June 21 – “What Does the Transnational Perspective Change About U.S. History?” 🗓

June 21 – “What Does the Transnational Perspective Change About U.S. History?” 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Prof. Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University)

June 21, 2018, 4–6 p.m. (c.t.), SB II, 01-531 (Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2)

 

Urban history has long had a strong transnational character, on account of the functions that cities historically have served as nexuses in networks of exchange, information, and human movement. This session considers how the new transnational history, by placing the city at the heart of contemporary globalization, has reinvigorated the transnational and comparative dimensions of U.S. urban history.

For more information see the poster.

June 28 – “Power to the Powerless”: Black Artists, Art Movements, and Art-Making Traditions 🗓

June 28 – “Power to the Powerless”: Black Artists, Art Movements, and Art-Making Traditions 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh)

June 28, 2018, 4–6 p.m. (c.t.), SB II, 01-531 (Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2)

 

 

This talk will introduce audiences to the drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, mixed-media installations and performance art created by Black British artists living and working across the Black Diaspora. Black artists betray a lifelong determination to come to grips with hidden histories, untold narratives, and missing memories by developing experimental art practices.

For more information see the poster.

June 25 – Kanienkehaka: the Mohawk People,Christian Missions, and Native Survivance 🗓

June 25 – Kanienkehaka: the Mohawk People,Christian Missions, and Native Survivance 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Prof. Laura Stevens (U Tulsa)

June 25, 2018, 12 p.m.–2 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 5

 

This lecture will provide an introduction to the Mohawk People, who called themselves “Kanienkehaka,” or “People of the Flint.“ The Easternmost tribe of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee confederacy, the Mohawks were powerful and pivotal figures in the complex and violent landscape of colonial America. After considering some of their history and customs, this lecture will focus on a visit of 3 Mohawk and 1 Mahican ambassadors to London in 1710. An important public event that shaped English attitudes to Native Americans for years to come, this visit also generated a variety of literature and encouraged English missionary efforts to the Mohawk Nation. We will conclude by considering the importance of Mohawk diplomacy, mobility, and adaptability to what Native author Gerald Vizenor has called “Native survivance“ in the twenty-first century.

June 28 – Urban Ecologies 🗓

June 28 – Urban Ecologies 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Prof. Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University)

June 28, 2018, 6–8 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 15

 

In recent years, an environmental perspective on urban history has been transforming both urban and environmental history, by emphasizing the city as an especially intense form of human interaction with nature, rather than a site distinct from or opposed to nature. This session considers the variety of new perspectives on both cities and the environment that emerge when one researches cities as features within and influences upon the environment.

For more information see the poster.

July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER 🗓

July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER 🗓

Events, News, Workshops

Additional Course Offer – Summer Term 2018

for M.A./M.Ed. and advanced B.A./B.Ed. students
Cultural Studies IV and V

For course registration and further information, please contact Dr. Sonja Georgi.

Interdisciplinary Workshop

“History of United States Indian Law and Policy”
Prof. Lindsay G. Robertson (University of Oklahoma)
Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy
Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law
July 9-12, P 108

This course will trace the development and political and cultural impact of British colonial and United States policy towards indigenous peoples in North America from the Seventeenth Century through the present day. Among other topics, we will explore Treaty-making, Indian Removal, the Reservation System, late-Nineteenth Century Assimilation and Allotment, mid-Twentieth Century Indian Reorganization, and modern Tribal Self-Determination.

You can find the workshop poster here.