Past Events
Choose Year:
Spring 2016 - Classes begin
Department Meeting
International Relations Round Table
Saudi Arabia-Iran Tensions
Violent Religion in China’s Golden Age
Dr. Geoffrey Goble
International Relations Round Table
China-India Relations
Memorial Service for Professor Emeritus, Richard Davis
History Major/Minor Welcome Session
History Department Workshop
Professor Alex Dube
History Department Workshop
Professor Alex Dube
History Department Workshop
Professor Alex Dube
Major/Minor Welcome Session
David Axelrod - Keynote Speaker
Journalist and political strategist and former Obama campaign manager
International Relations Round Table
Central Asia and the New Silk Road
Department Meeting
International Relations Round Table
Arctic Security
Department Meeting
Spring Break - No classes
History Colloquium - “Changing the conversation: How the Great Depression altered American financial politics and our assumptions about money”
David Freund - University of Maryland
"Hearing Is Believing: Children, Disability, American Radio and Popular Culture, 1910–70"
Walton O. Schalik, MD, PhD
International Relations Round Table
FARC/Columbian Government Peace Deal
"Asian American Studies for the 21st Century"
Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University
History Colloquium - "Rethinking the Long Reformation: Purity, Purgation, and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World"
Nick Terpstra - University of Toronto
Department Meeting
Spring 2016 - Classes end
Reading Period and Exams
Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony
Recognition Ceremony Reception
Commencement!
Memorial Day - Holiday
Independence Day - Holiday
Fall 2016 - Classes begin
Labor Day - Holiday
History Department Workshop
Nancy Reynolds presents: Egypt's 'bright beacon to Africa': the affective politics of the Aswan High Dam in 1960s decolonization and regional development
Taming Hazards: Natural Disasters and Prevention in the 19th and 20th Century
History Workshop
International Relations Round Table
Coup and Countercoup in Turkey
2016 Distinguished Humanities Lecture - Humanities: Post Theory, Post Modern, Neo-Global
with Lynn Hunt, Professor Emerita of History at UCLA
2016 Distinguished Humanities Lecture - Humanities: Post Theory, Post Modern, Neo-Global
with Lynn Hunt, Professor Emerita of History at UCLA
History Colloquium - "The History of Capitalism in the Anthropocene"
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago
Colonized Spaces, Occupied Zones: Local Experiences of the First World War in Africa
AFAS Sponsored Talk with Michelle Moyd, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of History at Indiana University, Bloomington
GHA Event
Grad Student Workshop
First Year Historiography Papers
"Administration, City Planning and Policing in Imperial and Metropolitan Perspectives: Or, Liverpool as an African City?"
Professor Tim Parsons, Department of History and African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
CCHP Speaker Series and Public Forum
Thomas Wright, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at The Brookings Institute, will deliver a lecture titled, "Presidential Candidates' National and Foreign Policies"
Dissertation Writers' Workshop
Luca Foti
International Relations Round Table
Presidential Candidates' National Security and Foreign Policies, with Thomas Wright
"Cuba in Revolution: Ten Iconoclastic Theses"
Professor Luis Martinez-Fernandez, University of Central Florida
Fall Break - No classes
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Kenanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University
Trick or Tweet 2016
History Colloquium - "The Enemy Within": Lawrence Klein, the Politics of the Economy and the Limits of Neoliberalism
Tim Shenk, Washington University in St. Louis
International Relations Round Table
North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
Dissertation Writers' Workshop
Boyi Chen
Dissertation Writers' Workshop
Boyi Chen
Grad Student Workshop
Publishing Your First Article
The Gentry Lecture Series - Dennis Stroughmatt
With a performance by Dennis Stroughmatt et l'Esprit Creole
CV Building Workshop
CV Building Workshop
Thanksgiving Break - No classes
International Relations Round Table
Revisiting Syria (again)
Publishing Your First Article
Fall 2016 - Classes end
End of Semester Holiday Party
Reading Period and Exams
Last day to file Intent to Graduate for May 2017 graduation
International Relations Round Table
The New Nationalism
International Relations Round Table
A New Approach to the Middle East?
