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Department of History

Faculty + Graduate Student Events

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Spring 2024

  • February 5, LHC Workshop with Megna Chaudhuri, 12:15-1:45 – Sarratt 189
  • February 5,  The Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar’s Black Atlantic Speaker, Dr. Joseph Clark – “The First Black Atlantic: Captivity and Mobility in the Early Modern Caribbean” at 4:00 P.M. in the Community Room of Central Library, with reception to follow.
  • February 6, American Political History Conference – “Defending Our Democracy,” Liz Cheney in conversation with Jon Meacham, 5pm, Langford Auditorium (registration required)
  • February 8, Americanist Workshop with, Stephen Rodriguez, 12:30-2:30pm – Location TBA  (RSVP to Will Krause at william.krause@vanderbilt.edu)
  • February 9, LHC Workshop with Mohammed Allehbi, 3:00 – 4:00 pm – Benson 200
  • February 20, American Political History Conference – “Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights,” Samuel Freedman, Columbia University, in conversation with Prof. Dennis Dickerson 5:00pm – Location TBA
  • February 22, Americanist Workshop with Dan Usner, 12:30-2:30pm – Buttrick 123 (RSVP to Will Krause at william.krause@vanderbilt.edu)
  • February 23, Black Worlds Seminar: Danyelle Valentine, TBD. 12:00 – 1:30 pm – RPW Center
  • February 23, Ottoman History Workshop: Duygu Yıldırım When Islamic Science Became a Thing of the Past.” 12:00 – 1:30pm – RPW Center
  • February 26, Full Department Meeting, 3:10pm – Buttrick 123
  • February 28, American Political History Conference – “Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of the Women Who Shaped the Presidency,” Melissa Estes Blair, Auburn College, 5:00pm – Location TBA
  • February 29, “Europe, Empire, Peace: A Reappraisal,” with Professor Stella Ghervas (UCLA), 4:00pm, Buttrick 123
  • March 4, on “The Neo-Nazi Threat: Lessons from Germany and the United States,” Michelle Kahn, University of Richmond, 12:00pm – Alumni Hall 201
  • March 4, VHS with Tasha Rijke-Epstein, “Knowing Bees in Madagascar: Epistemic Forgetting and Technologies of Apiculture (1840-1940),” 3:10pm – Sarratt 189.
  • March 6, Black Worlds Seminar: Daniel James, TBD. 2:30-4:00 pm – RPW Center
  • March 7, Americanist Workshop with Jane Landers, 12:30-2:30pm – Buttrick 123 (RSVP to Will Krause at william.krause@vanderbilt.edu)
  • March 18, Full Department Meeting, 3:10pm – Buttrick 123
  • March 19, Byrn Lecture with Paula Findlen – 4:30pm – Central Library Community Room, 4th Floor
  • March 21, Americanist Workshop with Will Krause, 12:30-2:30pm – Benson 200 (RSVP to Will Krause at william.krause@vanderbilt.edu)
  • March 22, Black Worlds Seminar: Rebecca VanDiver, TBA. 12:00 – 1:30PM – RPW Center
  • March 22, Ottoman History Workshop with Seçil Yılmaz, “Domesticating the Obscene: Translating Sex and Medicine in the Late Ottoman Empire”. 12:00 – 1:30pm – RPW Center
  • March 25, LHC Workshop with Jennifer Palmer, 12:15-1:45pm – Buttrick 123
  • March 25, “Radical Diversity and the Integration Paradigm,” with Max Czollek, 12:00pm – Room TBA
  • March 26, “1948 and its Afterlives,” Shai Hazkani (University of Maryland) in conversation with Sam Dolbee, 5:30pm – Wilson 126
  • March 27, “From Steelworkers to Pastors and Politics: A Symposium in Honor of Dennis Dickerson”, 3:00pm – Black Cultural Center, (Followed by reception in the Buttrick Atrium at 5:00pm)
  • March 28, American Political History Conference – “Abortion Wins Elections,” Rebecca Traister in conversation with Nicole Hemmer, 5pm, Library Community Room
  • March 29, East Europe and Eurasia Seminar: Vladimir Kulić, 2:00-4:00pm – RPW Center
  • March 29, Ottoman History Workshop: Sarah Shields, “Becoming ‘Independent’: Iraq, Race, and the League of Nations,” RPW Center, 12:00-1:30pm
  • April 1, VHS Graduate Student Workshop with Trevor Engel, 3:10pm – Sarratt 189
  • April 3, American Political History Conference – On Nixon’s Madness: An Emotional History with Zachary Jacobson, Time and location, TBD.
  • April 5, Black Worlds Seminar: Charisse Burden-Stelly, TBD. Time and location, TBD.
  • April 8, LHC Workshop with  Arianne Sedef Urus – Sarratt 189
  • April 12, Full Department Meeting, 12:00 – 1:30pm –  Buttrick 123
  • April 15, LHC Workshop with Ishay Rosen, 12:15-1:45 – Buttrick 123
  • April 15, VHS with Yael Sternhell, Tel Aviv University, 3:10-4:30pm – Sarratt 189
  • April 18, Americanist Workshop with Caroline Johnston, 12:30-2:30pm – Benson 200 (RSVP to Will Krause at william.krause@vanderbilt.edu)
  • April 22, VHS Graduate Student Workshop with Claudia Monterroza Rivera 3:10-4:30pm – Sarratt 189
  • April 26, Ottoman History Workshop: İpek Yosmaoğlu. TBA. 12:00 – 1:30pm – RPW Center
  • May 3, Retirement Celebration for Arleen Tuchman and Marshall Eakin, 5:00pm – Cohen Atrium
  • May 3 and 4, How the New Deal Was Run” (co-organizers, Sarah Igo & Ganesh Sitaraman), ALL DAY – Alumni Hall, 201, 202 and Reading Room
  • May 6, Full Department Meeting, 3:10pm, Buttrick 123 – TENTATIVE