History

Come “visit the Wall”, a student-and-faculty-built replica of the Berlin Wall which went down 30 years ago! Reflect upon the historical and general meaning of the Wall, bring a pen and leave your thoughts in writing or drawing, engage with it in any productive way you like. And join us for a collective “Tearing down the Wall” event on Saturday, November 9th, in the evening. Once the Wall is gone, let’s celebrate inside of Atwater!!!

Come “visit the Wall”, a student-and-faculty-built replica of the Berlin Wall which went down 30 years ago! Reflect upon the historical and general meaning of the Wall, bring a pen and leave your thoughts in writing or drawing, engage with it in any productive way you like. And join us for a collective “Tearing down the Wall” event on Saturday, November 9th, in the evening. Once the Wall is gone, let’s celebrate inside of Atwater!!!

Come “visit the Wall”, a student-and-faculty-built replica of the Berlin Wall which went down 30 years ago! Reflect upon the historical and general meaning of the Wall, bring a pen and leave your thoughts in writing or drawing, engage with it in any productive way you like. And join us for a collective “Tearing down the Wall” event on Saturday, November 9th, in the evening. Once the Wall is gone, let’s celebrate inside of Atwater!!!

Come “visit the Wall”, a student-and-faculty-built replica of the Berlin Wall which went down 30 years ago! Reflect upon the historical and general meaning of the Wall, bring a pen and leave your thoughts in writing or drawing, engage with it in any productive way you like. And join us for a collective “Tearing down the Wall” event on Saturday, November 9th, in the evening. Once the Wall is gone, let’s celebrate inside of Atwater!!!

Come “visit the Wall”, a student-and-faculty-built replica of the Berlin Wall which went down 30 years ago! Reflect upon the historical and general meaning of the Wall, bring a pen and leave your thoughts in writing or drawing, engage with it in any productive way you like. And join us for a collective “Tearing down the Wall” event on Saturday, November 9th, in the evening. Once the Wall is gone, let’s celebrate inside of Atwater!!!

Come “visit the Wall”, a student-and-faculty-built replica of the Berlin Wall which went down 30 years ago! Reflect upon the historical and general meaning of the Wall, bring a pen and leave your thoughts in writing or drawing, engage with it in any productive way you like. And join us for a collective “Tearing down the Wall” event on Saturday, November 9th, in the evening. Once the Wall is gone, let’s celebrate inside of Atwater!!!

With the upcoming exam week, the History interns know how stressed out everybody must be feeling. So, we have organized an exam week stress buster event for everyone who wants to stop by!

WHAT: there will be two adorable little doggies for everyone to come pet and show some love, hot cocoa, cookies, and cake. For those arts and crafts lovers there will also be a coloring station with a variety of markers and color pencils!

Inspired by the Canterbury Tales, representatives from the London-based group “Refugee Tales” walk in solidarity with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees, reclaiming the landscape of South East England for the language of welcome. Representatives from the group will present their project, discuss their call for the end of indefinite detention in the United Kingdom, and read the published tales of refugees with whom and for whom group walk.

Steve Barnes is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. His lecture will examine the politics surrounding commemoration of the Gulag prison system in contemporary Russia and Kazakhstan. Each country sports an authoritarian government and engages in significant mythmaking about the history of Soviet repression. Those myths differ in key ways but the Gulag past is used in both cases to justify the current political system.

John Patrick Leary, Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University, will speak about his latest book, “Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism” (Haymarket Press, December 2018). “Keywords” chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary. From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are now called to be innovators and entrepreneurs. In the midst of increasing inequality, such keywords apply the lessons of a competitive marketplace to every sphere of life.