"Cutting and Pasting in Bestiary MS Bodley 764"
Professor Susan Crane - Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
History Colloquium - "Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship and Indigeneity in the Old Northwest"
Michael Witgen, University of Michigan
"Francis of Assisi on Eating and Worshipping with Animals"
Professor Susan Crane - Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Asian American Speaker Series - Madeline Hsu, University of Texas - Austin
“How Bad Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Policy and Racial Typing in the Making of US Citizens” Title *
IAS Speaker Series - Professor Thea Lee
"Labor and Progressive Global Economic Policy in the Trump Era"
Dissertation Writers' Workshop
Sarah Siegel
History Workshop - "American Protestants and the International Origins of the 1960s Democratic Revolution"
Gene Zubovich, Washington University - Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
CCHP Speaker Series and Public Forum
"US-Russia Relations: Reset or Return to Cold War?"
Graduate Conference
The Spatial Turn
International Relations Round Table
US-Russia Relations: Trump and Putin
"Child Witches in Navarre, 1550-1620: Law, Religion, and Families"
Lu Ann Homza - The College of William and Mary
History Colloquium - "Corruption and Forensic Experts in British India"
Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Library Faculty Book Talk: Sowande’ Mustakeem
Sowande' Mustakeem
Library Faculty Book Talk: Sowande’ Mustakeem
Library Faculty Book Talk: Sowande’ Mustakeem
International Relations Round Table
Women and Democracy in Developing Countries
Spring 2018 classes end
Senior Thesis Colloquium and Awards Ceremony
Recognition Ceremony Reception
Fall 2017 classes begin
Fall 2017 classes begin
Fall 2017 - Classes begin
Fall 2017 - Classes Begin
Holiday - No Classes
Holiday - No Classes
Preserving A United Nation: Moving Forward Together Despite Our Differences
A Conversation With John C. Danforth
CCHP Speaker Series & Public Forum
"North Korea: Saga Without End" - Jonathan D. Pollack
International Relations Round Table - North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
Special Meeting with Jonathan D. Pollack
History Colloquium - Frederick Cooper, New York University
"Political Rights, Social Rights, and the Decolonization of Africa"
Dissertation Writers' Workshop
Gilbert Chen
Dissertation Writers' Workshop
Gilbert Chen
International Relations Round Table
Venezuela in Crisis
Humanities Lecture Series - Lennard Davis
"Poor"
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis
Humanities Lecture Series - Lennard Davis
"Crazy"
Center for the Humanities - Frankenstein Conference
Frankenstein Conference
Lennard Davis
Fall Break - No Classes
History Faculty Workshop
with Alex Dube
Dissertation Writers' Workshop
Taylor Desloge
International Relations Round Table
Are the U.S. and China Snared in a Thucydides Trap?
History Colloquium - Federico Marcon, Princeton University
“Controlling Money: Monetary Reforms in Early Eighteenth-Century Japan.”
The Gentry Lecture
Professor Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon
WashU Prison Education Project (PEP) Book Discussion
Daniel Karpowitz, Director of Policy & Academics for the Bard Prison Initiative
Thanksgiving Break - No Classes
International Relations Round Table
The End of the "Islamic State" in Iraq?
Fall 2017 - Classes End
Graduate Research Series
Presentations by Mary Andino and Michael Mendez
Graduate Research Series
Mary Andino and Michael Mendez
Fall 2017 - Reading Period and Exams
Christmas Break
MLK Holiday
Spring 2018 Classes Begin
CCHP Speaker Series & Public Forum
Paul B. Stares: "America's Next War and How to Prevent it"
International Relations Round Table
International Relations Round Table
"How to Avoid America's Next War"
“There’s No Place to Rest: Transience, Debility, and the Management of Homelessness”
Terrance Wooten is the Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Postdoctoral fellow
History graduate student B. Robert Wilson discusses his book
"The Half Beneath"
Major/Minor Fair
Welcome Session for students to declare the History Major/Minor
A&S Faculty Book Celebration with Professors Nancy MacLean, Corinna Treitel and Joanna Dee Das
“The Origins of Today’s" Billionaire-Funded Radical Right and the Crisis of American Democracy”
History Faculty Workshop
Steven B. Miles
CCHP Speaker Series & Public Forum
Sheena Chestnut Greitens: "From Refugee to Citizen: The Journey of North Korean Defectors and Refugees"
International Relations Round Table
"North Korea Defectors and Refugees"
Libraries Faculty Book Talk series
with Professor Monique Bedasse
Spring Break
International Relations Round Table
Yemen in Crisis
History Colloquium -
Martha Few
History Colloquium - "These Noxious Little Animals: Battling Locust Swarms in Colonial New Spain"
Martha Few, Department of History, Penn State University
International Relations Round Table
What is Putin Up To?
