Department of History Spring Graduation

Friday, May 18, 2018 • 10:00 AM

Hogg Memorial Auditorium (HMA)

IHS Talk: "Why Did We Starve? The Great Leap Forward as Propaganda and Collective Memory in Maoist China," by Huaiyin Li, University of Texas at Austin (“Notwithstanding the Evidence: Historians on Denialism” Series)

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

The Public Archive: Doing History in Public and Online

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 • 9:30 AM

Garrison Hall (GAR) 1.102

IHS Workshop: ”Portable Lives: Reformed Artisans and New Materials in the Refugee Atlantic” by Neil Kamil, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 30, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Annual Conference: "Migration: Discipline and Displacement" (Day 2)

Friday, April 27, 2018

IHS Annual Conference: "Migration: Discipline and Displacement" (Day 1)

Thursday, April 26, 2018

CLA 1.302B

Film: "Mississippi Masala," introduced by Titas Chakraborty (Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Feature Film Series)

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 • 7:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

"Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan" by Aaron B. O'Connell (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

​Symposium on Gender, History, and Sexuality Event

Friday, April 20, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

History Honors Research Symposium 2018

Thursday, April 19, 2018 • 10:25 AM

GAR 1.102

German Studies Symposium Day 3 (April 13-15)

Sunday, April 15, 2018

German Studies Symposium Day 2 (April 13-15)

Saturday, April 14, 2018

HPS Talk: “Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity,” by John Hartigan, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, April 13, 2018 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

Panel: "A Conversation With U.S. Military Officers On American National Security," featuring career military officers from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Friday, April 13, 2018 • 12:00 PM

CAL 100

IHS Workshop: A Faculty-led Grant Writing Workshop for History Graduate Students

Friday, April 13, 2018 • 10:00 AM

GAR 4.100

German Studies Symposium Day 1 (April 13-15)

Friday, April 13, 2018

IHS Workshop: "The Agents of the Monarchy: Exiles, Royalist Resistance, and Atlantic Networks in the late 1820s and early 1830s" by Nicolás Alejandro González Quintero, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk: "Apollo in the Age of Aquarius: How Grassroots Politics Grounded the Space Race," by Neil M. Maher, Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 • 12:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

Film: "The Grand Budapest Hotel," introduced by Donna Kornhaber (Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Feature Film Series)

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 • 7:00 PM

CLA 1.302E

IHS Workshop: “Information: Physics from the Soviets," from "Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence,” by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 9, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

HPS Talk: “Astronomy in Art, History, and Literature,” by Don Olson, Texas State University

Friday, April 6, 2018 • 4:00 PM

Texas State University—San Marcos

Gender Symp.: "The Academic Quilombismo, a Critical Intervention: A conversation with Beatriz Nascimento and Giovana Xavier" by Carla Ramos, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, April 6, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Talk "Indo-Dutch Entanglements in the Age of Rembrandt," by Jos J.L. Gommans , Leiden University

Thursday, April 5, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Panel Discussion: "1968: A Year of Upheaval in Global Perspective"

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 • 3:00 PM

CLA 1.302B, Glickman Conference Center

IHS Talk: "'The Empire of the Nairs,' by James Lawrence (1793): A Forgotten Feminist Utopia in a Global Context," by Anne Verjus, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France)

Monday, April 2, 2018 • 1:00 PM

GAR 4.100

HPS Talk: "Born That Way: The Search for a 'Gay Gene' amid the U.S. Culture Wars," by Chris Babits, The University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 30, 2018 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

IHS Workshop: “Between East and West: Industrial Technology, Factory Politics, and Cold War Diplomacy in Socialist China, 1945-1980” by Zhaojin Zeng, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Thursday, March 29, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

HPS Talk: “Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and the Cosmology of Many Worlds,” by Alberto A. Martínez

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 • 4:00 PM

RLM 4.102 (Physics Department)

IHS Talk: "The Daily Life of Dissent in Early Modern Spain," by James S. Amelang, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Film: "Lone Star,” introduced by Ward Keeler (Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Feature Film Series)

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 • 7:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

IHS Workshop: “The Devil’s Rodeo: The Logistics of the Spanish Imperial Petitioning System” by Adrian Masters, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: ”The Cultural and Intellectual Origins of al-Sadr’s Islamic Economics,” by Janine Jones, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, March 26, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "Miss Representation: The Portrayal of Women in Iranian Literature," by Mona Mostofi, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 23, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

HPS Talk: Genes, Genetics and Evolution: F. O. Holmes and Tobacco Mosaic Virus in the Mid-20th Century," by Karen-Beth Scholthof, Texas A&M University

Friday, March 23, 2018 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

"The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office" by Jeremi Suri (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "Certain (Wo)men the English Shot: Cathleen ni Houlihan in the Centenary Commemorations of Ireland’s 1916 Rising)" by Kathryn Rebecca Van Winkle, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 9, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

