Seminars
April 15, 2009
The Eurasian Silver Century, 1276- 1359
3:30 p.m.,
Akinobu Kuroda, University of Tokyo
Sponsored by the World History Center and Asian Studies Center.
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April 9, 2009
Mapping the Past: New Insights from Spatial History, With Examples from China and the Silk Road
4:00 p.m.
3703 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Ruth Mostern, University of California – Merced
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April 2, 2009
Public Schools, Courts, and Civil Rights Consciousness-Raising—The District of Columbia
Stacy Tweedy, Postdoctoral Fellow in History
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March 5, 2009
MAPPING WEST AFRICA: DEFINING PEOPLES, AN OCEAN, AND
A CONTINENT
4:00 p.m.
3703 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Patricia Seed, Department of History, University of California - Irvine
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December 3, 2008
Bankokushi: World History in Meiji Japan
3:30 p.m.
Shingo Minamizuka
Sponsored by the World History Center, Asian Studies Center, and Department of History.
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Teacher Workshops
April 25, 2009
Free at Last? Pittsburgh's Place in the Atlantic World
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
The World History Center, the School of Education and the Global Studies Program at
the University of Pittsburgh Presents.
February 24, 2009
Beyond Chinggis Khan: Mongol Connections with the World of Islam
5:30-8:30 p.m.
4130 Wesley W Posvar Hall, University Of Pittsburgh
Johan Eleverskog, Southern Methodist University
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November 18, 2008
Introductory Workshop and Launch: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade Transatlantic Slave Trade workshop, Part of the UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade. Project in conjunction with the World History Center of the University of Pittsburgh.
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November 11, 2008
Asian workshop, History Textbooks in Japan
Shingo Minamizuka, Hosei University, Visiting Scholar and president, Asian
Association of World Historians.
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October 21, 2008
Interpreting Japan's Role in the period 1890-1910
Shingo Minamizuka, Visiting Scholar, World History
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Inaugural Lecture
October 14, 2008
Human Migration: Disciplinary Contributions to its History
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Opening of the World History Center
October 16, 2008
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: PATRICK MANNING, "WORLD HISTORY AND THE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE"
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
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