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“To Girdle the World with an Iron Chain”: R.M Stephenson and the Imperial Railway Imagination | Erica Mukherjee

National Humanities Center 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, Durham, NC, United States

The Triangle Global British History Seminar and the Global and Transnational Modern History Seminar are pleased to convene our next session, Friday, 31 January, 2020, 4-6pm at the National Humanities Center, West Conference Room. Our speaker will be: Erica Mukherjee, … Read more

The ‘challenge of the century’: transnational LGBTQ activism and the birth of Britain’s radical HIV/AIDS movement, from Thatcher to the 1990s

National Humanities Center 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, Durham, NC, United States

A paper, "The ‘challenge of the century’: transnational LGBTQ activism and the birth of Britain’s radical HIV/AIDS movement, from Thatcher to the 1990s," will be presented by George J. Severs, University of Cambridge and Holstein Dissertation Fellow 2019-20, University of … Read more

May ’68: New Approaches and Perspectives

National Humanities Center 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, Durham, NC, United States

The main goal of the May ’68: New Approaches and Perspectives colloquium is to bring together, for a day of intensive intellectual exchange, scholars interested in May ’68 in France, as well as its sources, parallels, and after-effects, from a … Read more

Christian Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Foundation of the West German State (Seminar)

National Humanities Center 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, Durham, NC, United States

Prof. Noah Strote (North Carolina State University) will present a lecture titled "Christian Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Foundation of the West German State." When asked for historical examples of success in Western-sponsored nation-building projects, advocates invariably cite the occupation and … Read more