Book Manuscript Workshops
The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy organizes intensive workshops focused on books about law or legal institutions, or any aspect of law and social policy authored by a UB faculty member. These workshops are designed to be stimulating interdisciplinary discussions that will provide helpful feedback to authors of a draft book manuscript. A small group of interested faculty, including one or two outside specialists, will read several chapters and discuss the manuscript with the author.
If you are interested in attending the workshops please contact the Baldy Center office by phone at 645-2102 or by email baldyctr@buffalo.edu. The Center will forward copies of the book manuscript to all participants. If you are completing a book manuscript and are interested in receiving feedback on it, please contact Laura Wirth by email at Lawirth2@buffalo.edu or by phone at 645-2581.
May 5, 2010
Carl Nightingale, UB American Studies
Segregation is Everywhere
Commentators: Thomas J. Sugrue, History, University of Pennsylvania; Zine Magubane, Sociology, Boston College; Richard Harris, Geography, McMaster University
October 12, 2009
Erin Hatton, UB Sociology
TempWORK: The Temp Industry and the Transformation of Work in America
Commentators: Julie Kmec, Washington State University, Sociology; Vicki Smith, UC Davis, Sociology
April 20, 2009
Theresa Runstedtler, UB American Studies
Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson
Commentators: Kevin Gaines, Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Director, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan; Tracey Denean Sharpley-Whiting, French and African American Studies, Director, African American and Diaspora Studies, Director, Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. Details and Flyer
April 30, 2008
Vasiliki Neofotistos, UB Anthropology
Accommodating Marginality: Albanian Identity and Power Politics in Macedonia
Commentators: Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs; Director, Center for Russian & East European Studies; and Susan Woodward, PhD Program in Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
December 6, 2007
Winnifred Sullivan, UB Law School
Prison Religion: The Bible, The Koran, and Dr. Seuss
Commentators: John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University, Sociology; and Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law School
May 2, 2007
Gwynn Thomas, UB Women's Studies
Ties that Bind and Break: Family, Citizenship and Political Struggle in Chile, 1970-1990
Commentators: Philip Oxhorn, Political Science and Director of Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University; and Karin Rosemblatt, History, Syracuse University
Cosponsored with the Gender Institute
October 10, 2006
Ramon Soto-Crespo, UB Romance Languages & Literatures
The Mainland Passage: Migration, Cultural Anomaly, and Puerto Rican Writing
Commentators: Arcadio Diaz-Quinones, Emory L. Ford Chair of Spanish, Princeton University; and Donald Pease, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Dartmouth College
May 2, 2006
Richard E. Ellis, UB History
Aggresive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Early American Law and Politics
Commentators: Mark Graber, Law & Political Science, University of Maryland; Martin Flaherty, Fordmam University School of Law
April 27, 2006
Jason Sorens, UB Political Science,
Secession and Democracy
Commentators: Stephen M. Saideman, Canada Research Chair in International Security and Ethnic Conflict, McGill University; Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Studies, Duke University
December 2, 2005
Jason Young, UB History
Rituals of Resistance: The Making of an African-Atlantic Religious Complex in Kongo and the Lowcountry in the Era of Slavery
Commentators: Margaret Washington, History, Cornell University; Jane Landers, History, Vanderbilt University
[Flyer]
May 3, 2005
Susan Cahn, UB History
Sexual Reckonings: Adolescent Girlhood in the Modern South 1920-1960
Commentators: Annelise Orleck, History, Dartmouth College; Rickie Solinger, Author and Historian
April 1, 2005
Piya Pangsapa, UB Women’s Studies
Factory Women and the Thai Global Apparel Industry: Exploitation and Possibilities for Resistance
Commentators: Susan B. Tiano, University of New Mexico Sociology; Ping Chun Hsiung, University of Toronto Social Sciences, Scarborough College
April 28, 2004
Tom Burkman, Director of Asian Studies, University at Buffalo
Japan, the League of Nations, and the World Order, 1914-1938
Outside commentators: Kevin Doak, Chair of Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Nippon Foundation Endowed Chair, Georgetown University; Akira Iriye, Chair of Department of History and Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University
January 26, 2004
Johanna Birnir, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Buffalo
The Ethnic Effect: The Effect of Ethnicity on Electoral Politics in New Democracies
Outside commentators: David D. Laitin, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage Foundation, 2003-2004; G. Bingham Powell, Jr. Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science, Associate Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Rochester
October 9, 2003
Jim Gardner Professor of Law, University at Buffalo
Interpreting State Constitutions in a Federal System: A Jurisprudence of Function
Commentator: Robert Schapiro Professor, Emory University School of Law
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