We are delighted and proud to host an afternoon series of talks and panels in honor of Mary O. Furner, Research Professor of History at UCSB. Professor Furner is the author, most recently, of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalizaiton of American Social Science (with a new introduction, 2010); "Ideas, Independencies, Governance Structures, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias's Work as a Window on U.S. History," in Christa Buschendorf, et al, eds, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture (2011); and "From 'State Interference' to the 'Return of the Market': The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation From the Old Gilded Age to the New," in Edward Balleisen & David Moss, eds., Government and Markets (2009). She kicks off the afternoon with a paper, "The Jacobs Era in U.S. Labor Standards Law and Regulation, 1885-1898 A copy of her talk can be found here

The rests of the program for our Friday afternooon colloquium can be found here

Lunch and refreshments will be served.