Previous Events

February 2017

Mafada Ade Winter (McGill) - "The Commercial Tribunal at Aleppo and Legal Innovation in the Late Ottoman Empire" - Sponsored by IOWC

Jane McGaughey (Concordia) - "Highlanders, Shiners, and Orangemen: Loyalist Masculinities on the Edge of Empire" - Sponsored by MBGH

Jessica Brantley (Yale) - "Literary History through the Book of Hours: John Lydgate's Book of Hours" - Sponsored by McGill Medievalists

Mikael Dumont (U. de Montréal) - "La boisson et la réjouissance en Amérique française (1700-1860): de l'excès de la fête collective à la simplicité de la fête familiale" - Sponsored by French Atlantic

Grace Fong (McGill) - "Lost in Private Writings: Women's Responses to Opium and the Opium Wars in Qing China" - Sponsored by IOWC

Tamara Chin (Brown) - "Conceptual History and the Cosmopolitan" - Sponsored by Global Antiquities

Yoshina Hurgobin (McGill) - "Malaria and labout Migration in the Indian Ocean World" - Sponsored by IOWC

Naser Dumairieh (McGill) - "The Mughal and the Ḥijāj in the 17th Century" - Sponsored by IOWC

 

January 2017

Elizabeth Dyer (Pennsylvania) - "World War II and African Variety Shows on Tour in the Indian Ocean World, 1939-1950" - Sponsored by IOWC

Philippe Cordez (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) - "The Stones of Israel: Cameos and Antijudaism in the Century of St-Louis" - Sponsored by McGill Medievalists

Carne Ross - "Inverting Power: the Story of Independent Diplomat" - Sponsored by Yan Lin Centre

Gavin Walker (McGill) - "The Tasks of Historiography on the Transition to Capitalism" - Sponsored by HSC

Garrett Fontenot (Notre Dame) - "French Louisiana's 1768 Revolt Against the Spanish Empire" - Sponsored by French Atlantic

Stefan Winter (UQAM) - "Tribes and Tribalization in Ottoman Syria: The Reşwan Kurd Confederation, 16th-18th Century" - Sponsored by IOWC

Tyler Yank (McGill) - "The Christian Education of Slaves and Ex-Slaves in British Mauritius, c. 1810-1840" - Sponsored by MBHG

 

December 2016

Nicholas Dew (McGill) - "Projecting the French Atlantic" - Sponsored by French Atlantic

Angela Schottenhammer (Salzburg) & Philippe de Meyer (Ghent) - "The Voyage of the Eunuch Yang Liangyao (738-806) to Baghdad in 785: An Early Sino-Arab Power Alliance Against the Tibetans?" and "(3D-) data Acquisition and Geo-ICT for Cultural Heritage and Archaeology" - Sponsored by IOWC

 

November 2016

Valerie Korineck (Saskatchewan) - "Exporting and Defending 'Marriage': Canada, Gay and Lesbian Marriage, and the International Implications" - Sponsored by HCS + MISC

Omri Bassewitch-Frenkel - Sponsored by IOWC

Darian Totten (McGill) - "Living Among the Roman Ruins: the Medieval Villages of Salapia and Villamagna" - Sponsored by McGill Medivevalists

Catherine Desbarats (McGill) - "Inventing Paper Money in New France" - Sponsored by French Atlantic

Jeremy Tai (McGill) - "Reviving the Silk Road: Spatial Fixes and Cultural Imagination in Reform-Era China" - Sponsored by IOWC

Stuart McCook (Guelph) - "The Political Ecology of 'Bad' Coffee in the Twentieth Century" - Sponsored by HCS + Geography

Elizabeth Clare (CNRS) - Sponsored by French Atlantic

Yoshina Hurgobin (McGill) - "Labour Movements, Citizenship and the Politics of Nationalism in Ceylon and Mauritius" - Sponsored by IOWC

Thomas Glasbergen (McGill) - "Classics in Common? Eighteenth-Century Demotic Classicism and the Appeal of John Wilkes" - Sponsored by MBHS

Grace Fong (McGill) - "Lost in Private Writings: Women's Responses to Opium and the Opium Wars in Qing China" - Sponsored by IOWC

 

October 2016

Faith Wallis (McGill) - HCS Homecoming Lecture: "How the Twelfth Century Invented Academic Medicine: Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno as Doctor and Physician" Sponsored by HCS

Erin Bell (McGill) - "National Home-Making: Domestic Education for African Girls in Kenya" - Sponsored by IOWC

Workshop - "Taras. The Local Worlds of Greeks Overseas" - Sponsored by Global Antiquities

Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv) - "It's a Small World: Connectivitiy in the Greek Mediterranean" - Sponsored by Global Antiquities

Faith Wallis (McGill) - "The Book of the Head and the Book of Skin: Compilation and De-compilation in Two Manuscripts of Practical Medicine in the Osler Library" - Sponsored by McGill Medievalists

Laila Parsons (McGill) - "Book Launch: The Commander" - Sponsored by HCS

Jay Gitlin (Yale) - "Napoleon Avenue, Faubourg Lafayette and Jackson Square: Commemorating the Death and Rebirth of New Orleans, 1815 to 1853" - Sponsored by French Atlantic

Peter Hynd (McGill) - "Drugs and Excise in 19th Century India" - Sponsored by IOWC

Anya Zilberstein (Concordia) - "Savour, the least palateable of any in common use: Fodder as Food in Jeremy Bentham's Pauper Panopticons" - Sponsored by MBHS

Sam Nelson (McGill) - "Catholicism and the East India Company" - Sponsored by IOWC

Susan Pedersen - Sponsored by Cundill Lecture (MISC)

Piotr H. Kosicki (Maryland) - "The Limits of Catholicism: the Case of Tadeusz Mazowieki" - Sponsored by HCS, Religious Studies

 

September 2016

Peter Fibinger Bang (Copenhagen) - "Rome: Universal Empire and the Challenge of World History" - Sponsored by Global Antiquities

Tyler Yank (McGill) - "The Trial of Sophie: Pregnancy, Motherhood and Resistance among Enslaved Women in Colonial Mauritius" - Sponsored by IOWC

Giles Gasper (Durham) - "To Loose the Bonds of Arcturus': Astronomy and the Liberal Arts in the 12th Century" - Sponsored by McGill Medievalists

Gavin Walker (McGill) - "Panel discussion of Gavin's new book The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan" - Sponsored by Critical Social Theory at McGill

Elizabeth Elbourne (McGill) - "Treaty-Making in the British Empire, 1750-1850" - Sponsored by HCS

Jean-François Palomino (BAnQ) - "La production et la circulation des savoirs géographiques en Nouvelle-France (fin du 17e siècle)" - Sponsored by French Atlantic

Brian Cowan (McGill) - "News, Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain" - Sponsored by MBHS

Screening/Panel discussion - "The Pass System" - Sponsored by HPS, Indigenous Studies, Law Faculty

Eran Tal (McGill) - "Weighing the Kilogram: How History and Philosophy of Science Inform Each other" - Sponsored by HPS

Andrea Tone (History and SSoM) - "Spies and Lies: Cold War Science, the CIA, and the Case Against Ewen Cameron" - Sponsored by "Cutting Edge" Series

Eva Knoll (Austrian Academy of Sciences) - "Embracing a Culture of Medical Travel: Some Aspects of the Maldives' Contemporary Indian Ocean Connections" - Sponsored by IOWC

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