Fall 2015 Washington History Seminar Schedule
The Fall 2015 Washington History Seminar schedule has been set. Please check back for additional descriptions and RSVP instructions as they become available.
Washington History Seminar: Historical Perspectives on International and National Affairs
Mondays, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room
Ronald Reagan Building, Federal Triangle Metro Stop
September 7: No seminar (Labor Day)
September 17 (Thursday): Willard Sunderland (University of Cincinnati) on The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution
September 21: Leila Fawaz (Tufts University) on A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
September 28: Adam Rothman (Georgetown University) on Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
October 5: Kathy Peiss (University of Pennsylvania) on Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in World War II
October 12: No seminar (Columbus Day)
October 19: Odd Arne Westad (Harvard University) on Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750
October 26: Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University) on Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union
November 2: Mark Noll (University of Notre Dame) on In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783
November 9: Philippa Strum (The Wilson Center) on Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law
November 16: James Cronin (Boston College) on Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World
November 23: No seminar (Thanksgiving week)
November: 30: Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University) on The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
December 7: Julia Irwin (University of South Florida) on Catastrophic Diplomacy: The History of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
December 14: Csaba Bekes (Institute for the History of the 1956 Revolution, Budapest) on The End of the Cold War in Hungary
Sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the History and Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Washington History Seminar aims to facilitate understanding of contemporary affairs in light of historical knowledge from a variety of perspectives. For more information, please click here.
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