2009 CTCH Graduate History Conference

The Center for Transnational and Comparative history announces its second annual Graduate History Conference:

“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.

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."

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

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)

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)

Speaker: 2007 Blackburn Lecture

George M. Blackburn Endowed Lecture on the Civil War and Reconstruction

Treason or Politics as Usual?: Dissent, Party, and Federal Power in Civil War Cooperstown, NY

by

Dr. Thomas Summerhill
Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University

November 14, 2007
Park Library Auditorium
5:30pm

Free and Open to the Public

[Sponsored by the Department of History and the George M. Blackburn Endowed Lecture on the Civil War and Reconstruction]