Graduate Student Orientation

Tuesday, August 22, 2017 • 1:00 PM

Garrison Hall, Room 1.102

Department of History Spring Graduation 2017

Friday, May 19, 2017 • 10:00 AM

Hogg Memorial Auditorium (HMA)

Gender Symp.: "Gendered Political Spheres: Property Rights Litigation and Democracy Activism in Post-1990 Nepal" by Beth Prosnitz, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, May 5, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Talk: "Unveiling the Art and Science of French Cuisine: Cosmopolitan Chef Urbain Dubois (1818-1901)," by Marta Kane, UT Austin and C.R.I.S.E.S. Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III, France)

Thursday, May 4, 2017 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Talk: "A Forgotten Sin: Acceptio Personarum and Early Modern Debates on Personal Merit," by Nicole Reinhardt, Durham University UK

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Geography and Racial Exclusion: Enactment of the 1917 Barred Zone Act," by Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, May 1, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "Fashioning China: Precarious creativity of women designers in Shanzhai culture" by Sara Liao, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, April 28, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Annual Conference: "The Invention of Food" (Day 2 of 2)

Friday, April 28, 2017

CLA 1.302B, Glickman Conference Center

IHS Annual Conference: "The Invention of Food" (Day 1 of 2)

Thursday, April 27, 2017

CLA 1.302B, Glickman Conference Center

IHS Talk: “‘Gallos de alto poder’ in Acapulco: Connecting the Global Spanish Empire through Family Alliances,” by Catherine Tracy Goode, Ph.D., Research Consultant (Mexico City)

Thursday, April 20, 2017 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

History Honors Research Symposium 2017

Thursday, April 20, 2017 • 10:00 AM

GAR 1.102

IHS Talk: "Securing Trust in the Early Modern Atlantic Trade: Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands, 1595–1618," by Daniel Strum, University of São Paulo

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Talk: "The Forgotten History of Free Trade and the Far Left," by Dr. Marc-William Palen, University of Exeter

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "The Russian Provisional Government in Bulgaria: A Case Study of the City of Ruse, February 8, 1878-April 28, 1879," by Mehmet Celik, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 17, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "La Resistencia: Cultural & Socio-Political​ ​Resistance of Black Women in Puerto Rico" by Beth Colón Pizzini, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, April 14, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Panel Discussion: Deep History (Method Series)

Thursday, April 13, 2017 • 4:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Fashioning a Career as an Independent Historian

Thursday, April 13, 2017 • 2:00 PM

Garrison Hall, Room 1.102

Career Diversity Workshop for Graduate Students

IHS Workshop: "Nourishing the Tree of Democracy: African Americans in Wartime Australia, 1942-1945," by Chris Dixon, Macquarie University (Australia)

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Career Diversity for Ph.D. Students

Friday, April 7, 2017 • 8:30 AM

CLA 1.302B

Talk: "Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich," by Alison Owings, journalist (sponsored by Germanic Studies)

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 • 2:00 PM

BUR 337

Talk: "Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich," by Alison Owings, Journalist (sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies)

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 • 2:00 PM

BUR 337

Texas Chautauqua No. 10: "The age of man: what are the scientific and social implications of the anthropocene?" featuring Megan Raby

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 • 6:30 PM

Peter O'Donnell Jr. Building (POB), 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)

IHS Roundtable: "A Historical Divide: The Partition of India at 70"

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Recipes for a Bright Future?: Cuisine and Utopia in Communist Bulgaria," by Mary Neuburger, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 3, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp. & HPS: ​"​Darwinian Sensualities: Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, and Late Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory​," by Rodolfo John Alaniz, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, March 31, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Workshop: The Secrets of Grant Writing: A Faculty-led Workshop for History Graduate Students (Method Series)

Monday, March 27, 2017 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Symposium: Rethinking Late Ottoman Civilization Day 2 (sponsored by Middle Eastern Studies and others)

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Calhoun (CAL) 100

Talk: "The Material Culture of Poverty: Cristina Trivulzio’s Account of Life in Mid-nineteenth Century Central Anatolia" by Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul Bilgi University (sponsored by Middle Eastern Studies and others)

Friday, March 24, 2017 • 4:30 PM

CLA 1.302B

Symposium: Rethinking Late Ottoman Civilization Day 1 (sponsored by Middle Eastern Studies and others)

Friday, March 24, 2017

CLA 1.302B

Worskhop: How to Write Quickly and Well (Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)

Thursday, March 23, 2017 • 12:00 PM

BUR 214

Talk: “Surviving the Holocaust,” by Laszlo Schwartz

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 • 5:00 PM

CLA 0.126

Talk: Transforming Nature in Russia and the West (Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 • 4:00 PM

Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302)

"The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War" by H. W. Brands (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Salvage or Celebration?: Approaches to American Regional Cuisine in the Last 150 Years" by Paul Freedman, Yale University

Monday, March 20, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk: "Hit 'Refresh' Before 'Retire': How Digital Humanities Renewed My Pedagogy and Research" by Louise McReynolds, UNC Chapel Hill

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp./IHS: "Woman Fighters, Sentiment, and Female Subjectivity in Chinese Martial Arts Narrative, 1895-1945" by Iris Ma, UCLA

Friday, March 3, 2017 • 11:00 AM

GAR 1.122

IHS Panel Discussion: "Context and Controversy" (Method Series)

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Culinary Nationalism in Modern Japan" by Nancy K. Stalker, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, February 27, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “Fighting Moros, Forging Empire (1749-1754),” by Kristie Flannery, UT Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Thursday, February 23, 2017 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “‘Bloody Caddo’: Economic Change and Racial Continuity During North Louisiana’s Oil Boom, 1896-1922,” by Henry Wiencek, UT Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Roundtable: "Loving" After Fifty Years

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 • 3:30 PM

Liberal Arts Building, Glickman Conference Center, CLA 1.302B

IHS Workshop: "The Transition from Mamaliga to Bread in the Romanian Countryside under Socialism" by Lucian Scrob, Central European University

Monday, February 20, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "Voices from the Shadows: Narratives of Homosexuality in Yugoslav Popular Music" by Laura Jorgensen, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, February 17, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Littlefield Lecture: "Reconstruction and the American Political Tradition," by Steven Hahn, New York University (Day 2 of 2)

Thursday, February 16, 2017 • 4:00 PM

AT&T Center, 1900 University Ave. | Amphiteater 204 on Level M2

Littlefield Lecture: "The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North," by Steven Hahn, New York University (Day 1 of 2)

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 • 4:00 PM

AT&T Center, 1900 University Ave. | Amphiteater 204 on Level M2

Film/Discussion: "Tower" documentary

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 • 11:00 AM

Online; Free, RSVP required

Talk by Aaron O’Connell, U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD) and National Security Council, The White House

Monday, February 13, 2017 • 1:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Workshop: "A Filmmaker in Wartime: Sergei Eisenstein, The Bombing of Moscow, and the Importance of Living," by Joan Neuberger, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, February 13, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “‘They are of the Caste of Black Christians’: Old Christian Black Blood in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic,” by Chloe Ireton, UT Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Thursday, February 9, 2017 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

"Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging," by Tatjana Lichtenstein (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk by Daniel Marston, The Australian National University & Australian Command and Staff College

Monday, February 6, 2017 • 1:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Workshop: "Roasted and Broiled Alive: The Inquisition, Bruno, Galileo and the Spirit that Moves the Earth," by Alberto Martínez, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, February 6, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "The Young Within Thy Walls: Petitioners, Spanish-Indian Offspring, and the Origins of the Terms 'Mestiza' and 'Mestizo' in the 16th Century Spanish Empire" by Adrian Masters,
​ University of Texas at Austin

Friday, February 3, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

"Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical" by Jacqueline Jones (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Monday, January 30, 2017 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk by Alea Henle

Monday, January 30, 2017 • 1:30 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Workshop: "¡Sea una de las primeras!: Recruiting Latina Servicewomen into the United States Women’s Army Corp during the era of Good Neighborism," by Valerie A. Martínez

Monday, January 30, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

The Continuing Struggle for a Just and Sustainable Future: Social Justice Institute Teach-in

Saturday, January 28, 2017 • 9:00 AM

Julius Glickman Conference Center (first floor, CLA Building)

Book Talk: “The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation,” by Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, January 27, 2017 • 7:00 PM

BookPeople, 603 North Lamar Blvd Austin, TX 78703

Talk by Alfred Wallace

Friday, January 27, 2017 • 1:30 PM

GAR 1.102

Talk by Andrew Lee

Thursday, January 26, 2017 • 1:30 PM

GAR 1.102

"German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar A Contest of Futures," by Tracie Matysik (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Seven Cheap Things: Madeiran Sugar as an Introduction to Capitalist World-Ecology," by Raj Patel, University of Texas at Austin, and Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa

Monday, January 23, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp. & HPS: ​"​A Simulacrum of Birth​: ​The Pedagogical Instruments and Obstetrical Course of Madame du Coudray​," by Scottie Hale Buehler, UCLA ​

Friday, January 20, 2017 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102