Professor Arista Post on the Legal History Blog

Professor Noelani Arista has made a guest post, titled I ka ʻōlelo nō ke ola: In speech there is life on the Legal History Blog.

12pm today - Professor Jordan Sand talk in the Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319

Jordan Sand, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University will present "Tokyo as an Imperial Capital" from 12:00-1:30pm today in the Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319.

This event is co-sponsored by the Japanese section of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Department of History, and the Center for Japanese Studies.

Please see the attached flyer for more information.

Nationalism: Change in Consciousness or Fiction? - Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

East- West Center: Collaboration - Expertise - Leadership

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

Nationalism: Change in Consciousness or Fiction?

Benedict R.O'G. Anderson

Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus

International Studies, Government and Asian Studies

Cornell University

Monday, November 5, 2012
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Keoni Auditorium, Jefferson Hall, East-West Center

See attached flyer for more information

 

Co-Sponors:

  University of Hawai‘i Distinguished Lecture Series

   Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

   Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center

   School of Pacific and Asian Studies

   College of Arts and Humanities

   College of Social Sciences

   Department of Anthropology

   Department of History

   Department of Political Science

   Center for Southeast Asian Studies

   Center for Philippine Studies

   Center for Pacific Islands Studies

The Cuban Missile Crisis: What Happened Then And What Could Happen Tomorrow

An event sponsored by: Department of Ethnic Studies

For more information please contact: 

Dr. Noel Kent, George Hall room 338

956-6963, noelk (at) hawaii (dot) edu

50 Years Ago in October 1962, Our World Almost Ended...

The Cuban Missile Crisis: What Happened Then And What Could Happen Tomorrow

October 24, 2012

12:00-1:30pm

Kuykendall 410

Image: Flickr Commons, from U.S. National Archives

The video "Thirteen Days" will be shown followed by a panel on the lessons of the crisis.

Sponsored by: UH Manoa Ethnic Studies, History, and Political Science Departments.

Professor Tricia Starks presents for the History Workshop, Friday, October 5th

Professor Starks will present "Right to Harm: Smoking, Gender, and Consumer Culture in Imperial Russia" on Friday, October 5th from 2:30 to 4:00 pm in the History Department Library.

Please see the attached flyer for details. This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Colloquium and the Ella Wiswell Endowment Fund for the Promotion of Russian Studies.

We hope to see you there!

Professor Kenneth Pomeranz to present in September

Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, 

University Professor of History, University of Chicago

President-elect, American Historical Association,

will give the following lectures for the Confucius Institute Fall 2012 Distinguished Speaker Series

“Late Imperial Legacies: Land, Water and the Dynamics of Chinese Economic Development” Monday, September 24, 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Center for Korean Studies Auditorium, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Reception to follow.

and “Populating China’s Southwest Frontier: ‘Han’ and ‘Minority’
in Qing Political Economy and Global History”
Tuesday, September 25, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Sakamaki Hall A201 (History Department Library)
Cosponsored by The Confucious Institute and the UHM Department of History

Download the flyer

Conference in September - European Encounters with Islam in Asia

The History Department is co-sponsoring a workshop on "European Encounters with Islam in Asia 1500-1800" along with the Center for Philippine Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for World History, and Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific Program. The conference will commence on Friday, September 28th, and concludes on Saturday, September 29th, and will be held in the Asia-Pacific Room of the Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center.

Please see the attached flyer (3 separate pages) for details, and for more information and registration details, or contact Professor Matthew Romaniello <mpr (at) hawaii.edu> or Professor Matthew Lauzon <mlauzon (at) hawaii.edu>.

Dr. Romaniello's Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching

The Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support has posted regarding current awardees of the 2011-2012 Regents' Medals, including Professor Romaniello, who was awarded for Excellence in Teaching.

Please scroll down to the fifth entry to see Professor Romaniello's photo and write-up here.

