- Conference Program (pdf)
- Flyer (pdf) with additional details (places, times, speakers, directions, lodging, parking, conference awards, and more)
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
2009 Graduate History Conference - Updated Details
Updated details on the 2009 Graduate History Conference:
Monday, November 24, 2008
2009 CTCH Graduate History Conference
The Center for Transnational and Comparative history announces its second annual Graduate History Conference:
Please direct all questions and correspondence, including proposals and completed papers, to histconf@cmich.edu.
“Challenging Boundaries, Transcending Borders”
April 16-17, 2009
Keynote speaker: John Young · Luncheon speaker: José Brandão
Submissions can focus on any historical field or topic, but in keeping with the transnational and comparative theme of the conference, the actual panels will be organized so as to highlight the crossing of spatial and temporal boundaries.
Proposal submission deadline: March 6, 2009 (Papers due by April 3, 2009)
Please direct all questions and correspondence, including proposals and completed papers, to histconf@cmich.edu.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Transnational and Comparative History Speaker Series
The Department of History is pleased to announce its Transnational and Comparative History Speaker Series for Fall 2008. Unless otherwise noted, presentations begin at 3:30pm in the Strosacker Room at Park Library.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, University of Texas-Austin. "Between the global and the local: Empire, religion, patria, and natural history in Spanish America, 1750-1800." This presentation will be held in the President's Conference Room, Bovee University Center.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Michael Wala, Chair, Department of History, University of Bochum. "Representing the Weimar Republic: Ambassadors Wiedfeldt, Maltzan, and Prittwitz and German-American relations in the interwar period."
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas-San Antonio. "National Stories, Sexual Identity: The Kama Sutra in India, Great Britain, and the United States."
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Laura Fair, Michigan State University. "Transnational circuits, local reception: Cinema in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s."
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Charles Bright, University of Michigan. "The Global Condition in the Long Twentieth Century."
Monday, April 28, 2008
Dissertation Defense
Doctoral Dissertation Defense
"A More Beautiful Future: Class, Race and City Planning in Glasgow and Chicago, 1890-1968"
by
Matthew P. McCabe
May 5, 2008
3:30pm
Powers 121
"A More Beautiful Future: Class, Race and City Planning in Glasgow and Chicago, 1890-1968"
by
Matthew P. McCabe
May 5, 2008
3:30pm
Powers 121
Monday, March 31, 2008
Spring 2008 Dept Newsletter
Our Spring 2008 Department Newsletter has hit the printers and the postal service. But you can also find it here:
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/history/pdfs/hstdeptnewsletter08.pdf
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/history/pdfs/hstdeptnewsletter08.pdf
Friday, March 28, 2008
Speaker: 2008 Graduate History Colloquium Keynote Address
“Fortuyn (killed), Van Gogh (killed) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (banished): Driving out The Unholy Trinity from the Netherlands”
By Dr. Henri Beunders, Professor of the History of Society, Media, and Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam
April 3, 2008 in the Park Library Auditorium at 3:00pm
April 3, 2008 in the Park Library Auditorium at 3:00pm
Professor Beunders, a renowned expert in the history of media and society, having worked as a journalist and foreign desk editor with the Dutch newspapers Haagsche Courant and NRC Handelsblad that involved extensive travels throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, will speak on the matter of Islam in contemporary Europe, looking at how countries like the Netherlands are dealing with the problems and tensions that have arisen from this new social and cultural dynamic. There will be a reception afterwards in the Baber Room of Park Library that is free and open to the public.
(Sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Transnational and Comparative History)
Friday, March 14, 2008
Fall 2008 Course Spotlight: "London, the Seminar"
HST 496: Research Seminar/HST 744: Seminar in Nineteenth Century European History
"London, the Seminar: From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Present"
Professor James Schmiechen
Tuesdays, 7:00-9:50pm
In its heyday of the 19th century, London was not only the capital of Britain, but also the world’s largest city, the financial and cultural capital of the world, and the center of the world’s largest empire. This seminar looks at how the physical makeup of the city—including the character of its people, its spatial layout, architecture, housing, and services infrastructure—was shaped and reshaped by industrialization, new cultural/political values, population growth, and war. It is also an attempt to discover how and why “London” was a hotbed for great invention and creativity and architectural wonder.
