Upcoming Events

Dec. 2, 12:00PM: GHS panel of distinguished UI professors as they discuss the intersections between history and other disciplines.  Panelists include Professors Teresa Mangum (English), Meena Khandelwal (Anthropology) and Claire Fox (English). Each will discuss a current project that involves working with another discipline, or thinking outside of their disciplinary home. Open to both faculty and graduate students and will be useful to historians in all stages of their careers. (302 Schaeffer Hall)

Dec. 3, 2:30-4:20PM: Professor Celestine Bassey of the University of Calabar, Nigeria, will present a lecture entitled "Geopolitics of Global Energy Supply: An Examination of U.S.-Nigerian Naval Cooperation Under AFRICOM in the Gulf of Guinea." This event is co-sponsored by the African Studies Program and the History Department. (61 Schaeffer Hall)

Dec. 4, 9:30AM: The European Studies Group will host a one-day conference on the fall of the Berlin Wall and its broader ramifications. The keynote speaker will be Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina (and Lisa’s dissertation advisor).
(More details TBA)

Dec. 4, 12:00PM: Professor Jarausch will meet with faculty and grad students for a lunch discussion of his work. He has written or edited more than thirty books in modern German history. He co-founded the UNC Center for European Studies, just finished co-directing a new research institute on contemporary history in Potsdam, Germay, but is now returning to full-time teaching in Chapel Hill. He is devoting special efforts to training advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
(273 Schaeffer Hall)

Dec. 4: Department Meeting

Dec. 9, 12:15PM: Erica Townsend-Bell, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, "Shifting Subjectivities: Racialization and Otherness in Modern Costa Rica." Laura Gotkowitz will provide comment. (Room TBA)

Mar. 4, 2010, 3:30PM: Inaugural Lecture in Latin American Studies to honor Charles A. Hale-- Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the Department of History. Professor Steve J. Stern,"The Paradoxes of Truth: Reckoning with Pinochet, Dirty War, and the Memory Question in Chile and World Culture, 1989-2006." (1117 University Capitol Centre)