Please join us to welcome Professor Michael O'Sullivan from the University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill who will discuss the introduction to his forthcoming book Before Islamic Finance: A History of Muslim Private Banking from the Maghreb to Indonesia, 1750-1975. Professor O'Sullivan is a scholar of early modern and modern South Asia in the context of Ottoman […]

The next meeting of the History of Science Colloquium will take place on Tuesday November 4 at 1 pm. Matthew Restall will be presenting a talk entitled “Discovering Columbus (and his Many Lives),” which is based on his recent book. Matthew Restall is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology and the Director […]

Please join us to welcome Elisabeth (Sissi) Luif from the Central European University, Vienna who will discuss a chapter from her dissertation, titled The Restructuring of Labor Arbitration and AustroFascism: A Social History of Institutional Change, 1933-38. Luif is a scholar of comparative fascism, corporatism, the Catholic Church, and labor and working class history and is currently a visiting […]

Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) will give a lecture titled “Law and Order: Legal Limits on Freedom of Assembly and Protest in Ancient Rome.” Please note that the lecture will take place in HSSB 6020 (i.e., the McCune Conference Room).

November 14, 2025 12:00-1:50 pm HSSB 4020 Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste (History, Stanford) will present her article, "To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: Métis, Paternity and Belonging in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Colonial and Postcolonial French Africa and France," Gender & History 37, no. 2 (2025): 462-476.

Professor Tiraana Bains is delivering a talk entitled "How to Rule a Global Empire, 1784-1793" on Nov. 21, 2025. Please join us!  

Day-long Graduate Student Workshop that provides a venue for students in history and other disciplines to share and receive formative feedback on their works in progress.