DC fanatics will enjoy the upcoming DC Historical Studies Conference, Nov. 12-15 at the Carnegie Library in DC. Some of your colleagues are presenting in the conference.
Also, historian Eric Foner will be speaking.
I blogged about some panels:
http://sociologyinmyneighborhood.blogspot.com/2015/10/dc-historical-studies-conference-nov-12.html
but I am a sociologist and thus have some biases, so you can see the program, etc, here:
http://www.dchistory.org/programs/annual-conference/
http://www.dchistory.org/uploads/42ndAnnualConferenceonDCHistoricalStudiesProgram3.pdf
The Eric Foner lecture is free (registration required) and the entire conference is only $30 (registration required)!
Johanna
Member, Conference Organizing Committee
Johanna Bockman
President, District of Columbia Sociological Society
Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Affairs
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 3G5
Fairfax, VA 22030
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http://soan.gmu.edu/people/jbockman
Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism (Stanford University Press, 2011).
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