Seminar Series

Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society Research Seminar series, 2013-2014

October 3, 2013
Jason Petrulis, Oberlin College
“Wigs: The Story of a Cold War Commodity”

October 24, 2013
Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware
“Africa Must be Seen to be Believed”: The Henderson Travel Agency and the Making of Black Global Citizens”

December 5, 2013
Hasia Diner, New York University
“Jewish Peddlers and American Culture”

February 13, 2014
Allison Isenberg, Princeton University
“Second Hand Cities”

April 10, 2014: Lara Freidenfelds, Independent Scholar, “Buying for the Baby Too Soon? Marketing to Pregnant Women and its Implications for Early Pregnancy Loss”

May 8, 2014
Andrew Case, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘Dear Friend’: The Rodale Press and the Business Culture of Direct Mail Marketing in the Postwar United States”