Faculty and graduate students are invited to join this year’s E.P. Thompson Memorial Speaker, James C. Scott, for a lunchtime discussion on doing world history from below. Scott is the author of Weapons of the Weak (1985), Domination and the Arts of
Resistance (1990), Seeing Like A State (1997), The Art of Not Being Governed (2009), Two Cheers for Anarchism (2013), and Against the Grain (2017).
This event is co-sponsored by the Working Class History Seminar, the European Studies Center, and the Socialist Studies Seminar at CMU. For a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact Wendy Goldman (goldman@andrew.cmu.edu).
The Department of History and the Jewish Studies Program present: Dan Michman, head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies. He is also Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish History, Chair of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Incumbent of the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Chair in Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University.
A symposium sponsored by the World History Center and organized by graduate students in the Department of History, Globalizing World History will bring together local faculty, regional graduate students, and world historians, into conversation about the trajectory of world history across borders and disciplines. To register and for more information on this symposium, please click the following link:
https://www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/event/globalizing-world-history
Respondent: James Wynn, Associate Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Respondent: Richard Pell, Associate Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University