Brown Bag Series

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Wednesdays 12-1 pm, UH 950

The Department of History is happy to present the brown bag series open to all faculty, staff, and administrators. We welcome graduate students as well. This series is an opportunity to come and create a network, learn from one another, and exchange new and innovative ideas. Each meeting is an hour long and will be comprised of different topics.

 

Fall 2024

Coordinators: Danielle Beaujon and Zachary Davis Cuyler

  • August 28: HGS Welcome Lunch – Faculty and Grad Students Welcome!
  • September 4: Jonathan Connolly, Book Talk for Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor In the Era of Emancipation
  • September 11: Graduate Student Exam Preparation Workshop
  • September 18: Nick Kryczka, “American Lesson Plan: A Briefing from the American Historical Association’s Research Team on the state of K12 US History Education”
  • September 25: Monika Fabijanska, Women at War Exhibition Talk
  • October 2: Joaquín Chavez, “The House on Fire: The Catholic Church Mediation in El Salvador’s Civil War, 1984-1989.”
  • October 9: Rama Mantena, “The Anticolonial Humanist: The Politics of Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949.”
  • October 16: Robert Johnston, “The Challenges of Writing Very Recent History: Trumplandia and its Discontents”
  • October 23: Graduate Student Grant Applications Workshop (ft. Benn Williams)
  • October 30: Kevin Schultz, “AI, ChatGPT, Grammerly, and You”
  • November 6: Jon Balserak, “Geneva’s Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563: Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France”
  • November 13: Sarah Barton, Title TBD
  • November 20: Kate Brizek, “Some Mystics Who Seem of No Importance”: Hélène Iswolsky and the Beginning of Catholic Inter-Faith Dialogue in the United States.

Spring 2024

Coordinators: Danielle Beaujon and Keely Stauter Halsted

  • January 17: Book Talk: Marina Mogilner, Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness
  • January 2024: Department Lunch – Come enjoy lunch and conversation!
  • January 31: October Kamara, “‘Pledge Allegiance to the People’: Remembering the Erased History of the Chattanooga Black Panther Party through Digital Archiving”
  • February 7: Professional development for graduate students: “How to Publish a Scholarly Article” (Gosia Fidelis and Marina Mogilner)
  • February 14: Book Talk: Nick Doumanis, The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, the 20th and Early 21st Centuries: Global Perspectives
  • February 21: Book Forum: Gosia Fidelis, Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain
  • February 28: Hashim Ali, “Memorializing the Pakistani Student Movement: Sites of Memory and Commemoration
  • March 6: Joanna Dobrowolska, “Between Faith and State: Orthodox Responses to the Polonization and Revindication Project in Interwar Poland, 1918-1939”
  • March 13: Lucy Wilson, “Remembering Jane: How the Famed Underground Abortion Providers Felt About Their Work”
  • March 27: Jon Connolly, “Thinking with Colonial Photography: Felix Morin in Trinidad”
  • April 3: Avash Bhandari, “Forest Crimes: Corruption, Theft, and Smuggling on the Indo-Nepal Frontier”
  • April 10: Zack Cuyler, “Oil Workers and the Lebanese Brotherhood of Labor”
  • April 17: Aleksei Epishev “From Exclusion to Mass Recruitment Campaign: The Russian Government Policy toward Chinese Labor during 1905-1917.”
  • April 24: Paul Ribera, “Il Protocollo Incompiuto: Military Colonization and Italian Migration to the Bolivian Lowlands, 1945-1960″

Fall 2023

Coordinator: Cory Davis

  • August 30: “Navigating the World of ChatGPT”: A Roundtable on the Challenges of ChatGPT and AI for Historians. Speakers: Kevin Schultz and Guests
  • September 6: Workshop on Digital Research and Library Resources for Students and Scholars. Speakers: Jeffrey Nichols and Jeffrey Wheeler
  • September 13: Workshop on Graduate Exams for 2023-2024
  • September 20: John Abbott, “Continuity or Rupture? The A-Bomb and the American Way of War”
  • September 27: Ajapa Sharma, “Deserting Soldiers and Subject Fleeing States: Creating a Colonial Order of Things, 1885-1925” (pre-circulated paper)
  • October 4: “How to be a TA”: HGS Pedagogy Workshop
  • October 11: Franklin Howard, “Desert Mosaics: Natural Landscapes, Urban Geography, and AIDS in Las Vegas, Nevada” (pre-circulated paper)
  • October 18: Agata Zysiak, “Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility within Higher Education in Socialist Poland”
  • October 25: James Mestaz, “Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico”
  • November 1: Jeff Sklansky, “The Person is Political: Fiduciary Duties and Fictive Beneficiaries” (pre-circulated paper)
  • November 8: Workshop on Grant Proposal Writing for Graduate Students
  • November 15: HGS DEI Panel
  • November 29: Hashim Ali, “Gendering the 1960s: The Evocative Lives of Pakistani Female Students.”

