Abstract: Who has the right to make reproductions of artworks? What counts as an illegal copy? How do new technologies and creative practices disrupt existing norms governing the circulation of images? As a way of historicising these questions, this presentation will return to an Irish court…
Fionnuala Walsh is Assistant Professor in Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. Her book Irish Women and the Great War was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. Her presentation is entitled "Emerging from the historical shadow: Irish women and the Great War".
When the largest camera club in the early twentieth-century U.S. – the San Francisco-based California Camera Club – ventured out to Yosemite Valley by the dozens, the photographers relied on a vast network of sponsors, supplies, and infrastructure to produce views of the region. This talk…
Maud Michaud (Le Mans) - Femmes de missionnaires, femmes missionnaires: la mission au féminin dans l'Empire britannique (1880-1920)
Women often appear as footnotes in the history of 19th and early 20th century criminal justice. This may be accounted for by the fact that there weren’t many women in prison throughout the period. In the 1860s, 20% of those sentenced to imprisonment (i.e. for less than two years) were women. For…
Bryant Simon is the Laura H. Carnell professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of four books, including his most recent book, The Hamlet Fire: The Tragic Costs of Cheap Food, Cheap Labor, and Cheap Government, and numerous essays. He has, in addition, edited three…
Menika Dirkson (Temple U.), "Hope and Struggle for the Inner City: Tough on Crime Policing and Juvenile Reform in Philadelphia, 1958-1976”
Gwendolyn Gawarkiewicz Franklin (Temple U.), “West Philadelphia: Public Education and the Role of the University”
Marion Marchet (HDEA-…
