Department of History

Events

Feb
04
A world of interconnected regions

Navigating Ideas of Race: Local and Global Perspectives with Dr. Laurence Glasco
Feb
08
World History Center Works-in-Progress Seminar

Dissertation Chapter by Leonardo Moreno-Alvarez 
Feb
10
From Scholar to System to Scale: Generating Meso-level Historical Data to Recover the Lived Experiences of Enslaved People

How shall we represent their lives? 
Feb
11
A world of interconnected regions

Twentieth-Century U.S. with Dr. Laura Lovett
Feb
18
Grand Narratives Reading Group

Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
Feb
18
A world of interconnected regions

The U. S. and Africa with Dr. John Stoner
Feb
22
World History Center Works-in-Progress Seminar

Working Paper by Jim Sauls
Mar
04
A world of interconnected regions

East Central Europe and Global Migration History with Dr. Jan Musekamp
Mar
15
World History Center Works-in-Progress Seminar

The Women on the Ground: Rural Health Promoters and Population Growth-control in Colombia (1969-1974)” by Paula Orozco-Espinel 
Mar
16
Theorizing Networks in World History

This presentation by Patrick Manning outlines historical network theory and interprets local and global cases in world history.
Mar
18
Grand Narrtives Reading Group

Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760–1914
Mar
18
A world of interconnected regions

How central is Central Europe? with Dr. Gregor Thum
Mar
23
Roundtable: Digital and Spatial Approaches to the History of Slavery

A roundtable discussion about the digital and spatial approaches to the history of slavery
Mar
25
A world of interconnected regions

Russia with Dr. Alissa Klots
Mar
30
Read and Discuss: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Join the World History Center for an informal discussion about The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Apr
01
A world of interconnected regions

Eurasia Connected with Dr. James Pickett
Apr
04
Manuscript Workshop

Book Manuscript Workshop on Dr. Eddie Bonilla's Homegrown Communists in the Age of Reagan: Multi-Racial Politics and Socialist Revolution. With comments by Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine
Apr
05
World History Center Works-in-Progress Seminar

“Japan’s Sweet Manifest Destiny” by Vicky Shen 
Apr
08
Grand Narratives Reading Group

Diego Olstein's A Brief History of Now: The Past and Present of Global Power
Apr
14
E. P. Thompson Memorial Lecture

Barbara Weinstein, "The Uses of a Radical Past: Frank Tannenbaum: Anarchist, Social Critic, and Historian of Latin America"  
Apr
15
Workshop with Barbara Weinstein

Workshop with Barbara Weinstein on "Race in Latin America"
Apr
15
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Early Modern China with Dr. Carla Nappi
Apr
22
A world of interconnected regions

Comparative Eurasia with Dr. Raja Adal