Author Archives: briansandberg

Historical Commemorations of the Vietnam War

Posted on October 10, 2014 by briansandberg

The Vietnam War simply will not fade away. This week, an op-ed in the New York Times compared the US military action against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria to the US escalation of involvement in the Vietnam War in … Continue reading →

Posted in Civilians and Refugees in War, Historiography and Social Theory, Museums and Historical Memory, War, Culture, and Society | Leave a comment

Empire and Early Modernity

Posted on October 8, 2014 by briansandberg

Empire and Early Modernity at the Early Modern Workshop University of Chicago Monday October 13 Albert Pick Hall #319 at 5 pm Kaveh Hemmat and Oliver Cussen will lead a discussion on “Empire and Early Modernity.” Instead of our usual … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantic World, Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Empires and Imperialism, European History, European Wars of Religion, History of Violence, Political Culture, State Development Theory, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

CLIR Fellowships

Posted on October 7, 2014 by briansandberg

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2015 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources. The program will be offering about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships for the 2015-2016 academic year. Each provides … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, Graduate Work in History, Grants and Fellowships, Museums and Historical Memory, Renaissance Art and History | Leave a comment

Spanish Paleography Workshop

Posted on October 7, 2014 by briansandberg

Application deadline: October 15 Weekend Workshop in Spanish Paleography Workshop dates: February 27-28, 2015 Instructor: Carla Rahn Phillips, emerita, University of Minnesota Apply online here: http://www.newberry.org/2015SpanishPaleographyWorkshopThis workshop will provide participants with an introduction to reading and transcribing documents written in … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, Graduate Work in History, Lectures and Seminars, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Graduate Renaissance Conference at the Newberry

Posted on October 7, 2014 by briansandberg

2015 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference http://www.newberry.org/01222015-2015-multidisciplinary-graduate-student-conference Conference dates: January 22 to 24, 2015 Call for Papers – deadline: October 15 We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers from master’s or PhD students from any discipline on any medieval, Renaissance, or early … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European Union, Graduate Work in History, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History | Leave a comment

Early Modern Women’s History Conference

Posted on October 6, 2014 by briansandberg

Call for Proposals Attending to Early Modern Women: It’s About Time June 18-20, 2015     Milwaukee, Wisconsin   Deadline November 15  Taking as its inspiration the fact that 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the first Attending to Early Modern Women conference, the ninth … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, Gender and Warfare, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Declining State Spending on Education Impacts Tuition

Posted on September 23, 2014 by briansandberg

“Here is a surprising fact: Public colleges are collecting about the same revenue per student today as they were 25 years ago,” according to a report in the New York Times. “In 1988, educational revenue per full-time equivalent student at … Continue reading →

Posted in Education Policy, Humanities Education | Leave a comment

Lincoln Lecture at NIU

Posted on September 16, 2014 by briansandberg

The W. Bruce Lincoln Lecture will be held on Monday 29 September 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in Altgeld Auditorium at Northern Illinois University. This year’s speaker is Deborah Cohen, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, … Continue reading →

Posted in European History, Lectures and Seminars, War, Culture, and Society | Leave a comment

New Fellowship in Renaissance Art History

Posted on September 12, 2014 by briansandberg

The Villa I Tatti research center in Florence has announced a new fellowship in Renaissance art history. One David and Julie Tobey Fellowship, for three months, is available each academic year to support research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Grants and Fellowships, Italian History, Renaissance Art and History | Leave a comment

The Problem with Bill Gates and ‘Big History’

Posted on September 9, 2014 by briansandberg

When Bill Gates heads to the gym, he gets big ideas. One day at the gym, Bill Gates was watching a DVD on Big History by Professor David Christian. “As Gates sweated away on his treadmill, he found himself marveling … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Freedom, Digital Humanities, Education Policy, Humanities Education, The Past Alive: Teaching History, Undergraduate Work in History | 2 Comments