History

Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in the Abernethy room (221) followed by a joint reception in the Axinn Center Winter Garden at 4:30 p.m.

Virtual screening of the documentary, The Celine Archive, followed by an hour of discussion with the filmmaker, Prof. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Distinguished Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and Dean of the Arts. Registration required; please register right here. 

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global History presents Victor Seow and “Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia.”

Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank. Activists in both groups assert that they share a single political struggle for national liberation. Yet, obstacles inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective. Geopolitical boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller groups.

This conversation will explore oral history and its role in producing empathy and compassion in its audience. The structure will allow Professor Lorraine Besser of the Philosophy department and Professor Don Wyatt of the History department to discuss these issues as they see fit and in accordance with the flow of the conversation. Possible topics will include Martha Nussbaum’s writing on emotional refinement, the limitations and danger of sentimental education, and the methods by which oral histories may best be leveraged to produce social good.

Virtual Senior Reception
Friday, May 21, 2021, 4:30-5:30 pm ET
Zoom link will be sent to graduates in advance.

One of the most influential historians of our times, Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, will deliver this year’s Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture.  The topic of his lecture is “Does American Politics have a Future? A Reflection on Time and Democracy.”

Join by Zoom here!

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Annelise Orleck is professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of US women, politics, immigration, and activism, including “Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965” and “Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty.”

Robert Trent Vinson is Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the College of William and Mary. He will be speaking on the century-long transnational linkages between African Americans and black South Africans – in entertainment, sports, religion, and politics – as they collectively worked to dismantle the global color line and ultimately helped end the white supremacist apartheid system.

This lunchtime talk, by Professor Daryle Williams of the University of Maryland, will cover one historian’s journey through a burgeoning academic subfield known as black digital humanities.  Special focus will be placed on the structural, circumstantial, and accidental conditions that led a somewhat conventional text-bound humanist to embrace digital tools of inquiry, analysis, and knowledge production.