History Department Colloquium: Professor Joseph Seeley

1:00-2:30PM | Bond House 116/118

For early twentieth-century Koreans, one of the most feared invaders to breach the country’s northern border with China was the tiny viral pathogen Rinderpest morbillivirus (rinderpest or cattle plague). This study examines the social consequences of rinderpest’s frequent spread into colonial Korea (1910-1945) and the methods undertaken by the Japanese Government-General to control viral “invasions.” Rinderpest prevention primarily functioned as an extension of the colonial police. Despite universal fears of rinderpest’s ravages, which devastated a rural economy dependent on animal labor, colonized Koreans themselves exhibited wide-ranging reactions to the heavy-handed methods adopted by imperial officials to fight the disease. Korean responses included outright resistance such as cross-border cattle smuggling, attacking veterinary officials, or protests against livestock travel bans, as well as varying degrees of cooperation. Moving chronologically from before the beginning of formal colonial rule in 1910 until the 1930s, this presentation tries to explain how a "modern" veterinary regime was implemented and negotiated in the northern colonial Korean borderland. Such a view is essential for understanding not only Korea’s colonial past, but also Korean responses to infectious disease “invasions” in the present day. 

Spring Cross Lecture: "A Case of Murder: Law, Ideology, and Bureaucracy in Qing Dynasty China"

3:30-6:00PM | Auditorium of the Harrison Institute in the Special Collections Library

Please join us for our fall Cross Lecture on April 12th, 3:30-6:00 pm. Professor Bradly Reed will give a lecture titled "A Case of Murder: Law, Ideology, and Bureaucracy in Qing Dynasty China." The lecture will be held in the auditorium of Harrison Special Collections, with a reception to follow.

Fall Cross Lecture: "Listening to Pictures: Hearing History in Portraits of Black Virginians, 1900-1925"

1:00-3:30 PM | Auditorium of the Harrison Institute in the Special Collections Library

Please join us for our fall Cross Lecture on December 7, 1:00-3:30 pm. Professor John Edwin Mason will give a lecture titled "Listening to Pictures: Hearing History in Portraits of Black Virginians, 1900-1925." The lecture will be held in the auditorium of Harrison Special Collections, with a reception to follow.

Crozer Lecture: "The Sternest Feature of War"

5:00-6:30pm | UVA Special Collections Library Auditorium

Professor Lorien Foote of Texas A&M University will deliver the Nau Civil War Center's annual Crozer Lecture on Wednesday, October 26, at 5pm in the UVA Special Collections Library Auditorium. Her lecture will be titled "The Sternest Feature of War: The Ritual of Retaliation in the American Civil War." As Professor Foote explains, "commanders in every military campaign of the American Civil War used retaliation against prisoners of war. This lecture will describe the basic rules and established rituals of retaliation, and how these rules reflected three essential elements in the American conception of civilized war: restraint, the accumulated wisdom of centuries, and national honor."

The event is free and open to the public. Paid parking is available nearby at the Central Grounds Parking Garage located near the UVA bookstore.

UVA Borderlands Colloquium

12:30PM - 2pm | Hotel A

Please join the UVA Borderlands Colloquium for LUNCH and conversation discussing the following pre-circulated papers:  

Oct. 21, Fahad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History," 12:30-2pm, Hotel A  

Dec. 2, Debbie Kang, “The Anti-Mexican Origins of the McCarran Walter Act of 1952,” 1:45-3pm, Hotel A   

If you are interested in workshopping a text, discussing one of the above texts, being on our listserve, or for general questions, please contact Lean Sweeney (ls3kp@virginia.edu) or Joseph Seeley (jas5f@virginia.edu).   

Though our first two workshops are focused on historical inquiry, our colloquium is also looking for input, conversation and works-in-progress across the disciplines, from Linguistics, to Religious Studies to Public Health.  The aim of the Borderlands colloquium series is to bring together scholars grappling with topics linked to the people, processes and places that highlight the historical importance and cultural dynamics of engaging with the “in-between.” We see borderlands as lying between seemingly rigid categories—not simply between two national borders, but between any kinds of social or political boundaries.  They also expand and contract, and ooze into space where they were previously absent, changing a “bordered” space into borderland one.  This colloquium aims to provide a space to workshop in-progress articles or chapters, collaborate with like-minded colleagues, and expand our strategies for using borders and borderlands as analytical frameworks. 

Goodbye Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion Rights

5:00-6:30pm | Nau 101

Teach-in with six faculty members on the recent SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe vs Wade

4th of July - No Classes

Examinations

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Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break, Nov. 23rd to the 27th

Fall Reading Days - No Classes

No classes held during reading days

Fall Courses Begin

Session II : June 21st - July 15th

Beginning of the second session of summer classes. 

Exam: Saturday, July 16th

No classes on Monday, July 4th (Independence Day observed)

Classes meet on Saturday, June 25th

2022 LEGACIES OF SLAVERY LANDSCAPES OF SEGREGATION, UNIVERSITIES STUDYING SLAVERY CONFERENCE

The Nau Civil War Center is co-sponsoring the 2022 Universities Studying Slavery Conference, which focuses on "Legacies of Slavery, Landscapes of Segregation." Submit proposals for panels or individual papers by July 1 here. 

History Department Colloquium featuring Professor Brian Owensby

3:30 to 5:00 pm EST | Virtual (Zoom)

Wednesday May 4th from 3:30-5:00 pm. Professor Brian Owensby will be giving a talk titled, "'Like animals that are hunted’: Gain, Predation, and Reciprocity in Early-Modern South America." The presentation will be based on his recent book, New World of Gain. Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy (Stanford UP, 2021). You can find more info on the book here.

Register for the zoom event here: https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuduygrTMvHdNvLypgYNHqvht3_Zql7Lju. 

Also, if you would like to take a look at the book beforehand, you can access the online copy through the library website here. 

History Colloquium - Postponed

This event has currently been postponed and once a new date is provided we will update this page.

Professor Brian Owensby will be giving a talk titled, "'Like animals that are hunted’: Gain, Predation, and Reciprocity in Early-Modern South America." The presentation will be based on his recent book, New World of Gain. Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy (Stanford UP, 2021). You can find more info on the book here.

The State As Experiment: A Centenary Symposium in Memory of Josef Popper-Lynkeus (1838-1921)

| University of Virginia

This conference takes the centenary of the death of the Austrian Jewish social philosopher Josef Popper-Lynkeus as a starting point to re-examine the powers and responsibilities of the modern state. Popper-Lynkeus’s writings on the state’s obligation to provide a minimum of food, housing, welfare, and health care became the center of great attention only in his later years and after the collapse of empires. Among his admirers and interlocutors were prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, Bertha Pauli, Sigmund Freud, Franz Oppenheimer, and Rosa Luxemburg. Key ideas driving Popper- Lynkeus’s thought included the principle of free enterprise combined with security for all, and the vision of a criminal justice system concerned with protection rather than punishment. Today, these ideas resonate in intense debates about the role of government—in everything from equity and social justice to infrastructure and public services, especially in light of a pandemic and of repeated violence against marginalized groups. The conference brings together voices from a variety of perspectives to explore the state—famously dubbed by Nietzsche the ultimate “idol” and “coldest monster”—through the lens of social, economic or political reform; ideal and utopian re-imagination; and communitarian, anarchic, and other forms of critique.

