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Calendar

Currently scheduled events, sponsored, co-sponsored, or of import to the Department of History are listed below. 

Fall 2020

  • August 24, First day of classes
  • August 24, 3:10 pm, Zoom, Full department meeting (faculty)
  • September 14, 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm, Zoom, Legal History Colloquium. Guest Speaker: Ari Bryen, Vanderbilt University, on "Law as Dialogue"
  • September 21, 3:10 pm, Zoom, Full department meeting (faculty)
  • October 19, 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm, Zoom, Legal History Colloquium. Guest Speaker: Nate Holdren, Drake University, on Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge, 2020)
  • October 19, 2:30 pm, Zoom, Full department meeting (faculty) with tenured faculty meeting directly following
  • November 13 and 14, Time T.B.D., Zoom, American Society for Legal History Mini Conference
  • November 16, 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm, Zoom, Legal History Colloquium. Guest Speaker: Daniel Sharfstein, Vanderbilt University, on "Arbitration in New York's Fur Business and the Private Law of Immigration, 1914 - 38
  • November 16, 3:10 pm, Zoom, Full department meeting (faculty)
  • November 20, End of in-person classes
  • November 21-29, Thanksgiving holidays
  • November 30, Transition to remote instruction
  • December 4, Last day of classes
  • December 5-13, Examinations and reading days

Spring 2021

  • January 25, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, location TBA, Legal History Colloquium. Guest Speaker: Kim Welch, Vanderbilt University, on "Eulalie Manderville's Money: Black Moneylenders and Economic Citizenship in the Antebellum U.S. South"
  • February 22, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, location TBA, Legal History Colloquium. Guest Speaker: Taryn Marashi, current Ph.D Vanderbilt University, on "'Your Blood, your Property, and your Honor are Sacred': Violating Privacy in Medieval Islamic Society"
  • March 15, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, location TBA, Legal History Colloquium. Guest Speaker Jessica Lowe, current Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, on "Precocious and Premature: Claims of Illegitimacy Complicating an Inheritance Dispute in Sixteenth-Century Munster"
  • April 12, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, location TBA, Legal History Colloquium. Guest Speaker Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University, on, title TBA