TWICE TOLD TALES
Thursday, May 4, 2018
Women’s Faculty Club
Lucy Ward Stebbins Lounge, UC Berkeley
10:00 AM Coffee and Informal Welcome
10:40 Brandi Summers (Geography) / “Black City Futures”
11:20 Mark Brilliant (History) / “Gilded State: California and the Origins of America’s New Gilded Age, 1966-1983” (Excerpt)
Noon-2:00 Break
2:00 PM Mary Ryan (History) / “Searching for Democracy along the Pacific Shore of North America between 1775 and 1848”
2:40 Alexander Craghead (American Studies) / “Railroads, Power, and Technological Stories in California”
3:20 Michael Cohen (American Studies) / “In America There Are No Conspiracies: From Conspiracy to Theory in American Intellectual History”
4:00 Adjourn