[Uwhistory] TODAY: Rudolf Mrázek Lecture

[Lisa Mitchell]

"In Praise of Highways and Fast Writing"
Rudolf Mrázek, Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan
Keynote Address, Conference on The Social Lives of Transit Networks

May 23, 4:00pm, Communications Hall, Room 226

For more information see the website:
http://staff.washington.edu/xtoph/transit_systems/marvels.shtml

Rudolf Mrázek is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the
author of Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony
(Princeton 2002) and several other books.  His most recent work performs
close readings of historical documents to consider the nature of technology
within late colonial Netherlands East Indies.  He writes about topics such as
shoes, concrete, and motorcycle clubs in ways that force us to think
differently not only about technology, but also about colonialism,
nationalism, and revolution.

Professor Mrázek will be speaking as part of a conference on "Mediums and
Motored Ways: The Social Lives of Transit Networks."  For more information
on the conference see the website:
http://staff.washington.edu/xtoph/transit_systems/marvels.shtml.

Co-sponsored by the Department of History; Department of Anthropology;
Department of Architecture; Jackson School of International Studies; African
Studies; South Asia Center; Southeast Asia Center; Center for West European
Studies.

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