The Spring 2022 Department of History Colloquium Series continues Friday, Feb. 25 at 3:15 p.m. with a talk by Wim Clooster (Clark University ) titled “Rumors of Hope, Rumors of Fear in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions." Clooster will ask what drove non-elite men and women to join the revolts that marked the Age of Revolutions (1775-1830), analyzing […]
Gregory Jones-Katz is an American historian based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He earned his MA from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jones-Katz works in the fields of American intellectual and cultural history, the history of higher education and the global history of the humanities. […]
The first speaker will be Diana Garvin, Assistant Professor of Italian with a focus on Mediterranean Studies at the University of Oregon. Garvin will speak about her new book "Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work." Via Zoom - the link can be found here.
On Monday, Oct. 31 at 3:15 p.m. via Zoom, Dr. Chelsea Davis (Missouri State University) will give a talk entitled, “The Contradictions of ‘Civilizing’ Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain’s Imperial Project.” Davis is an Assistant Professor of British History with a focus on Empire at Missouri State University. She received her Ph.D. from The […]
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Dr. Erik Bernardino, Assistant professor of History at Bates College will be speaking about "The (In)Visible Worker: Contract Agricultural Laborers in the California Borderlands, 1910–1926." The History Department Symposium Series, “History through Food and Drink," is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund.
Dr. Cody Miller of Appalachian State University will be delivering a talk titled Soil as Archive: Agroecological History, Soil Conservation, and Place-Based Pedagogy in Appalachia. This talk is the 2022 Babcock Lecture which […]
The History Department's 2022–23 symposium series will hold its next meeting on Feb. 27 at 3:15 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, located in Barrows Hall. Dr. Cody Miller of Appalachian State […]
Jamie Kreiner, Professor of History, University of Georgia, will deliver a lecture on medieval monks’ diets, which is related to her forthcoming book The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction (W.M. Norton, Jan 2023)
Brittany Luby, Associate Professor of History, University of Guelph, will deliver a lecture on the history and future of manomin (wild rice) cultivation for the Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation in Ontario, Canada. This talk will be the annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Justice Lecture.
