History Colloquium

Past Colloquia

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Thavolia Glymph in Conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson, author of "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.”

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Virtual - Zoom

Join us for a virtual conversation between Thavolia Glymph, Professor at Duke University, and Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Johnson is the author of author of "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World". Register here: https… read more »

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Careers for Historians: A Conversation with Alumni

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Virtual - Zoom

Join us for a virtual conversation with Duke History PhD alumni. Jess Malitoris, PhD. '19, Exhibits Manager at Duke University Press Ashley Young, PhD. '17, Historian, American Food History Project Heidi Scott Giusto, PhD. '12, Consultant, Career Writing Solutions (co-sponsored by History… read more »

Silvio Almeida - "Societal Participation in Affirmative Action Supreme Court Rulings"

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via Zoom

Silvio Almeida, last year's Mellon Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, will share his work on affirmative action and Brazil's Supreme Federal Court rulings. read more »

Dr. Jesús Ruiz - "'I Burn My Nation': Black Royalists and Monarchical Thought in the Haitian Revolution"

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via Zoom

Dr. Jesús Ruiz, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow for the academic year 2020-2021, will present a paper from his manuscript in progress. read more »

Kidd, Crumpler, & Ramos - "Black Lives Matter, Brazil and USA: From a Duke Classroom to the World"

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via Zoom

Gray Kidd, Courtney Crumpler, and Marcel Ramos will moderate a discussion about the new Black Lives Matter/Vidas Negras Importam Brazil-USA exhibition. We will hear from undergraduate student curators who contributed to the project last semester and this summer. read more »

Jessica Johnson & Thavolia Glymph - "Sex, Gender and Slavery"

Jessica Johnson & Thavolia Glymph - "Sex, Gender and Slavery"

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229 Classroom Building

Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and our own, Thavolia Glymph will present "Sex, Gender and Slavery" at the March 18th colloquium. read more »

Jonathan Schlesinger - "Always Already Global: A History of Ivory Carvers, Taste, and Global Interaction in Early Modern China"

Jonathan Schlesinger - "Always Already Global: A History of Ivory Carvers, Taste, and Global Interaction in Early Modern China"

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229 Classroom Building

Jonathan Schlesinger, an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, will be presenting his paper,  "Always Already Global: A History of Ivory Carvers, Taste, and Global Interaction in Early Modern China". Co-sponsored by: Global Asia Initiative read more »

Keisha Blain - "East Unites with West": African American Women's Visions of Japan in the Early Twentieth Century

Keisha Blain - "East Unites with West": African American Women's Visions of Japan in the Early Twentieth Century

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229 Classroom Building

Keisha Blain, Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, will be presenting at our first History Colloquium of the Spring 2020 semester. She will be sharing a chapter that connects her first book, Set the World on Fire, to her new book project, tentatively entitled "East Unites With West… read more »

2019-2020 Colloquium Series - Assistant Professor Adam Mestyan

2019-2020 Colloquium Series - Assistant Professor Adam Mestyan

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229 Classroom Building

Prof. Adam Mestyan will present on Wednesday, November 13, 2019. Lunch will be provided. read more »

2019-2020 Colloquium Series - Associate Professor Anna Krylova

2019-2020 Colloquium Series - Associate Professor Anna Krylova

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229 Classroom Building

Prof.  Anna Krylova will present on Wednesday, October 16, 2019. Lunch will be provided. read more »

"Commanding an Army of Peons: The Origin of the Future Brazilian President Lula's Charisma, 1978-1980."

"Commanding an Army of Peons: The Origin of the Future Brazilian President Lula's Charisma, 1978-1980."

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229 Classroom Building

Prof. John French will be the department's first presenter for the 2019-2020 Colloquium Series.  He will be speaking from his new book, forthcoming from UNC Press in the fall of 2020 as "Lula's Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian Presidency and Beyond." Lunch will be provided. read more »

“Between Ethnography and Fiction: The ‘Hotel Beirut’ Project, the Syrian War, and the Queer Diaspora.”

“Between Ethnography and Fiction: The ‘Hotel Beirut’ Project, the Syrian War, and the Queer Diaspora.”

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229 Classroom Building

Sofian Merabet, from the University of Texas at Austin, will be our guest speaker for the colloquium.  Lunch will be served. read more »

The Physician, the Jury, and the Corpse: Investigating infant Death in Nineteenth-Century America

The Physician, the Jury, and the Corpse: Investigating infant Death in Nineteenth-Century America

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229 Classroom Building

An Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University since 2013, Felicity Turner received her PhD in history from Duke University in 2010. Her research has been supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington; the University of… read more »

From Manassas to Mankato: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars

From Manassas to Mankato: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars

229 Carr

Ari Kelman, from UC Davis, will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Lunch will be provided. read more »

A Sentimental and Sexual Education: Masculinity and Sexuality in Mexico City Movie Theaters, 1920-2010

A Sentimental and Sexual Education: Masculinity and Sexuality in Mexico City Movie Theaters, 1920-2010

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229 Carr

Anne Rubenstein, from York University, will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Lunch will be provided. read more »

“Wanderers of Love: Reconstructing Musical History in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean”

“Wanderers of Love: Reconstructing Musical History in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean”

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229 Carr

Our presenter will be Matthew Smith, Chair of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies-Mona, and author of two major books on Caribbean history, Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict and Political Change, 1934-1957 (University of North Carolina Press,… read more »

"Conquering the Pacific"

"Conquering the Pacific"

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229 Carr

Andrés Reséndez is a historian and author specializing in colonial Latin America, borderlands, and the Iberian world. A native of Mexico City, he studied international relations, briefly went into politics, and served as a consultant for historical soap operas before receiving a Ph.D. in history.… read more »

“Chernobyl Crucible: A Drama In Two Acts”

“Chernobyl Crucible: A Drama In Two Acts”

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229 Carr

Kate Brown, from University of Maryland Baltimore County, will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Reception immediately following. read more »

“The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Travel Writing and the Ends of the Mughal World”

“The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Travel Writing and the Ends of the Mughal World”

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229 Carr

Arash Khazeni, from Pomona College, will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Reception immediately following. read more »

"The Reign of the Uncle: Scrooge McDuck and U.S. Global Hegemony"

"The Reign of the Uncle: Scrooge McDuck and U.S. Global Hegemony"

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229 Carr

Daniel Immerwahr, from Northwestern Universty, will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Reception immediately following. read more »

“The Imposter Sea: Making the Medieval Mediterranean”

“The Imposter Sea: Making the Medieval Mediterranean”

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229 Carr

Hussein Fancy from the University of Michigan will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Reception immediately following. read more »

"The Right to Bear Arms: Gun Control and Colonial Masculinity in 1950s Francophone West Africa"

"The Right to Bear Arms: Gun Control and Colonial Masculinity in 1950s Francophone West Africa"

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229 Carr

Emily Burrill from the University of North Carolina will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Reception immediately following. read more »

"Legal Sorcery"

"Legal Sorcery"

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229 Carr

Colin Dayan from Vanderbilt University will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Reception immediately following. read more »

"The Black Radical Tradition and the Fragility of White Supremacy"

"The Black Radical Tradition and the Fragility of White Supremacy"

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229 Carr

Gaye Theresa Johnson, University of California at Los Angeles will be the guest speaker for the History Department Colloquium. Reception immediately following. read more »

The Fall of the House of Calhoun: The First Jackson Administration

The Fall of the House of Calhoun: The First Jackson Administration

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229 Carr Building

Associate Professor Reeve Huston, Duke University read more »