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The West: Reflections on the Making of a Past

Monday, 26 September 2011

7:30 PM | Galbreath Chapel

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Michael Bentley (University of St. Andrews)

Michael Bentley is Professor of History at the University of St. Andrew’s, where he studies the philosophy and history of historiography. He was educated at Cambridge University (Ph.D.) and taught at the University of Sheffield for a number of years before coming to St. Andrews. He has written or edited ten books, including, most recently, Modernizing England’s Past (2005) and The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield (2011). Bentley currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2009–2012) and is writing a comparative historiography of the modern West.

Defining Empires: How Spain vs. Portugal Shaped the Modern West

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

7:30 PM | Baker Center Threater

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Tamar Herzog (Stanford University)

Tamar Herzog is Professor of Latin American and Spanish history at Stanford University, before which she taught at the University of Chicago and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has written or edited seven books, including Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America (2003) and Upholding Justice: State, Law and the Penal System in Quito (2004). Her current work examines the relationship between Spain and Spanish America.

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Wayward Historian

Thursday, 21 April 2011

7:30 PM | Walter Hall 135

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Carlos Eire (Yale University)

Carlos Eire is T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He has written widely on late medieval and early modern Europe, including War against the Idols (1986), From Madrid to Purgatory (1995), and A Very Brief History of Eternity (2009). He won the 2003 National Book Award for his memoir of the Cuban Revolution, Waiting for Snow in Havana. His latest book is Learning to Die in Miami (2010), an account of his early life once arriving in the United States as an exile from Castro’s Cuba.

Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions: The Forgotten Agents of Change

Monday, 31 January 2011

7:30 PM | Baker Center Theater

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Jane Landers (Vanderbilt University)

Jane Landers is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She has written or edited over half a dozen books, including The Atlantic World (2007) and Black Society in Spanish Florida (1999). A member of the Executive Committee of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University and past president of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, she also serves on the editorial boards of several historical journals. Her latest book is Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (2010).

The Kingdom of Whatever: The Premodern Roots of the Postmodern Condition

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

7:30 PM | Baker Center Theater

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Brad Gregory (University of Notre Dame)

Brad Gregory is the Dorothy G. Griffin Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Notre Dame. He holds advanced degrees in history and philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain and Princeton University. His first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (1999) won numerous awards. He has written more recently on secularism and the ‘new atheism’. His forthcoming book, The Unintended Reformation, shows how the problems of the early twenty-first century have their origins in the sixteenth-century religious reformations.