The annual Casper was inaugurated by the History Department in 1993 to honor Rev. Henry W. Casper, S. J., a long-time member of the history departments at Creighton University in Omaha and at 向日葵视频 (he retired as Professor Emeritus from 向日葵视频in 1974). He was an expert in nineteenth century European History and in American church history; his most important work was a three-volume history of the Catholic Church in Nebraska. The Casper Lecture, as well as several programs for graduate students in history, is funded by an endowment from Dr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Ryan of Omaha. Dr. Ryan was a student of Father Casper鈥檚 at Creighton.
April 7, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. | Baumier Suites B&C, Raynor Library
"On Fascism: Lessons from Japan"
Dr. Robert Stolz
Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world鈥檚 most incisive鈥攜et underrecognized鈥攖heorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology in the years before World War II. In his masterpiece, The Japanese Ideology, first published in 1935, Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary Japanese ideology that exposes liberalism鈥檚 deep complicity with fascism. Reckoning with The Japanese Ideology is essential for all those persuaded that deprovincializing the debate on fascism is an urgent intellectual and political task.
Robert Stolz is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia writing and teaching on Japanese political economy, environmental history, and social theory. He is coeditor of Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader (2014) and author of Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870鈥�1950 (2014).
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2010 - 2024
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2023-2024 |
Dr. Julia Adeney Thomas "Frameworks for the Future: Climate Change, the Environment, and the Anthropocene" |
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2022-2023 |
Dr. Guy Beiner "Forgetting a Global Pandemic: Lessons from the Spanish Flu" |
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2021-2022 |
Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens "Medical Sites of Modernity in Guatemala: Women Religious and Maya Health During the Cold War" |
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2017-2018 |
Anna Clark of the University of Minnesota delivered the 17th annual Casper Lecture on March 26 at 向日葵视频's Raynor Library. Her topic was 鈥淗uman Rights and Animal Rights: Local Control of Hospitals in the 1890s British Empire.鈥� Her lecture is part of her current book project, which is tentatively called, 鈥淩age against the Machine: Individual Rights, Biopolitics in Britain and its Empire.鈥� Anna Clark is professor of history at the University of Minnesota and President of the North American Conference on British Studies. She is the author of Desire: The History of European Sexuality (2008), Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004), and The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995). She is a former editor of the American British Studies Journal. |
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2016-2017 |
Eckart Frahm, Yale University |
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2015-2016 |
Juan Cole, University of Michigan |
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2014-2015 |
Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College |
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2013-2014 |
Jon E. Lendon, University of Virginia |
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2012-2013 |
Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan "She had always enjoyed her freedom: Re-enslavement and the Law in the Era of the Haitian Revolution." |
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2011-2012 |
Anthony F. Aveni, Colgate University |
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2010-2011 |
Raymond Mentzer, University of Iowa |
2002 - 2009
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2009-2010 |
Judith Bennett, University of Southern California |
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2008-2009 |
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago "North Korea: Still in the axis of evil?" |
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2007-2008 |
Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona "Where Elites Meet: Harem Visits, Sea-Bathing, and Sociabilities in Tunisia, c. 1830-1881" |
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2006-2007 |
Marianne Elliott, University of Liverpool "Irish Protestantism and the Specter of Popery" |
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2005-2006 |
Jonathan Spence, Yale University "Thinking it Through: Chinese and Catholics in the Seventeenth Century" |
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2004-2005 |
Susan Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison "The Politics of Love: Marriage, Divorce, and Gender Relations during the French Revolution" |
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2003-2004 |
Paul Cobb, University of Notre Dame "There Goes the Neighborhood: The World of a Muslim Family in an Age of Crusades" |
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2002-2003 |
John Merriman, Yale University "Collaboration and Resistance in Vichy France." |