"Technologies of Segregation in Early Modern Italian Cities"
A symposium with various guest speakers
""On Uncertainty: Fake News, Post-Truth, and the Question of Judgement in Syria"
Lisa Wedeen, The Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Frankenstein 200 years later"
Professors Corinna Treitel and Rebecca Messbarger
Career Workshop
Michelle Repice, Career Center Assistant Director of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development
History Faculty Workshop
TBA
Spring 2018 Classes End
WILD
End-of-the-Year Fun
Reading Period and Exams
Department of History End-of-the-Year Gala
Award Ceremony and Symposium
Department of History Reception
For Graduating Seniors and their Families
Commencement 2018
Rare copy of Declaration of Independence now on view at Washington University
International Relations Round Table
Mexico's Election and Its Future
Department of History Reception
"Collecting Bodies, Body Collectives: Trace Identities in British India, 1918-47"
Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania
"Russia: The End of the Post-Soviet Period. What Next?"
Kirill Kobrin, Managing Editor of Neprikosnovennyi Zapas
International Relations Round Table
U.S. Immigration Policy
International Relations Round Table
Cuba After the Castros
International Relations Round Table
Assessing the Democratic Republic of Congo
The New World through Jewish Eyes: Recovering a Sixteenth-Century Perspective
Flora Cassen
The U.S. and Russia
International Relations Round Table
An Introduction to Digital History with Bogac Ergene
This event is limited to History Department Faculty.
Shari'a and Predatory Mal-Administration in the Ottoman Empire
Boğaç Ergene
Football, Masculinity, and Politics in the Making of Nixonland
Frank Guridy
Withdrawing from Afghanistan: What Happens Next?
Seth G. Jones (Transnational Threats Project; Center for Strategic and International Studies) discusses the potential end to the war in Afghanistan and what a U.S. exit would mean for the region.
The U.S. War in Afghanistan: An Update
Special meeting with Seth G. Jones.
The Taiwan Expedition: New Perspectives on Japanese Imperialism and the Meiji Restoration
Robert Eskildsen, Senior Associate Professor, Department of History, International Christian University, Tokyo
Unsympathetic Actors: WWII-Era Dope Struggles in the United States
Rhonda Williams, Vanderbilt University
The U.S. and China
An international relations round table.
Indigeneity and Asian America: The Double Displacement of Wartime Incarceration
Karen Inouye (Indiana University)
How to Dodge the Draft and Succeed as a Pirate in the Ming Dynasty: a Theory of Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
The "Rise," "Fall," and "Revival" of Intellectual History: A Story of Methods and Ideologies
Lecture by Professor Emeritus of History Gerald Izenberg
Asian American Speaker Series "From Spellbound to Spellebrity: Brain Sports, Spelling Careers, and the Competitive Lives of Generation Z"
Shalini Shankar, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
The U.S. and Iran
An international relations round table.
Senior Thesis Gala
Department of History Reception
China and the Return of Great Power Competition
Thomas Wright, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at The Brookings Institution, will deliver this lecture as part of the Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective co-curricular initiative, which serves undergraduates considering careers in policy as well as the greater WashU and St. Louis communities seeking historically-informed discussion about global events.
Refuse Lives, Disposable Bodies: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and History
The U.S. and Iraq Today
Col. Frank Sobchak, co-author of the "U.S. Army in the Iraq War" — the first U.S. government history of the war, will deliver this lecture as part of the Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective co-curricular initiative, which serves undergraduates considering careers in policy, as well as the greater WashU and St. Louis communities seeking historically-informed discussion about global events.
Jade as a Local Product: Objects and Empire in Eighteenth-Century China
Yulian Wu, Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University
Transnational Filipino Activism and Becoming Part of the Philippine Revolution, 1964-1986
Joy Sales, Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration, Cultures, and Law (American Culture Studies)
Informality as History
Funk Money: The End of Empire and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960s
Vanessa Ogle, University of California, Berkeley
The Great Chernobyl Acceleration.
Kate Brown is Professor of History in the Science, Technology, and Society Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change
Charles Freilich, Columbia University
*CANCELED* Enslaved Histories: Value, Risk, and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo Gómez, Visiting Fellow, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
*CANCELLED* 2020 Adam Cherrick Lecture -- Facing Deportation: Sephardic Jews, Race, and Immigration Restriction in the United States
Devin E. Naar, PhD - Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, Seattle
*CANCELED* An Anti-Imperial Bestiary: Rethinking Empire in Form and Concept
Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*CANCELED* The Syrian Jihad: What Does the Future Hold?
Charles Lister, Middle East Institute
Major/Minor Fair
Please join us for the Virtual Major/Minor Fair and learn more about History!
Legacies of Violence and Genocide: Can Memorials and Museums Help Us Build a Better Future?
The Center for the Humanities presents a Holocaust Memorial Lecture:
Legacies of Violence and Genocide: Can Memorials and Museums Help Us Build a Better Future?
History in the Time of Pandemic: A Conversation with Paul Ramirez
Paul Ramirez, PhD, will present his work on epidemic disease outbreaks and discuss his book - Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
History Department Major-Minor Welcome
Major-Minor Welcome Session for all students interested in History
A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Nineteenth-Century Poland: A Coming-of-Age Tale about National Identity, Religion and Alienation
A lecture on the topic of Jewish life in prewar/wartime Europe
A Community Dialogue on Anti-Asian Racism and Hate Crimes
Hosted by the Asian American Studies Minor, Asian Multicultural Council, Chinese Student Association
Laleh Khalili
A Lunchtime Discussion with Laleh Khalili on the Impact of the Arabian Peninsula’s Shipping Industry. Join us to discuss her book "Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula".
The Last Ghetto: A New History of the Theresienstadt Ghetto
A lecture series on the topic of Jewish life in prewar/wartime Europe
Outdoor Viewing: Hostile Terrain 94
Memorializing over 3,200 lives lost in the Sonoran Desert
South Asia's Best Kept Secret: Repackaging Caste in the Diaspora with Yashica Dutt
In this student-faculty collaborated talk, Yashica Dutt joins Prof. Shefali Chandra (Washington University) and members of the student group Ekta to discuss how caste is "the invisible arm that turns the gear in nearly every system in India," and how this invisible arm has extended its reach to the diaspora.
Fleeing Nazi Germany: Jewish Refugees in Portugal
A lecture on the topic of Jewish life in prewar/wartime Europe
History Department Orientation Open House
Virtual Public Policy Lunch Meeting
Weidenbaum Center director Steve Fazzari will moderate a lively discussion among Washington University faculty, special guests and the audience.
What Next for Afghanistan?
Dr. Seth G. Jones will join Professor Krister Knapp for a conversation on the future of Afghanistan.
Major/Minor Fair
Please join us for the Virtual Major/Minor Fair and learn more about History!
Jewish Physicians and Their Patients: Rescue Strategies in Nazi Occupied Poland
Natalia Aleksiun, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College / Incoming Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville
Digital Methods for Chinese Historical Research and the "Books in China Database"
Joseph Dennis,
Associate Professor -
University of Wisconsin
Rivals in the Gulf: Religious Authority and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring
Li Gui: A Qing Man in the World
Tobie Meyer-Fong, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University
Sharia Genres and their Writers in Imamic Yemen
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Brinkley Messick
Crisis in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future
The Office of the Provost and Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective, Department of History, invite you to join a thoughtful discussion with a panel of distinguished Washington University faculty members.
History Major-Minor Welcome
Major-Minor Welcome Session for all students interested in History.
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
Devi Mays, Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Combating Caste on U.S. College Campuses
A Dalit History Month Speaker Panel
CANCELLED: Enslaved Histories: Value, Risk, and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo Gómez, Visiting Fellow, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Inaugural David T. Konig Lecture: The Jefferson Image in the American Mind in the 21st Century. The changing meaning of Jefferson's legacy in Modern America.
