Calendar

Updated: November 4, 2019

Currently scheduled events, sponsored, co-sponsored, or of import to the Department of History are listed below.
Click here to see the S20 base schedule.

All department meetings and VHS seminars are held at 3:10 pm on Mondays.

Spring 2020

Jan. 21, 4:10 pm, Wilson 126, A&S Faculty meeting
Jan. 27, 3:10 pm, Divinity room 124, Vanderbilt History Seminar. Elizabeth Thornberry, Johns Hopkins University, "Imagining African Law: Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Custom in Segregationist South Africa." VHS Co-Directors: Moses Ochonu and Bill Caferro . Talk based on a pre-circulated paper that can be picked up in Benson 227, no electronic copies are available. Please contact Moses Ochonu for a paper.
Feb 3, 12:00-1:30 pm, Room TBD, The Legal History Colloquium presents, Cosimo Cascione, Professor of Roman Law, University of Naples. "Policing Rome and the Empire." Contact: Prof. Emily Greble.
Feb. 3, 3:10 pm, BT 123, Full Department Meeting (Faculty)
Feb. 17, 3:10 pm, Divinity room 124, Vanderbilt History Seminar. Rohit De, Yale, "Mobile Indian Lawyers and Local Histories of Minority Rights." VHS Co-Directors: Moses Ochonu and Bill Caferro . Talk based on a pre-circulated paper that can be picked up in Benson 227, no electronic copies are available. Please contact Moses Ochonu for a paper.
Feb. 17, Summer 2020 classes up on YES
Feb. 18, 4:10 pm, Wilson 126, A&S Faculty meeting
Feb. 20, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, room tba, Americanist Lunch Seminar presents Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) and Melani McAlister (Columbia University) Lunch will be provided, first come first serve.
Feb. 20, time tba, Black Cultural Center, Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University, Black Atlantic speaker for the Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar. Sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center, Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
Feb. 26 mid-semester deficiency reports open. DUE March 4.
Feb. 27, time tba, Cohen 203 (tentative), Jane Landers presents on Visionary Aponte Exhibition and the SSDA records, closing reception.
Feb. 29 - March 8, Spring holidays
March 9, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Room TBD, The Legal History Colloquium presents, John Torpey, Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, the Graduate Center (CUNY). Contact: Prof. Emily Greble.
March 9, 3:10 pm, BT 123, Full department meeting
March 9, Fall 2020 schedule posted on YES
March 10, Americanist Lunch Seminar presents Danielle Stubbe. This seminar coordinated by Catherine Molineux and Kyle Romero. Lunch will be provided, first come first serve.
March 13, last day students may withdraw from a class
March 16, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Room TBD, The Legal History Colloquium presents, Stuart Carroll, Professor of Early Modern History, York University. Contact: Prof. Emily Greble.
March 23, Summer 2020 open enrollment begins
March 24, 4:10 pm, Wilson 126, A&S Faculty meeting
March 30, 3:10 pm, Divinity room 124, Vanderbilt History Seminar. Patrick Geary, IAS/Princeton, "The New Genetic History and the End of the Roman Empire." VHS Co-Directors: Moses Ochonu and Bill Caferro . Talk based on a pre-circulated paper that can be picked up in Benson 227, no electronic copies are available. Please contact Moses Ochonu for a paper.
April 2, Spring Faculty Assembly
April 2 - 5, OAH annual meeting, Washington, DC
April 3-4 Conference: "The European Counter Reformation and the British Isles."
Apr. 6, 3:10 pm, BT 123, Full department meeting (faculty)
April 13, Moratorium on major cards
April 13, Fall 2020 registration opens
April 14, 4:10 pm, Wilson 126, A&S Faculty meeting
April 14, DEAD WEEK through April 20
April 20, Last day of classes
April 20, 3:10 pm, BT 123, Full department meeting (faculty)
April 21 - 30, Reading day and undergraduate exams
April 25- Workshop: "Transnational History in an Unequal World"
May 1, Fall registration closes
May 5, 3 :10 pm, Wilson 126, A&S Faculty meeting
May 7, 3 - 4:30 pm, Benson Hall outside on south lawn, Department Reception for Graduating Seniors
May 8, COMMENCEMENT