History Day Itinerary
Schedule of Events for History Day 2012 (tentative)
Sunday, March 4 , 2012 evening (usually around 6:30 or 7:00)
Field Dinners with Faculty
Time and location TBA
Monday, March 5, 2012 (location in emailed itinerary sent to prospective students)
8:30-8:45am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:45-9:00 INTRODUCTIONS
9:00-9:15 GREETING from Admissions Chair, Jan Goldstein
9:15-10:15 INTRODUCTION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Workshop
The workshops at Chicago are interdisciplinary forums for graduate students to present dissertation research, invited speakers and current faculty present papers. Workshop papers are circulated in advance and all attendees are welcome to question and comment on the papers. The Social History Workshop has coorindated a meeting of their workshop for History Day.
Presentor: Sarah Weicksel, PhD candidate (commitee: Leora Auslander and Kathleen Conzen,co-chairs, James Grossman, Amy Stanley), "The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture and Violence in the American Civil War Era"
More information on workshops at Chicago.
12:00 Lunch served
12:15-12:45 Panel Discussion with Current Students during lunch
1:00-3:00 FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Faculty bios can be found at: http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty.shtml
3:30 RECEPTION
Everyone is invited to a casual gathering in the John Hope Franklin Room with History faculty and in-residence graduate students.