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The History Graduate Student Association hosts the 13th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Ohio University on March 2-3. The program combines a keynote lecture with a series of panel presentations that showcase some of the cutting-edge, in-progress work of graduate students in the discipline of history from a variety of […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes the Baker Peace Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year, Luke Griffith lecturing on “Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and the Euromissiles” on Thursday, March 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Griffith, a doctoral graduate student in History at Ohio University, explores the genesis of the […]

The theme for the 2018 Baker Peace Conference on March 22 and 23 is “Populism, the Press, and the Election of 2016.” The keynote speakers and panelists will examine the upsurge of populism during the 2016 presidential election in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world. The […]

The Contemporary History Institute Guest Lecture Series presents Dr. Jacqueline H. Wolf discussing “The Cesarean Section Rate: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence” on March 29 in Baker 231 at 4:30 p.m. Between 1969 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose 455 percent—from 4.5 to 25 percent […]

Dr. Bassam Haddad of George Mason University gives a public lecture on “After ISIS: Prospects for War and Peace in Syria” Monday, March 5, at 6:30 p.m. in Porter Hall 104. Haddad’s lecture offers an assessment of the current situation in Syria. The event is hosted by the War and […]

Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee of Tufts University gives a public lecture on “Containing Kim Jong Un: Five Myths About North Korea” on Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in Bentley Hall 306. The lecture is hosted by the War and Peace theme, Asian Studies at the Center for International Studies, and the […]

  The Contemporary History Institute announces its public events for the Spring 2018 semester. Unless otherwise noted, these events are scheduled for Thursdays, from 4:30 – 6 p.m. in Baker 242. On Jan. 18, Dr. Nukhet Sandal, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Global Studies at Ohio University, […]