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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer
@etshermer.bsky.social
Historian, Yogi, Hiker, World Traveler, Animal Lover, especially cats www.etshermer.com
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@andrewhartman.bsky.social and I hope you'll Zoom with us for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar!, Friday, Jan 23, 3pm CT. Pamela C. Nogales C. will share new work on social reform and unemployment -- comment from Toby Higbie.

www.newberry.org/calendar/pam...
Pamela C. Nogales C., University of Chicago
'This Reform Must Commence with the Laboring Classes’: Demands for the Shorter Working Day
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January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
@andrewhartman.bsky.social and I hope you'll Zoom with us for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar!, Friday, Jan 23, 3pm CT. Pamela C. Nogales C. will share new work on social reform and unemployment -- comment from Toby Higbie.

www.newberry.org/calendar/pam...
Pamela C. Nogales C., University of Chicago
'This Reform Must Commence with the Laboring Classes’: Demands for the Shorter Working Day
www.newberry.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Zoom with us for the January 9th Newberry Library Labor Seminar, where Tamar Carroll will share her work on the Lambda Network changing Kodak's corporate policies. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free www.newberry.org/calendar/tam...
Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak and LGBTQ Workplace Rights in the 1990s”
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January 4, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Zoom with us for the January 9th Newberry Library Labor Seminar, where Tamar Carroll will share her work on the Lambda Network changing Kodak's corporate policies. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free www.newberry.org/calendar/tam...
Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak and LGBTQ Workplace Rights in the 1990s”
www.newberry.org
January 4, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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@bsky.app Friday, Nov 21, 3pm CT: Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar. UIC's Penelope Dean will share her new work on capitalism, xerox, and YOU. Comment by @elicook.bsky.social

Free registeration for paper and zoom info: www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...
Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago
Capitalism and You
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November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@bsky.app Friday, Nov 21, 3pm CT: Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar. UIC's Penelope Dean will share her new work on capitalism, xerox, and YOU. Comment by @elicook.bsky.social

Free registeration for paper and zoom info: www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...
Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago
Capitalism and You
www.newberry.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & I for the first Newberry Capitalism seminar. Friday, October 3, 3pm CT. Registration link below.

Melanie Sheehan will be sharing her work on unions & trade policy with a comment from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social

www.newberry.org/calendar/mel...
Melanie R. Sheehan, Hartwick College
Negotiating Fair Trade in a World of Uneven Development: US Garment Unions in the 1960s
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September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & I for the first Newberry Capitalism seminar. Friday, October 3, 3pm CT. Registration link below.

Melanie Sheehan will be sharing her work on unions & trade policy with a comment from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social

www.newberry.org/calendar/mel...
Melanie R. Sheehan, Hartwick College
Negotiating Fair Trade in a World of Uneven Development: US Garment Unions in the 1960s
www.newberry.org
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Big news: I'm returning to the Sunbelt. I'm officially a professor in UGA's History Dept where I'll direct the new Applied History program. I am really excited for the chance to work with old friends and meet new colleagues.

I'll still co-run the virtual Newberry seminars. Please keep Zooming in!
July 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Newberry Scholarly Seminar Deadline Approaching! June 6. Please apply!
June 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Friday, May 30, 3-430pm CT: Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for this year's last Newberry Capitalism Seminar. Neil Johnson will present his work on job retraining and @elicook.bsky.social will comment. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free.

www.newberry.org/calendar/nei...
Neil Johnson-Rogers, University of Michigan
“The Learning Never Ends”: The New Industrial Relations and the Limits ofRetraining in the Age of Deindustrialization
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May 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Friday, May 30, 3-430pm CT: Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for this year's last Newberry Capitalism Seminar. Neil Johnson will present his work on job retraining and @elicook.bsky.social will comment. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free.

www.newberry.org/calendar/nei...
Neil Johnson-Rogers, University of Michigan
“The Learning Never Ends”: The New Industrial Relations and the Limits ofRetraining in the Age of Deindustrialization
www.newberry.org
May 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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For yet another year, I am co-hosting the Newberry Library History of Capitalism Seminar with the awesome @etshermer.bsky.social. Check out the CFP--submission deadline June 6.
May 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The last Newberry Library Labor Seminar for 2024-2025 is next week. Y'all can register here for the paper for this free event, May 9, 3pm CT on Zoom. www.newberry.org/calendar/all...
Allyson Brantley, University of La Verne
Unionizing the Parochial School: The Battle over Lay Teachers & Labor Unions in Chicago’s Archdiocesan Schools in the 1970s
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May 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Next Newberry Library Capitalism seminar w/ @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me! Jason Petrels will be sharing his new work on Cold War hair markets.

