Past Events

Apr

8

Seminar

Preventing Marriages Across Racial and Colonial Lines with Caroline Séquin

Location:

Maginnes 342

April 8, 2025, 3 - 4:15pm

Presenter: Caroline Séquin, Lafayette CollegeDiscussant: John Savage, Lehigh UniversityTitle: Preventing Marriages Across Racial and Colonial Lines: The Case of French Women and Indochinese Men, 1917-1920

Mar

4

Seminar

History Seminar: Uponita Mukherjee

Location:

Maginnes Hall, room 342

March 4, 2025, 3 - 4:15pm

Uponita Mukherjee Fordham University will present her work "Two Histories of Detective Policing: Crime, Prosecution and Investigation in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world". She is a historian of modern South Asia.

Dec

3

Seminar

Where the People Dare Be True: Nineteenth Century Black Women’s Intellectual Activism and the Case of John W. Jacks

Location:

Maginnes Hall, Room 342

December 3, 2024, 3 - 4:15pm

Presenter:  Joseph Williams, Lehigh University Discussant: Emily Pope- Obeda, Lehigh UniversityTitle: "Where the People Dare Be True": Nineteenth Century Black Women’s Intellectual Activismand the Case of John W. Jacks

Nov

19

Seminar

Politics of Remembrance: Araguaia and the Martyrdom of Osvaldo Orlando da Costa

Location:

Maginnes Hall, Room 342

November 19, 2024, 3 - 4:15pm

Presenter: Thamyris Almeida, Swarthmore College Discussant: Ida Yalzadeh, Lehigh University

Nov

12

Seminar

Beyond Conflict: Global Trade and Everyday Relations between China and the West, 1780-1860

Location:

Maginnes 342

November 12, 2024, 3 - 4:15pm

Presenter: Carl Kubler, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDiscussant: John Savage, Lehigh University

Sep

24

Seminar

Deported Americans: U.S. Citizens in an Expanding Global Deportation Regime

Location:

Maginnes 342

September 24, 2024, 3 - 4:15pm

Department Seminar—First of the Semester!Presenter: Emily Pope Obeda, Lehigh UniversityDiscussant: Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University

Mar

7

Lecture

Gipson Lecture - Dr. Brooke Bauer, PhD

Location:

STEPS 480

March 7, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Eighteenth-Century Catawba Women, Pottery-making, Identity, and Nation-buildingAssistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee KnoxvilleDr. Brooke Bauer will discuss eighteenth-century Catawba women’s role as potters, analyzing theapprentice…

Nov

9

Seminar

Book Discussion with Howard French: Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Location:

Williams 341

November 9, 2023, 4:30 - 6pm

Part 2 (Chapters 14-38)

Nov

8

Seminar

Africana Studies presents From Ancient to Modern: Placing Africa at the Center of Our History

Location:

Sinclair Lab Auditorium Lehigh University

November 8, 2023, 7 - 8pm

Made possible by the Africana Studies Public Humanities Visiting Fellows Endowment, supports the NEH Challenge Grant.

Oct

25

Seminar

Book Discussion with Howard French: Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Location:

Williams 341

October 25, 2023, 4:30 - 6pm

Part 1 (Chapters 1-13)

Oct

23

Seminar

Lehigh History Department Seminar: Alternative Destinations, Deportee “Dumping” and International Disputes over the Deportation of Non-Nationals

Location:

MG 342 (History Commons Room)

October 23, 2023, 3 - 4pm

Presenter: Dr. Emily Pope-Obeda, Lehigh University Discussant: Dr. Ida Yalzadeh

Oct

19

Seminar

Faculty Research Colloquium: Shellen Wu

Location:

Williams 351

October 19, 2023, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Join Shellen Wu as she leads a discussion of her new book, Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China. Faculty who RSVP will be sent one single random page of her book to read in advance, inspired by the Page 99 Challenge. Light…