Thirty-Eighth Annual Merle Curti Lecture Series

“Writing the Life of Frederick Douglass: Why and Why Now?” Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 “Childhood of “Extremes” and “Baltimore Dreams”: Slave Youth” Thursday, October 27th, 2016 “‘By the Rivers of Babylon’: Words, the Bible, and the the Mid-Life Radical” Friday, October 28th, 2016 “‘Joys and Sorrows’ at Cedar Hill: Old Age, Family, and Fame” featuring …

History Department Colloquium

Panel on “Intimate Labors and Home Ownership” with April Haynes (early American republic) “Sweet Home and Elusive Homeownership in South Korea from the 1960s to 1970s” Eunhee Park Monday, October 24, 2016 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge View event poster (pdf)

Hilldale Lecture Series

“How History Keeps Us Racist – And What To Do About It.” James W. Loewen, author of the bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me Monday, October 24, 2016 4:30-6:30 PM Fluno Center, Howard Auditorium From Vasco da Gama to George W. Bush, what US history textbooks tell — and what they leave out — amount …

Annual James Madison Lectures

featuring Pulitzer Prize Winner Dr. Gordon S. Wood Five years have passed since the emergence of democracy movements across the Middle East.  In his lectures, Dr. Wood will share insights from his lifelong study of the American Revolution, expanding on thoughts he offered to Egyptian leaders during their visit to the prestigious Center for Strategic …

The Human in Pain or the Revolutionary Body?: Contested Meanings of Torture in Iranian Political Discourses, 1965-1979

Golnar Nikpour 2015­-2017 A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Friday, October 14, 2016 12:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club The 1979 Iranian revolutionary movement was once hopefully referred to as “the revolution against torture,” in no small part because of prevalence of painful punishment in pre-revolutionary Pahlavi Iran. In the years leading up to the success of …

Peasants into Property Owners?: The Peasant Land Bank as Agent of Social Transformation

David Darrow Associate Professor, Department of History University of Dayton Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:00-5:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Part of the CREECA Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), Department of History, and the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History. Light refreshments served at 3:45 PM. View …

Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Tuệ Tĩnh and the Medical, Religious, and Physical Environment of 14th Century Ðai Việt

Michele Thompson Professor of History Southern Connecticut University Friday, October 7, 2016 12:00-1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of History & the Department of the History of Science. Free and open to the public. View event poster (pdf)

Charenko to give live-streamed talk on her research

September 2016 Melissa Charenko, a dissertator in the History of Science dept., will be presenting details on her research work at the upcoming 2016 Introductory Symposium put on by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine based in Philadelphia. This event will be streamed ‘live’ starting at 9:50 AM (EDT) on September 28, …

Recent Military Coup in Turkey and it’s Background

Kemal Karpat Emeritus Professor of History Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:00-6:00 PM Union South (check TITU for room number) Kemal H. Karpat is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Recognized internationally as one of the leading authorities of Ottoman history and modern Turkey, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the …

History Department Colloquium

“How to Get Away with Murder in the Middle Ages: Sanctuary, Asylum, & Refugees” Karl Shoemaker “Progressive Era Regulation: The Strange Career of Corporate Law Federalism” Cam Hutchison Monday, September 26, 2016 11:50-1:20 Curti Lounge