News
Lectures & Symposia
April 3, 2012
Studying in the Socialist Paradise: Soviet Patronage and Third World Students’ Identity in the Soviet Union, 1957-1970
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
4:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series and the World History Center present Sean Guillory, Post-Doc, University of Pittsburgh.
For a copy of the paper, please click the following link Guillory_Studying_in_the_Soviet_Paradise[1].pdf(87 KB)
April 10, 2012
Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, 1990-2010
2500 Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m.
Provost's Inaugural Lecture Series presents George Reid Andrews, Department of History.
Past Events
September 15, 2011
4:00-6:00 p.m.
William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge
University of Pittsburgh
On Thursday, September 15th, between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., The University of Pittsburgh's Department of History, will hold a symposium celebrating Rob Ruck's book, "Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game."
Raceball examines the converging histories of African-American and Latin American ballplayers in the major leagues and confronts the traditional rendering of this history as a story of black and Latin players’initial segregation and subsequent redemptive integration. The book argues that integration was painful as well as triumphal. It gutted the once vibrant Negro Leagues and subjected many Latin American players to Jim Crow racism. Today, Major League Baseball tightens its grip on the Caribbean’s burgeoning baseball academies while at home it embraces, and exploits, the legacy of the Negro Leagues.
The event will include comments by Sean Gibson (Executive Director, Josh Gibson Foundation), Lara Putnam (Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh), and Laurent Dubois (Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and author ofSoccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France). The commentators will talk about Raceball within the context of their own work on the Negro Leagues, soccer, and the Caribbean.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Race Relations in Today's Cuba
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
5:00 -
7:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh's Department of History, Center for Latin American Studies, Center on Race and Social Problems, and CAUSE (Center for African-American Urban Studies and the Economy, CMU) presents Rafael Duharte, Casa del Caribe; Office of the History of Santiago de Cuba.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Culture and History: Santiago de Cuba
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
5:00 -
7:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh's Department of History, Center for Latin American Studies, Center on Race and Social Problems, and CAUSE (Center for African-American Urban Studies and the Economy, CMU) presents Rafael Duharte, Casa del Caribe; Office of the History of Santiago de Cuba.
October 6, 2011
Summer Research
3702 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
5:00 -
7:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series presents Justin Classen, Katie Parker and Adelina Stefan.
October 20, 2011
Collective Singing in Romanian Fascism
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
5:00 -
7:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series and Russian & East European Studies present Roland Clark, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh.
October 25, 2011
History from the Inside Out: The Amistad Africans and their Struggle against Slavery while in Jail, 1839-1841
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, University of Pittsburgh.
October 26, 2011
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. followed by a reception
University of Pittsburgh
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Bruce Venarde's Two Women of the Great Schism and The Rule of St. Benedict.
If the past is a foreign country, medieval Europe is for most of us another planet altogether. Two Women of the Great Schism and The Rule of St. Benedict are attempts to open up a world that is very different from ours but explicable on its own terms. They reflect Bruce Venarde’s commitment to making medieval European history and culture available to non-specialists, to deep and close reading of medieval Latin and other texts, and to collaborative work.
November 8, 2011
Did Empire Matter? Indian Migration in Global Context, 1834-1940
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
2:00-3:30 p.m.
The World History Center presents Adam McKeown, Columbia Univeristy.
November 15, 2011
Working Class History and the Benefits of Oral History: the Case of Eastern Central Europe
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
5:00 -
7:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series, The Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Sociology present a workshop with Dr. Eszter Zsofia Tóth, Hungarian State Archive, and Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer, University Regensburg, Germany.
November 29, 2011
A Southern Cloth Complex? India, Africa and the Connected Worlds of Indian Ocean and Atlantic Slaving
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
2:00 -
3:30 p.m.
The World History Center presents Pedro Machado, Indiana University.
December 1, 2011
Resistance, partisans, civil wars: What did this have to do with the murder of Jews, 1939-1945?
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
4:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series, World History Center, Jewish Studies and Russian & East European Studies present Christian Gerlach, University of Bern.
January 10th, 2012
Tourism, Movie-Going, and Post-Imperial Identities in Austria and Hungary, 1918-1948: or, the Meaning of R&R after K.u.K.
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
1:00-2:30 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium presents Andrew Behrendt, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh.
January 11th, 2012
Global Horizons: Macrohistories for the Global Age
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
4:00 p.m.
The World History Center presents Diego Holstein, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh.
February 8, 2012
Maritime Orientalism, or, The Political Theory of Water
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
3:00 p.m.
The Department of History presents Jonathan Scott, University of Auckland.
February 21, 2012
French Socialists and German Social Democrats Confront the Rise of the Far Right in the Bundesrepublik, 1950-1952
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
3:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series presents Brian Shaev, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
February 29, 2012
Imperial Biographies in Multiethnic Empires: Elite Careers in the Romanov and Habsburg Empires (1850-1918)
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
4:00 p.m.
The University of Pittsburgh Department of History, Russian and East European Studies, and Global Studies present Malte Rolf, University of Hannover, Germany.
March 20, 2012
Portuguese Expansion and Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange
3703 Posvar Hall
Department of History Lounge
2:00 -
3:30 p.m.
The World History Center presents Mario Pereira, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
March 21, 2012
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
4:00-6:00 p.m.
On March 21, 2012, the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Rebecca Shumway's new book, The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (University of Rochester Press, 2011).
Commentators:
Edda Fields-Black, Associate Professor of History, CMU
Sandra Greene, Professor of History, Cornell University
Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, and Director, World History Center, University of Pittsburgh.
This symposium is made possible by the generous support of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt, The World History Center, Department of Africana Studies, and the African Studies Program.
March 22, 2012
West African Memories of the Atlantic Slave Trade:
The Black Atlantic Connection
William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge
University of Pittsburgh
2:00-3:30 p.m.
The Department of History, World History Center, African Studies Program, and the Africana Studies Department present: Sandra Greene, Cornell University.
Memories of the 1854 kidnapping and shipment of children from the town of Atorkor
remain alive in present-day Ghana. Out of so many cases of enslavement, why are these cases remembered so well? One clue is that these memories link Atorkor to the African diaspora and to the United States. Prof. Greene, based on her research in this region since the 1980s, shows how these memories have survived and changed. The link was in the mission church of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in nearby Keta.