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University
University Libraries Book Conversation
Prof. Iver Bernstein invites colleagues and students to the University Libraries Book Conversation about the "Material World of Modern Segregation" volume.
Senior Honors Thesis Symposium
We will be talking about law and land, conspiracies and bureaucracies, new archives and old wounds. The complete schedule is provided below - attendees are welcome to come for all or part of the symposium. It's a chance to celebrate our thesis writers, discuss their research, and think about questions small and large.
We're Making History!
All History faculty, and current or prospective Majors and Minors in History are invited to attend this mixer and meet-and-greet. We will showcase extraordinary student work in History, welcome new members to the History student community, and distribute prizes for outstanding student research and writing at all levels.
Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson
A volume panel discussion, that features Douglas Flowe, Iver Bernstein, along with Heidi Kolk and Eric Sandweiss, Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History at Indiana University, sponsored by the University City Public Library
HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Caregiving: Surfacing Coalitional Intimacies through the Domestic Archive
Stephen Vider, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Initiative, Cornell University
Vietnam: Race, Violence, and Decolonization in a Mekong Delta at War, 1945-54
Global Studies Speaker Series, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History Dept. Present Professor Shawn McHale
College Year Athens Info Session
Join CYA for an info session to learn more about study abroad in Athens, Greece. CYA offers students the opportunity to use the landscape of Athens and Greece to further your education with on-site, hands-on learning.
History, temporality and China's revolutions
Rebecca E. Karl, Professor of History, New York University
A Roundtable Discussion of Erin McGlothlin’s New Book, The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Moderator: Flora Cassen, Associate Professor of History; Chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
'Lest We Forget' Opens Oct. 20
Public art installation pays homage to Holocaust survivors living in St. Louis
"Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine"
Frances S. Hasso is Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of History. Her scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality in the Arab world. ORCID
Faculty Book Talk: Hillel J. Kieval
Hillel J. Kieval, the Gloria M Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and author, “Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe’s Fin de Siècle”
"Catholicism as the key to Understanding the Religions of the World in the Eighteenth Century"
Mark Valeri,
Interim Director of Program in Religious Studies,
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Program in Religious Studies, and
Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics
The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
Jeffrey Veidlinger, the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan - Holocaust Memorial Lecture
"China, Russia, and the Rise of Irregular Warfare" with Seth Jones
Seth G. Jones, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Missouri Historical Review Author Series: Kelly Schmidt on Slavery and the Catholic Church in Missouri
Join historian Kelly Schmidt for a discussion of her research on people enslaved by the early Catholic Church in Missouri and the communities they formed to help each other through their hardships, challenge the terms of their bondage, and ultimately seek their freedom. A postdoctoral research associate for the Washington University and Slavery Project, Schmidt is the author of the April 2022 Missouri Historical Review article “Slavery and the Shaping of Catholic Missouri, 1810–1850.”
Conversation with the author
Book talk by Prof. Christina Ramos which will be broadcast live from the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Returning Home: Repatriation of Jewish Books Confiscated During WWII
HUMANITIES BROADCAST – Conversation on Jewish books in the context of World War II with Hillel Kieval (JIMES), Anika Walke (History) and Erin McGlothlin (GLL)
The deaf shoemaker: Ability, disability, and daily life in the sixteenth century
The Department of History, the Center for the Humanities, and the Early Modern Medicine Reading Group are happy to welcome Dr. Jacob Baum from Texas Tech University to present his ongoing research on early modern disability
Pulitzer Reporting Fellowship Info Session
Learn about the Pulitzer Center Student Reporting Fellowship and conduct an independent research project about an underreported issue in today’s world.
Forum on Medicine, Race, and Ethnicity in St. Louis, Past to Future
All are welcome to this community-building gathering and discussion of critical questions on health and well-being, illness and care for our diverse St. Louis community.
Graduate Conversation with Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman, Award-Winning Author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993
Russia's War in Ukraine: One Year On
The Department of History's Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective Lecture Series invites you to join a thoughtful discussion with a panel of distinguished Washington University faculty members
Launch Week: Meet a Study Abroad Alumni
Join us in the Newman Exploration Center (Olin Library level A) to chat with study abroad alumni, grab a snack, and learn about how you can make study abroad part of your WashU experience!
