Announcement for the 3rd Annual MSU Africanist Graduate Student Conference

We are pleased to announce that Michigan State University will convene its Third Annual Africanist Graduate Student Conference on the weekend of October 9-10, 2009. The theme for the 2009 conference is “Africa’s Challenges and Possibilities”. Dr. James A. Pritchett, Director of the MSU African Studies Center, will give the opening keynote address on Friday, [...]

Prof. Stauter-Halsted speaker for GenCen Colloquia Series

Interim Chairperson, Dr. Keely Statuer-Halsted, will be giving a talk entitled “Moral Panic and Prostitution in the 19th Century Polish Lands” at 204 International Center from 1:30 – 3:00 on October 9th.
The talk is part of the Center for Gender in Global Context’s Colloquia Series: New Research on Women and Gender, Global and Local [...]

Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at Michigan State University Hosted the 2009 Regional Conference of the National History Honorary

The Alpha Phi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at Michigan State University was pleased to host the 2009 regional conference of the national history honorary for its members from Michigan and Wisconsin. It was held on March 28 at the Kellogg Center. In addition to students from MSU, students from Oakland University, Alma College and Western [...]

History Department Co-Sponsors International Interdisciplinary Animals Conference

Scholars from many countries, disciplines come to East Lansing for animals conference
Philosophers, anthropologists, historians of science, wildlife experts and others gathered at Michigan State last week for a conference entitled Animals: Past, Present, and Future. It was the first conference the university has hosted in the emerging field of animal studies, which examines the relationships between [...]

The Department of History and the Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CERS) at Michigan State University hosts the:

The Department of History and the Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CERS) at Michigan State University will be hosting the 2009 Midwest Russian History Workshop (MRHW) at MSU on April 3-4, 2009 in the MSU Union Gold Room B.
The workshop, which has began in the early 1990s, will bring scholars from US and Canadian Universities in [...]

Peter Limb to talk on "African Biography and Autobiography: Old Gaps, New Directions" at Lansing Community College

For those interested in history and biography, Dr. Peter Limb will give a paper at this week’s ‘Global Perspectives Conference’ at Lansing community College. Discussion/questions on broader questions of history and biography will be welcome. (Thursday April 2 1-2pm. Lansing Community College. Room A&S 374.)
ABSTRACT: African Biography and Autobiography: Old Gaps, New Directions: The writing of biography and [...]

Professors Jerry Garcia and Benjamin Smith Co-Curate Exhibit: "In the Name of the Blood Shed: Art, Resistance, and Repression in Mexico"

Please join us Monday, March 2, 2009 for the opening of an exciting art exhibition, titled ‘In the Name of the Blood Shed: Art, Resistance, and Repression in Mexico,’ which links into a larger campus-wide initiative seeking to emphasize the diversity of scholarly projects by emerging and established faculty within the fields of Chicano/Latino and [...]

History Department Sponsors Conference:"PRIHistory: Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico, 1940-1968”

The History Department is proud to host a conference, PRIHistory: Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico, 1940-1968 in the conference room on the 3rd floor of Morrill Hall on March 2nd and 3rd 2009. During the conference, a group of distinguished and emerging historians, anthropologists and sociologists will tackle central and unanswered questions of how Mexicans [...]

Colloquium Talk by Dr. Louise White, "Racial Representation of the Worst Sort: The African Franchise and Decolonization in Central Africa"

The 2008-9 History Department Colloquium welcomes Dr. Louise White from the Unviersity of Florida on Thursday November 6, 2008 from 3-5 p.m. Dr. White will talk on “‘Racial Representation of the Worst Sort¹: The African Franchise and Decolonization in Central Africa.”
Dr. Louise White is a historian of Africa who has authored more than thirty articles [...]

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online Brownbag

The Department of History will sponsor a brownbag discussion about H-Net on Tuesday, September 16, in 340 Morrill Hall. H-Net, the world’s largest on-line scholarly society is hosted by Michigan State Unviersity and is housed in Morrill Hall as part of its partnership with the Department of History. H-Net provides a wide range of opportunities for faculty [...]