Center for Historical Studies
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
THE CENTER'S GOALS
Karin Rosemblatt
Director
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
at the University of Maryland
presents the following Fall 2020 Events
Please register to attend!
Friday, October 16, at 4 pm EST via Zoom
A panel discussion on Slavery Reparations.
With Verene Shepherd (University of West Indies), Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University) and Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University).
Part of the Miller Center Series on “Distance”
Panelists address how different constituencies have confronted their perceived distance from slavery and what that implies for efforts to acknowledge and/or repair that past. Participants analyze reparations efforts in the United States and elsewhere in the Americas, and how universities can and should recognize their own involvement.
Monday, October 19 at 4 pm EST via Zoom
A celebration of Ting Zhang's new book Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China.
With Ting Zhang (University of Maryland) and Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University)
Exploring the circulation of legal knowledge in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Zhang’s book suggests that commercial legal imprints undermined the imperial state’s monopoly on legal knowledge and helped form a new legal culture that included the free flow of information, the rise of nonofficial legal experts, a large law-savvy population, and a high litigation rate.
Friday, October 30 at noon EST via Zoom
The Archive Question.
Rosie Bsheer (Harvard University) and Ulrike Freitag (Freie Universität Berlin). Moderated by Peter Wien (University of Maryland)
Part of the Miller Center Series on “Truth in History”
In her recently published book Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia Bsheer explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state following the 1991 Gulf War and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca.
Friday, November 6 at noon EST via Zoom
A celebration of Christopher Bonner's new book
Remaking the Republic
Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship
With Christopher Bonner (University of Maryland), Samantha Seeley (Richmond University) and Quincy Mills (University of Maryland)
Bonner’s book suggests that by claiming that they were citizens, Black Americans stood at the center of creating the very meaning of American citizenship. Free African Americans used newspapers, public gatherings, and conventions to make arguments about who could be a citizen, the protections citizenship entailed, and the obligations it imposed.
Friday, December 4 at 3:30 pm EST via Zoom
Feel Normal.
Tung-Hui Hu (University of Michigan)
Part of the Miller Center Series on “Distance”
Tung-Hui Hu takes up newer forms of relationality online. Social scientists have argued that digital algorithms distort the way that social and public life are constituted, creating echo chambers of people who like or believe the same things, rather than authentic communities. But must ‘community’ be morally superior to solitude, disconnection, or even asocial behavior? This talk analyzes what Christine Ross has called the often-messy “contemporary downfalls of being-together.”