Departmental Student Awards Ceremony

We had a lovely Spring 2012 departmental student award ceremony this week, with delicious Thai food and lots of smiling faces.  Congratulations to our hard-working awardees! (Click the photos to enlarge)

The above photo shows the following award recipients (left to right):
Michael Newalu, Michael Kline, Elizabeth Schultz (with baby Bennett), Drew Gonrowski, Michael Johnson, Shirley Buchanan and Adam Witten.

Dean Thomas Bingham announced that Professor Romaniello is the 2012 recipient of the College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.


2011 – 2012 AWARDS

The Daniel Kwok Award for the Outstanding Teaching
Assistant:

Co-Winners:
- Tomoko Fukushima
- Alex Holowicki

The Donald Johnson Award for the Outstanding
Master’s Thesis

Co-Winners:
Adam Witten, “Seeds Deferred: Japanese Agrarian
Development, Rōnō and the Transformation Under
Industrialism”

Betsy Schultz, “From the Nuremberg and Tokyo War
Crimes Trials to the International Criminal Court: The
Converging Paths of Great Britain and Germany”

The Donald Johnson Award for the Outstanding
Research Paper Produced in a Graduate Seminar
and First Runner-Up

Winner: Alex Holowicki, “Reel Connections:
Cosmopolitanism and the Amateur Cinema League”

First Runner Up: Shirley Buchanan, “Tracing
the Social Networks that Linked Oklahoma and Oahu,
Indigenous Destinies and American Trajectories in the
Nineteenth Century”

The Taraknath Das Prize for the Best Paper in Asian

History by a Graduate Student:

- Joshua Ku, “A Stubborn and Recalcitrant Ally: An
American Military Perspective on the US-KMT
Relationship During World War II”


The Barbara B. Peterson Award for Graduate Student
Excellence in American History

Co-Winners: Michael Newalu
Alex Holowicki

The Pacific Circle Editorial Award (granted to the
Editorial Assistant for the Bulletin of the Pacific Circle)

- Michael Kline

The Kuykendall Prize for the Best Paper by an
Undergraduate Student

- Troy Takahashi, “Toxic? Britney Spears and
Contemporary Cultural Discourse on American Girl
Culture”

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship in History

- Drew Gonrowski
- Michael Johnson

Newby Fellowship

- Drew Gonrowski
- Lance Nolde

Living History Day - May 19th

You are invited to the

U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii
and Hawaii Army Museum Society's
12th Annual

Living History Day

in honor of Armed Forces Day

Saturday, May 19th

10am-3pm

U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii, 

Fort DeRussy, Waikiki, parking available

Please see attached files for details and a map of the location

Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HBMF) 2012

SAVE THE DATE!

Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HBMF) 2012

Saturday-Sunday May 5-6 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

Frank F. Fasi Civic Grounds at Honolulu Hale
in Historic Downtown Honolulu

ALL FREE & FREE PARKING next to the site

Eight Venues, Over 150 events, over 500 Presenters

Steve Songs, Host, PBS KIDS, 
and your favorite PBS KIDS and other characters.

Click here for the Complete Schedule.

For more details visit
hawaiibookandmusicfestival.org

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

We need volunteers!
You’ll get a t-shirt and a book tote, and you’ll be entered in a drawing for a NOOK Tablet each day.
Email Jacqui Pirl at: tropicalparadise@hawaii.rr.com
Or call Jacqui at 224-4008 with questions etc. 

Please do forward this to your friends!
I look forward to seeing you there!

Aloha,
Roger Jellinek
Executive Director
Hawaii Book and Music Festival

rgr.jellinek@gmail.com
www.hawaiibookandmusicfestival.org

History Workshop - Bryce Beemer to present on Friday, May 4th

Bryce Beemer, PhD candidate in the History department, presents "Slave Gathering Warfare and Creolizing Cultures in Pre-Colonial Burma: Histories of Manipuri Captives in Mandalay" on Friday May 4th from 2:30-4pm.

Please see the flyer for details.

Yehuda Bauer will present for the History Forum and more

Professor Yehuda Bauer will present a series of public talks next week at the University of Hawai‘i in Mānoa.

