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Program Archives

Spring 2009

May 11, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Presents Lecture by Dr. Cassandra Pybus
"The Book of Negroes: A Portal into Race, Slavery, and Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1760-1790"

Dr. Cassandra Pybus
University of Sydney, Australia

Professor Pybus completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Sydney. Since then, she has published extensively on Australian, American and Transatlantic history. Her interests span as broadly as Australian social history, colonial history in North America, South East Asia, Africa and Australia, slavery and the history of labour, and the history of Tasmanian Aborigines. She has won numerous awards, most recently the Adelaide Festival Prize for Non Fiction in 2001 for her controversial book, "The Devil and James McAuley."

Profile at The University of Sydney, Australia

Responder: Robert Olwell, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin

April 16, 2009

"The Nation-State and the Transnational Environment" Conference

The centerpiece of the Institute's global borders theme for the program year 2008-2009, this conference is designed to explore the historical background to a pressing contemporary question: how and under what conditions will nation-states cooperate to solve environmental problems that, by their very nature, exceed the ability of individual states or even clusters of states to resolve on their own. Panels will explore how nations have managed water resources, fisheries, environmental toxins, and migratory wildlife, as well as other features of the natural environment, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The conference will also include a keynote address by Professor John McNeill, one of the world's leading environmental historians, and a concluding roundtable designed to explore future prospects for international and transnational cooperation. The latter event will feature Tzeporah Berman, a leading activist who has worked with Home Depot and other major corporations to improve environmental consciousness, and Robbie Cox, a former president of the Sierra Club.

April 15, 2009

"American Crossroads: Migration, Communities, and Race" Conference

This conference convenes scholars of race, activism, and migration to explore comparative trajectories of racialization and community building among Asian, African, and Latino Americans. We encourage the sharing of questions and research problems across ethnic divides to advance our understanding of the coalitions, conflicts, and intersections that distinguish and yet entwine these groups. Our three panels focus on urban communities, activism, and racial discourses.

April 13, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Laurie Green
Discovering Hunger in America: The Politics of Race, Poverty, and Malnutrition after the Fall of Jim Crow

Dr. Laurie Green
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Responder: Dr. Kamran Ali, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, April 10, 2009.

April 6, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Micheal Kwass
Globalization, Borders, and Smuggling: The Political Implications of Global Trade in Eighteenth-Century France

Dr. Micheal Kwass
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Georgia
Responder: Jesse Cromwell, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, April 3, 2009.

April 2, 2009

"Black Atlantics: An Urban Perspective, 1400-1900" Conference

March 30, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Tracie Matysik
The Ethics of Immanence: Spinoza, Science, and Materialism in the 19th Century

Dr. Tracie Matysik
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, March 27, 2009.

March 11, 2009

The Institute for Historical Studies and the Department of Government Present Dr. Gareth Austin
Slaves, States and Markets in West Africa, 1500 to the Present

Dr. Gareth Austin
Reader in Economic History, London School of Economics
Dr. Gareth Austin specializes in the study of global economic history, especially economic development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He is particularly interested in viewing contemporary development issues in historical perspective, and in considering the contributions of so-called New Economic History, rational choice theories, and social structural theories in explain patterns of change across time and space. His book, Markets, Slaves and States in West African History (c1450-present), is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He is co-editing (with Kaoru Sugihara) Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History, and is author of Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956 (Rochester 2005).

His articles include "Global History and Economic Teaching: a view of the L.S.E. Experience in Research and Graduate Teaching," in Patrick Manning (ed.) Global Practice in World History: Advances Worldwide (Markus Weiner 2008). An interview with Dr. Austin appears in Ivor Agyeman-Duah (ed.), An Economic History of Ghana: Reflections on a Half-Century of Challenges and Progress (Ayebia Clarke, 2008).

Dr. Austin serves on the editorial board of Journal of Economic History. In July 2008, he was elected President of the European Network in Universal and Global History (for a 2008-2011 term).

Please contact Dr. Catherine Boone, Professor, Government Department with requests for additional information.

March 9, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Nancy Appelbaum and Dr. Benjamin Schmidt

Dr. Nancy Appelbaum; and Dr. Benjamin Schmidt
Respectively: (Research Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, and Associate Professor, History Department, SUNY-Binghamton; and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Washington)
Dr. Nancy Appelbaum will present her paper entitled, "Mapping the 'Country of Regions:' Agustín Codazzi and the Nineteenth-Century Colombian Chorographic Commission."

Dr. Benjamin Schmidt's paper is titled "Empires and Exoticism: Making Geography and Unmaking 'Global Borders' in Early Modern Europe."

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, March 6, 2009. 

March 2, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Anne Martinez
Reluctant Shepherd, Eager Diplomat: Francis Kelley and the Mexican Situation

Dr. Anne Martinez
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Responder: Dr. Ruben Flores, Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas.

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. 

February 20, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies presents
a Workshop for Black History Month

Michael Hurd and Roxanne Evans
Leaders, Texas Black History Preservation Project
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, Feb. 13, 2009.

The Texas Black History Preservation Project aims to document the total African American experience in Texas.

February 16, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Jay Rubenstein
The First Crusade: Slaughter and Chivalry

Dr. Jay Rubenstein
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee- Knoxville

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. 

February 12, 2009

"Rethinking German Modernities" Conference

February 2, 2009

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Adam McKeown
World Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1850-1940

Dr. Adam McKeown
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University
Responder: Dr. Eiichero Azuma, 2008 Harrington Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. 

January 15, 2009

Fellowship Application Deadline

January 15 is the deadline for submitting fellowship applications for annual year 2009-2010.

Inquiries: historyinstitute@austin.utexas.edu

Fall 2008

December 8, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Mark Metzler
Liberalism and Its Enemies in the Late Nineteenth-Century World

Dr. Mark Metzler
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Responder: Dr. Antony G. Hopkins, Professor and Walter Prescott Webb Chair of History and Ideas, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Dec. 5, 2008. 

November 24, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Alf Lüdtke
Rabbit and Hare - or: Is the Researcher Always Too Late? The Case of the Border between "East" and "West" in Germany, 1945-2000

Dr. Alf Lüdtke
Professor, University of Erfurt
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m.,  Nov. 21, 2008.

November 17, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Ruben Flores
The Influence of Post-Revolutionary Mexican Debates over Social Equality on the Sociology of Pluralism in the United States

Dr. Ruben Flores
Research Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, and Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas
Responder: Dr. Neil Foley, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Nov. 14, 2008.

November 10, 2008

Odyssey Speaker Series Presents Dr. Robert Olwell
Playing Chess at Monticello: "Reasoning" with Thomas Jefferson at the Start of the 21st Century

Dr. Robert Olwell
Institute for Historical Studies Fellow, and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
This lecture series draws upon the concept of borders--political, philosophical, cultural, social--to provide Odyssey participants with a fascinating look at some of history's most compelling stories.

Organized through the Institute for Historical Studies, this series features dynamic professors from the Department of History

November 10, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. David Kinkela
"Accentuate the Positive": Defending the global war on insects in a Silent Spring world

Dr. David Kinkela
Research Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, and Assistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY-Fredonia
Responder: Paul Rubinson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Nov. 7, 2008.

November 6, 2008

Lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Jones

UT Department of History
Prof. Jacqueline Jones, the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History, will be giving a lecture about her new book, Saving Savannah, The City and Civil War.

Jones is the recipient of numerous awards including the Taft Prize, the Bancroft Price (for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow), and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Free and open to the public.

November 3, 2008

Odyssey Speaker Series Presents Dr. Bruce Hunt
The Making of the First Atomic Bombs

Dr. Bruce Hunt
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
This lecture series draws upon the concept of borders--political, philosophical, cultural, social--to provide Odyssey participants with a fascinating look at some of history's most compelling stories.

Organized through the Institute for Historical Studies, this series features dynamic professors from the Department of History

November 3, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. A. Joan Saab
America Tropical: David Alfaro Siqueiros and the markets for global modernism

Dr. A. Joan Saab
Associate Professor, Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
Responder: Dr. Steven Hoelscher, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Oct. 31, 2008.

October 27, 2008

Odyssey Speaker Series Presents Dr. David F. Crew
Visualizing Genocide: The Holocaust in Photographs Since 1945

Dr. David. F Crew
Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
This lecture series draws upon the concept of borders--political, philosophical, cultural, social--to provide Odyssey participants with a fascinating look at some of history's most compelling stories.

Organized through the Institute for Historical Studies, this series features dynamic professors from the Department of History

October 27, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Ebru Turan
The Sultan's Favorite: Ibrahim Pasha (1523-1536) and the Making of Ottoman Universal Sovereignty in the Renaissance

Dr. Ebru Turan
Research Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, and Assistant Professor, Department of History, Fordham University
Responder: Dr. Brian P Levack, Professor and John E. Green Regents Professorship in History Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Oct. 24, 2008.

October 20, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. James Sweet and Dr. Marjoleine Kars
Soliders and Slaves: African-Americans in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic

Dr. James Sweet and Dr. Marjoleine Kars
Respectively: IHS Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Associate Professor, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Dr. James Sweet will present, "Domingos Álvares and the Politics of Public Healing in the Atlantic World."

Dr. Marjoleine Kars will present, "Frontiers of Identity: Mutiny and Rebellion in Dutch Berbice, 1763-1764."

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m.,  Friday, Oct. 17, 2008.

October 13, 2008

Odyssey Speaker Series Presents Dr. Howard Miller
The Race Goes On: Ben-Hur, Popular Religion and American Culture Since 1880

Dr. Howard Miller
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
This lecture series draws upon the concept of borders--political, philosophical, cultural, social--to provide Odyssey participants with a fascinating look at some of history's most compelling stories.

Organized through the Institute for Historical Studies, this series features dynamic professors from the Department of History

October 13, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Gary Wilder
Decolonization without National Independence: Léopold Senghor's Utopian Vision of Postwar France

Dr. Gary Wilder
Associate Professor, Department of History, Pomona College
Responder: Dr. Ben Brower, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas A and M University

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m.,  Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.

October 6, 2008

Odyssey Speaker Series Presents Dr. George Forgie
The American Civil War--How Else Might It Have Ended?

Dr. George Forgie
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
This lecture series draws upon the concept of borders--political, philosophical, cultural, social--to provide Odyssey participants with a fascinating look at some of history's most compelling stories.

Organized through the Institute for Historical Studies, this series features dynamic professors from the Department of History

September 29, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Frank Guridy
Destination without Humiliation: Black Tourist Networks in the Transnational Circuit of Segregation

Dr. Frank Guridy
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Responder: Dr. Tiffany Gill, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador for lunch and a copy of the and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, Sept. 19, 2008.

September 15, 2008

Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Robert Olwell
First Impressions: Creating Florida in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture and in the British Imperial Imagination

Dr. Robert Olwell
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Responder: Dr. Lisa Moore, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Courtney Meador and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper by 9 a.m., Friday, Sept. 12, 2008.

Spring 2008

Initial programs included workshops by:

  • Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
    "Revisiting the Color Line: Toward a Broader Vision of Race and Region in (Asian) American History"
    Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008
    Time: 4-5 p.m., Place: GAR 0.128
  • Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney
    '''The world is all of one piece': The Anglo Empire, Transatlantic Slavery, the American Revolution and the Antipodean Experiment"
    Date: Monday, April 21, 2008
    Time: 12 noon, Place: GAR 1.102, Garrison Seminar Room
  • Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan
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