Past Events

Nov

18

Seminar

Commerce, Governance, and Empire at the Spa, c. 1740-1840 with Amanda Herbert

Location:

Maginnes Hall, Room 342

November 18, 2025, 3 - 4:15pm

The Lehigh University History Department would like to cordially invite you to our third Seminar of the semester. Title: "Commerce, Governance, and Empire at the Spa, c. 1740-1840"Date: Tues, November 18, 3:00-4:15pmLocation: Maginnes Hall, rm 342&nbsp…

Oct

28

Seminar

Seminar: Tiraana Bains (Brown); Discussant: Sourav Ghosh

Location:

Maginnes room 342

October 28, 2025, 3 - 4:15pm

Title: Rage of Empire: The Origins of British IndiaDate: Tues, October 28, 3:00-4:15pm

Sep

16

Lecture

The Black Panther and the Teaching of African Religion: Coates, Coogler and African Centered Pedagogy

Location:

Maginnes Hall, Room 342

September 16, 2025, 3 - 4:15pm

Presenter: Dr. Brian J. Yates, St. Joseph's UniversityDiscussant: Dr. Kwame Essien, Lehigh University

Apr

29

Seminar

Minor Characters: Minority Rights, Global Media and the Algorithms of International Law, 1919-1994

Location:

Maginnes 342

April 29, 2025, 3 - 4:15pm

Presenter: Carolyn Biltoft, Geneva Graduate InstituteDiscussant: Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University

Apr

15

Seminar

The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism with Yanni Kotsonis

Location:

Maginnes Hall, Room 342

April 15, 2025, 3 - 4:15pm

Presenter: Yanni Kotsonis, New York UniversityDiscussant: Shellen Wu, Lehigh University

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…