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Lectures and Symposia
November 19, 2009
"Does European Social History Have a Future?"
4:30 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series presents William Beik, Emory University and the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh.
December 4, 2009
"Religion Unbound: Converting Transnational Communities in America and the Habsburg Empire, 1890-1914"
3:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series presents Joel Brady, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
February 25, 2010
The Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture
Mike Davis (title forthcoming)
7:30 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
Room: TBA
Mike Davis is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California-Riverside. A former recipient of the Mac Arthur Fellowship, he is the author of more than 20 books, including "Ecology of Fear" (2000), "Late Victorian Holocausts" (2001), and "Planet of Slums" (2006). Perhaps his best known book, "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles", was named a best book in urban politics by the American Political Science Association and won the Isaac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics. Last fall he was honored for distinguished achievement in nonfiction by the Lannan Literary Foundation.
Previous Events: 2009
September 23, 2009
Anti-Hegemonic Party States: A New View of the 20th Century Regimes
"Political Regimes: Classifications, Criticism, and the Formulation of a New Concept"
4:00-5:30 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The World History Seminar presents Dr. Diego Olstein, World History Center Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Olstein will be in residence as a researcher at the World History Center from mid-September through mid-November. He will offer two series of presentations on major topics in world history: “Anti-Hegemonic Party States” (an interpretation of twentieth-century politics) and “Macro-Histories” (a reconsideration of historical approaches to the world).
September 29, 2009
Scientific Rules for Realness: Matching and Its Critics in American Adoption
4:00-6:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series presents Ellen Herman, University of Oregon. Sponsored by the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies, the School of Arts & Sciences, Women's Studies, and Cultural Studies.
September 30, 2009
Anti-Hegemonic Party States: A New View of the 20th Century Regimes
"Two Waves of Globalization amidst Three Waves of Anti-Hegemonic Party States"
4:00-5:30 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The World History Seminar presents Dr. Diego Olstein, World History Center Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Olstein will be in residence as a researcher at the World History Center from mid-September through mid-November. He will offer two series of presentations on major topics in world history: “Anti-Hegemonic Party States” (an interpretation of twentieth-century politics) and “Macro-Histories” (a reconsideration of historical approaches to the world).
October 1, 2009
“American Exceptionalism: Reflections on the 50thAnniversary of William Appleman Williams'
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy”
3:00-5:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
501 Cathedral of Learning
The University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center and the Center for Latin American Studies presents: Dr. Greg Grandin, Professor of History at New York University.
This lecture advances the thesis that what is missing in all the current discussions on American exceptionalism is the United States’ centuries long contest with Latin America, an inter-regional history whose dynamics makes it distinct from the rise of other empires. Professor Grandin's The Blood of Guatemala (2000) won the 2001 Bryce Wood Award for outstanding book on Latin America published in English in the humanities and social sciences. He is also author of The Last Colonial Massacre (2004), Empire's Workshop (2006), and, most recently, the critically-acclaimed Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (2009).
October 6, 2009
"20 Years Later - Remembering 1989 in East and West Germany"
3:30-6:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
202 Frick Fine Arts Building
The University of Pittsburgh Departments of History, Germanic Studies, European Union Center of Excellence and Carnegie Mellon University presents Dr. Martin Sabrow, Director of the Center of Contemporary History, Potsdam, Humboldt University, Berlin. Introduction by DAAD Visiting Professor Árpád Von Klimó, University of Pittsburgh; Comment by Prof. Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University.
October 7, 2009 and October 8, 2009
History Department Book Symposia Series
Presents a two-day symposium on The African Diaspora and the Abolition of Slavery.
October 7, 2009
3:30-5:30 p.m. followed by a reception
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
On Wednesday, October 7th, between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Patrick Manning's book, "The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture." Patrick Manning, Andrew Mellon W. Professor of World History, is the director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Speakers include: Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University, Michael Gomez, New York University, and Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh.
October 8, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m. followed by a reception
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
1500 Posvar Hall
On Thursday, October 8th, between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Seymour Drescher's book, "Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery." Seymour Drescher, Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Speakers include: Pieter Emmer, History Department, Washington State University and Sue Peabody, History Department, Washington State University.
October 14, 2009
"Lost Opportunity: Political Loyalism in Northern Ireland, 1972-1982"
4:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Department of History presents: Tony Novosel, University of Pittsburgh.
October 15, 2009
"'The Disgrace of Our Century!' Antisemitism, Modern Politics, and the Debates over Circumcision and Kosher Butchering, 1871-1933"
4:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
1500 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium and the Jewish Studies Program present Robin Judd, Department of History, Ohio State University. Professor Robin Judd is the author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933, (Cornell University Press, 2007).
October 27, 2009
"White Out: Blacks, Latinos, and Baseball"
4:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series presents: Rob Ruck, University of Pittsburgh.
November 4, 2009
Macro-Histories: The Past as Seen Through the Disciplines
"Macro-Histories: Two Bridges for Two Gaps"
4:00-5:30 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The World History Seminar presents Dr. Diego Olstein, World History Center Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Olstein will be in residence as a researcher at the World History Center from mid-September through mid-November. He will offer two series of presentations on major topics in world history: “Anti-Hegemonic Party States” (an interpretation of twentieth-century politics) and “Macro-Histories” (a reconsideration of historical approaches to the world).
November 5, 2009
"Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together"
4:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The Working Class History Seminar, with the Law School and the Battle of Homestead Foundation, present Staughton and Alice Lynd, who will meet with us to discuss their new memoir about their lives of courageous activism.
Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities, the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in Northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of living that they later sought to carry into the larger society. Both were educated to be teachers - Staughton as a professor of history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children. But both sought to address the social problems of their times through more than their professions. After being involved in the Southern civil rights movement and the movement against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, both Staughton and Alice became lawyers. In the Youngstown, Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of rank-and-file organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under supermaximum security conditions. Through trips to Central America in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with the concept of accompaniment. To them, accompaniment means placing themselves at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as dispensers of charity or as guilty fugitives from the middle class, but as equals in a joint process to which each person brings an essential kind of expertise. Throughout, the Lynds, who became Quakers in the early 1960s, have been committed to nonviolence. Their story will encourage young people seeking lives of public service in the cause of creating a better world.
November 10, 2009
Macro-Histories: The Past as Seen Through the Disciplines
"Substantial Macro-Histories Under Scrutiny: International and Transnational History; World History, Global History, and the History of Globalization"
4:00-5:30 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The World History Seminar presents Dr. Diego Olstein, World History Center Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Olstein will be in residence as a researcher at the World History Center from mid-September through mid-November. He will offer two series of presentations on major topics in world history: “Anti-Hegemonic Party States” (an interpretation of twentieth-century politics) and “Macro-Histories” (a reconsideration of historical approaches to the world).
November 11, 2009
"Torture in America: The Long View"
5:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
202 Frick Fine Arts Building
The University of Pittsburgh Departments of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of History presents: Fitzhugh Brundage, UNC-Chapel Hill. Reception to follow.
November 17, 2009
"Haitian Laborers and Coffee in Cuba: Coffee Production in a Transnational Space and the Myth of Haitian Exceptionalism"
4:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series presents Matt Casey, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh.