History

Remarks and awards for History department seniors and their families.

In this lecture, Susan Thomson, focuses on a single life story to reflect on the Rwandan government’s unfulfilled promise of ethnic reconciliation in the thirty years since the country’s traumatic genocide of 1994.

Prof. Samira Sheikh, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, is a historian of early modern South Asia at Vanderbilt University. She has just completed a book on the dying days of a little kingdom in western India and is now planning a large-scale study of precolonial and early colonial Indian maps. She will give a guest lecture, “Looking west from Cambay: How Sadanand Vyas complicates the history of Indian science.” As political chaos shook the storied port of Cambay in the late eighteenth century, Sadanand Vyas drew a detailed map of his province of Gujarat, in western India.

During World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were in some cases incarcerated in internment and concentration camps. One of the most significant visual documents of this neglected chapter of the war are a series of drawings and paintings created by Caribbean artist Josef Nassy during his internment. This talk introduces the little known Josef Nassy Collection as a unique visual record of the experiences of Black prisoners in the Nazi camp system.

Title: Book talk: Our Palestine Question

Geoffrey Levin (Emory University) will discuss his new book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale 2023), a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel, which focuses on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Aparna Kapadia, associate professor of history at Williams College and ” Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life.”

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

 

Professor Katariina Parhi, PhD, Tampere University, Finland, will give a guest lecture, titled, “Tracing the History of Epidemiology from Local Interests to International Arenas.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents Dr. Artyom Tonoyan and “Paradise Lost: Nagorno-Karabakh’s Quest for Independence from Aspiration to Exile.”

Prof. Connor Williams, Ph.D. Candidate ‘08, Yale University, will give a guest lecture, titled “Making Treason Odious Again: Perspectives from the Naming Commission and the Army’s War on the Lost Cause”

Sharing the Naming Commission’s story provides a rare opportunity to reflect—from start to
finish—on how the American government came to terms with the history and commemoration