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Organizing and Using Government Data
Organizing and Using Government Data
Tuesday, February 27 2:00-3:30pm Digital Scholarship Lab (Main Library: 2 West) Federal, state, and local governments are increasingly sharing datasets to improve transparency and allow scholars, businesses, and citizens to leverage data and conduct research to improve their cities. However, this data is often segmented into… Continue Reading Organizing and Using Government Data
Building Community Resisting Hate
Building Community Resisting Hate
Tuesday, February 27th, 4:30pm MSU Union Ballroom This event is part of the tri-residential college teach-in and is open to the wider university and community. It is co-sponsored by James Madison College, the Residential College in the Arts of Humanities, Lyman Briggs College, the Jewish… Continue Reading Building Community Resisting Hate
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Race, Empire, and American Religious Freedom
Race, Empire, and American Religious Freedom
Mar. 12, 2018 at 4:00 PM in History Conference Room, 255 Old Horticulture, Professor Tisa Wenger of Yale University will present “Race, Empire, and American Religious Freedom.” The ideal of religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless and self-evident American ideal. But… Continue Reading Race, Empire, and American Religious Freedom
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Migration, Maps, and Revolution: Telling a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age
Migration, Maps, and Revolution: Telling a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age
Mar. 16, 2018 at 1:00 PM in the History Conference Room, 255 Old Horticulture—Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskoff, University of Michigan, “Migration, Maps, and Revolution: Telling a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age.” Abstract: In his forthcoming book, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof tells the stories of a group… Continue Reading Migration, Maps, and Revolution: Telling a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age
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Digital Humanities and African Diaspora Studies: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database
Digital Humanities and African Diaspora Studies: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database
Mar. 21, 2018—3:00 PM in 201 International Center—Professor Alex Borucki, UC Irvine History Department, “Digital Humanities and African Diaspora Studies: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database” From the publication of Phillip Curtin’s The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census in 1969 to the launching of the… Continue Reading Digital Humanities and African Diaspora Studies: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database
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The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: Slave Trading and Circuits of Silver in the Atlantic-Oriented Global Markets of the Eighteenth Century
The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: Slave Trading and Circuits of Silver in the Atlantic-Oriented Global Markets of the Eighteenth Century
Mar. 22, 2018—History Department Conference Room—255 Old Horticulture at 4:00 PM—Professor Alex Borucki, UC Irvine Department of History, “The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: Slave Trading and Circuits of Silver in the Atlantic-Oriented Global Markets of the Eighteenth Century" This presentation examines… Continue Reading The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: Slave Trading and Circuits of Silver in the Atlantic-Oriented Global Markets of the Eighteenth Century
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SOVIET SOCIALISM IN LABOR, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND MIGRATION: A CONFERENCE HONORING LEWIS SIEGELBAUM
On the weekend of March 23-24, we will honor Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum's career as an historian of the Soviet Union with a conference on Russian and Soviet history. On Friday, March 23, Dr. Diane Koenker, professor emerita of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, current director of… Continue Reading SOVIET SOCIALISM IN LABOR, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND MIGRATION: A CONFERENCE HONORING LEWIS SIEGELBAUM
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Lunch with Professor Bain
Lunch with Professor Bain
An Addition Event with Professor Bain, cosponsored by the History Department, Department of Teacher Education, and H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, will be a lunch with grad students in History and Social Studies Education, hosted by Department of Teacher Education. There is no formal… Continue Reading Lunch with Professor Bain
Taking Up the Levels or Scales Problem: History Teaching’s Hidden Thinking Practice
Taking Up the Levels or Scales Problem: History Teaching’s Hidden Thinking Practice
March 30, 2018 at 2:00 PM in History Conference Room, 255 Old Horticulture, Professor Robert Bain will present "Taking Up the Levels or Scales Problem: History Teaching’s Hidden Thinking Practice." Bain will speak on his most recent research on historical thinking and history education. He… Continue Reading Taking Up the Levels or Scales Problem: History Teaching’s Hidden Thinking Practice