Alden Scholar Series
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7007
This lecture series celebrates SUNY Oneonta faculty members who have recently published scholarly book projects.2024-03-28T13:25:16ZMississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865-1915
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/13055
Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865-1915
Ashford, E. Howard
Dr. E. Howard Ashford of the History department uses experts from his new book to illustrate the ways in which African Americans in Attala County after the Civil War, influence economic and social politics as a non-majority racial group. The book, Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865–1915 also offers a broader perspective on Black life in the state of Mississippi during the same historical period.
2023-10-01T00:00:00ZPresentation of Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/8618
Presentation of Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905
Unangst, Matthew
Dr. Matthew Unangst of the History department uses excerpts from his new book to illustrate the ways in which Europeans combined ideas about race and geography to establish and justify colonialism in Africa. The book, Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905, charts changes in conceptions of the relationship between people and landscapes in mainland Tanzania during the German colonial period. In German minds, colonial development would depend on the relationship between East Africans and the landscape. The book argues that the most important element in German imperialism was not its violence but its attempts to apply racial thinking to the mastery and control of space. Utilizing approaches drawn from critical geography, Colonial Geography posits that the development of a representational space of empire had serious consequences for German colonialism and the population of East Africa. In this lecture, Dr. Unangst demonstrates how spatial thinking shaped ideas about race and colonialism in the period of New Imperialism for all European empires, not just Germany.
2023-02-01T00:00:00ZPresentation of The Art of Literary Biography: Orion on the Dunes
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7140
Presentation of The Art of Literary Biography: Orion on the Dunes
Payne, Daniel G.
Dr. Daniel G. Payne, Distinguished Teaching Professor (Department of English) lectures on the Art of Literary Biography, drawing from Orion on the Dunes (2016), his acclaimed biography of the 20th Century American nature writer Henry Beston (1888-1968). In addition to providing an overview of Beston’s life and work, Dr. Payne discusses the methods and challenges of writing a literary biography, including stories about his own experiences as a "literary detective."
2022-03-01T00:00:00ZPresentation of Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7023
Presentation of Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity
Fieni, David
Dr. Fieni will present selections from his book, Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity, which explores how literature in French and Arabic has imagined the relative health and morbidity of France and the Arab World since the mid-19th century. Attentive to historical and literary configurations of language, race, religion, and power, Decadent Orientalisms shows the importance of understanding Western discourses of Eastern decline together with Arab and Islamic responses in which decadence returns as a characteristic of the West. The lecture will range from a discussion of a scandalously carnivalesque Arabic text from 1855 by the Lebanese author Faris Ahmed al-Shidyaq to contemporary writing in French by Arab immigrants in Paris exorcising the specters of their own supposedly “degenerate” status.
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