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History Seminar Spring 2018 Schedule
May 23, 2018
Presented by Attendees
Just a reminder that History Seminar is going to go a different direction this week. It’s the first (“annual”? “and only”?) History Show and Tell! (If it bombs, it will be first and only; if it works out ok, we’ll try it again!)
If you want to play, just bring a historical artifact on Wednesday and be ready to tell us about it. Think about the following questions:
• What is it?
• Who made it?
• When?
• How did you come to get it?
• And what can it teach us about a historical event, development, person, etc.?
If you don’t have all the answers, that’s fine, just tell us what you know!
And remember, nothing too valuable, no weapons, and nothing inappropriate for an audience.
May 9, 2018
Presented by Yarinid Velez-Hernandez, Faculty, Anthropology
Why is Puerto Rico taking so long to reconstruct its destroyed infrastructure after Hurricane Maria? Is it the debt? Is it poor planning? Or could it be that the unclear
status of Puerto Rico and unrealistic demands of the government affected its development programs in the 1950s, which led to a deficit of resources and bad infrastructure
planning? Join us for History Seminar and find out the truth about all that cement!
May 16, 2018
Presented by Jules James, Narrating Historian, Steamship Virginia-V Foundation
Seattle's glorious spring and summer seasons of 1924 were a celebration of aerial circumnavigation. Four World Cruisers - single-engined, two-seat, open-cockpit
biplanes with a top speed of 100 MPH - launched from Seattle's Sand Point Airfield on April 6th, circled the globe, and returned to Seattle September 28th. Today tech
tycoons are taking us giant steps closer to untethering from Planet Earth. Visit Seattle back when the first steps of aviation knitted our planet together.
May 9, 2018
Presented by Yarinid Velez-Hernandez, Faculty, Anthropology
Why is Puerto Rico taking so long to reconstruct its destroyed infrastructure after Hurricane Maria? Is it the debt? Is it poor planning? Or could it be that the unclear
status of Puerto Rico and unrealistic demands of the government affected its development programs in the 1950s, which led to a deficit of resources and bad infrastructure
planning? Join us for History Seminar and find out the truth about all that cement!
May 2, 2018
Presented by Ben Gonzalez O'Brien, Faculty, Political Science
Mexican immigrants have been the target of nativist and racist rhetoric that has painted them alternately as economic threats because of the cheap labor they provide,
cultural threats because of a belief that Latino communities in the United States do not assimilate in the same fashion or with the same speed as other immigrant
groups, and a suspicion that undocumented immigrants are predisposed to criminality because of how they came to the United States. This latter claim, that Mexican
immigrants are likely to be criminals, has been used to justify some of the most restrictive immigration policies and has been a central theme of President Donald
Trump's rhetoric on immigration. He has characterized Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists and continues to support the idea of a border wall to keep them out,
despite the wealth of data that contradicts this narrative. In this talk, Ben Gonzalez O'Brien examines the historical roots of the criminalization of undocumented
immigration, explores the modern rhetoric of criminality, and assesses the claims made by individuals like Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Trump that the undocumented
are inclined to criminality.
April 25, 2018
Presented by Racheal Bledsaw, Faculty, History
What do you do when you have to stay married to a woman you loathe? While the easy answer would be simply not to marry her, for the kings of Europe that was not always an
option. Royal marriages were political maneuvers - to avoid or end a war, gain an ally, or increase the country's wealth. Liking your bride was merely a bonus, and not an
expected one. In cases where divorce was impossible (religiously or politically) the king's personal life was saved with a royal mistress. But what was she? The king's
true companion or his flavor of the month? An esteemed and powerful member of the court or a gold-digger out for all she could get from her 15 minutes of fame? The truth,
of course, lies somewhere between these extremes. Find out more about these women and their often contentious role in history.
April 18, 2018
Presented by James Peyton, Faculty, Economics and Statistics
In 1960, the average US resident consumed about 30 pounds of plastic products. Today each of us consumes more than 300 pounds of plastics every year. Plastic has become
essential to modern life. This History Seminar will explore how we fell in love with all that plastic-and the problems that have come along with it.
April 11, 2018
Presented by Lonnie Somer, Faculty, Anthropology
Beginning 2,000 years ago, a southern Peruvian culture thrived for several centuries in one of the driest environments on the planet. Their achievements included the
impressive ceremonial center of Cahuachi; the creation of enormous works of art, known as geoglyphs, on the desert surface; hundreds of miles of pathways or 'Nasca Lines'
that connect these designs; and underground aqueducts expertly engineered to carry water from their sources to the inhabited regions. How did they manage to accomplish
this? What was the purpose of these massive works of art? What ultimately happened to the Nasca people?
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