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Lunchtime Time Machine: Acid tests or activism — which was the better path to change?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Montgomery Wolf. Professor Wolf teaches courses on the history of popular culture, music, and the modern United States. She is completing a manuscript entitled, We Accept You, One of Us? Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974 to 1985. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did the Haitian slave revolt become a revolution?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Professor Palmer teaches courses on the history of Europe, the Atlantic world, women and gender, race, and pirates. She is the author of Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Were the Brazilian police always violent?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Cassia Roth. Professor Roth teaches courses on the history of Brazil, slavery, and gender. She is finishing a book entitled A Miscarriage of Justice: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why is Spain in danger of distintegrating?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Ben Ehlers. Professor Ehlers teaches courses on the history of early modern Europe, transnational Europe, and Christian-Muslim relations. He is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614. Free admission, free pizza.


Heather Cox Richardson Lecture: Government Shutdowns & Partisan Risk

Dr. Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College, will present a public lecture exploring the partisan nature of recent federal government shutdowns by recounting the forgotten history of the nation’s first government shutdown in 1879. A reception will follow the event. This lecture is part of the Russell Library's annual observance of Congress Week, an event created by the Association of the Centers of Congress in 2009 to…


Guest Lecture: Mariana Ivanova

Mariana Ivanova, assistant professor of German, Miami University of Ohio, will speak about "The American West in Cold War Eastern European Cinema: Transnational Agenda and Commentary on Race in DEFA's Indianerfilme." The event includes the lecture, film screening at 3:30 p.m., and Q&A with Ivanova. Sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies with additional support from the Department of Theatre and Film…


Dirty History Workshop's Annual Guest Lecture: Jason Moore

Jason Moore, Associate Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, will give the annual Dirty History lecture: "Slaveship Earth: Climate Crisis, Planetary Justice, and the Rise of Capitalism." From the author's web site: "Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso,…


Book tour guest lecture: David Silkenat

David Silkenat presents a talk on his new book,  Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Silkenat is a senior lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the author of Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina. He is a co-host of The Whiskey Rebellion, an American History podcast. This is a FREE and public event.


Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series: Cassia Roth

Cassia Roth, History and Latin American & Caribbean Studies, presents: "Policing Pregnancy: Statecraft, Poverty and Reproductive Health in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."


Birth and Risk in the Roman Empire

A guest lecture by Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan), sponsored by the Departments of History and Classics and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts. Under the Roman Empire, family fertility was valorized in imperial ideology in unprecedented ways. In this context, how did Romans theorize and work to mitigate the risks of generation, gestation, and birth? Approaches to managing these risks were rooted in constructions of the…
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