Speaker Series: East Asia, Eurasia, & the World
November 21, 2014
Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles
"Making Mosques in America and Japan; or, How Islam Went Truly Global"
Noon, 3703 Posvar
November 14, 2014
Panel Discussion - Panelists include; Evelyn Rawski, Bill Chase, Gregor Thum, Dick Oestreicher, and Diego Holstein
Noon, 3703 Posvar Hall
October 31, 2014
Peter Perdue, Yale University
"Asia in World Histories: Frontiers and Environments"
Noon, 3703 Posvar Hall
October 24, 2014
Bin Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
"Political Economies of 19th-c. Economic Change under Industrial Capitalism"
Noon, 3703 Posvar Hall
October 10, 2014
Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola University of Chicago
"The Empire of the Steppe: Russia's Colonial Experience on the Euraisan Frontier"
1:00 - 2:30, 3703 Posvar Hall
September 12, 2014
Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut
"Modernity's Diffusion and Studying the Japanese Empire"
Noon, 3703 Posvar Hall
World History Center Seminar
March 20, 2015
Ruth Mostern, University of California - Merced
"The Yellow River in Environmental History"
3703 Posvar Hall 12:00 - 1:30
February 6, 2015
Yuval Noah Harari - Dept. of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"The Sapiens Secret of Sucess: How Humans Conquered the World."
12:00 - 1:30 3703 Posvar Hall
January 14, 2015
Dr. Andrew Pearson, Director, Pearson Archaeology Ltd / Research Associate, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, UK.
"Distant Freedom: St. Helena and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1840-1872"
4:30 PM 3703 Posvar Hall
WHC Co-sponsored Events
March 31, 2015
Anika Wilson, Dept. of Africology University of Wisconsin
"Mphutsi: An AIDS Rumor in Malawi"
4130 Posvar Hall 4:00 - 6:00
Sponsored by African Studies Program, Department of Africana Studies, and World History Center
March 4, 2015
Diego Holstein Book Colloquium - "Thinking History Globally"
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
3703 Posvar Hall 4:30 - 6:00
Invited speakers: Peter Stearns and John Markoff.
Sponsored by the History Department and World History Center.
February 5, 2015
"Theory and Methodology of Comparison in the Humanities"
Sponsored by the Humanities Center, directed by Magali Armillas-Tiseyra and Gayle Rogers.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, boundary 2, the World History Center, the Global Studies Center, the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, Hispanic Languages & Literatures, French & Italian Languages & Literatures, History of Art & Architecture, History and English.
Annual WHC Members' Reception
January 15, 2015
4:30 - 5:30 4130 Posvar Hall
Brown Bag Talk
October 21, 2014
Henk Wals & Leo Lucassen, International Institute of Social History.
“The International Institute of Social History: Its history and its agenda”
Noon, 3703 Posvar Hall.
Conferences
On March 27, 2014, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced an award to the World History Center and CHIA for an August 2014 international conference on designing a world-historical gazetteer.
WHC Co-Sponsored Events
November 10, 2014
Carlos Cañete
"The Origins of Humanity: Cultural and Religious Polemics in Early Modern Times"
4:00 PM, 3703 Posvar Hall
Sponsors: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh; The Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University; The World History Center, University of Pittsburgh
Co-Sponsors: The Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh; The Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Department of English, Carnegie Melon University
October 10, 2014
Pitt FRIT Conference "Short Fuse"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jan Miernowski
Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 9-10, 2014
Baltic Symposium
Sponsored by EUCE, directed by Katja Wexel