His first talk will be on Tuesday, April 24th at 12 p.m. on

“Recent Scholarship on the Shoah, Genocide and Genocide Prevention”

Tuesday, April 24th at 12 noon

Sakamaki Hall A201

U H Manoa History Department Library

Professor Vina Lanzona presents for the History Workshop, Friday, April 27th

Professor Vina Lanzona, Associate Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Philippine Studies, will present on "Engendering Counterinsurgency: The Battle to Win 'Hearts and Minds' of Women during the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines".

The talk will be from 2:30-4:00pm in the History Department Library, 2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki Hall A201

This talks is free and open to the public - we look forward to seeing you there!

Professor Stephanie Trigg presents for The History Forum, April 12

The U. H. Manoa History Department

and

The Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society

Present

“Fire and the History of Emotions”

A History Forum Public Lecture By

Prof. Stephanie Trigg

Department of English and Theatre

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence

University of Melbourne, Australia

Thursday, April 12th

12:00 – 1:30

in

Sakamaki Hall A201

History Department Library

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Free and Open to the Public

Prof. Trigg participates in an interdisciplinary collaboration across major Australian universities and with partners in England and Europe to study the history of emotions. Her talk will focus on the emotional history of fire, using the Great Fire of London in the 1660s as a starting point. Exploring visual and written representations of that event, Prof. Trigg will consider the roles of fear, sorrow and penitence, as well as the roles of significant objects from that event. What are the different forms of evidence available for the history of emotions and how might each be used in that study?

For information, please contact Prof. Peter Hoffenberg at 956-8497 or peterh@hawaii.edu

History Workshop - Friday, April 13th: Professor Alan Rosenfeld

Aloha,

Please join us from 2:30-4:00pm in the History Department Library (Sakamaki Hall A201) for a presentation by Professor Alan Rosenfeld, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawaii West Oahu.

Professor Rosenfeld with discuss "Strategies of Resistance: Anti-Imperialism and Urban Guerilla Warfare in 1970s West Germany".  This talk is free and open to the public.

Please see attached for details.

Dr. Marcus Daniel is giving a talk on Wednesday, April 4th

Please join us at the International Cultural Studies Certificate Program Spring 2012 Speaker Series

Spring 2012 Topic: Sovereignties in the 21st Century

Date: April 4, Wednesday, 2012, Noon – 1:30 pm

Location: Burns 2118 (East-West Center)

Speaker: Professor Marcus Daniels (History, UHM)

Title: "Imperial Sovereignty and American Slavery in the British Atlantic Empire: Rethinking the Somerset Decision of 1772"

All ICSCP events are free and open to the public

Professor Wang's talk tomorrow: Before the Opium Wars

Professor Wensheng Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, will present "Before the Opium War: Two British Invasions of Macao (1802 and 1808) and Their Impact on Sino-British Relations" tomorrow at 2:30pm in the History Department Library. This talk is free and open to the public - please view the flyer for details.

Van Jones presentation - STUDENT DEBT: THE NEXT CREDIT BOMB

Van Jones, the Obama administration’s first green energy czar, best-selling author, Princeton fellow, and founder of a new national organizing campaign for economic justice, Rebuild the Dream. Jones will be speaking on the dizzying accumulation of student loan debt in the United States (now $1 trillion and counting) and the unsustainable burden it places on students and the economy, while also proposing bottom-up solutions to the problem.


STUDENT DEBT: THE NEXT CREDIT BOMB

Monday, March 19

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Hālau O Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies


Light refreshments to be provided.

Music too. Maybe poetry.


Kicking off a national campaign for economic and environmental justice, Jones will also be speaking at a rally and pop-up dinner at the capitol the next evening at 6:00 pm, so please join us for that event as well. See: http://act.rebuildthedream.com/signup/revival-hawaii.

How “Russian” is Kauai’s Fort Elizabeth?

