Seminars
November 29, 2011
"A Southern Cloth Complex? India, Africa and the Connected Worlds of Indian Ocean and Atlantic Slaving"
3703 Posvar Hall
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Pedro Machado, Indiana University
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Video Link
November 8, 2011
"Did Empire Matter? Indian Migration in Global Context, 1834-1940."
3703 Posvar Hall
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Adam McKeown, Columbia University
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Conferences
July 22 - August 5, 2012
Third Annual Dissertation Workshop
Northeastern University
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May 19-21, 2012
African Migration Conference
Rabat, Morocco
May 4-5, 2012
Linnaean Worlds: Global Scientific Practice during the Great Divergence, 1750-1850
Humanities Center & World History Center
Program
April 6, 2012
First Annual Conference in the World History of Science
Conference on World History, Art, and Literature
November 3-6, 2011
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora 6th ASWAD Biennial Conference
University of Pittsburgh
Conference program
Keynote Address (video) by Micere Githae Mugo
Professor of Africana Studies, Syracuse University
Welcome by Kim D. Butler (Rutgers University), ASWAD Director
Introduction by Brenda Berrian, Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
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Teacher Workshops
March 24, 2012
"Japan and its world: Late Edo Period and Today"
9:30 - Noon
4130 Posvar Hall
Dr. Constantine Vaporis, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
December 3, 2011
Connecting Africa and the Indian Ocean
Thomas Anderson, University of New Hampshire
Elizabeth Campbell, University of Pittsburgh
Thomas Anderson and Elizabeth Campbell specialize, respectively, in recent and early world history. They will display ties of Africa and the Indian Ocean - for both cultural and environmental issues - in early and recent times.
November 12, 2011
Historical Connections within Africa
Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh
Yolanda Covington-Ward, an anthropologist with field experience in Liberia (West Africa) and Congo (Central Africa), will provide examples of African interregional connections in ancient and modern times.
October 1, 2011
World History Seen through Connecting Regions
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
John P. Myers, University of Pittsburgh
Patrick Manning and John Myers will present an overview of teaching world history through regions, with examples of regional links and ideas on assessment. They will emphasize three principal approaches, which will be reinforced in all six workshops;
- Connections within regions
- Connections among regions
- Narrating world history through regional connections
September 24, 2011
CHINA'S 1911 REVOLUTION: How it continues to Influence China (and the World) Today.
9:30 - Noon
Kristin Stapleton, University of Buffalo
September 16, 2011
Meet the creator of “World History For Us All”
Leading online curriculum in world history: http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu
Ross Dunn, San Diego State Univery
Reception and Presentation open to all teachers of World History
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
3703 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh