Center for Historical Studies

UPCOMING SPRING 2015 EVENTS:

 

February

Monday, 2/2 4 pm-6 pm,Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Pamela O. Long, “Engineering, Cartography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome”

 

Tuesday, 2/10 12 pm-2 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120

Marian Moser Jones, “Sister Soldiers: American Red Cross Nurses in Europe’s Great War, 1914-1915”

 

Monday, 2/16 12 pm-2 pm, KEY 2120

Adam Rothman discusses his book, Beyond Freedom's Reach: a Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery

 

Wednesday, 2/18 4 pm-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

James Maffie, “Understanding the Nature of Change in the Aztec Cosmos”

 

Friday, 2/20 3 pm-5 pm, TBA

Noel Izon's documentary, "An Open Door: Holocaust Rescue in the Philippines" (co-sponsoring)

 

Thursday, 2/26 Noon-2 pm, KEY 2120

Anne Rubin, "Justifiable Destruction?: Sherman, the March, and the Laws of War"

 

Friday, 2/27

HGSA Conference, “Metamorphosis: Transformations of Borders, Identity, & Place”  (co-sponsoring)

 

March 

Monday, 3/2 12 pm-2 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120

“How Not to Write Big History”

and 4 pm-6 pm, The Atrium in the Adele Stamp Student Union,

"Incest, Blind Faith, and Conquest: Defining Boundaries the Habsburg way, 1500-1700"

Geoffrey Parker

 

Friday, 3/13 Noon-2 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2118 (The Miller Center)

Colloquium with Tavia Nyong’o (co-sponsoring with LGBT Studies and the Dept. of Women’s Studies)

 

Tuesday, 3/24 4 pm-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2115

A celebration of Robyn Muncy’s new book, Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America

 

Monday, 3/30 12:30-1:30 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 & 4 pm-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Tamar Herzog

 

April 

Tuesday, 4/7 3-7 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Conference, “Defining the West”

 

Wednesday,  4/8  4-6 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120

Birgit Brander Rasmussen (co-sponsoring)

 

Thursday-Friday, 4/9-10

Conference celebrating Professor Ira Berlin’s scholarly career (co-sponsoring)

 

Monday, 4/13 4-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Lecture celebrating Professor Sonya Michel's scholarly career

 

Monday, 4/20 12-2 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120

Federico Barbierato

 

Monday, 4/27 12-2 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 & 4-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Geraldo L. Cadava

 

May

5/11 12 pm -2 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 & 4 pm- 6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Sunil Amrith

 

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A Message from the Director:
 

My first year as director of the Nathan and Jeannette Miller Center has been a real delight. I have been able to host distinguished scholars from around the world and to discuss their work and their ideas with them. At the same time, I have had the chance to interact with faculty and students in shaping our program and planning individual events. This year’s theme of “Empire Revisited” proved remarkably suggestive, leading for example to a day-long undergraduate symposium planned in conjunction with two other departments and bringing together students in three campus courses with an internationally known distinguished keynote speaker.

 

Much of the intellectual life of our campus happens, of course, in the classroom, and the Miller Center puts special effort into providing funds and coordination to help faculty members bring guest speakers into their classes. This lets students meet, and interact directly with, those who were personally involved in great historical events. And the chance to meet and debate with an author helps students better understand and internalize the books they are reading.

 

If the Center’s first task has been to bring scholars to the College Park campus, I have found that the Center can also make a significant contribution to the educational experience of both graduate and undergraduate students. Thus, we have hosted a regular meeting for Ph.D. candidates facing the rigors of writing a thesis, we have sponsored seminars on teaching and writing, and we have begun to explore how the Center can help improve undergraduate teaching in history under a special grant from the University. Through its prize program for undergraduate papers, the Center has recognized the excellent work done in our Department.

 

The Center aims also to provide an informal meeting place for faculty and students interested in history. Whether it is a group meeting to discuss a recent documentary movie about immigration into the US or a film about the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the aim always is to encourage communication and discussion of the serieous issues that shape the study of history.

 

I look forward to new initiatives in the 2014-15 academic year, and invite everyone to stop by and make use of the Center’s programs and services.

 

Bernard D. Cooperman

Director

 

 

 

 

FALL 2014 EVENTS:

September

 

Monday, 9/11 12:30-2 pm. Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Lecture by Thai Jones, "Un-Athenian Affairs: I.F. Stone, M.I. Finley, and the Trial of Socrates"

Hosted by the Department of Classics with co-sponsorship from CHS.  For more information, see: http://classics.umd.edu/events/un-athenian-affairs-if-stone-mi-finley-and-trial-socrates

 

Monday, 9/22 4-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

The Nathan & Jeanette Miller Distinguished Lecture in History and Public Affairs: Donald Goldstein presents "History, Public Policy and Pearl Harbor"

 

Monday, 9/29 12-2 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 (The Merrill Room)

Lunch Time Conversation with Katherine Unterman, "The Early Stages of an Academic Career" (Please RSVP)

 

Monday, 9/29 4-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Afternoon Talk: Katherine Unterman, "Detectives without Borders: The Supreme Court and the International Pursuit of Criminals"

 

October

 

Thursday, 10/2 4-6 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0106

"Archaeology and History: At the Meeting Place of Two Disciplines," A Colloquium in Celebrating the Scholarly Career of Professor Kenneth Holum

Featuring Michael Maas (Rice Univeristy), S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), and Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

 

Wednesday, 10/15 12 pm-1:30 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 (The Merrill Room)

Lunch Time Conversation with Jadwiga Biskupska, "Polish Elite Society under Nazi Occupation: Civil-Military Relations in a Land without a State" (Please RSVP)

 

Tuesday, 10/21 12-2 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 (The Merrill Room)

Lunch Time Conversation with Kate Epstein, "The Borders of National-Security Information" (Please RSVP)

 

Wednesday, 10/29, 4-6 pm, Hornbake Media Library Room J

"Babylon '13: Filming Crisis in Ukraine"

 

November

 

Monday, 11/3, 6 pm in the Miller Center (Taliaferro 2118)

Graduate Student Film Night: Pan's Labyrinth (Please RSVP)

 

Wednesday, 11/4, 2-4 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Dina Khoury (GWU) on her recent book, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance

 

Tuesday, 11/11 4-6 pm, Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110

Discussion and Celebration of Professor Michael Ross' new book, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

 

Monday, 11/17 4-6 pm, Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0106

Joan Wallach Scott presents "Secularism and Gender Equality Between East and West," in Celebration of the Scholarly Career of Professor Gay Gullickson

 

 

 

 

 

Japan Award

Every year the Miller Center co-sponsors a research scholarship to fund research at Hornbake Libraries' Gordon Prange Collection.  This year's application deadline is November 21, 2014.