Zooming 3pm CT on May 2. Free registration for the paper and link. www.newberry.org/calendar/jas...
Jason Petrulis, The Education University of Hong Kong
From Temple Tonsure to Woman's Wig: Making Indian hair markets in the Cold War
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April 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Next Newberry Library Capitalism seminar w/ @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me! Jason Petrels will be sharing his new work on Cold War hair markets.

Zooming 3pm CT on May 2. Free registration for the paper and link. www.newberry.org/calendar/jas...
Jason Petrulis, The Education University of Hong Kong
From Temple Tonsure to Woman's Wig: Making Indian hair markets in the Cold War
www.newberry.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Next Newberry Capitalism Seminar.

Fri., February 28th, 3pm CT

@janinegiordano.bsky.social will be sharing her work on schooling, homesteading, & the social contract after the Civil War. Comment by @nelsonhist.bsky.social

Register here for the paper and Zoom link
www.newberry.org/calendar/jan...
Janine Giordano Drake, Indiana University
Hoping on Homesteading: The Failure of the Civil War to Galvanize a New Social Contract, 1862-1872
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February 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Next Newberry Capitalism Seminar.

Fri., February 28th, 3pm CT

@janinegiordano.bsky.social will be sharing her work on schooling, homesteading, & the social contract after the Civil War. Comment by @nelsonhist.bsky.social

Register here for the paper and Zoom link
www.newberry.org/calendar/jan...
Janine Giordano Drake, Indiana University
Hoping on Homesteading: The Failure of the Civil War to Galvanize a New Social Contract, 1862-1872
www.newberry.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Please Zoom into the Newberry Labor Seminar, Feb 21, 4pm CT. We’ll be discussing Sam Hege’s paper on workers in the Texas meat packing industry. Roger Horowitz will be providing comments.

Register here for the paper and Zoom link.

www.newberry.org/calendar/sam...
Sam Hege, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
“The Most Non-Union Place I’ve Been”: United Packing's Texas Panhandle Campaign and the Transformation of Meatpacking in the 1960s
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February 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for the first Newberry History of Capitalism seminar of 2025. Cheryl Hudson will be presenting her new work on the company town of Pullman -- Comment by Andrew Cohen . We Zoom at 3pm CT, Friday, Jan 10. Register for link & paper www.newberry.org/calendar/che...
Cheryl Hudson, University of Liverpool
Capitalism v Democracy: Lessons from the Pullman Experiment
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January 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for the first Newberry History of Capitalism seminar of 2025. Cheryl Hudson will be presenting her new work on the company town of Pullman -- Comment by Andrew Cohen . We Zoom at 3pm CT, Friday, Jan 10. Register for link & paper www.newberry.org/calendar/che...
Cheryl Hudson, University of Liverpool
Capitalism v Democracy: Lessons from the Pullman Experiment
www.newberry.org
January 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next virtual Newberry History of Capitalism Seminar. Dan Geary will be sharing his new work on Gloria Steinem -- Leandra Zarnow will be commenting. We start at 3PM CT, December 6. Free registration for the link and paper. www.newberry.org/calendar/jos...
Daniel Geary, Trinity College, Dublin
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December 1, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Join Andrew Hartman and me for the
@NewberryLibrary
Capitalism Seminar, on Zoom, Friday Nov 22, 330-5pm CT. We will discuss Joseph Heathcott's new work, "Surreal Estate: Property After Abandonment," -- Naomi Williams will comment. Register: www.newberry.org/calendar/jos...
Joseph Heathcott, The New School
Surreal Estate: Property After Abandonment
www.newberry.org
November 15, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Apply to share your work for next year's (2024-25) Newberry Library Capitalism Seminar.

Or encourage others to apply!

Deadline is June 7, 2024.

@andrewhartman.bsky.social and I are excited to continue to offer it virtually so more can join
drive.google.com/file/d/1_irE...
CAPS CFP.pdf
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May 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Apply to share your work for next year's (2024-25) Newberry Library Capitalism Seminar.

Or encourage others to apply!

Deadline is June 7, 2024.

@andrewhartman.bsky.social and I are excited to continue to offer it virtually so more can join
drive.google.com/file/d/1_irE...
CAPS CFP.pdf
drive.google.com
May 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM