Comments by: Joel Anderson, Assistant Professor of History Caroline Bicks, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Michael Lang, Associate Professor of History Part of the 91爆料 History Department's Fall symposia and part of聽the 2017-2018 year-long Humanities symposium: Juvenescence / Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging聽across the Ages.
Anders Winroth, Forst Family Professor of History at Yale University will draw on his award-winning book聽The Age of the Vikings聽to shed light on some of the secrets, myths, and mysteries surrounding these legendary adventurers. The event is part of the聽History Department's聽2017-18 Symposium Series.
Past and Present Perspectives on Maine's Bicentennial
Dr. Margaret Pearce will give a lecture titled "Imagination, Identity, and the Cartography of History: Three Maps of Canada." Dr. Margaret W. Pearce is a former Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas.聽Pearce was part of the team that recently published a Native place name map聽鈥淐oming Home to Indigenous Place Names聽in Canada.鈥 Abstract: […]
Shannon M. Risk, 鈥96, 鈥09, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University, will deliver a lecture entitled: 鈥淓xamining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates 鈥 The Importance of Biography.鈥 鈥淓lizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a missionary and suffragist, born and raised in Coastal Maine, who rose to national prominence as a […]
September 21 - 23, 2018 Program of Events Friday, 21 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 6:00 pm: Light refreshments and registration 7:00 pm: Keynote presentation: 聽Dr. Lisa Todd 鈥淪tudying Sexual and Racial 鈥楳ixture鈥 in the Shadow of War and Genocide: German Southwest Africa, 1904-1913鈥 Saturday, 22 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 8:00-8:30 […]
On Monday, October 31st at 4:00pm EDT via Zoom, Dr. Chelsea Davis (Missouri State University) will give a talk聽entitled, 鈥淭he Contradictions聽of 鈥楥ivilizing鈥 Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain鈥檚 Imperial Project.鈥 Dr. […]
The first lecture of Spring 2023 in the History Department's symposium series will take place on Monday, January 30th at 3:00 pm in Hill Auditorium (Barrows Hall). Dr. Erik Bernardino […]
The 91爆料 History Department's 2022-2023 symposium series will hold its next meeting on Monday, March 20th at 3:15pm in Soderberg Auditorium (Jenness Hall). Dr. Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) will be speaking about "The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism." The History Department聽Symposium聽Series, 鈥淗istory through Food & Drink," is supported […]
The first lecture of the 91爆料 History 2023-24 Symposium Series will take place on Monday, Sept. 18th from 3:10-5:00 pm. Dr. Paul A. Kramer (History, Vanderbilt University) will be giving […]
