Events

Students in Professor Govind Sreenivasan's course, "Early Modern History," reenacted a late 16th century infantry drill.
History Department Events and Speaker Series (2019-2020)

November 19, 2019
4pm
Olin Sang 207
Speaker: Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University
Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and History; and Presidential Term Chair in African American History, 2017-2022
Dr. Fuentes' talk will consider the precarious lives and lingering deaths of what European slave traders called, “refuse” slaves— African captives who were refused at purchase or who survived the Middle Passage but died before they could be sold in Atlantic ports. This topic arose during her confrontation with an archive that mentioned or referred to—in abstract—hundreds of thousands of people who died in the process of the slave trade but who are taken for granted in the historical and theoretical accounts of slavery, theories of precarity, and the human liminality. Fuentes wants to dwell on these people and bodies because the production of “the raw material of slaves” as laborers and property, also rendered humans as “waste”—the collateral damage of the capitalist regime of early modern slavery. This is a new project in which Dr. Fuentes is contemplating the conditions of “refuse slaves” in the archive and the consequences of this category of human to our understanding of capitalism, slavery, histories and theories of the human, and the origins of black disposability.
Past Events
September 26, 2019
Speaker: Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor, History Department at National University of Singapore
March 28, 2019
Speaker: Philip Thai, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern UniversityMarch 19, 2019
Jack Davis, PhD '94, will speak at Brandeis about his Pulitzer-Prize-winning history of America's gulf coast: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.March 6, 2019
A Conversation with Kate Wahl, Editor-in-Chief of Stanford University PressModerated by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Associate Director for Research at the Crown Center and the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History at Brandeis.
February 5, 2019
Speaker: Gretchen Heefner, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern UniversityJanuary 31, 2019
Speaker: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Associate Professor of History and Spatial Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaJanuary 29, 2019
Speaker: Sarah Pearsall, Senior Lecturer, Cambridge University.
January 17, 2019
Speaker: Eladio Bobadilla, PhD Candidate, Duke UniversityJanuary 15, 2019
Speaker: Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
November 15, 2018
History Department Speaker Series
Speaker: Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty; Professor of History, Princeton University
October 25, 2018
History Department Speaker Series
Speaker: Yoav Di-Capua, Associate Professor of History, Univeristy of Texas, Austin
March 20, 2018
Speaker: Erika Rappaport, Professor of History, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara
January 24, 2018
Speaker: Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
November 29, 2017
A discussion with Brian Meeks (Brown University) and Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Discussants: Greg Childs, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Manijeh Moradian
Co-sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities and the History Department
October 26, 2017
Ray Ginger Lecture
Speaker: Jessica Lepler, Associate Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
September 11, 2017
Greg Childs and Naghmeh Sohrabi presiding; David Scott (Columbia), Bernard Yack (Brandeis), Vivian Solana Moreno (Brandeis) presenting
Co-sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities and the History Department
April 20, 2017
Amy C. Offner, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
March 29, 2017
Featuring:
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Natalie Cornett on nineteenth-century Polish women's activists
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April French on evangelical women in Soviet Siberia
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Geraldine Gudefin on female Jewish immigrants to France and the US in the early 20th century
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Michelle Mann on Algerian Muslim women (19th & 20th centuries)
March 2, 2017
Nathan D. B. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
[Co-sponsored by AAAS and the offices of the Provost and the Dean of Arts and Sciences] Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
February 6, 2017
Shauna Sweeney, NEH-OI Postdoctoral Fellow, College of William and Mary