Program of Events

Wednesday, April 6

5:00PM, Solarium Room (Colonnade Club):
Opening Keynote: George Steinmetz (University of Michigan):
“The Fall and Rise of Empires and States: Theory and Research in the Human Sciences”

Thursday, April 7:
All panels will take place in New Cabell Hall 236.

9:00-10:30AM: Opening Session: “Imperial States: The Waning of Empires and the Idea of the State. A Conversation with George Steinmetz”
Chair: Erik Linstrum (UVA); Panelists: Emily Burrill (History), Kevin Duong (Politics), Isaac Reed (Sociology), Jeff Olick (Sociology)

10:45AM-Noon: Panel 1: “Critical States: Visions and Voices from the Margins”
Chair: Asher Biemann (UVA); Panelists: Malachi Hacohen (Duke): “Lynkeus and fin-de-siècle Viennese Progressivism: Centennial Reassessment;” Louise Hecht (Vienna/Katz Center): “Jewish intellectuals in Bohemia. The peer group of Popper-Lynkeus”

2:00-3:15PM: Panel 2: Alternate States: Reforming Life, Imagining Community
Chair: Marcel Schmid (UVA); Panelists: Eva Barlösius (University of Hannover): “Life Reform as Critique of the State;” Steven Press (Stanford, via zoom): “European States and the Case of Neutral Moresnet, 1815-1919"

3:30-5:00PM: Panel 3: “Ideal States: Utopian Visions at the Limits of the Political”
Chair: Caroline Kahlenberg (UVA); Panelists: Claudia Willms (Goethe University, Frankfurt, via zoom): “Franz Oppenheimer’s Utopian State;” Emma Davis (Northwestern, via zoom): “Rejecting a ‘Political Surplus’: Brit Shalom’s Anti-Statist Zionism;” Dieter Hecht (Vienna/Katz Center): “Popper Lynkeus and Zionists in Vienna”

Friday, April 8:
Morning panel will take place in New Cabell Hall 236.

9:00-10:15AM: Panel 4: “Social States: Welfare and Experimental Economies”
Chair: Manuela Achilles (UVA); Panelists: Sarah Jacobson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): “Challenging the Modern Welfare State: South Italian Migrants and Housing Activism in 1970s Italy and West Germany;” Anton Korinek (UVA): “Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work”

10:30AM: Tour of University Grounds for Conference Participants

12:00-1:00PM, Garrett Hall (Batten School): Public Event with Austrian Ambassador His Excellency Martin Weiss Followed by Reception 

Negotiating Dominican Citizenship: Education, Race, and Nation during the 1916 US Occupation

11-12:30 pm | Zoom Webinar

The CRPES Race & Education lecture series welcomes Dr. Alexa Rodríguez, Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate with UVA's Center for Race and Public Education in the South and Research Fellow in the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Rodríguez’s research sits at the intersection of schools, migration, and the formation of racial and national identities in both Latin America and the US. Prior to joining UVA, Dr. Rodríguez worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY DSI). Dr. Rodríguez completed her Ph.D. in History and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, her M.S. Ed. in Educational Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and her B.A. in History and American Studies at Fordham University. Dr. Rodríguez was also a 2020 dissertation fellow for the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation.  

What does it mean to be a citizen of a country ruled by another? What rights and responsibilities do citizens have in such a context? What role can schools play in the formation of the next generation of citizens? During the turn of the twentieth century, Dominicans across the country were deep in conversation, debating these very questions. Dr. Rodríguez will discuss her book manuscript, Crafting Dominicanidad, an intellectual history that examines how Dominican stakeholders used public schools to articulate and circulate competing notions of Dominican citizenship that were shaped during the US occupation between 1916 and 1924. Using the documents of the US Military Government, Department of Justice and Public Instruction, as well as letters written by concerned parents and community members, Dr. Rodríguez will discuss how Dominicans across the country used this moment to reflect on, discuss, and practice Dominican citizenship.

Register HERE: https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s0Z4akWwT5O0MNe9o64e5g

Graduate student session to follow: Email CRPES@virginia.edu if you wish to attend.

History Department Colloquium featuring PhD Candidate Nick Scott

History PhD candidate Nick Scott will be presenting a paper titled, "Working Against the Dictatorship: The Vicuña Mackenna Industrial Zone and the Chilean Labor Movement, 1973-1990." To receive the Zoom link, click here to register.

Early Modern Workshop, Presentation by Professor S. Max Edelson

12:00 - 1:30pm | Zoom

The Early Modern Workshop is a multidisciplinary forum where scholars working on the early modern period (broadly defined) can discuss their work with colleagues across departments. The aim is to foster conversations that go beyond departmental, disciplinary, and regional parameters, and to create an active community of early modernists here at the University of Virginia. We convene once a month on Fridays, 12-1:30pm, on Zoom. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact us. Please visit our website for an archive of past presentations and for information about future events. 

Please join us at the Early Modern Workshop on Friday, March 4 | 12-1:30pm for a presentation by S. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia. 

“John Ogilby’s Geographies: How a Restoration Impresario Imagined English America” 

Our events are free and open to the public.  

Please register on the Zoom link below: 

https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsf-6qqT0iHNcNJuSgUlOk7pQIsomNw7_a 

Abstract 

John Ogilby’s America (London, 1671) pictured the New World for English audiences by translating Arnoldus Montanus’s De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (The New and Unknown World) (Amsterdam, 1671). Like the Dutch original on which it was based, Ogilby’s book marvels at outlandish Native cultures and exotic flora and fauna, enticing the reader with scores of illustrations, views, and maps. This paper examines how Ogilby altered his edition to describe English America in the midst of a second wave of colonization in North America and the West Indies. It focuses attention on five new images that Ogilby created as well as the new texts that he added to accompany them. Ogilby pictured America as populous, mysterious, and brimming with life--a space that invited a new generation of colonial settlers to give such abundance form and purpose. In doing so, he created an influential vision of a rising English empire in America. 

 S. Max Edelson is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (2006) and The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence (2017).  His current book project is titled “Restoration America: Founding Colonies and Making Maps at the Edges of Empire, 1650-1725.” 

