Department of History

Events

Aug
22
For Pitt faculty, grad students, and post docs

Workshop on Teaching World History
Sep
11
Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University

How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States 
Sep
16
David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University

Talk Title: TBD
Sep
20
Book Symposium with Theodora Polamalu, Penny Semaia, Rich Scaglione, and Marcus Rediker

Rob Ruck's Tropic of Football: Football and Culture in American Samoa
Sep
23
Lester Langley, University of Georgia

The Long American Revolution
Oct
04
Early Modern Gun Violence Research Workshop

Early Modern Gun Violence Research Workshop
Oct
21
Book Symposium with Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh, and Bruce Dorsey, Swarthmore College

Michel Gobat's Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America
Oct
24
Mario Khreiche, Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh

Revisiting the Automation Debate in the Digital Age
Oct
31
Lisa Graham & Frank A. Kafker, Professor of History, Haverford College

"Debauchery and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France"
Nov
06
Tobias Weger, University of Munich

A European Borderland. The Multiethnic Region of Dobruja/Dobrogea
Nov
18
Tianna Paschel, University of California Berkeley

Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil (talk title TBD)
Feb
10
Prof. Neil Kodesh, University of Wisconsin

African Studies Program Critical Research on Africa Lecture Series / History Department Colloquium
Mar
03
Pawel Machcewicz

Historical Memory and Politics in Poland.  The story of the Gdańsk Museum of the Second World War"
Lunch will be provided
Mar
16
Prof. Robin Chapdelaine, Duquesne University

Talk Title: Child Trafficking in the Aftermath of the 1929 Aba Women’s War
Mar
30
Prof. Ogechukwu Williams, Creighton University

Talk title: New Sites of Healing: African Independent Churches and the advent of Religious Birthing Homes