Department of History Spring Graduation

Friday, May 24, 2019 • 10:00 AM

Hogg Memorial Auditorium (HMA)

Book Talk: "The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III" by James M. Vaughn, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

The Public Archive (2019): Doing History in Public and Online

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 • 9:30 AM

Garrison Hall (GAR), 1.102

IHS Workshop: "Frontier Sanctuary: Slave Flight in the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1763-1803," by Christina Marie Villarreal, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 • 4:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk "Tiger Mountain, Human Wave, Soviet Acolyte: Three Models of the 'Chinese Way of War'" by Harold Tanner, University of North Texas (sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies))

Friday, May 3, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 1.102

Gender Symp.: "Ain’t I a man!?," by Daniel Dillon, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, May 3, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Panel: "From the May Fourth Movement to the Communist Revolution"

Thursday, May 2, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “Intimate Frontiers: The Making of the Chinese Protectorate in the Age of Modern Migration Control, 1877-1935,” by Sandy F. Chang, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "'Wretched Vassals' and 'True Subjects': Apalachees and Chickahominies in a Colonial World" by Bradley J. Dixon, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 29, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "Masculinity is the System: British Punk and Working-Class Masculinities in the 1970s," by Eddie Watson, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, April 26, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Talk: "Solidarity with Brazil in the United States: An Historical Overview and Current Concerns," by James N. Green, Brown University

Thursday, April 25, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Book Talk: "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South" by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Decolonizing History: Time, Nostalgia, and the Muslim Past," by Taymiya Zaman, University of San Francisco (sponsored by Religious Studies)

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 • 10:00 AM

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

History Honors Research Symposium 2019

Thursday, April 18, 2019 • 10:55 AM

Garrison Hall (GAR) 1.102 Conference Room

Book Talk: "Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld," by Dominique Kalifa, University of Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

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

Talk: "A Social History of Vaccine Development and Production in Mexico," by Ana María Carrillo Farga, National Autonomous University of Mexico (History & Philosophy of Science Colloquium)

Friday, April 12, 2019 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316 (Waggener Hall)

IHS Annual Conference on "Genealogies of Freedom" April 11-12 (Day 2)

Friday, April 12, 2019

Glickman Conference Center, RLP 1.302B

IHS Annual Conference on "Genealogies of Freedom" April 11-12 (Day 1)

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Glickman Conference Center, RLP 1.302B

Workshop: “Slavery, Trade, Law, and Empires in the Early Modern Atlantic” (Latin American Colloquium)

Thursday, April 11, 2019 • 9:00 AM

GAR 1.102

Talk: “Controlling Bodies and Children: Public Health in Mexico ca. 1900,” by Ana María Carrillo Farga, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), (Latin American Colloquium)

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 • 1:30 PM

GAR 1.102

Talk: "Juntas and State of Exception in Colonial Spanish America: The City-State as the True Locus of Sovereignty," by Gustavo Adolfo Vaamonde, National University of Venezuela (Latin American Colloquium)

Monday, April 8, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Workshop: “Gender, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Spain and the Indies: A Comparison” by Ann Twinam, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, April 8, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

HPS: “The British Cable Empire and the Making of Maxwell’s Equations,” by Bruce J. Hunt, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, April 5, 2019 • 4:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Gender Symp.: "Sexual Health and Revolutionary Potential: The Case of Vladimir Bekhterev’s Research on Workers and Children in the Soviet Twenties," by Peter Worger, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, April 5, 2019 • 12:30 PM

GAR 1.102

Workshop by Óscar Mazín Gómez, El Colegio de México, Mexico (Latin American Author Series)

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 • 10:00 AM

GAR 1.102 (Garrison Hall. Conference Room)

IHS Panel: "Brexit in Global and Historical Context"

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 • 3:30 PM

Glickman Conf. Center, RLP 1.302B

Talk: "Cathedral Cities and the Territorialization of Spanish America" by Óscar Mazín Gómez, Center of Historical Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico (Latin American Author Series)

Monday, April 1, 2019 • 12:15 PM

RLP 1.302E (Glickman Conf. Center)

Gender Symp.: "Interpreting Gendered and Sexual Violence," Roundtable with Elizabeth O’Brien, John Carranza, and Chris Babits, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 29, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Gender Symp.: "Interpreting Gendered and Sexual Violence," Roundtable with Daina Ramey Berry & Lisa G. Materson (University of Texas at Austin) and Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor (University of California at Davis)

Friday, March 29, 2019 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk: “Towards a Material and Symbolic Poetics of Latin American Colonial Art (Aproximaciones a una poética material y simbólica en el arte colonial hispanoamericano)” by Gabriela Siracusano, National University Tres de Febrero and University of Buenos Aires (Latin American Colloquium)

Thursday, March 28, 2019 • 4:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Book Talk: "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States," by Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University

Thursday, March 28, 2019 • 12:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Cancelled: Lonnie G. Bunch III, Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 • 4:00 PM

Talk: "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration," by Isabel Wilkerson (Littlefield Lecture Series)

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 • 4:00 PM

Blanton Auditorium in the Edgar A. Smith Building (EAS)