"Surviving the Civil War": Nau Civil War Center 2022 Signature Conference

9:30am - 4pm | Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Nau Civil War Center's 2022 Signature Conference, "Surviving the Civil War: Medicine and Mortality in the Civil War Era," will take place on March 25, 2022, in UVA's Small Special Collections Library auditorium. The conference will feature presentations by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Jim Downs, Brandi Clay Brimmer, Jonathan S. Jones, and Margaret Humphreys, and it will be free and open to the public. 

Conference Schedule

9:00am: Doors open

9:45am: Opening remarks from Caroline E. Janney

10am: Sarah Handley-Cousins, University at Buffalo, "Disability and the American Civil War"

11am: Jim Downs, Gettysburg College, "'Sing, Unburied, Sing': Slavery, Confederacy, and the Practice of Epidemiology"

noon: Break for lunch.

1pm: Brandi Clay Brimmer, University of North Carolina, "'She Took Care of Him Up to...His Death': Black Women and the Labor of Care in the Post-Civil War South"

2pm: Jonathan S. Jones, Virginia Military Institute, "The 'Cure' for Opium 'Slavery'? Veterans, Drug Addiction, and Patent Medicine in the Postwar Years"

3pm: Margaret Humphreys, Duke University, "Death and Diversity in Civil War Medicine"

4pm: Book signing. Books available for purchase. 

Annual Robert Cross Lecture - Professor Thomas Klubock

3:30pm - 6:00pm | The Colonnade Club, Pavilion VII

The Corcoran Department of History is pleased to announce Professor Thomas Klubock will be giving the Annual Robert Cross Lecture on Wednesday, April 13th from 3:30-5:00pm. The lecture will be held in The Colonnade Club in Pavilion VII with a reception to follow. The title of Professor Thomas Klubock's lecture is Las Que Van Quedando en el Camino (Those Left by the Wayside): Reading Rural Rebellion in Chile for Women and Gender.

We look forward to hearing Professor Klubock’s lecture and having the opportunity to host colleagues, community members, students, and friends.

Live Podcast Recording: White Power on Trial

6 PM | Nau 101 and online

Professors Will Hitchcock and Siva Vaidhyanathan, host of the podcast Democracy in Danger, invite the public to a live podcast recording of "White Power on Trial: August 12 and Social Media" on Monday, November 1 at 6:00pm. Guests Jessie Daniels and Aniko Bodroghkozy will join the hosts to analyze Sines v. Kessler, and discuss the use of social media, the KKK Act, and how best to combat extremism online. See the event website here: https://medialab.virginia.edu/events/story/white-power-trial-august-12-a....

University-Wide Majors Fair

1:00-4:00PM | Newcomb Ballroom

Considering a major in History? Stop by the Majors Fair on October 18 in Newcomb Hall. Department representatives will be on hand to answer questions about classes and requirements. Find event details here: https://virginia.presence.io/event/majors-fair

Democracy Dreams: José Martí and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century​

12-1:30 | Bond House, 116

Democracy Dreams: José Martí and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century​

Featuring Ada Ferrer (New York University), moderated by Jalane Schmidt (UVA)

Date: Monday, October 18th, 2021

Time: Noon-1:30pm 

Location: Bond House, 116

Professor Carrie Janney’s Book Talk at New Dominion Book Shop

7pm | New Dominion Book Shop

Join us as we celebrate the release of Caroline E. Janney’s book Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.

About the Book: In this dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee’s surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney takes readers from the deliberations of government and military authorities to the ground-level experiences of common soldiers. Pulitzer Prize–winning author T. J. Stiles called Ends of War “a rich, detailed, and heartrending story of how the Civil War did not end in Wilmer McLean’s parlor at Appomattox Court House.”

About the Author: Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she worked as a historian for the National Park Service and taught at Purdue University before returning to UVA in 2018. An active public lecturer, she has given presentations at locations across the globe. She is the past president of the Society of Civil War Historians and has published seven books, including Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation and Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox.

Ends of War will be released on September 21. To order the book, please see below for the New Dominion Bookshop book order form or call the shop at 434-295-2552. 

https://ndbookshop.com/events/caroline-e-janney-ends-of-war/

Corcoran Department of History 2021 Diploma Ceremony

2021 History Department Undergraduate Diploma Ceremony and Faculty Messages to the Class of 2021 

https://history.virginia.edu/2021-history-department-undergraduate-diplo...

A Conversation about Democracy and Violence with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui and T.J. Tallie

This webinar is the culmination of the inaugural 2020-21 Democracy Initiative Graduate Seminar. Organized and facilitated by the DI Graduate Fellows, the conversation brings together two leading scholars of settler colonialism to discuss their work on state violence and Indigenous resistance, embodied citizenship and belonging, the role of the scholar and the politics of the archive. Audience questions will be welcomed. 

Democracy Initiative Graduate Fellows, 2020-2021: Isabel Bielat (History), Charles Bradley (Education), Emily Marks (French), John Modica (English), Onur Muftugil (Politics), Dana Moyer (Politics), Hana Nasser (Politics), Meghan O’Donoghue (French), Layla Picard (Politics), Bob Qu (History), Tarushi Sonthalia (English), Felix Zuber (History).

Registration: http://bit.ly/DI_GradSeminar

https://democracyinitiative.virginia.edu/rethinking-sovereignty-and-belonging-colonial-contexts-conversation-about-democracy-and-violence-j

2021 Nau Civil War Center Signature Conference: "Black Virginians in Blue"

| Virtual

The first day of the Nau Center's 2021 signature conference will be held virtually via Zoom on April 13 at 7 PM (ET). The Center will officially launch its Black Virginians in Blue (BVIB) digital project. The project chronicles the experiences of 256 Black soldiers and sailors from Albemarle County, Virginia, before, during, and after the American Civil War. Please join us for a conversation with historians Elizabeth R. Varon and William B. Kurtz as well as a short demonstration of BVIB’s website.

The conference's second day will take place on April 14 also at 7 PM (ET) on Zoom. Nau Center Director Caroline E. Janney will host a conversation with historians Holly Pinheiro, Amy Murrell Taylor, and Emmanuel K. Dabney about their research on the African American experience in the Civil War.

Both events will also be live streamed on our Facebook page and recorded.