HPS Talk: “Chronicles of a Collapse Foretold: Global Science and the Bioeconomics of Fisheries Management in Peru, 1970–72,” by Kristin Wintersteen, University of Houston

Friday, March 9, 2018 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

IHS Workshop: “‘Come out to the Indian Country:’ Slavery and Migration in the Antebellum Southwest,” by Nakia D. Parker, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Film: "Lamerica," introduced by Chelsi West Ohueri (Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Feature Film Series)

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 • 7:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

IHS/HPS Talk: "Denying Darwin: The Evolution of Creationism since 1859," by Bruce J. Hunt, University of Texas at Austin (“Notwithstanding the Evidence: Historians on Denialism” Series)

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Algerians in Other’s Names: The Colonial État Civil, 1830-82,” by Benjamin Claude Brower, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, March 5, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

HPS Talk: "The Alsos Mission: Scientific Intelligence and War," by John Lisle, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 2, 2018 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

Career Diversity Conference

Friday, March 2, 2018 • 9:00 AM

CLA 1.302

Career Diversity Conference

Thursday, March 1, 2018 • 12:00 PM

CLA 1.302

Littlefield Lecture: "The Van and the Rear: Abolitionist Roots of Radical Reconstruction,” by Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut (Day 2 of 2)

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 • 4:00 PM

CLA 1.302E

Littlefield Lecture: "Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction," by Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut (Day 1 of 2)

Monday, February 26, 2018 • 4:00 PM

CLA 1.302E

Gender Symp., HPS, & AMS: "Finding Sex and Gender in the History of Science Archive," a Conversation with Kimberly A. Hamlin, Miami University

Friday, February 23, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Talk: "The Great Deerskin War: Law, Violence and Commodities in East and Southeast Asia," by Adam Clulow, Monash University

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 • 12:00 PM

CLA 1.302B Glickman Conference Center

Film: "Moi, Un Noir," introduced by Nancy Schiesari (Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Feature Film Series)

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 • 7:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

IHS Panel Discussion: "Karl Marx at 200"

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "Respectability as Moral Map and Public Discourse in the Nineteenth Century," by Woodruff D. Smith, UMass Boston and University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, February 15, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk: “Globalization as Paradox: Cosmopolitanism and Chauvinism in Nineteenth-Century Japan," by Mark Ravina, Emory University

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 • 12:00 PM

CLA 1.302B Glickman Conference Center

IHS Workshop: “Native Waters and Imperial Borderlands: Colonists and Caribs in the Making of the Early Modern Antilles, 1620-1763” by Ernesto Mercado-Montero, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "Gender in Latin America" Panel Discussion

Friday, February 9, 2018 • 1:00 PM

GAR 4.100

HPS Talk: "Under Connecticut Skies: Exploring and Interpreting 100 Years of Astronomy at Wesleyan’s Van Vleck Observatory," by Paul Hilding Erickson (Wesleyan University) and Amrys O. Williams (Hagley Museum)

Friday, February 9, 2018 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316 (the Philosophy conference room)

"American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science" by Megan Raby (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Thursday, February 8, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Film: "Take Out," introduced by Madeline Y. Hsu (Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Feature Film Series)

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 • 7:00 PM

CLA 1.302E

Panel Discussion: "50 Years Since Prague Spring: Czechoslovak Dreams and Cold War Realities"

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Settling, Smuggling, and Schooling in the Arabistan-Basra Frontier, 1925-1958,” by Shaherzad Ahmadi, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Thursday, February 1, 2018 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Conf. "The Toyin Falola @65 Conference: African Knowledges and Alternative Futures" Univ. of Ibadan (Nigeria) Day 3

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

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

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Conf. "The Toyin Falola @65 Conference: African Knowledges and Alternative Futures" Univ. of Ibadan (Nigeria) Day 2

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

IHS Workshop: "How Louisiana’s Boomtowns Created—and Lost—An Oil Boom, 1901-1935,” by Henry Alexander Wiencek, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, January 29, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Conf. "The Toyin Falola @65 Conference: African Knowledges and Alternative Futures" Univ. of Ibadan (Nigeria) Day 1

Monday, January 29, 2018

Gender Symp.: "Geographies of Sin: Sex Work and Protest in World War I Egypt" by Christopher Rose, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, January 26, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Workshop: “'not a strangr nor a foriner': Indians, the British Empire, and the Law in the Early Southeast” by Bradley J. Dixon, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Film: "A Better Life," introduced by Alberto García Maldonado (Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Feature Film Series)

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 • 7:00 PM

CLA 1.302B

IHS Workshop: “The New Open-Door Constituents: U.S.-Chinese Rapprochement at the Grassroots,” by Kazushi Minami, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Layers of Contact: Explorers, Geologists, and the Creation of a Racialized Landscape on the Colorado Plateau, 1890-1939,” by Erika M. Bsumek, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, January 22, 2018 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Conference: The Early-Modern Catholic Invention of “Oriental” “Religions”

Friday, January 19, 2018 • 9:30 AM

GAR 1.102