A recent entry on Russian History Blog, by Professor Romaniello, looks at the history behind Fort Elizabeth, a "Russian" fort on the island of Kauai.

Cultural Studies Certificate Program Speaker Series (Spring 2012)

You're cordially invited to the International Cultural Studies Certificate Program Spring 2012 Speaker Series

Spring 2012 Topic: Sovereignties in the 21st Century

Date: February 15, 2012, Wednesday

Time, location: Noon - 1:15 pm; Burns 2118 (East–West Center)

Speaker: Professor Ty P. Kawika Tengan (Ethnic Studies Department, UHM)

Title of Talk: Return to Fort Kamehameha: Martialing Memory in Occupied Hawai‘i

Date: February 21, TUESDAY, Noon – 1:30 pm

Location: Kuykendall 106

Title of Talk: Who's afraid of Lady Gaga? Navigating fierce currents of the cultural studies classroom

(Part of the series on Towards an engaged Academy: Innovative trends in university teaching and scholarship)

Co-sponosred with the Center for Teaching Excellence

Please see attached flier

Date: March 7, 2012, Wednesday, Noon-1:15 pm

Location: Burns 2118

Speaker: Professor Ibrahim Aoude (Ethnic Studies, UHM)

Title of talk: “Mubarak Out, Military In: Egypt After The Elections”

Co-sponsored with the Department of Ethnic Studies, UHM

All ICSCP events are free and open to the public

March 21: Pacific Connections Seminar Series presents "Flags, Human Heads and Movies" with Professor Chappell

Professor David Chappell, Associate Professor of Pacific Islands History, will present "Flags, Human Heads and Movies: Challenges of Seeking a Common Destiny in Kanaky New Caledonia" on March 21st, 12:00-1:00 p.m., in Room 3121/3125 of the John Burns Hall, East-West Center.

This event is cosponsored by Center for Pacific Islands Studies, East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program and the History Department. Please see attached for details.

History Forum: February 16th, 12pm noon, Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Please join us for Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin, Madison), on "World History and the Skeptical Specialist".

12pm noon in the History Library, Sakamaki A201

Please see attached for more information.

History Forum: Upcoming Lectures

Please join us for the following free talks in Sakamaki Hall A201, the History Department Library.

Thursday, February 16 at 12 noon for Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (U of Wisconsin, Madison) on "World History and the Skeptical Specialist" You have 9 volumes to write the history of the world! What stays? What goes? Why?

Friday, February 24 at 12:30 for Peter H. Hoffenberg (U H Manoa History) on
"Pugin in the Pacific? Building Neo-Gothic 'Edifices' in the Colonies"

Thursday, April 12 at 12 Noon for Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne" on "The History of Emotions"

Wednesday, April 25 at 12:30 for Yehuda Bauer (Yad Vashem and Hebrew University, Jerusalem) on "Recent Historical Scholarship on the Shoah and Genocide"

Please feel free to contact Professor Peter Hoffenberg (peterh (at) hawaii (dot) edu)

if you have any questions and please feel free to share this information.

The History Workshop - Professor Jörg Nagler, February 21st

The History Workshop presents....

Professor Jörg Nagler from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

February 21st, 3:00-4:30pm

in the History Department Library, Sakamaki A201

Professor Nagler will present on "The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War" (please see attached flyer for details).

Congratulations, Professor Romaniello!

Professor Matthew Romaniello has been selected as the recipient of the College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Teaching Award this year. The Award recognizes faculty members in the College who have made outstanding contributions in teaching.

Center for Biography Brown Bag - Thursday, February 9th, 2012

*This presentation is the first of a three-part series on Ralph Ellison, African American Literature, and American Studies*

Center for Biography Brown Bag Series--

Encountering Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: The Politics of Textual Revision

By visiting scholar Barbara Foley

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

12:00pm - 1:15pm

Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Professor Foley will describe the process of researching and writing her 2010 book, Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Her principal focus will be on the extensive revisions that Ellison made during the seven years (1945-52) during which he wrote his famous novel.