Conference: Model UN for Juniors in Austin

Thursday, March 14, 2019 • 8:00 AM

RLP 1.302 B, D, and E, in the Glickman Conf. Center

IHS Panel: "The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: 100 Years Later"

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 • 2:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk: “(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia,” by Zoltan Biedermann, University College London (Latin American Colloquium)

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 • 4:00 PM

GAR 1.134

IHS Workshop: "Two Men of Massachusetts: Religion, Race, and U.S. Immigration Policy through the Eyes of a Jewish Judge and an Arab Citizen, 1924-1944," by Denise A. Spellberg, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, March 11, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Cancelled: Talk by Arundhati Katju, Independent Litigator and J.S.D. Candidate, Columbia Law School

Friday, March 8, 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

Workshop: “Japanese Peruvian Enemy Aliens during World War Two: Life on the Edge with the Higashides” by Elliott Young, Lewis & Clark College (Latin American Author Series)

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 • 10:00 AM

RLP 1.302E (Glickman Conf. Center)

IHS Talk: “From Silver Capitalism to Globalization: Communities Making Mexican History,” by John Tutino, Georgetown University

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 1.102

Talk: "Sex, Morality, and Anticommunism in Brazil’s Military Regime," by Benjamin Cowan, University of California, San Diego (sponsored by Brazil Center, LLILAS Benson)

Monday, March 4, 2019 • 3:00 PM

UNB 3.128, Texas Union, Sinclair Suite

Gender Symp.: “‘Your Humble Petitioner’: Working-Class Respect and Female Voice at the Height of the British Empire,” by Stefanie Shackleton, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 1, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

IHS Talk: "Climate and Soil: An Environmental History of the Maya" by Timothy Beach, University of Texas (Reclaiming the Pre-Modern Past)

Thursday, February 28, 2019 • 4:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Research Speed-Dating: Explain your Research to the Public!

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 • 5:00 PM

PCL Learning Lab 1

IHS Workshop: "Being Sick in British Egypt, 1882-1914" by Christopher S. Rose, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Talk: "Colonial Communication and Miscommunication in the Early American South," by Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside

Friday, February 22, 2019 • 2:00 PM

CAL 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 • 12:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: "Diseased and the Demonized: The Intellectual World of the Early Ex-Gay Movement, 1968-80," by Chris Babits, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 • 12:30 PM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: "The Professionalization of Women in Iran through the Field of Modern Education, 1900-1950," by Isabelle Headrick, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, February 15, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Talk: "Juan Gallardo: A Native American Buccaneer," by Arne Bialuschewski, Trent University (Latin American Colloquium)

Thursday, February 14, 2019 • 4:00 PM

GAR 1.102

Talk: "From Hope to Hate: The Rise of Conservative Subjectivity in Brazil," by Rosana Pinheiro Machado, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil (sponsored by Brazil Center, LLILAS Benson)

Thursday, February 14, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

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

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Workshop: “Towards a Theory of Responsive Regimes: Petition-and-Response Lawmaking and Bottom-Up State Formation, Antiquity-1700” by Adrian Masters, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, February 11, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 4.100

HPS: “Preserving a Natural Wonder for Scientific Research: The Unusual Beginning of Nature Conservation in Colombia (1940s-1950s),” by Claudia Leal, Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia)

Friday, February 8, 2019 • 12:00 PM

WAG 316

IHS Workshop: "'We Cannot Die for Nothing': Displaying Political Violence at the National Museum of Colombia," by Jimena Perry, University of Texas at Austin (New Work in Progress Series)

Thursday, February 7, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Panel: “Environmental History and the Legacy of Alfred W. Crosby" (Reclaiming the Pre-Modern Past)

Monday, February 4, 2019 • 4:00 PM

GAR 4.100

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

Friday, February 1, 2019 • 10:00 AM

GAR 4.100

Gender Symp.: “'Singing a Song of Angry Women': Gendered Soundscape of Feminists in South Korea,” by Jeongin Lee, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, February 1, 2019 • 12:00 PM

GAR 1.102

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

Thursday, January 31, 2019 • 3:30 PM

GAR 4.100

IHS Talk "Using Ancient DNA to Understand the Past: Examples from the Americas," by Jennifer Raff, University of Kansas (Reclaiming the Pre-Modern Past)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 • 3:00 PM

GAR 4.100

Book Talk: "African Kings & Black Slaves: Sovereignty & Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic," by Herman L. Bennett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Monday, January 28, 2019 • 3:00 PM

Gordon White Building (GWB), Room 2.206

Talk: "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," by Andrew Roberts, King’s College London

Monday, January 28, 2019 • 3:00 PM

Harry Ransom Center (HRC) Prothro Theater

18th International Conference on Maharashtra (Day 3)

Saturday, January 26, 2019 • 9:00 AM

Glickman Conference Center, Rooms RLP 1.302A and B, UT Austin campus

18th International Conference on Maharashtra (Day 2)

Friday, January 25, 2019 • 9:00 AM

Glickman Conference Center, Rooms RLP 1.302A and B, UT Austin campus

18th International Conference on Maharashtra (Day 1)

Thursday, January 24, 2019 • 9:00 AM

Glickman Conference Center, Rooms RLP 1.302A and B, UT Austin campus