Lectures and Symposia
September 20, 2007
Rape and the Holocaust
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The Univeristy of Pittsburgh European Colloquium presents: Helene Sinnreich, History Department /Jewish Studies Program, Youngstown State University. A written paper will be pre-circulated to those on our mailing list
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September 26, 2007
HMS Hermione and the Mutinous Atlantic in the later 1790s
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series and the Working-Class History Seminar present: Niklas Frykman, Doctoral student, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh.
October 4, 2007
Anarchist Interventionism: American Anarchists and Social Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The Univeristy of Pittsburgh European Colloquium presents: Kenyon Zimmer, Doctoral student, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh. No paper will be pre-circulated.
October 10, 2007
The Science of Silence: How Same-Sex Transmission of HIV Became Invisible in Africa
4:00pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
Marc Epprecht, Department of History at Queen's University, Canada
October 22, 2007
Angst and Megalomania: the ‘German East’ in the 19th Century
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The Univeristy of Pittsburgh European Colloquium presents: Gregor Thum, DDAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh. No paper will be pre-circulated.
October 31, 2007
Empires in Global History
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series presents: Empires in World History invitee, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Prince of Asturias Professor, Department of History, Tufts University.
November 1, 2007
Stalinist Utopia and the Impossibility of East German Socialist Realism
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium presents: Barbara McCloskey, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. The paper explores the relationship between the Soviet and East German art worlds from 1946 to 1953. Histories of East German art tend to downplay this period as one of Stalinist repression during which East German artists were compelled to adopt Soviet-style Socialist Realism. Their paintings, murals, sculptures, and drawings, rendered in the optimistic, easily legible, and, indeed, propagandistic terms familiar from official Soviet art were enlisted in the project of East Germany's socialist reconstruction. This presentation will examine some of this imagery and explore the international socialist framework in which the theory and practice of Socialist Realism unfolded in these early years of the East German regime.
No paper will be pre-circulated.
November 1, 2007
From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain
8:00pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Working-Class History Seminar presents: Susan Pennybacker, Associate Professor and Painter Chair in European History at Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
November 8, 2007
"Keep on Saving”: A Transnational History of Promoting Thrift
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3702 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series presents: Texts and Contexts invitee, Sheldon Garon, Professor, Departments of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
November 9, 2007
History Department Book Symposia Series Presents Richard Smethurst's "From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes " (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007)
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
Featured speakers: Sheldon Garon, Princeton University, Gregory Kasza, Indiana University, and Mark Metzler, Univerity of Texas at Austin.
December 3, 2007
Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The Univeristy of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series and Cultural Studies present: Gender, Ethnicity, Race, and Religion invitee, Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology, UCLA.
February 20, 2008
Squatters in Paradise: The Development of Cancun, 1970-2000
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series presents: Megan McLean, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh.
February 28, 2008
The Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Department of History and the Working-Class History Seminar
7:30 pm
Location: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the University of Toledo. He studied with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick. He is author of The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Socieity in the Eighteenth Century (Allen Lane, 1991) and co-author (with Marcus Rediker) of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon Press, 2000). His new book, Magna Carta Manifesto, will be published by the University of California Press in February 2008.
March 26, 2008
The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
4:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
3703 Posvar Hall
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program Speaker Series and Atlantic History Seminar present: Atlantic History invitee, Vince Brown, Assistant Professor of History, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
April 2, 2008
History Department Book Symposia Series Presents Marcus Rediker "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Viking, 2007)
3:00-6:00 pm
University of Pittsburgh
2500 Posvar Hall
A conversation with novelist Barry Unsworth, author of Sacred Hunger and historian Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History. To mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade by the government of the United States of America (1808), the University of Pittsburgh will hold a symposium to explore the meanings and legacy of the slave trade in history and literature, past and present. Our main speakers will be Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker-Prize-winning novel, Sacred Hunger (1992), an epic of the slave trade, and Marcus Rediker of the University of Pittsburgh, author of the prize-winning history, The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007). Featured speakers: Jerome Branche, Hispanic Languages and Literature, University of Pittsburgh; Edda Fields-Black, History, Carnegie Mellon University; Rebecca Shumway, History, University of Pittsburgh; Stefan Wheelock, English, University of Pittsburgh. For more information contact the Department of History at (412) 648-7451. Free and open to the public.
