All seminars are held in 211 Dickinson, on Fridays at 10:15 a.m., unless otherwise noted.
Fall Semester
Friday, September 25
Possessing Empire: Iberian Claims and Interimperial Legalities in the Early Modern World
Friday, October 2
Julia Smith, University of Glasgow
Gathered Together from Everywhere: Mapping Early Medieval Relic Collections, c.700-c.1100
Friday, October 9
Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania
Re-orienting the English Renaissance
Friday, October 16
The Movement and Meaning of Mobility 1830-1940
Bodies Caught on Film: Photographing Sudanese Slaves in the Early Twentieth Century
The True Story of Ah Jake: Translation and Justice among Chinese Miners in Nineteenth-Century California
Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
Spatially Radical Empires: European Expansion and the Making of Modern Geopolitics
Green Tourism: Consumption and Conservation in Twentieth-Century Germany
Cold Peace: The International Discourse on Peace during the Cold War
Friday, December 11
John McNeill, Georgetown University
Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles Quadrimaculatus , 1780-81
Friday, December 18
From the Camel's Mouth: The Moving Local of Seventeenth-Century Languedoc
Friday, February 5
"Lover of the Homeland - Lover of the Poor", Mutations of a Discourse on Poverty, Wealth and Giving
Freedom Without Slavery? The Case of the Maria Luz and the Meanings of Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Japan
The "Living Dead:" Disputing Texts and Claiming Languages in the Nineteenth Century
Europe and America in the Twentieth Century
The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History: The 1975 International Women’s Year Conference and the Challenge of Transnational Feminism
Knowledge in Motion: A History of Science in the Early Modern World
Materiality, Deep Time, and Cultural Comparison
Debating the Ottoman Caliphate and the “Muslim World,” 1839-1924: A Global Intellectual History
Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to Soviet Russia, 1921-1941
Friday, April 16
Paradoxes of Place: Pausing Motion in Ancient Italy and Now
Eating Good in the Neighborhood: The Medical and Moral History of Dietary
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine
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