Following is the upcoming schedule for  the UMKC History Department First Friday lecture series.

18th Century English Surgical Apprentices
Lynda Payne
Friday, February 4, 2011 @ 1pm
Cockefair Hall 215
“The good, the bad and the ugly. Part of a research project on the experiences of training to be a pre-modern surgeon.”

The Death and Afterlife of Severinus Boethium in Ostrogothic Italy
Massimiliano Vitiello
Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 1pm
Cockefair Hall 215
“Memory and the Damnatio Memoriae.”

Turning Dutch
David Freeman
Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 1pm
Cockefair Hall 215
“The Duchy of Cleves in the Early Seventeenth Century.”

Diastole Graduate Student Conference
The History Graduate Student Association
Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 6pm
Diastole Conference Center, Hospital Hill

Students and faculty from all departments are welcome to present or attend.

Submissions of historical scholarship are welcome from any UMKC affiliated researcher from undergraduates to emeritus faculty. Send a brief 100-word abstract to Andrew Bergerson or Pellom McDaniels.