Speaker: Adam Mestyan (Harvard University) About the Talk: In this presentation Mestyan will argue that in nineteenth-century Ottoman Egypt the symbolic unification between the Ottoman governor (khedive) and the homeland was […]
Speaker: Lerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is also affiliated with Women and Gender Studies Program. She specializes on Turkish and […]
FARINA MIR University of Michigan, Associate Professor of History KAPANY ENDOWMENT VISITING LECTURE SERIES About the Talk This talk considers the literary history of one Indian vernacular tradition, Punjabi, to […]
This presentation explores the intersections of photographic images, family history, tourism, and Ho-Chunk survivance through an examination of two photographic collections housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society: the Charles Van […]
A Black Swan Event is by definition a highly improbable happening with a massive impact. No one questions the impact of rise of Islam, but just how improbable was it? Two of […]
Brian Lewis, Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal will be giving a lecture related to his recently published book Wolfenden's Witnesses: Homosexuality in Postwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. In […]
The Senior Honors Seminar is a two-quarter seminar for majors in History, History of Public Policy, and Medieval Studies to be held in fall 2016 and winter 2017. The informational […]
Keynote talk: “Men in Women's Monasteries: Nuns' Priests in the Central Middle Ages” by Fiona Griffiths, Professor of History at Stanford University The Medieval Studies Program would like to invite […]
Modern Americans love thinking that the Hopi people of the Southwest represent the epitome of peacefulness. But in the year 1700, in the populous village of Awat’ovi, Hopi slaughtered Hopi […]
In the mid-1960s, NASA began building space technologies for the war in Vietnam. Students from the New Left vigorously protested against the space agency, which responded in the early 1970s by […]
