Monday, January 25, 2016

Lisa Scott
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago

“Governing Without a King: The Efforts of the Bohemian Assembly in the Post-Luxembourg Interregnum”

(co-sponsored with Central Europe workshop)

Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319

 

Monday, February 8, 2016

Lindsey Martin, PhD (Stanford University)
Mellon Career Development Officer, Department of History,
University of Chicago

“The Problem with Pokrovskoe: Policing and Competing Conceptions of Urban Order in Eighteenth-Century Moscow.”

Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319

 

Monday, February 15, 2016

Steve Pincus
Bradford Durfee Professor of History
Yale University

“Patriot Fever: Georgia and the Ideological Origins of the War of Jenkins Ear”

Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319

(co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture)

Monday, Febuary 22, 2016

Basil Salem
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago

“Group Sentiment Among Arabic-Speaking Scholars of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”

Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319

 

Monday, March 7, 2016

Ralph Austen
Professor Emeritus of African History
University of Chicago

“Monsters of Early Modern Colonialism: The East India Companies and Slave Plantations as Primitive Accumulation or Hyper-Capitalism.”

Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319