[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: [caps_seminar] Professor Richard White, Stanford University -- May 11 -12,

[Meg Jacobs]

Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American 
History will co-host a two-day symposium May 11-12 with Richard White 
(Stanford University) on his new project, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice: 
Transcontinental Railroads and the Shaping of Modern North America". 
There are no pre-circulated papers for this conference and all are 
welcome.

I have a copy of one of the chapters if anyone is interested.  Meg


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>Harvard University's Center for American Political Studies, Charles 
>Warren Center for Studies in American History and the Institutional 
>Development Initiative
>
>
>present....
>
>Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, 
>Stanford University
>
>"The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Transcontinental Railroads and the 
>Shaping of Modern North America"
>
>This will be a series of presentations over the span of two days.
>
>The schedule is as follows:
>
>May 11, 3-5pm
>"Friends: The Transcontinental Railroad Lobby"
>
>Respondents:
>Charles Stewart III, Professor of Political Science, MIT
>Richard Bensel, Professor of Government, Cornell University
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>May 11, 5 -7 pm
>Reception - Robinson Hall Lobby
>
>May 12, 10am-noon
>"Information: The Financing of the Transcontinental Railroads"
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>Respondents:
>Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
>Meg Jacobs, Associate Professor of History, MIT
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>May 12, 3-5pm
>"Constructing Space: Railroads and the Creation of Western North America
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>Respondents:
>Paul Groth, Professor of U. S. Cultural Landscape History at the 
>University of California, Berkeley and Warren Fellow
>Ellen Stroud, Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College and 
>Warren Fellow
>
>
>This series features brief presentations by Professor White and the 
>respondents, followed by discussion with the audience.
>
>All sessions will take place:
>History Library, First Floor Level
>Robinson Hall
>Harvard University
>
>For more information contact the CAPS office at 495-2724 or the 
>Warren Center at 495-1119
>
>


-- 
Meg Jacobs
Associate Professor of History
Class of 1947 Career Development Chair
M.I.T.
77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-188
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617) 253-7895 (o)
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