The Department of History’s Connelly Lecture Series is pleased to announce a lecture with Sara Fingal, PhD. In her lecture, Fingal will examine the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, emphasizing Mexico’s portrayal as a frontier in the mid-twentieth century. (Read More).
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2019 Connelly Lecture: “Rethinking Glaciers & Icebergs,” Feb. 21
The Rev. James Connelly, C.S.C. Lecture Series will welcome history professor Mark Carey to campus on Thursday, February 21, 5 to 6 p.m., in Franz Hall room 120. Carey will present “Rethinking Glaciers and Icebergs: From the Sinking of the Titanic to Climate Change and Offshore Oil,” and discuss how we must rethink ice to […]
“Catholics, Communists, and US-Cuban Relations” with Blair Woodard, Oct. 5
Blair Woodard of the UP history department will offer a lecture, “An Iconography of Enemies: Catholics, Communists, and US-Cuban Relations,” on Thursday, October 5, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall room 120. In his talk, Woodard will examine the fifty-year war of images between the U.S. and Cuba and the role of the Catholic Church […]
Craige Champion Lecture, Feb. 17
Craige Champion, associate professor of history at Syracuse University, will give a lecture, “To Believe or Not to Believe: Roman Senators and the State Religion,” on Monday, February 17, at 7 p.m., in Shiley Hall room 319. Champion will present the findings of his recently completed manuscript on ancient Roman religion (Pax Deorum: Elite Religious […]
UP Hosts History Conference
The University history department and its Rho Pi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society, hosted the Northwest Regional Conference on April 4-6. It is the largest regional conference in the country and included 140 student presenters from over 20 different schools around the region, including University of Idaho, Montana State University/Billings, […]
Blair Woodard Lecture
Woodard will discuss Cuba’s many religious influences—Catholicism, Santeria, official state atheism—and how they have played a defining role in the formation of Cuba’s cultural heritage and how they will continue to do so in Cuba’s uncertain future. For more information contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.