The Objects that Remain: Criminal Evidence, Holocaust Artifacts, and Work of Doing Justice
Laura Levitt is Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University
Environmental Studies Knight Distinguished Lecture - Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Dr. Bathsheba DeMuth, Dean's Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.
The Inaugural Stern Family Lecture with Joseph Sassoon
Joseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World.
Indigeneity and the Production of History: Oral History Praxis in a Native American Community
The History Department and American Culture Studies Program present a Distinguished Visiting Scholar...
Israel Approaching 75: Reform, Protests & Contexts
Facilitated by Dr. Ayala Hendin, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES)
"The U.S. and China: Welcome to a New Cold War" with Dan Blumenthal
Crisis and Conflict in Historical Perspective Lecture Series in conjunction with the Alexander Hamilton Society presents
Dan Blumenthal, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
AFAS Featured Event: Talk with Maya Berry The Black Corporeal Undercommons in Post-Fidel Cuba
Historic expansion of market reforms in post-Fidel Revolutionary Cuba has contributed to increasingly stark racialized class inequality on the island. The contours of these socioeconomic changes are felt and mediated by Black people in distinctly gendered ways. In this talk, based on ethnographic fieldwork with rumberos (rumba performers) between 2012 and 2018, the embodied practices of African-inspired faith systems are engaged as means for ritual kin to form a space of well-being autonomous from the state and its development designs.
Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium
The Office of Undergraduate Research is thrilled to host the Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Body Arithmetic: Facts, Quantification, and the Human in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic
Pablo Gómez, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Memory for the Future Showcase
Studiolab Open House - RSVPs appreciated
Senior Honors Thesis Symposium
In-person and on Zoom (click on button below)
We're Making History!
All History faculty, and Majors and Minors in History are invited to attend this mixer and meet-and-greet. We will showcase extraordinary student work, welcome new members to the History student community, distribute prizes for outstanding student research and writing at all levels, as well as this year celebrate all our graduating seniors.
Juneteenth Keynote: From New Orleans to Galveston to St. Louis and Beyond
A View from the Ground: Reflections on Ukraine and NATO 2023 Summit
Dr. Kathleen McInnis, senior fellow and director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
College Year Athens Info Session 2023
Join CYA for an info session to learn more about study abroad in Athens, Greece. CYA offers students the opportunity to use the landscape of Athens and Greece to further your education with on-site, hands-on learning.
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery & War Transformed Medicine
Jim Downs,
Gilder Lehrman NEH Chair of Civil War Era Studies and
History Civil War Era Studies -
Gettysburg College
Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna
Elizabeth Louise Bernhardt, Lecturer in Italian Language
Mapping the Occupational Data for a 17th Century English Village with Steve Hindle
Taylor Geospatial Institute Spacial Humanities Working Group Lab Talk with Prof. Steve Hindle
Rethinking Tenure and Promotion Assessment in the Humanities: A Blueprint for Transformation and Innovation
This event will be structured around a series of conversations with invited guests, senior faculty and administrators from Washington University, as well as presentations from WashU scholars. The event will create a lively platform for our faculty to discuss their ideas and ambitions for undertaking truly innovative work in the humanities.
Techniques and Aims of Isaac Newton’s Alchemy
Are the US and China Destined for Conflict?
Ryan Hass, Brookings Institution
Director – John L. Thornton China Center
Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies
The Pacific Journeys of the South Asian Martyr Saint Gonçalo Garcia: India, Japan & Brazil
Erin Kathleen Rowe, Professor of History - Johns Hopkins University
Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University) is author of “Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust,” a major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice - Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Colloquium with Joan Flores-Villalobos
Join us as Joan Flores-Villalobos, Assistant Professor of History at USC Dornsife, talks on her new book The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal.
David T. Konig Lecture: Writing Constitutional History in Perilous Times
Join us for a talk by Jack N. Rakove, who is the Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, Emeritus at Stanford University.
*SAVE THE DATE* Post Commencement celebration
Please join us for this reception to celebrate History's graduating seniors with their families!