Department of History

Events

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 Jane 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)
Dec
02
Seymour Drescher, "Revolution in England? Abolitionism"

Work-in-Progress Series
Feb
06
Mellon Professor Carla Nappi

Provost Inaugural Lecture
Feb
10
Prof. Neil Kodesh, University of Wisconsin

Doctors, Termites, and Princesses: Landscapes of Health and Medicine in East Africa
Feb
24
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Short-term visiting fellow, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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
26
Dr. Tera Hunter, Princeton University

Specialist on gender, race, labor, and Southern histories in the 19th and 20th centuries
Mar
30
Prof. Ogechukwu Williams, Creighton University

Talk title: New Sites of Healing: African Independent Churches and the advent of Religious Birthing Homes
Apr
06
Alaina Roberts

Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop
Apr
09
Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History, New York University

E.P. Thompson Lecture
Apr
10
Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History, New York University

Workshop on "Race in Latin America"