Each student in the seminar will participate in collective reading/discussion and take on a specific research sub-topic—anything from street entertainment and food/housing for the lower classes to the building of great concert halls, new Houses of Parliament, the role of the monarchy in the history of the city, and the rebuilding of London following the Great Fire of 1666, the onset of industrialization, and the bombing ‘Blitz’ of World War Two.
For each student the outcome of the seminar will be a seminar paper. Course assessment will include, as well, seminar discussion participation and analysis of select readings.
"London, the Seminar: From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Present"
Professor James Schmiechen
Tuesdays, 7:00-9:50pm
In its heyday of the 19th century, London was not only the capital of Britain, but also the world’s largest city, the financial and cultural capital of the world, and the center of the world’s largest empire. This seminar looks at how the physical makeup of the city—including the character of its people, its spatial layout, architecture, housing, and services infrastructure—was shaped and reshaped by industrialization, new cultural/political values, population growth, and war. It is also an attempt to discover how and why “London” was a hotbed for great invention and creativity and architectural wonder.
Each student in the seminar will participate in collective reading/discussion and take on a specific research sub-topic—anything from street entertainment and food/housing for the lower classes to the building of great concert halls, new Houses of Parliament, the role of the monarchy in the history of the city, and the rebuilding of London following the Great Fire of 1666, the onset of industrialization, and the bombing ‘Blitz’ of World War Two.
For each student the outcome of the seminar will be a seminar paper. Course assessment will include, as well, seminar discussion participation and analysis of select readings.
Fall 2008 Course Spotlight: "Ethiopia and the Horn"
HST 597L Special Studies
"Ethiopia and the Horn
(Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, and Djibouti)"
Professor Solomon Getahun
Mondays, 6:30-9:30pm
This course explores the sub-region in light of the history of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations and a country that has never been colonized. It is also one of earliest and oldest Christian nations which also became one of the first to accept Islam. Such oddities coupled with maritime trade, migration and wars made the country in particular and the Horn of Africa in general a melting pot as well as a center of competing ideologies and nationalisms.
Throughout the semester, we will study the evolution and development of the Ethiopian state since the earliest times to the present. While doing so, we will critically examine the role of competing interests such as the rise of Europe (Portugal and Spain) and the Ottoman challenge of the 16th century and its impact on political developments in the Horn of Africa, the legacies of colonialism, Cold War politics, globalization and the rise of ethno-nationalism, and religious fundamentalism in the making and unmaking of the states in the Horn of Africa.
"Ethiopia and the Horn
(Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, and Djibouti)"
Professor Solomon Getahun
Mondays, 6:30-9:30pm
This course explores the sub-region in light of the history of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations and a country that has never been colonized. It is also one of earliest and oldest Christian nations which also became one of the first to accept Islam. Such oddities coupled with maritime trade, migration and wars made the country in particular and the Horn of Africa in general a melting pot as well as a center of competing ideologies and nationalisms.
Throughout the semester, we will study the evolution and development of the Ethiopian state since the earliest times to the present. While doing so, we will critically examine the role of competing interests such as the rise of Europe (Portugal and Spain) and the Ottoman challenge of the 16th century and its impact on political developments in the Horn of Africa, the legacies of colonialism, Cold War politics, globalization and the rise of ethno-nationalism, and religious fundamentalism in the making and unmaking of the states in the Horn of Africa.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Speaker: 2008 Bulger Lecture in Biography
William T. Bulger Lecture in Biography
"Getting to Know General Washington"
by
Dr. Edward F. Countryman
University Distinguished Professor at
Southern Methodist University,
William P. Clements Department of History
March 10, 2008
Park Library Auditorium
7:00pm
Free and Open to the Public
(Sponsored by the Department of History and the William T. Bulger Lecture in Biography)
"Getting to Know General Washington"
by
Dr. Edward F. Countryman
University Distinguished Professor at
Southern Methodist University,
William P. Clements Department of History
March 10, 2008
Park Library Auditorium
7:00pm
Free and Open to the Public
(Sponsored by the Department of History and the William T. Bulger Lecture in Biography)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Thesis Defense
Thesis Defense
"Alexandria's Internal Improvement Struggle and the Eventual Rise of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad"
by
Joseph A. Camisa, Jr.
February 29, 2008
2:30pm
Powers 121
"Alexandria's Internal Improvement Struggle and the Eventual Rise of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad"
by
Joseph A. Camisa, Jr.
February 29, 2008
2:30pm
Powers 121
