Seminars
March 20, 2013
“In a brown mantle'? South Asian politics, the Indian Ocean sphere and the making of East African independence,1923-1978.”
4130 Posvar Hall
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Gerard McCann, University of York, Department of History
January 10, 2013
“The Great Transition: climate, disease and society in the 13th and 14th centuries”
4130 Posvar Hall
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Bruce C. Campbell, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
This January seminar will be followed by our annual reception for center members.
November 14, 2012
“Carriers or barriers to human mobility? Shipping companies and the rise of modern border controls at a local, national and global scale (1882-1930).”
4130 Posvar Hall
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Torsten Feys, Ghent University - FWO Belguim
November 1, 2012
"Commercial visions: Building a global marketplace for scientific knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age".
4130 Posvar Hall
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Daniel Margócsy, Hunter College, City University of New York
October 17, 2012
"Prehistoric Murder: interfacing history, forensics and archaeology"
3703 Posvar Hall
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Alan Morris, University of Cape Town
April 17, 2012
"World History: Something new under the sun? Glimpses of the U.S. American Development"
3703 Posvar Hall
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Katja Naumann, Leipzig University
Click on the following link to connect for the seminar Video Link
March 24, 2012
"Japan and its world: Late Edo Period and Today"
4130 Posvar Hall
9:30 - Noon
Constantine Vaporis, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Presented in conjunctionwith the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) and the Global Studies Center (UCIS)
March 20, 2012
"Portuguese Expansion and Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange”
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Mario Pereira, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
Click on the following link to connect for the seminar Video Link
January 11, 2012
“Global Horizons: Macrohistories for the Global Age border controls at a local, national and global scale (1882-1930).”
3703 Posvar Hall
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Diego Holstein, University of Pittsburgh - World History Center
Conferences
May 31–June 1, 2013
“Alliance for Curriculum and Professional Development in World History.”
April 5, 2013
Friday 10:00 am – 2:15 p.m.
Conference on Global Humanities, and World History.
November 9-10, 2012
“Alliance for Curriculum and Professional Development in World History.” UCLA.
World Historical Dataverse Monthly Meetings
April 3, 2013
“Adventures with Data in Journals: Journal of World-Systems Research 9 and Journal of World-Historical Information”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Information Science
Jackie Smith (Sociology) and Vladimir Zadorozhny (Information Science)
March 6, 2013
“Tycho, Climate, and Population: collaborative research across disciplinary lines”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Information Science
Wilbert van Panhuis (Public Health) and Daniel Bain (Geology & Planetary Science)
February 6, 2013
“Col*Fusion: Crowd-sourcing for remote input and documentation of historical data”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Information Science
Vladimir Zadorozhny (Information Science)
January 10, 2013
“The Black Death: Panzootic and Pandemic”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
4130 Posvar Hall
Bruce C. Campbell (Queen’s University, Belfast)
This session is joint with the World History Seminar
December 5, 2012
“Social Science Theory and the CHIA Archive”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
502 Information Science
Patrick Manning (History) and Sanjana Ravi (Public Health)
November 7, 2012
“Collaborative Development of a World-Historical Archive: Phase 1”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
502 Information Science
Kai Cao (World History Center)
WHC Co-sponsored Events
February 21, 2013
The XIXth Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture "Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln: An Unexpected Convergence"
Robin Blackburn, University of Essex
November 13, 2012
"Tahiti and the Global Eighteenth Century"
5 p.m. Humanities Center
Lecture by Prof. Lynn Festa (Rutgers)
This event is co-sponsored by Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt, the Humanities Center, Departments of English and French & Italian.
November 9, 2012
One-day Roundtable on "Crusade after the Crusades: Conquest, Colonialism, Contact Zones."
10:00 am- 5:00 pm CL 602
This event is organized by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (French and Italian) and Bruce L.Venarde (History)
November 2-4, 2012
"Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy”
Center for Philosophy of Science
Organized by Peter Distelzweig.
October 22-25
Newton's Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion For Science in the Eighteenth Century. The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science Presented
by: Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History, Sanford University
October 25, 2012
Lecture three: "Science in the Mirror of Enlightenment Europe: Francesco Algarotti and the Remaking of a Cosmopolitan Book"
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Reception to follow in the Cloisters) 5:00
Organized in Cooperation with University of Pittsburgh Press, and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
October 24, 2012
Lecture two: "Writing A Scientific Bestseller: The Making of Newtonianism for Ladies"
Center for Philosophy of Science, 917 CL 5:00
October 22, 2012
Lecture one: "Newton's Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Become an Experimental Philosopher"
Center for Philosophy of Science, 917 CL 5:00