Register to attend Black Virginians in Blue (Zoom Webinar)

Tyler Stovall and Jennifer Sessions: White Freedom and Lady Liberty Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series

6 pm | New York Historical Society (Virtual)

From its origins in France to a public monument in the United States, the Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable symbols of freedom in the modern world. Historian Tyler Stovall, in conversation with Jennifer Sessions, examines an often unexamined and surprising part of the history of Lady Liberty: its role as a racial symbol. For more information click the below:
https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/white-freedom-and-lady-liberty

Why (and How) We Study War and the Military: Reflections on New Scholarship

4 pm | Virtual

Join the Foundation and GAGE for a roundtable discussion about the study of war and military history. William Hitchcock, the Corcoran Professor of History at U.Va., will moderate a discussion among three leading scholars in the field: Beth Bailey, director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas, Caroline Janney, the John L Nau III Professor in History of American Civil War at U.Va., and Andrew Preston, professor of American history and a fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University.

https://jeffersonscholars.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eERaf9ZNQEeda4BLkHumxw

TA Training and Teaching Workshop

Book Talk: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

On October 2 at 4pm, Professor Martha Jones (Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University) will discuss her new book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. Professor Jones' virtual visit is sponsored by the Corcoran Department of History, GAGE, the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and Virginia Humanities. To attend, register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/utw2so0v/register. 

Cross Lecture: Of Amnesty and Oblivion: History, Memory, and the Question of Peasant Insurgency in Twentieth-Century Chile

3:30PM | Harrison Small Auditorium

Professor Thomas Klubock will give this year's Cross Lecture titled "Of Amnesty and Oblivion: History, Memory, and the Question of Peasant Insurgency in Twentieth-Century Chile" at 3:30pm on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. A reception will follow. 

"For Liberty and Union": 2020 Signature Conference

9:00AM-5:00PM | Harrison Institute & Small Special Collections Library Auditorium

We are pleased to announce the speakers for our 2020 Signature Conference titled “For Liberty and Union: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War.” Historians Amy M. Taylor, Joseph P. Reidy, Emmanuel Dabney, and Holly Pinheiro will join UVA’s own Elizabeth Varon and William Kurtz to talk about the experiences of African Americans in the Union military during the war. The conference will take place at UVA’s Special Collections Library on Friday April 3 from 9AM to 5PM.

The event is free and open to the public and no advance registration is required. Paid parking is available nearby at the Central Grounds Parking Garage located near the UVA bookstore. Copies of our participants' most recent books will be available for purchase. The conference's complete schedule will be posted on the Nau Center's website.

Kashmir Teach-in

5:00PM | Wilson 301

There will be a teach-in on the Kashmir crisis this Friday at 5 pm in Wilson 301 by Professor Hafsa Kanjwal. She is assistant professor of history at Lafayette College, and a member of the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective. 

It is co-sponsored by the Corcoran Department of History, Muslim Students Association, Pakistani Students Association, Middle Eastern Leadership Council and the Charlottesville Alliance for Refugees. Please circulate this widely. 

The Politics of Fear: European and Transatlantic Perspectives

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | New Cabell Hall 236

Lecture “A Forgotten History: The Muslims of Medieval Europe”

3:30pm | Nau 342

Brian Catlos:  Lecture “A Forgotten History: The Muslims of Medieval Europe”

3:30-5:00 pm | Nau 342

Brian Catlos is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History

12:00PM-2:00PM | 342 Nau Hall

Sponsored by the UVA Department of History and GAGE.

Monica Kim is Assistant Professor in U.S. and the World History in the Department of History at New York University. Her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (Princeton University Press), is a trans-Pacific history of decolonization told through the experiences of two generations of people creating and navigating military interrogation rooms of the Korean War. She has published work in journals such as Critical Asian Studies and positions: asia critique concerning U.S. empire, war-making, and East Asia. She is also a member of the Editorial Collective for Radical History Review and is active in SHAFR. Her research and writing have been supported by fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Penn Humanities Forum at University of Pennsylvania, and the Korea Foundation. 

Sandwiches will be provided. Please RSVP to pmv3c@virginia.edu

Invisible Spectrum: Making and Viewing the Unseen

| Campbell Hall 160

Per the event release from the Art & Architectural History Graduate Symposium Committee: 

On behalf of the UVA Art & Architectural History Graduate Symposium Committee, I am pleased to inform you of our upcoming event, Invisible Spectrum: Making and Viewing the Unseen, taking place on March 29 in Campbell Hall, Room 160. We will welcome the following eight graduate student speakers:

• Samuel Allen (PhD Candidate, Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), "The Referent Adheres: LaToya Ruby Frazier's Registration of Toxicity in The Notion of Family"
• Zhe Dong (PhD Candidate, Constructed Environment, School of Architecture, University of Virginia), "I See Chairman Mao When I See His Badge': Local Practices and a Theory of Figuration in Mao Zedong's Birthplace"
• Abby Eron (PhD Candidate, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland), "Mystic, almost psychic': Gertrude Käsebier's Photography of the Unseen"
• Orsolya Mednyánszky (PhD Candidate, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University), "Pater incertus: Skepticism and Evidence of the Incarnation in Late Medieval Art"
• Kristen Nassif (PhD Candidate, Art History, University of Delaware), "The Spectacle of Seeing Spectacles: Vision Aids and John Haberle's A Bachelor's Drawer"
• Ty Vanover (PhD Student, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley), "Sex in Two Dimensions: Fritz Kahn and the Medical Infographic in Nazi Germany"
• Amy Wallace (PhD Candidate, History of Art, University of Toronto), "Invisible Walls: Glass Studios and Naturalism in England and France, 1875-1900"
• Yifan Zou (PhD Student, Art History University of Chicago), "What Does an Experience of the Surface Alter? Materiality, Function, and Viewing Practice of a Ming Dynasty Carved Lacquer Plate"

Our keynote address will be given that evening by Dr. Rachael Z. DeLue, Professor of American Art History at Princeton University. 

Rhythmic Medicine: Poetry and the Pulse in Thirteenth-Century French Psalters

4:00 PM | New Cabell Hall 323

The Program in Medieval Studies, the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, the Department of English, the Corcoran Department of History, the Page-Barbour Fund, the UVA Center for Poetry & Poetics, and the Department of French present:

Sara Ritchey
(Associate Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

“Rhythmic Medicine: Poetry and the Pulse in Thirteenth-Century French Psalters”

4 pm, 30 November 2018

New Cabell Hall 323, with reception to follow in NCH 349

Privilege or Prejudice?: Charlottesville's Jews, Anti-Semitism and White Supremacy

7:00pm | City Space

Phyllis Leffler will speak on the topic "Privilege or Prejudice?:  Charlottesville's Jews, Anti-Semitism and White Supremacy."  The talk will be held as part of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society's new series called First Fridays, held on the third Friday of every month.  The focus is both historical and contemporary, exploring the experience of Jews in Charlottesville over time. This talk is based in part on her recently published essay in Southern Jewish History.  If you are interested in reading the essay, a copy can be obtained  at https://www.jewishsouth.org/store/articles-pdfs.

The History of A12 and Its Meaning

5:30PM-7:00PM | Nau Hall 342

The creator of new podcast series "A12," Dr. Nicole Hemmer explores why the alt-right descended on Charlottesville and how the city and university have grappled with the aftermath. 