Spring 2023

Coordinator: Cory Davis

  • January 18: [CANCELLED]
  • January 25: Workshop on Graduate Fellowships. Speaker: Benn Williams
  • February 1: Marina Mogilner, “From Votiak Case to Votiak Race: Modern Ethnography and Race-Making in the Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire.” (pre-circulated paper)
  • February 8: Abdul Basheer, TBA (pre-circulated paper)
  • February 15: Hashim Ali, “Students Strike Back: Youth Life and the Promise of Post-Colonial Pakistan”
  • February 22: Workshop on Digital Research and Library Resources for Students and Scholars. Speakers: Jeffrey Nichols and Jeffrey Wheeler
  • March 1: Vladislava Moskelets, “Urban elites of Lviv in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries”
  • March 8: DEI Professional Development Workshop, hosted by the History Graduate Society
  • March 15: Avash Bhandari, “Sales of Sleepers: A History of Nepal Government Timber Works and Saw Mills”
  • March 29:  Forrest Wales, TBA (pre-circulated paper)
  • April 5:  Tamara Chaplin, TBA
  • April 12: Lilia Fernandez, TBA (pre-circulated paper)
  • April 19: Kostas Kampourakis, “Mendel’s Legacy: Challenging the Narrative of Mendelian Genetics”
  • April 26: Graduate Exams Discussion

 

Fall 2022

Coordinator: Michael Jin

 

  • August 31: Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez (pre-circulated paper)
  • September 7: Hayley Negrin (pre-circulated paper)
  • September 14: Grant Writing for Graduate Students. Panelists: Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez and Caterina Scalvedi
  • September 21: Writing a Professional CV for Grants and Job Applications. Panelists: Jeffrey Sklansky and Young Richard Kim
  • September 28: Kevin Schultz (pre-circulated paper)
  • October 5: Jeffery Sklansky (pre-circulated paper)
  • October 12: Internships for Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Panelists: History undergraduate and graduate student interns
  • October 19: “What Meanings Should We Give to The Number 21.4%? A Discussion of UIC and the Academic Job Market for History Doctoral Students,” facilitated by Robert Johnston
  • October 26: John Abbott (pre-circulated paper)
  • November 2: Gwyneth Milbrath and Leora Mincer, “Chicago Black Nurses Archive Mapping Project”
  • November 9: Robert Johnston, “The Triumph of Populist Human Rights: Anti-Vaccinationism and the 1913 Defeat of Eugenic Sterilization in Oregon” (pre-circulated paper)
  • November 16: DEI Professional Development Workshop, hosted by the History Graduate Society
  • November 30: Lilia Fernández

Spring 2022

Coordinator: Michael Jin

 

  • January 26: Michael Jin, “From Tehran to Seoul to Los Angeles: The Iranian Diaspora and 20th Century Transnational Circuits of Change”
  • February 2: Graduate Session: Crafting a Successful CV
  • February 9: Erin O’Leary, Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence
  • February 16: Ana Luiza Morais Soares, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, “Orphans of Living and Capable Parents: Indigenous Children in the Amazonas, Brazil (1860-1890)”
  • February 23: Francesca Morgan, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern Illinois University, “A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in US History”
  • March 2: Emergency Teach-in on War in Ukraine
  • March 9: Latina Scholars in LALS virtual webinar
  • March 16: Clare Kim (pre-circulated paper)
  • March 23: Spring Break
  • March 30: Ismael Biyashev, “’A Scytho-Slavo-Russian World in Malorossia’: Archaeology, Nomadism, and the Construction of a Russian National Past in late imperial Russia”
  • April 6: Danielle Beaujon, Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice
  • April 13: Alexis Guilbault, Co-Director, Digital Humanities Initiative
  • April 20: Jeffrey Wheeler and Jeffrey Nichols, “Research Strategies and Digital Resources for Students and Scholars during the Pandemic.”
  • April 27: Open: possible graduate students’ meeting with the Osofsky speaker

Fall 2021

Coordinator: Jon Connolly

 

  • September 8: Grad Session — Approaching the Academic Job Market (with Keely Stauter-Halsted, Hayley Negrin, Clare Kim, and Jon Connolly)
  • September 15: [Jon Connolly]
  • September 22: Grad Session — Archival Research Strategies (with Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, Clare Kim, and Jon Connolly)
  • September 29: Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune
  • October 6: Robert Johnston (Pre-Circulated Paper)
  • October 13: Teri McMurtry-Chubb, UIC Law School
  • October 20: Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez (Pre-Circulated Paper)
  • October 27: Grad Session — Publishing in Academic Journals (with Kevin Schultz, Marina Mogilner, and Keely Stauter-Halsted)
  • November 3: Rama Mantena
  • November 10: Junaid Quadri, on Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity (2021)
  • November 17: Joshua Alan Hoxmeier
  • November 24: Off
  • December 1: Michael Jin, on Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: the Making of a Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific (2021)

Spring 2021

Coordinator: Hayley Negrin

  • January 27: John Abbott, “What can history tell us about the Trump years? A Europeanist Perspective”
  • February 3: Hayley Negrin and Jon Connolly, “Grant Writing 101 for Graduate Students”
  • February 10: Sekordri Ojo, “She Too Sits with Shakespeare and He Winces Not”
  • February 17: Jan Lorys, “Using Your History Degree Beyond Academia”
  • February 24: Keith Pluymers, “Water and Power in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia”
  • March 3: Keely Stauter-Halsted, “Exam Prep for Graduate Students”
  • March 10: Kevin Shultz, “I Smell the Blood of a Liberal’: An Elegy for White Liberals in American Life”
  • March 17: Cristina Groeger, “The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston”
  • March 31: Kelly Keifer, “Community gardening and k-12 Education in North Lawndale”
  • April 7: Marissa Moss, “‘No, the coppers are watching me:’ Black Women and Narratives of Denial”
  • April 14: John D’Emilio, “Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives”
  • April 21: David Varel, “Anti-Racist Scholarship and the OAH: The Case of the Avery Craven Book Award”
  • April 28: Sohini Majumdar, “Making of a National Border: How State and Society Intersected in Postcolonial West Bengal”