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The History Forum at CSU Bakersfield: A Chronicle 

3/10/00

Douglas Dodd, CSUB

"National Forests vs. National Parks: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Preservation of Public Lands"

3/31/00

James Sefton and Frederick Kuretski, CSU Northridge

"History and Photography: A Journey Along California Highway 166"

5/12/00

Fredrik Logevall, UCSB

"Vietnam Reconsidered: Origins and Legacies of War"

10/6/00

John Maynard, CSUB

Book Launch of California: Golden Past, Shining Future

1/12/01

Miriam Vivian, CSUB

"The Christianization of Rome: Myths, Monuments and Martyrs in the Transformation of the City"

2/9/01

Charlotte Furth, USC

"Doing Research on the History of the Body: Representation and Experience"

4/27/01

Gonzalo Santos, CSUB

"Winning the War Against Oblivion: An Eye-Witness Account of the Historic Zapatista March to Mexico City"

6/1/01

Gordon Berger, USC

"Sumo: Mirror, Expression and Molder of Japanese Society"

11/16/01

James Meriwether, CSUB

"Zimbabwe: Todii, or What Shall We Do?"

1/11/02

Ken Manungo, University of Zimbabwe

"Zimbabwe Today"

3/1/02

Randolph Bergstrom, UCSB

"Courting Equality: Law and the Injuries of Race in Turn-of-the-Century New York"

4/12/02

Mario T. Garcia, UCSB

"Oral History and the Ethnic Subject:  Studies in the Chicano Experience"

4/26/02

John E. Wills, USC

"The Unconfinable Variety, Splendor, and Strangeness of the Human Condition"

5/17/02

Richard Orsi, CSU Hayward

"New Approaches to the History of the Southern Pacific Railroad in California and the West"

10/18/02

Alemseghed Kebede, CSUB

"The Historical Roots of Athletic Cult in Contemporary Ethiopia: The Long and Unfinished Quest for National Dignity"

2/7/03

Mark Baker, CSUB

"Rampaging Women, Cowering Police, Bazaar Riots and Moral Economy:  the Social Impact of the Great War in Kharkiv Province, Ukraine"

4/18/03

Jerome Kleinsasser, CSUB

"Another Look at Lawrence Tibbett: America’s First Crossover Artist"

11/7/03

Kindon Meik, CSUB

"Contested Space and Contested Voices:  The Hygienist Movement in Buenos Aires, 1871-1910"

2/20/04

Jeri Echeverria, CSU Fresno

"Bakersfield’s Boarding Houses: Hub of Basque Settlement"

5/21/04

Victor Geraci, UC Berkeley

"The Rise of Santa Barbara’s Wine Industry"

11/5/04

Constance Orliski, CSUB

"What Revolution? A Historical Look at China in the 21st Century"

5/13/05

Mark Baker, CSUB

"The ‘Orange Revolution’ as Social History:  What Happened in Late 2004 in Ukraine and Why?"

10/7/05

Daniel Lewis, Cal Poly Pomona

"Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo on Things Californian: A Chautauqua Presentation"

1/13/06

John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta

"The Titillating and Grotesque:  The Demise of Last-Judgment Icons in the Carpathian Mountains"

5/12/06

Douglas Dodd, CSUB

10/13/06

Birger Pearson, UCSB (Emeritus)

2/09/07

Miriam Raub Vivian, CSUB

5/18/07

Ronald Dolkart, CSUB

10/26/07

Peter La Chapelle, Nevada State College, Henderson

02/29/08

Thomas Meyer, CSUB

05/02/08

Terry Phillips
(KVPR radio)

09/19/08

Fr. David Orique, O.P., University of Oregon

02/27/09

Oliver Rink, CSUB

04/24/09

Lia Schraeder, Ph.D. CSUB

05/22/09

Becky Orfila, Elise Palos, Marie Poland, Peter Parra (CSUB M.A. students)

10/02/09

James Meriwether,
CSU Channel Islands


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