Drawing upon her examination of the thousands of pages of drafts and notes of Ellison’s novel, she will demonstrate how a text that was originally proletarian in orientation and sympathetic to the left was converted into a cold war classic. Overlaid upon this narrative of Ellison’s changing political and artistic goals will be Foley’s narrative of her own encounter with—and estimate of—the novel over several decades, from her days as a graduate student involved in the New Left to the present. 



Barbara Foley, one of the foremost contemporary Marxist critics of American literature, is Professor in the Department of English and the Program in American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as well as of numerous articles on proletarian literature, African American literature and documentary fiction.

For more information, please contact biograph@hawaii.edu or 956-3774

www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii

This presentation is the first of a three-part series on Ralph Ellison, African American Literature, and American Studies that also includes the following talks—

Lecture, Department Of English
Thursday, February 9 2012 3:00-4.30 PM, @ KUY 402

“Repression In Biography, Repression In History: The Politics Of The Political Unconscious”

Discussion, American Studies
Friday, February 10 2012 2:00-3:30 PM, @ Moore 328

“What Happens When You Put The Left At The Center In American Literary History?”

Moderators: Robert Perkinson & Njoroge Njoroge

These events are made possible by a SEED grant and the support of American Studies, Center for Biographical Research, Ethnic Studies, English, and History.

Professor Romaniello presents todays History Workshop

Please join us today from 2:30-4pm for a History Workshop presentation with Professor Matthew Romaniello.

"Taking Hostages and Murdering Translators: The Role of Violence in Russia's American Colonies"

History Library, Sakamaki A201

The Political Ecology of Food Sovereignty Movements in Neoliberal India

You're cordially invited to a presentation by Elizabeth (Cedar) Louis, PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography

Date & Time: February 8, Wednesday, Noon – 1:15 pm

Location: Burns 2118

Title of the talk: The Political Ecology of Food Sovereignty Movements in Neoliberal India

Abstract:

This talk interrogates the definitions, ideologies and strategies of transnational agrarian movements for food sovereignty for resisting the growing neoliberal agro-food regime. It raises issues with the definition of food sovereignty and the bringing together of diverse actors in the creation of transnational coalitions. It considers how the diverse class bases, historical contexts, and the ideological positions of stakeholders lend themselves to contradiction and contestation within these movements. It raises issues with the use of localism and the centrality of small farming as an alternative to mainstream development, highlighting that their espousal of the ‘peasant way’ reflects a romantic rural vision that obscures class differences and local politics and fails to provide a realistic vision for rural development.

It then examines the ramifications of promoting “food sovereignty” amongst poor and marginal farmers in the Telengana region of India. It suggests that while local level strategies intend to improve farmers’ capacity to subsist, they often overlook the evolving need of poor peasant farmers to take advantage of diverse opportunities in a harsh economic climate. Alternative agricultural solutions based only in farming could paradoxically constrain their options for maintaining viable rural livelihoods. This paper argues that in order for farmers to exercise “food sovereignty”, they must first secure their livelihoods, which are determined not by their ability to opt out of the market economy, but rather by negotiating their position within it.

About the speaker:

Elizabeth Louis is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her academic interests include political economy of agriculture, political ecology, sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements.

All ICSCP events are free and open to the public. Please post attached flier.

Professor Njoroge at ARTS at Marks Garage, Thursday, January 26th, 6pm

Professor Njoroge will be participating in the ITVS/PBS Community Cinema presentation this Thursday. There will be a film screening of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock. Professor Njoroge will be one of the respondents for the Q&A afterwards. The screening is scheduled for JANUARY 26th, 2012 at 6:00 pm at the ARTS at Marks Garage.

History Workshop - Spring 2012 schedule

Bollywood Film Series Screenings - free and open to the public

The curtain goes up on this semester's (10th!) UH Bollywood film series on Monday. Please see attached for the full schedule. All screenings are free and open to the public, and you are welcome to bring food & drink.

