Graduate Student Orientation

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 • 1:00 AM

GAR 1.102

Required for incoming History Graduate students

Graduate Student Orientation

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 • 9:00 AM

GAR 1.102

Required for incoming History Graduate students

TA Orientation

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 • 9:00 AM

GAR 1.102

Mandatory for all students TAing in History for the first time.

IHS Book Talk: "Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era" by Ashley D. Farmer, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Thursday, September 13, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “Building an Empire of Knowledge: The Sixteenth Century Spanish Imperial Council of the Indies’ Legislative Hermeneutics from Theology to Archive” by Adrian Masters, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, September 24, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Talk: "Freedom as Freedom of Choice: A History," by Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 • 4:00 PM

GAR 4.100

"Texas Conf. on Introductory History Courses" Day 1

Friday, September 28, 2018 • 9:00 AM

Avaya Auditorium, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Building (POB)

"Texas Conf. on Introductory History Courses" Day 2

Saturday, September 29, 2018 • 8:30 AM

Avaya Auditorium, Peter O'Donnell Jr. Building (POB)

IHS Workshop: “Red Consumers: Food and Mass Politics in Mid-Century Chile, 1918-1948” by Joshua Frens-String, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, October 1, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “The Place of Freedom in Popular Understandings of ‘Saving the Union’ during the American Civil War” by George Forgie, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, October 8, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia for the World," by Lina Del Castillo, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Talk: "Debt: A Natural History," by Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University (“Reclaiming the Pre-Modern Past” series)

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy" by Kathyrn H. Fuller-Seeley, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, October 18, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "The First Draft of History: 'Shimbun Kisha' in the Atomic Wasteland of Nagasaki" by Michael Stoff, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, October 22, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Talk: "Digital Imaging and the Dead Sea Scrolls," by Jonathan Kaplan, University of Texas at Austin (“Reclaiming the Pre-Modern Past” series)

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Panel: 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Friday, November 9, 2018 • 4:30 PM

Tejas Dining Room, AT&T Exec. Education & Conference Center

Celebrate the 130th anniversary of the UT History Department!

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Garrison Hall

IHS Book Talk: "Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction" by Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Panel: “The Politics of Protest in North Africa: From the Fall of Algiers to the Arab Spring”

Monday, November 19, 2018 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "From Barataria to Utopia: Economic-Positivism and Scientific Governance in Papua/Australian New Guinea, ca. 1880-1940" by Wm. Matthew Kennedy, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, December 3, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "Cuba’s Revolutionary World" by Jonathan C. Brown, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Thursday, December 6, 2018 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “Whose Public Interest? Plurality, Freedom, and Security in Egypt, 1900s–1950s,” by Jeffrey Culang, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, December 10, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "Entangled Empires The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830," by Bradley Dixon, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, and Kristie Flannery, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Thursday, January 31, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Panel: "Thinking About Revolution: 1789, 1959, 1979"

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972" by Leonard N. Moore, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Thursday, February 21, 2019 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “John Leland and Religious Freedom: Genealogies of a Biographical Study,” by Denise A. Spellberg, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, March 4, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s 'Ivan the Terrible' in Stalin’s Russia" by Joan Neuberger, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Panel: "Brexit in Global and Historical Contex"

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “Getting To 'No:' Spanish Imperial Policies Concerning Sexuality And Illegitimacy, 1475-1800” by Ann Twinam, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 8, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Annual Conference on "Genealogies of Freedom" April 11-12

Thursday, April 11, 2019

IHS Annual Conference on "Genealogies of Freedom" April 11-12

Friday, April 12, 2019

IHS Book Talk: "No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization" by Yoav Di-Capua, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “Father Pérez's Revolution: Constitutional Catholicism in Mexico,” by Matthew Butler, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 22, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “‘Under the Contribution of the English… [and] the Government of the Spaniards’: Vassals and Tributaries, 1646-1700” by Bradley Dixon, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 29, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100