chicago, forthcoming), and Assessing Assessments: A Historical and Philosophical Study of Scientific Assessments for Environmental Policy in the Late 20th Century, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Golz lecture for the 2010-2011 academic year was delivered by Gary Okihiro.

"Impounded: Dorothea Lange and Japanese American Internment During World War II"

Wednesday November 17
7:30 PM
Searles Hall 315
Open to the public

Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, where he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. His research interests are Asian American studies and southern Africa. He is the author of nine books in U.S. and African history, most recently (University of California Press, 2010) and (University of California Press, 2009). Others include (W.W. Norton and Company, 2006), (Edwin Mellen Press, 2000), (University of Washington Press, 1999).

Professor Okihiro received a PhD in African history from the University of California , Los Angeles , in 1976. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association, and is a past President of the Association for Asian American Studies.

The lecture for the 2009-2010 academic year was delivered in April 2010 by , an authority on the nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish-speaking Caribbean, especially Cuba.

Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:30pm
Searles Science Building, Room 315

Professor Pérez is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his M.A. at the University of Arizona in 1966 and his Ph. D from the University of New Mexico in 1970. He also serves as the director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is considered a major force for developing the field of Cuban studies in the US, especially in opening the island to American academics. An article about his role in Cuban studies appeared in 2000 in . Currently he is both the editor of the UNC Press book series "Envisioning Cuba" and of the journal Cuban Studies. Most recently, Professor Pérez was inducted into the 2008 class of fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. 

His book won the 2000 Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History and was a 2000 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Professor Pérez’s other books include (winner of the 2007 Elsa Goveia Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians), (winner of the 2001 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History), and (a 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Title). 

A webcast of Adam Hochschild's lecture for the 2007 Alfred E. Golz Lecture is available through iTunes.

Adam Hochschild was the Golz lecturer for the 2007-2008 academic year. His lecture, "Twelve Men in a Printing Shop May 22, 1787: A Great Human Rights Movement Is Born" was held Monday, September 24, 2007 at 7:30pm in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall.

Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. His first book, , was published in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection." It was followed by , and . His 1997 collection, , won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award. It also won a J. Anthony Lukas award Britain’s Duff Cooper Prize. His books have been translated into twelve languages and four of them have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. 

His , was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN USA Literary Award.  His last two books have also each won Canada’s Lionel Gelber Prize and the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. In 2005, he received a Lannan Literary Award for the body of his work.

Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines. His articles have won prizes from the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists and elsewhere. He was a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine and has been a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

Hochschild teaches narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India, and has given writing workshops for working journalists in the United States, Britain, India, Zambia and South Africa. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, sociologist and author Arlie Russell Hochschild. They have two sons and one granddaughter.

A webcast of the 2006 Alfred E. Golz Lecture is available through Hawthorne-Longfellow Library's Special Collections Archive.

Professor Peter Hayes ('68) is the Golz lecturer for the 2006-2007 academic year. His lecture, "From Aryanization to Auschwitz: the Complicity of German Corporations in the Holocaust," was held Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 7:30pm in Kresge Auditorium.

Professor Peter Hayes is the Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University. Hayes specializes in the history of Germany in the 20th century, particularly the Nazi period. He is the author or editor of seven books, including (2004) and a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation in the Nazi era.

Hayes has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award and the Northwestern Alumni Association's Excellence in Education Award. He has held fellowships from the DAAD, the ACLS, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is a member of the Academic Board of the German Society for Business History and of the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.

Hayes is currently working on two books: Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and the Holocaust and The Failure of a Generation: German Elites and National Socialism.

Peter Hayes earned his A.B. at ÌÇÐÄvlog, his M.A. at the University of Oxford, and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. at Yale University.