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Previous Seminar Themes

Since its founding in 1999, the Center has organized seminar series around a variety of themes:

1999-2000: The Twentieth Century
2000-2001: The Nation and Beyond
2001-2002: Political Violence [schedule]
2002-2003: The Body and the Body Politic [schedule]
2003-2004: Empire [schedule]
2004-2005: Historians and the Visual [schedule]
2005-2006: Histories of Globalization [schedule]
2006-2007: The Power of Belief: Religion in History
2007-2008: Facing Difficult Pasts: Method and Memory [schedule]

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Conferences Sponsored or Funded by the Center

The Center has also funded a number of scholarly conferences and workshops:

1999-2000:
An American Twentieth Century?

2000-2001:
National Identities in the Americas
Intersections: Class, Race, and Gender in Occupied Japan,1945-52
After the Quincentennial: History, Memory, and Nation in Brazil
Jews, Antiquity, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
Framing History in the Metropolis: Shanghai Archives and Studies
Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change
Outreach Project on the Americas (for public school teachers)
2001-2002:
Violence and the French Revolution
Does Terror Have a History? (student-faculty forum)
Africas of the Americas
Omohundro Conference in Early American History
Political Violence in Russia and the Soviet Union
2002-2003:
The Body and the African Body Politic The Body and the Body Politic in Latin America
Normalizing the Body
2003-2004:
Imperial Questions: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Empires

2004-2005:
Cultures of Dictatorship in Latin America
African American Identity Travels
Shaping the Middle East
The Colonial and the Visual

2005-2006:
Nations, Democracy, and Globalization, 1880-2005
Popular and National Identities in a Transnational World, HGSA Conference
"We Shall Be All": Toward a Global History of the Middle Class

2006-2007:
History Graduate Student Association Conference

2007-2008:
Neorealismo Conference: Examining the History and Politics of a Transnational Cultural Movement
Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys,  
1945-1989 

 

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Nathan and Jeanette Miller Distinguished Lectureship
in History and Public Affairs

2001: David Kennedy, Stanford University
"A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II

2002: Kevin Phillips
"Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich"

2003: John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
"America's Place in the World in the 21st Century"

2004: Tony Judt, New York University
"Before the Beatles: The 1950s in Historical Perspective "

2005: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
"Gender and History: Reaching from the Past into the Future"

2006:Lonnie Bunch, National Museum of African American History and Culture
"Embracing Controversy: Memory, Representation and the Challenge of Interpreting African American Culture for the Public"

2008: Charles Burnett, Independent Filmmaker
“Making Film, Making History, Making a Difference: Documentary and the African American Experience”

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Annual Alumni Lecture

2004: Donald Miller, "The Historian as Filmmaker "

2005: Donald Ritchie, "The Past Meets the Present: Historians and the News Media"

2006: Pete Daniel, "Class of the Sixties: Reflections on History and Culture in the Age of Protest"

2007: Manning Marable, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention"

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Rundell Lecture in American History

2001: Eric Foner, Columbia University" The Idea of Freedom in Twentieth-Century America"

2002: Linda Gordon, New York University "Whiteness and Citizenship on the Southwestern Frontier, 1900-1945"

2003: Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University "Missing in Action: Naming the Dead in the American Civil War"

2004: Charles Payne, Duke University "Brown v. Board and the Mystification of Race"

2005: Thomas Bender, New York University "American History as Global History"

2006: Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University " New Orleans : The Making of an American Pompeii

2007: Emily Rosenberg, "Did Consumerism End the Cold War?"

2008: Michael Denning, "The Spectre of the Wageless Life

Conversations in the Humanities

Monday, February 25, 2008 Brown Bag Lunch Seminar with William Cohen, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Maryland, FSK 2120 (Merrill Room), at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Brown Bag Lunch Seminar with William Peniston, Manager of the Newark Museum Library & Archives, University of Maryland, FSK 2120 (Merrill Room), at noon

Monday, April 28, 2008 Brown Bag Lunch Seminar with Elizabeth Papazian, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Maryland, FSK 2120 (Merrill Room), at noon

Faculty-Work-in-Progress

February 16, 2003: Richard Price, "Encounters of Empire: The British, the Xhosa and the Making of an Imperial Culture 1830-1870"

November 15, 2004: Jeffrey Herf, "Images and Narratives of Anti-Semitism: Nazi Propganda in World War II"

February 14, 2005: David Grimsted, "Mammon, Mobbing and the Moral Economy"

March 14, 2005: Elsa Barkley Brown, "Fraternalism, Banking, and African American Self-Image: The Photographic Imagination of Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke"

November 21, 2005: Daryle Williams, "The Protrait of the Intrepid Mariner Sim0, 1o, or, Social and Visual Histories of teh Luso-Atlantic at teh End of the Slave Trade "

October 26 , 2007 : Mary Kay Vaughan, "Mexican Men at the Movies"

February 18, 2007 : Donald Sutherland, "Murders in Provance" Funded Workshops

Funded Workshops

African American Political Culture Workshops

European Workshop

Maryland Colloquium in the History of Technology

Washington Area Early American Seminar Series

Other Events

April 8, 2001: Tom Segev, Author and Journalist "One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, 1922-1948"

December 1, 2003: Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University "Jazz Folk Here and There: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation" Inaugural HGSA Lecture

April 4 2004: Steven Mansbach, Sally Promey, Saverio Giovacchini, and Paul Landau, University of Maryland, College Park, "Historians/ Art Historians at Work: Interpreting the Visual"

March 10 2006: "An Extraordinary Time: The Life of John Hope Franklin and the State of African American Studies"

Tuesday, September 18: Luisa Passerini , University of Turin “An Italian-German Jewish Couple in the 1930s and 1940s, in Europe and Latin America : A Microhistory in a Wider Context”

 

 

 


Past Events Posters
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spring 2005 Fall 2005 spring 2006 dictatorship poster toward a global middle class poster

Lonnie Bunch

Charles Burnett

Emily Rosenberg

Michael Denning

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