Hemmer's talk explores the events of A12, the varieties of activism that developed during the Summer of Hate, the failures of city and university leadership, and what has happened to the alt-right in the year since they attacked the university and the city. 

Hemmer is Assistant Professor at the Miller Center and co-founder and editor of "Made by History" at the Washington Post. 

You can listen to the podcast here. The podcast features extended interviews with John Mason, Claudrena Harold, Risa Goluboff, and many other UVa and city voices. The series dives into the city's history, especially of Charlottesville's African American community, and places the riots of A12 in a rich historical context. 

Sponsored by the Page Barbour Fund for the project "When the Fascists Came to Town." 

Contact: wih9u@virginia.edu

Beyond Jefferson: The Randolphs, Hemingses, and the Idea of the West, 1820-1900

3:30PM-5:00PM | Nau 342

Christa Dierksheide, "Beyond Jefferson: The Randolphs, Hemingses, and the Idea of the West, 1820-1900." Dierksheide is assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri.  She is the author of Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014).

The Antisemitic Origins of “Fake News” and the Fate of American Democracy

5:00PM | Nau Hall 324

This talk is by Professor Victoria Saker Woeste of the American Bar Foundation. The talk will take place on September 17 at 5:00PM in Nau Hall 324.

A leading scholar in the field of U.S. legal history, Professor Woeste will discuss her current work, Suing Henry Ford: America’s First Hate Speech Case, and the forgotten ties between pre-World War II American antisemitism and the contemporary Alt-Right, as well as the history of legal activism against hate speech. Her books include The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945 (1998) and Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech (2012).

This presentation is part of the series, “When the Fascists Came to Town: Reflections on the Radical Right from Weimar to Charlottesville,” co-sponsored by the Corcoran Department of History, the Center for German Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures, with the support of the Page-Barbour Fund.

A pre-distributed paper is available for attendees. Please contact Professor James Loeffler for a copy or with other questions at jbl6w@virginia.edu.

New Registers for Old Debts: Municipal Courts and Micro-lending in Nineteenth Century Mexico

10:00AM | 117 Wilson Hall

History & Theory Conference for Marx's 200th Birthday

12:30-5:15 pm | Monroe Hall 122

In celebration of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, the History & Theory Workshop at the University of Virginia is hosting a conference of 4 panels to discuss the continuing relevance of Marx's writings to our world today. No invitation or ticket is required, anyone who is interested is welcome, and you are encouraged to come ready to ask questions and engage with both panelists and other attendees.

Tentative Schedule:
Panels: 
Monroe Hall 122, 12:30-5:15
Marx and Social Justice: 12:30-1:30
1. Anup Gampa (Psychology), “Implicit and Explicit Racial Attitudes Changed During Black Lives Matter"
2. Monica Blair (History), “Charlottesville's General Strike: Teaching Local Histories of Black Reconstruction.”
3. Gillet Rosenblith (History), "To Lose Your Housing is Double Jeopardy: Public Housing in the United States, 1969-2001"

Marx and Revolution: 1:30-2:50
1. Nick Scott (History), “Revolutionary Space: Cordon Industrial Vicuna Mackenna and the Chilean Road to Socialism, 1972-1973”
2. Crystal Luo (History), “Asian America and the Specter of Immigration Reform, 1968-1975.” 
3. Abeer Saha (History), “Animal Factory: The Rise of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, 1945-2000.”
4. Gio Senzano, (Philosophy), “The Proletarization of the Puerto Rican”

Marx and Fascism: 3:00-4:00
1. Robert Stolz (History), “Tosaka Jun: The Uses and Abuses of Feudalism”
2. John Tiernan Low (History/Linguistics), “The Center's Tepid Friendship with the Alt-Right and its Historical Precedents”
3. Charles Hamilton (History), “Solidarity not Surrender: British Anti-Fascism Since 1970.”

Marx and Media: 4:10-5:10
1. Brooks Hefner (English, JMU), “Political Economy and Popular Culture”
2. Chris Ali (Media Studies), “Marx and the Study of Media policy: Methodologies and Expectations”
3. Justin McBrien (History), “Charlton Heston: Prophet of Eco-Apocalypse or Propagandist of Eco-Resilience?”

Keynote: English Faculty Lounge, Brooks Hall, 5:30-7:00
1. Matthew Garrett (Wesleyan University), “Reading Is Theft”

There is also a Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/594239410945080/

Cross Lecture: "What Makes a Court Supreme?"

3:30 pm | Small Special Collections Library

Every year, the History Department hosts the Robert D. Cross Memorial Lecture in honor of former department professor Bob Cross. This year's lecture will be given by Paul Halliday, the Julian Bishko professor of history.

Titled "What Makes a Court Supreme? The View from Ceylon," the lecture will be given on Wednesday, April 25, at 3:30pm, in the Auditorium of the Harrison Institute at the Small Special Collections Library. The event is open to the public, and there will be a reception following the lecture.

Opening Reception for East German Living Room Museum

4:00-6:00 pm | Nau 252

Ever wonder about life behind the Iron Curtain? What does a communist comic book look like? Would you like to play an East German guitar? Then come visit our exhibition:

The East German Living Room: Everyday Life Behind the Berlin Wall

Nau Hall 252

Wednesday, April 18, from 4 to 6pm

Featuring an East German juice cocktail from the recipe book Drinks of the GDR

"They Shall Not Perish" Film Screening and Discussion

6:00 pm | Nau 101

As part of the “Sanctuary and Belonging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Flight, Refuge and Community” Symposium, there will be a screening of the documentary “They Shall Not Perish.” This film details the unprecedented humanitarian efforts of thousands of Americans who helped save a generation of orphans and refugees as a response to the Armenian Genocide in 1915.

The one hour screening will be followed by a discussion with Charles Benjamin, Ph.D., the President of the Near East Foundation and Leon Yacoubian, a UVA SEAS 4th year who founded “Tuff Armenia Project."

The event will begin at 6pm on Wed., April 11 in Nau 101.

Penny Von Eschen to Speak about Cold War Nostalgia

3:30 pm | Nau 342

Ever feel nostalgic for a simpler time when the only thing we had to worry about was Comrade Gorbachev? Then come see Penny Von Eschen, the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities at Cornell University, next week! Dr. Von Eschen will be giving a lecture entitled “‘God I Miss the Cold War’: Nostalgia, Triumphalism, and Global Disorder Since 1989.” The talk will be held on April 4 at 3:30pm in Nau 342.

Didem Havlioğlu to Speak about Gender and Ottoman Poetry

11:00 am | Robertson 123

Come see Didem Havlioğlu speak about the work of Mihri Hatun, a 16th-century woman Ottoman poet. Dr. Havlioğlu will talk in particular about what it meant to be a female intellectual in the male-dominated world of early modern Islam.

