June 23-24
Bloody Days: Massacres in Comparative Perspective
in co-sponsorship with the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
September 23
Rogerio Souza and Friends
A presentation of Brazilian music
co-sponsored with Brazilian Studies
September 29
James Walvin, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, The University of York discussing his newly published The Zong: A Massacre, The Law, and the End of Slavery
Co-sponsored by Georgetown Institute for Global History, GU African American Studies Program, and Howard University History Department
November 7
Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
“Twentieth-century French Historians and the Environment”
co-sponsored by Institute for Global History, STIA, CGES, CFE
November 16
Ray Kea, University of California Riverside
“Hidden Histories and the Atlantic World: Perspectives from the West African Gold Coast in the Era of Atlantic Slaving”
Co-sponsored by Institute for Global History, African Studies, and Americas Initiative
November 17
Eric Perlstein, author and independent historian
“The Invisible Bridge: the 1970s and the Rise of Ronald Reagan”
Co-sponsored by Institute for Global History and American Studies
January 20
Robin Becker Dance, presenting Into Sunlight, inspired by the David Maraniss book They Marched Into Sunlight.
Presented and co-sponsored by Department of Performing Arts, with co-sponsorship by Institute for Global History, Americas Initiative, American Studies Program, Mortara Center for International Studies, Justice and Peace Studies Program, Veterans Advantage, and a generous private and anonymous donation.
March 1
Robert Gerwarth, discussing his recently published Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich.
February 15
Re-Thinking Brazil, a one-day conference co-sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Institute for Global History, and Americas Initiative
March 30
Alternatives to the Nation: Cuba and the Andes in the Era of Independence, 1760-1860
co-sponsored with Americas Initiative and the Center for Latin American Studies
March 30
Christopher Andrew, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, UK
“The British Security Service (MI5) Past and Present”
April 3
Mark Fiege presenting his newly published The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States,
co-sponsored with the Center for the Environment and the Center for Science Technology and International Affairs
May 2
Frank Müller, St. Andrew’s, UK
“The Prince, the Crypt and the Historians: Kaiser Friedrich III and the Continuities of Monarchical Geschichtspolitik in Imperial Germany”