World History Center Seminar
March 17, 2010
Authors and Readers' Presses: a Publishing Proposal
3703 WWPH
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Peter Dimock
February 17, 2010
Lumina Sophie: The Erasure of Cultural Amnesia in Martinique
3703 WWPH
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Brenda Berrian, Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
May 17, 2010
"The World Historical Dataverse: Design and problem-solving for a large-scale,
heterogenous, historical dataset"
IS501 (IS Building on Bellefield)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Patrick Manning, Director, World History Center
Abstract
The World-Historical Dataverse project ("the universe of world-
historical data" – www.dataverse.pitt.edu) is intended to lay the groundwork for creating
consistent historical data for localities worldwide so that they may be aggregated into
global totals. Data are to address economic, social, health, and environmental issues
for about the last four centuries...(Read More)
World History Seminar Presentations by Dr. Diego Holstein (Hebrew University of
Jerusalem), Visiting Scholar
November 10, 2009
Substantial Macro-Histories under Scrutiny: International and Transnational History, World History, Global History, and the History of Globalization.
4:00 – 5:30 pm
3703 WWPH
November 4, 2009
Macro-Histories: Two Bridges for Two Gaps
4:00 – 5:30 pm
3703 WWPH
September 30, 2009
Two Waves of Globalization amidst Three Waves of Anti-Hegemonic Party States
4:00 – 5:30 pm
3703 WWPH
September 23, 2009
Political Regimes: Classifications, Criticism, and the Formulation of a New Concept
4:00 – 5:30 pm
3703 WWPH
Conferences
June 7-19, 2010
Dissertation Workshop
Ten worldwide students prepare PhD research projects
Pittsburgh
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Teacher Workshops
February 16, 2010
Will China and India Dominate the 21st Century Global Economy?
5:30 - 8:30 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Professor Lee Branstetter, Economics and Public Policy, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
November 9, 2009
Focusing World History through a Comparison of China and the West
5:30-8:30 P.M.
4130 Wesley W Posvar Hall, University Of Pittsburgh
Our guest speakers were John Blair and Jerusha McCormack of St. Francis University, Loretto, PA.
This was the seventh seminar presented by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Asian Studies Center (UCIS), and the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
October 6, 2009
Networks and Routes: New approaches to connected history
5:30-8:30 P.M.
4130 Wesley W Posvar Hall, University Of Pittsburgh
Our guest speaker was Dr. Stewart Gordon, senior research scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan.
This was the seventh seminar presented by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Asian Studies Center (UCIS), and the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh.