Category Archives: Conferences

NEH Summer Institute on Mediterranean History

Posted on July 13, 2012 by briansandberg

I am currently in Barcelona participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute on Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean. This month-long faculty seminar provides an opportunity for university and college professors … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Society of America Conference 2012

Posted on March 29, 2012 by briansandberg

The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2012 has now concluded.  The conference, which is the premier conference on interdisciplinary Renaissance studies in North America, was held from 21-24 March at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, DC. This annual conference … Continue reading →

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Mediterranean World Workshop

Posted on February 25, 2012 by briansandberg

The first meeting of the Mediterranean World Workshop will be held on Thursday 1 March at O’Leary’s in DeKalb at 5:15. The Mediterranean World Workshop is a new group of professors and graduate students interested in Mediterranean history from antiquity … Continue reading →

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ACDIS Summer Workshop on Global Security

Posted on February 22, 2012 by briansandberg

The Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS) at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana announces a one-week summer workshop in global security. Targeted at rising sophomores or advanced undergraduates, the workshop aims (1) to inform students about key … Continue reading →

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Archivists, Historians, and the “Archival Divide”

Posted on January 12, 2012 by briansandberg

Archivists and historians sometimes seem to be operating across an “archival divide”, with differing understandings of documentary collections and highly divergent agendas for those collections. Historians who have worked in archives in foreign nations will be acutely aware of the … Continue reading →

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New Directions in Graduate Teaching

Posted on January 12, 2012 by briansandberg

One of the issues to emerge from the run-up to this year’s American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, which concluded last weekend in Chicago, is the need for reform in graduate training in history and the humanities. Successive articles by … Continue reading →

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Turning a Dissertation into a Book

Posted on January 10, 2012 by briansandberg

American Historical Association (AHA) conferences usually include practical sessions on professional development issues, which are intended to assist graduate students and junior faculty members in becoming productive historians.  One of the most useful of these sessions is always the panel … Continue reading →

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AHA 2012

Posted on January 9, 2012 by briansandberg

The gargantuan American Historical Association (AHA) 2012 conference has now wrapped up, and numerous journalists and historians are providing assessments of the conference and the state of the discipline of history. An estimated 4,700 historians (including professors, instructors, public historians, … Continue reading →

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Creating Communities through Coercion

Posted on December 28, 2011 by briansandberg

I will be chairing a session on “Creating Communities through Coercion in Seventeenth-Century France” at the American Historical Association (AHA) in Chicago in early January 2012. AHA Session 183 Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott … Continue reading →

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Creating Communities through Coercion

Posted on December 7, 2011 by briansandberg

I will be chairing a session on “Creating Communities through Coercion in Seventeenth-Century France” at the American Historical Association (AHA) in Chicago in early January 2012. AHA Session 183 Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott … Continue reading →

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