Department of History

Events

Aug
24
World History Center Graduate Student Conference

Globalizing World History
Sep
12
Molly Warsh, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh

"American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700"
Sep
17
Daniel Hershenzon, University of Connecticut

“Captivated by the Mediterranean: Early Modern Spain and the Political Economy of Ransom”
Sep
25
Bernhard Struck, University of St. Andrews

 "Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, French Guiana, and Climates in the Caribbean, 1760s-1790s”
Oct
01
Vanessa Ogle, Berkeley

"'Funk Money': Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960s"
Oct
11
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough

"Dragomans and the Routes of Orientalism" 
Oct
22
Priya Satia, Stanford University

"Empire of Guns: The violent making of the Industrial Revolution"
Oct
29
Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study

"Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe"
Mar
04
Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware

"Safavid Iran and the Christian Missionary Experience: Between Tolerance and Refutation" 
Mar
20
Marcy Ladson, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Pittsburgh

“Natural Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania before the Marcellus Shale Boom”