Dr. Darius Staliunas will give a talk entitled "Enemies for a Day: Anti-Jewish Violence in Russian-Ruled Lithuania" on October 15 at 6 PM in the Institute for the Humanities.
The University of Illinois at Chicago History Graduate Society announces its 7th annual Windy City Graduate Student History Conference: Historicizing the State. The two-day conference will take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago on October 17-18, 2014.
On September 11 and 12, the Department of History will co-sponsor a symposium on the life's work of our recently retired Professor John D'Emilio. A host of luminaries will be in attendence.
Prof. Daly has recently published two books that focus on the question of why the West has had such material success during the past 400 years. He was recently interviewed about both of them.
Johnston's summer 2003 institute hosted at UIC on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is featured in College of Liberal Arts magazine, along with Leon Fink's reflections about these eras' echoes in our own time.
Professor Ransby's new book, "Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson," has been chosen as the 2013 winner of the Letitia Woods Brown book Award by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH).
A major exhibition on the history and cultural presence of AIDS curated by Jennie Brier, Associate Professor of History and Gender & Women’s Studies will open soon at UIC. “Surviving and Thriving: AIDS Politics,…
Two of the departments doctoral students have been profiled in AtLAS, the quarterly on-line publication of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sixth-year student Jochen Arndt explains how his dissertation research into the Xhosa people of South Africa funded by the Social Science Research Council sent him on a journey from research sites in Great Britain to archives in South Africa. AtLAS also profiles fourth-year student Michal Witczewski, who recently won a Fulbright fellowship for his dissertation research into the social conditions of rural Poland in the aftermath of World War I.
Associate Professor Jennifer Brier and her team of co-conspirators just won a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for their revolutionary project, History Moves, a museum on wheels, a "moveable feast that both gathers and shares the history of Chicagos vibrant communities and neighborhoods." Congratulations Jennie!