Bollywood Mondays: My Name is Khan (2010)

Pacific Ocean Science & Technology (POST) 126

Monday, January 23rd

3.30-6.30pm

A moving portrait of a South Asian Muslim navigating the alienating landscape of a post-9/11 United States, 'My Name is Khan' (2010) traces Rizvan Khan's (Shah Rukh Khan) attempts to keep his family together in the wake of international and personal tragedies.

Directed by Karan Johar and co-starring Kajol, MNIK went on to become the highest-grossing Bollywood film in overseas markets. The film was also successful in India despite protests marring its opening in several Bombay theaters, as both the film and its megastar skirted a dense thicket of religious politics.

Ned Bertz

Assistant Professor

Department of History

Professor Barbara Foley, Rutgers University, events on February 9th and 10th

Barbara Foley, one of the foremost contemporary Marxist critics of American literature, is Professor in the Department of English and the Program in American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark.

She is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as well as of numerous articles on proletarian literature, African American literature and documentary fiction.

These events are made possible by a SEED Grant and by the generous support of American Studies, Center for Biographical Research, English, Ethnic Studies and History.

Phi Alpha Theta 28th Regional Conference - Call for Papers

Friends:

Please share the notice below with fellow scholars and students of
history.

UH Manoa will host the TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL HAWAI'I REGIONAL MEETING OF PHI ALPHA THETA at the Manoa Campus Center on Saturday, March 10, 2012.
Students from Hawai'i's university campuses are invited to present papers
on historical subjects and problems at that statewide meeting. If you are
eligible for membership in the history honor society, you are cordially
invited to make a little history at the conference.

To do so, you must submit your name, email address or phone number,
chapter affiliation, and the title of your paper as you would like it to
appear in the program with a one-paragraph abstract of the paper's
contents by Monday, February 6. Please send proposals via email to UH
Manoa Chapter Graduate President Zachary Martin at zjmartin@hawaii.edu and to
chapter advisor Bob McGlone at mcglone@hawaii.edu.

Three hard copies of the paper itself must be submitted by Monday,
February 13, for the author/presenter to be eligible for a prize. Please
send papers to Prof. Bob McGlone, Department of History, A 203 Sakamaki
Hall, UH Manoa, 2530 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822. Papers may be as
long as thirty pages of text, but the oral presentation of the paper
during the Annual Meeting is limited to twenty minutes. (If you wish to
read your whole paper, ten to twelve pages of twelve-point font type,
double spaced, is a proper length.) Cash and book prizes will be
announced at the end of the meeting. Students presenting papers and
their student guests will receive lunch free.

Please join us on March 10 to make new friends and celebrate HISTORY.

History Workshop presents....

Professor Romaniello will present our first spring History Workshop, "Taking Hostages and Murdering Translators: The Role of Violence in Russia's American Colonies" on Friday, February 3rd at 2:30 p.m. in the History Library (Sakamaki A201).

Please join us for this event, which is free and open to the public!

U.H. Manoa History Department

and

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

Present:

“The Political Economy of Land Privatization in

Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850”

A Public Lecture By

Prof. Sumner La Croix

Department of Economics

U. H. Manoa

Wednesday, January 25th

12:30 until 2:00 p.m.

Sakamaki Hall A201/History Department Library

U. H. Manoa

This co-authored talk compares public land disposal and the emergence of property-rights on the

frontier in the first half of the nineteenth century in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and

the British colony of New South Wales, Australia. Rather than the common theory of the

emergence of such rights as one from de facto to de jure, evolving from the growing demands of

settlers, the authors suggest the importance of the political supply side, or the actions of governments.

The governments differed in their policies as a result of the costs of enforcement, threats of

violence, and other public matters. Contrasts developed between Argentina and Australia as a result

of this political supply side. The paper was co-authored by Prof. La Croix and Prof. Alan Dye,

Barnard College, Columbia University.

Free and Open to the Public

For information, please contact Prof. Peter Hoffenberg at peterh@hawaii.edu