Events
(For a list of talks Brown History faculty are giving around the United States and the world, see this list; for archived events, click here)
| Feburary 2009 | |
| Feb. 27-28 | Abraham Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century: A symposium honoring the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. More ... |
| March 2009 | |
Tuesday March 17, 4pm. Pavilion Room in the Dept. of History, 79 Brown St. |
The History Department and the American Antiquarian Society Regional Seminar (co-sponsored by Clark University and University of Connecticut) welcome Sean Kelley, AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellow and Associate Professor of History, Hartwick College, for the following talk: "The Vernon Brothers' Atlantic World: Newport Slave Trading in the Mid-Eighteenth Century." |
| Wednesday March 18, 4:30pm, John Nicholas Brown Center Library, 357 Benefit St. | Marlene Lopes, special collections librarian at James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College will give the following talk: "Cape Verdeans in Rhode Island: Foxpoint and Beyond?" Sponsored by the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance. Please RSVP to rigea@ric.edu |
| April 2009 | |
| Friday, April 3, 4:30-5:30pm, Petteruti Lounge (Faunce House) 75 Waterman St. | Are you interested in declaring History? Please join us on Friday, April 3rd from 4:30-5:30 in Petteruti Lounge! A short student panel will be held with History students who have studied abroad, are completing a thesis or senior capstone project, have done ISPs and GISPs, and more. Current concentrators and concentration advisers will also be on hand to talk about their experiences and to answer any questions you may have. Come find out more about one of Brown's most popular departments! Refreshments (and concentration forms!) will be available. contact: Anna_Hidalgo@brown.edu or Kwan_Siu_Tang@brown.edu |
| Wednesday, April 15, 5:30pm, Pembroke Hall 305 | Professor John Thornton (Boston University, Department of History) will deliver the second Gulbenkian Vasco da Gama Lecture on Portugal and the Early Modern World (co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities) on Weds., April 15, 2009, 5.30pm. The title is: "The Kingdom of Kongo, the Kingdom of Angola, and the Thirty Years' War: African Diplomacy and Portuguese Politics in the Struggle for the Atlantic, 1620-48." |
| Wednesday, April 15, 5:30pm, 190 Hope St. 102 | Professor Matthew Sneider (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Department of History) will discuss his work at the Italian Studies Colloquium and will give the following talk: "Sacred Territory: Confraternities in the Bolognese Contado." The paper will be available for review later in the semester at the colloquium website: http://blogs.brown.edu/project/it_colloquium/ |
Ongoing Seminars, Workshops, and Lectures
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Modern Europe Workshop
John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Programs
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