Upcoming Events

Nov. 9-11: Professor Anne Bang is our Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Professor Bang is a member of the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, and the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, at the University of Bergen in Norway.  She is a leading authority in the emerging field of Indian Ocean studies, where she focuses particularly on Islamic culture and scholarship in the region.  Her most prominent publication, Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa , 1860-1925 (London and New York: Routledge Curzon: 2003) traces networks of family ties and Islamic scholarship which connected the Hadramaut (the southwestern corner of the Arabian peninsula in modern Yemen) and its far-flung diasporas throughout the Indian Ocean.

• Nov. 9 at 12:00-1:30PM: Graduate Student Seminar, in conjunction with Crossing Borders Proseminar –"Giving voice to chaos: The challenges of writing multiple histories" (1117 University Capitol Centre)
• Nov. 10 at 4:30-6:00PM: Public Lecture –"Indian Ocean History:  Places and the Spaces Between" (302 Schaeffer Hall)
• Nov. 11 at 12:00-1:30PM: History Department Faculty Seminar – "Movements of Islam in the Western Indian Ocean: Theoretical and Conceptual Challenges" (273 Schaeffer Hall)

Nov. 11, 7:00PM: Pomerantz Lecture--"The Sparks Fly Upward: Learning about the Holocaust, Defying Genocide." Dr. Cathy Mansfield, professor of law at Drake University and operatic composer, will deliver this year's lecture.  (UI School of Music Recital Room, 1670 University Capitol Centre)

Nov. 13, 4:30PM: The GHS Workshop on C.V.s and Cover Letters -- Profs. Giblin and Stromquist have agreed to workshop students' submissions of C.V.s and cover letters with an eye toward job applications in particular, but also conference and grant applications.  Anyone wishing to submit C.V.s and/or cover letters should deposit two copies in Anna Flaming's Box in 280 SH by October 29.  This colloquium will benefit students in all stages of their careers, including those who do not submit anything. (22 Schaeffer Hall)

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. 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)