The lecture begins at 11 am on March 29, in Robertson 123.

A Panel on the History of Greek Life and Race Relations at UVa

7:00 pm | Minor Hall 125

The Inter-Fraternity Council has partnered with UVA's Corcoran Department of History to sponsor a panel that will explore the history of Greek life and race at UVa over the past century. The event will take place in MINOR HALL Room 125 on TUESDAY, MARCH 20 at 7:00 p.m. The conversation will be between Professor Ervin Jordan, Dr. Cameron Webb, fourth-year Jasmine Zollar, and members of the IFC community. It will be moderated by fourth-year Ashwanth Samuel.

Professor Jordan is a research Archivist at UVA's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Professor Webb is a UVA alum and now is on the faculty at the UVA Medical School. Jasmine Zollar is a fourth-year in the NPHC Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Inc. Ashwanth Samuel is the current President of the IFC.

IHGC Graduate Conference on Race, Labor, and Empire

| Wilson 142

On the weekend of March 16-18th, the UVa IHGC will be hosting a graduate conference on "Rethinking the History of Modern Political Concepts: Race and Division of Labor in Global Western Empires, 1791 - 1888." The conference, which will take place in Wilson 142, has been co-organized by History grad student Swati Chawla, and features department professors Fahad Bishara and Erik Linkstrum as panel chairs. For more details and a full schedule, please visit the IHGC's website.

Geoff Eley to Speak on Fascism and Antifascism

4:00 pm | Newcomb Hall Gallery

Please come to see Geoff Eley, one of the most important scholars of German and European history today, deliver a lecture on "Fascism and Antifascism, 1920-2020."  Dr. Eley will be speaking in the Newcomb Hall Gallery on Monday, February 19, at 4pm

Christina Mobley to Speak at the 2018 Mellon Fellows Symposium

9:30 am | Wilson 142

Come see Christina Mobley speak at the 2018 Mellon Fellows Symposium, along with colleagues from MESALC (Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures) and Politics! Prof. Mobley's talk, "Voodoo History" will examine the transnational character of the Haitian Revolution. The symposium kicks off at 9:30am on February 16 in Wilson 142.

Benson & Guerra: Afro-Cuban Activisms

5:00 pm | Minor Hall 125

Please join us on February 23 to hear Devyn Spence Benson and Lillian Guerra speak about Afro-Cuban Activisms. The talk will be held at 5pm in Minor Hall 125.

A job market for unmarried people? Rethinking marriage bars in the United States (1900-1941)

12:00-1:30 pm | Nau 342

A paper presentation by Romain Huret, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - EHESS

This lecture deals with the proliferation of marriage bars in the early decades of the twentieth century. Bars concerned the hiring and firing of married women and arose in teaching and clerical work from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Economists and historians have scrutinized the two barriers put in place -the hiring of married women; retention of existing workers when they married- and have given many explanations to explain the reasons for such discriminatory practices that ended in the 1950s. This lecture revises current scholarship by looking at the marriage bars through the eyes of unmarried people themselves. It carries out a case study of both my epistemological and methodological framework used for my larger project on unmarried people in the United States.

Lunch will be provided.

Monday, November 6, 12:00-1:30pm,  Nau 342

Read Dr. Huret's paper here.

Staging the Administrative State: The Board of Tax Appeals in Plain Sight, 1935-1937

4:00-5:30 pm | Nau 342

MADCAP Presents: “Staging the Administrative State: The Board of Tax Appeals in Plain Sight, 1935-1937,” a presentation by Romain Huret of The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris

Thursday October 19, 4:00-5:30pm, Nau Hall 342

This paper focuses on an obscure administrative body – the Board of Tax Appeals – that suddenly came into the spotlight in the mid-1930s during the Andrew W. Mellon trial. If historians have carefully traced the intellectual origins of administrative agencies and administrative law in early twentieth-century and have paid close attention to the decisive role of New Dealers, they have neglected the concrete dimension of its rise - what Abe Fortas called the "theater of law." Until the New Deal, the administrative state was almost invisible for millions of Americans. Commissions and agencies were largely out-of-sight, and the administrative state took the form of cold and anonymous decisions taken in Washington D.C. By revisiting the literature on the New Deal state, this paper shows how the trial gave New Dealers the opportunity to provide a more concrete and solemn dimension to administrative agencies. It was part of an attempt to legitimize the new federal power by inscribing it in the daily lives of citizens. 

The Fascist Threat: What you Should Know

5:30-7:00 pm | Nau 101

A Public Conversation with Manuela Achilles, William Hitchcock, James Loeffler, Kyrill Kunakhovich, and Sarah Milov

• What is Fascism?
• Hitler’s Rise to Power 
• Fascism in the USA
• Neo-Fascism and Neo-Nazism
• Antisemitism Today
• Fascism and Charlottesville

Wednesday, September 27, 5:30-7pm, Nau Hall 101

This event is free and open to the public; no registration required
Sponsored by the Corcoran Department of History, the Center for German Studies, and the Program in Jewish Studies

The Struggle for Racial Justice at the University of Virginia

5:00 pm | Nau 211

August 30, 5:00 p.m. 

Nau Hall 211, South Lawn

On Wednesday, August 30th, the Department of History will host a series of conversations that explore the ongoing struggle for social justice and racial equality at the University of Virginia (UVA) and situates the racist events of August 11th and August 12th within a larger historical perspective. The opening talk, led by Professor Claudrena Harold, will engage the following questions: What does the complex nature of political, intellectual, and social life at the University of Virginia tell us about how race is lived and experienced in 21st century America?  How and to what degree have the individual and collective experiences of African American undergraduates transformed since the late 1960s and early 1970s? How have those transformations been shaped by larger political developments in higher education, U.S. race relations, etc.?   And to what degree can an engagement with the history of civil rights and social justice movements at the University and beyond assist current efforts to make the University a more democratic and safe space for students, faculty, workers, etc.?  

Professor Harold's 15-20 minute talk will be followed by breakout sessions led by other faculty members (including but not limited to Professors Grace Hale, Will Hitchcock, Andrew Kahrl, and Sarah Milov).

The event will start at 5 p.m. in Nau Hall 211 and breakout sessions will be held in Nau 211, Nau 342, and Gibson 411.

"Shenandoah at War," Nau Center Signature Conference (2017)

8:30 am-5:00 pm | Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library Auditorium

The Center’s signature conference for 2016-2017, “The Shenandoah at War: Soldiers and Civilians in Virginia’s Great Valley,” will be held on March 31, 2017.  Speakers will include Joseph T. Glatthaar of the University of North Carolina, Stephen B. Cushman of the University of Virginia, Caroline E. Janney of Purdue University, Edward Ayers, president emeritus of the University of Richmond, Kathryn Shively Meier of Virginia Commonwealth University, and John Matsui of the Virginia Military Institute. The lecturers will address military and nonmilitary dimensions of the Valley’s experience during the Civil War, as well as the ways in which the Shenandoah figured in postwar memory.

The event will be held in the auditorium of UVA's Special Collections Library. The conference is free and open to the public. Paid parking is available nearby at the Central Grounds Parking Garage.

Here is the conference lineup and schedule (Download the official conference program here):

Session 1

8:00: Coffee available

8:30: Opening remarks from Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon

8:45-9:30: Stephen B. Cushman, University of Virginia, “Destruction, Reconstruction, and Richard Taylor's Happy Valley”

9:40-10:25: John Matsui, Virginia Military Institute, “Overgrown Sows and Puritans: Religion and Occupation in the Valley, 1862-64”

10:35–11:20: Kathryn Shively Meier, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Duty to My Country and Myself: Jubal Early on His Defeat in the Shenandoah”

11:30-12:00: Question and Answer Session #1

12:00-1:00: Lunch

Session 2

1:15-2:00: Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina, “Generalship, Politics, and Personalities: The Union High Command During Jubal Early's Raid on Washington in 1864”

2:10-2:55: Caroline E. Janney, Purdue University, “Going Home: Disbanding the Remnants of Lee’s Army in the Valley”

3:15-4:00: Edward L. Ayers, president emeritus of the University of Richmond, “The War in the Valley as the War in Microcosm”

4:15-4:45: Question and Answer Session #2

4:50-5:00: Farewell remarks from Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon

Date: 

Friday, March 31, 2017

Time and Location: 

8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library Auditorium

“Echoes of the Great Terror: Soviet Perpetrators on Trial, 1939-1943″: An International Conference at the University of Virginia

September 30 - October 1 2016

Offering new perspectives on Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937-38 and, specifically, the role of the perpetrator in Stalin’s USSR, this conference features presentations in Russian and English based on previously unexamined Ukrainian and Georgian archival sources by historians based in Russia, Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia, Moldova, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Participants in the conference include:

Timothy Blauvelt (Ilia State University, Republic of Georgia)

Igor Casu (Center for the Study of Totalitarianism; State University of Moldova)

Olga Dovbnya, Serhii Kokin, Roman Podkur, and Valeriy Vasylyev (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)

Marc Junge (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany)

Andriy Kohut (State Archives, Security Service of Ukraine)

Nikita Petrov (“Memorial” International Human Rights and Humanitarian Society, Russia)

Jeffrey Rossman (Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia)

Andrei Savin (Institute of History, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

David Shearer (Department of History, University of Delaware)

Aleksandr Vatlin (Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Moscow State University, Russia)

Lynne Viola (University of Toronto, Canada)

Vadym Zolotaryov (Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, Ukraine)

The primary language of the conference is Russian. Summary translation of the Russian-language presentations into English will be provided.

Please visit the CREEES website (https://uva.theopenscholar.com/creees/) for a detailed schedule.

For questions, please contact Anna Maxwell (ask4mm@virginia.edu)

Organized by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) with co-sponsorship from the Page-Barbour Fund, the Corcoran Department of History, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation.

Cross Lecture - Gary Gallagher - "All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent Civil War Scholarship"

3:30pm | Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library Auditorium

Please join the Corcoran Department of History at the Cross Lecture:

Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History
'All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent Civil War Scholarship' 
3:30 pm Wednesday, April 13
Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library Auditorium 
Reception to follow.

NASU Second Annual Native American Powwow

10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Hereford Lawn

Saturday, April 2 at 10 AM - 5 PM

Hereford Lawn 2400 Stadium Rd

Come celebrate Native American culture with a day of food, dance, and music! Join the University of Virginia's Native American Student Union (NASU) at the 2nd annual spring powwow on April 2nd. Don't miss the Grand Entrance at noon! Enjoy drum performances by Yapatoko along with Zotigh Singers and dance performances led by Aaron Winston and Debora Moore. UVA catering and vendors will be selling food throughout the event. 

A huge thank you to the IDEA Grant and College Council whose generous sponsorship and support has made this event possible!

TODAY: History DMP info session

4:00 - 5:00PM | Gibson 242

MAKE HISTORY GREAT AGAIN!  
History Distinguished Majors Program Information session

MARCH 17, 4-5pm GIBSON 242 

DMP director and professor of history Brian Balogh,

along with current History DMPs will answer

your questions about the program.

Congressional briefing on the history of political partisanship in the United States

10:00 am | Cannon House Office Building, Room 121, Washington, DC

The National History Center of the American Historical Association cordially invites you to a Congressional briefing onthe history of political partisanship in the United States.

The briefing will examine the evolving nature of partisanship from the antebellum period to the present.

Presenters:
Brian Balogh, Professor of History at the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia

Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University

Moderator:
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the Senate

Friday, January 29, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Cannon House Office Building, Room 121

Washington, DC

Questions and answers will follow the presentation.

Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP to Amanda Moniz at amoniz@historians.org.

For more information, please see our website.

AIA Lecture: Malcolm Bell III "A Sicilian Greek Agora"

5:30 pm | 158 Campbell

The Charlottesville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America was founded 50 years ago and held its first lecture on October 15, 1965.  The September 30th lecture will celebrate the founding and the first lecture.  

History in the Present - Denise Spellberg - "Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders"

4:00 pm | Auditorium of the Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library

Tuesday, April 28, 4pm in the Auditorium of the Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library, Denise A. Spellberg, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, will present "Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders" ast part of the History in the Present: Perspectives on the Middle East 2014-15 Lecture Series.

SURVIVORS INTO MINORITIES: ARMENIANS IN POST-­GENOCIDE TURKEY

5:00 - 6:30 pm | Clark 108

Tuesday, March 24, 5-6:30pm in Clark 108
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT Associate Professor of History will present "Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey" (panel discussion to follow)

20th Century US History Workshop

2:00 pm | Nau 342

The 20th Century Workshop will meet to discuss Benji Cohen and Erik Erlandson's prospectuses. (Please see their abstracts below).  

Benji Cohen: "Outsourcing Democracy: The Neoliberalization of Washington, D.C.'s Public Schools, 1970-2014"

My dissertation chronicles a radical transformation in urban public education over the last forty years. Focusing on Washington, D.C., I demonstrate the process by which the school system adopted neoliberal education policies. A reform coalition made up of both Republicans and Democrats, business leaders, and independent policy entrepreneurs, managed to take control of Washington’s public schools, emphasizing privatization, choice, efficiency, competition, and the free-market. This shift from traditional public schooling to a neoliberal model has manifested itself through new models like vouchers and charterization, the emergence of non-public influences like Teach for America (TFA), and the reliance upon high-stakes standardized tests

Erik Erlandson: "Redesigning the State: Federal Courts and the Emergence of Reagan's Deregulatory Bureaucracy"

My dissertation explores how lawyers, judges, executive officials, and other political actors transformed the legal mechanics of the administrative state to help bring about deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s. Administrative law, the body of legal rules that governs the bureaucracy, had been dominated by overzealous courts in the preceding two decades. Inspired by the idea that agencies were prone to “capture” by regulated interests and could not be granted broad discretionary authority, federal courts forcefully intervened in the administrative process to ensure that agencies remained accountable to the public writ large. They did so by foisting on administrators an array of new procedural requirements. But judicially-enforced “interest representation” only increased regulatory obligations, and thus clashed with new and wildly popular neoliberal ideas like deregulation. If agencies were to retreat from the private sector and regulate less, courts would have to stop demanding more and more of them.

“Redesigning the State” thus argues that conservative legal thinkers had to empower the bureaucracy vis-à-vis the courts in order to liberate different sectors of the economy. Bureaucratic discretion and deregulation were strange bedfellows because, after years of judicial oversight that amplified administrative obligations, Republican agency staffers desperately needed institutional independence to move in a different direction. Administrators needed courts that would defer to their expertise. In the 1980s a spate of new legal doctrines pushed courts and administrative law in this deferential direction. These doctrines would allow agencies like the Federal Reserve, FTC, and EPA, for instance, to weaken regulatory programs through heightened bureaucratic capacities. On its face deregulation refers to the removal of the state from the private sector, but my project shows that administrative power and market liberalization are not necessarily at odds. The realities of regulation are more complicated than the convenient dichotomy between “markets” and “government” might suggest.

Southern Seminar with Sarah Milov.

12:00 pm | Nau 441

The Southern Seminar is open to faculty and graduate students from any department. We will meet informally over lunch to hear Professor Milov give a presentation on her recent research; please rsvp to Varon (evaron@virginia.edu) or Hale (gh5x@virginia.edu), as lunch will be provided. 

History of African Americans at UVA tour

4:00 pm | Special Collections Library

The University Guide Service's monthly History of African Americans tour is this Friday, November 21 at 4pm starting from the Special Collections Library. The tour should last about 75 minutes and will cover the history of African Americans at UVA from slavery through the present day. All are welcome!

"The Republic of Georgia: Trying to Become a Normal Democratic State" Tedo Japaridze

2:00 pm | Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room

Tedo Japaridze Lecture

•Chair of the Georgian Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs (2012-present)

•Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to USA, Canada, and Mexico (1994-2002)

•Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Georgia (2003-2004)

Rock and the Wall: American Music as Rebellion in East Germany

5:30 pm | Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The hammer blows that brought the Berlin Wall crashing down were preceded by a rock-and-roll powered “sonic boom” – a series of legendary concerts in the late 1980’s. Grace Hale, U.Va. Professor of History and the Director of the American Studies Program, will focus on the “Concert for Berlin,” a show held in the West but designed to be heard far over the wall, and Bruce Springsteen’s unforgettable 1988 East Berlin show. In addition, Hale will examine how East Germans understood and responded to American rock as the product of African American and working class white rebellion – going back to the folk-blues tours in their homeland in the 1960’s and 1970’s and Bob Dylan’s East Berlin concert in 1987.

Lecture by Marcello Carastro--"Spoken and Written Words: Comparative Thoughts on Greek Divination"

5:00 pm | Cocke Hall, Gibson Room

"Spoken and Written Words: Comparative Thoughts on Greek Divination"
Lecture by Marcello Carastro

5:00 p.m. Thurs., October 30, Cocke Hall-Gibson Room

Last of 3 Lectures

Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment and the Legacy of the Civil War

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Miller Center

Elizabeth R. Varon 
October 28, 2014
3:30PM - 5:00PM (EDT)

Miller Center

ELIZABETH VARON is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. A noted Civil War historian, she is the author of Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789–1859; We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia; and Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, which was deemed one of the "Five best books about the Civil War away from the battlefield" by the Wall Street Journal.

This event is part of…

The Historical Presidency Series: Organized by Gary W. Gallagher, renowned U.Va. history professor and Miller Center senior faculty associate, the inaugural 2013-2014 Historical Presidency series will examine executive leadership during a particularly calamitous period in our nation’s history.

Amb. Ryan Crocker on the U.S. & Iran

7:00 pm | Newcomb Hall Ballroom

AMBASSADOR RYAN CROCKER: The United States and Iran: 

Where Are We Heading?

Tuesday, February 11          7:00-8:30 p.m.

Location: Newcomb Hall Ballroom ( U.Va. Web Map)

 The Miller Center and the International Relations Organization at U.Va. will co-host a lecture with AMBASSADOR RYAN CROCKER on the interim nuclear deal with Iran, and the prospects for peace with the U.S. and greater stability in the Middle East.

 Ambassador Crocker is the preeminent American diplomat to the Middle East, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the 2013 James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center. He holds the U.S. Foreign Service’s highest rank, serving as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012, ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009, and  ambassador to Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon. In 2009, President George W. Bush awarded Crocker the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.

 A question-and-answer session will follow this lecture. 

 Check out the Facebook page for this event, and let us know if you plan to attend here.  

 RSVPs are not required, but VIP seating is available by request. Email gage@virginia.edu to reserve your front-row seat for this lecture!

Woodman Seminar

1:00 pm | Nau 441

Following Dr. Woodman's talk on the 13th, he will be offering a research seminar to interested faculty and graduate students:

'Working with Anglo-Saxon Charters'
Friday, April 16th 1:00-3:30
Nau 441

Supporting materials for this workshop are accessible through the Medieval Studies Research Seminar page:

http://www.virginia.edu/medievalstudies/ressem.html

 Dr. Woodman is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge. His research focuses upon the intersection of law and politics in the Anglo-Saxon period, the analysis of charters, the history of Northumbria, and historical writing, in particular the _Historia Regum_ attributed to Symeon of Durham. He is currently completing his major edition of the pre-Conquest charters of the northern religious houses, to be published by the British Academy and OUP.

Dubois Workshop

Graduate Student workshop with Laurent Dubois

Fall 2010 Graduate Course Registration Begins

GHSA Spring Luncheon

1:00 pm | Nau 396

Many of you are in the throes of comps season, and we of the GHSA would like to offer you respite, if only for a moment. Join us tomorrow (Friday, 19 March) in Nau 396 from 1:00 to 3:00 for a Spring Luncheon for sandwiches (both meat and veggie options from Take It Away), drinks and refreshments.

Spring is *finally* here, and it's time for us to embrace it.

Final Exercises

Major Events - Final Exercises Website
General Information
 - Caps & Gowns
 - Tickets & Seating (Lawn Ceremony)

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses due for May 2010

Classes End

Course Enrollment Begins via SIS for Fall Semester 2010

Tentative Date