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World History Center

The World History Center promotes critical research and teaching about human communities in motion and the forces that have shaped our global past.

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The World History Center promotes critical research and teaching about human communities in motion and the forces that have shaped our global past.

Upcoming Events (6)

When We Were One: Haitian-Dominican Solidarity During the Age of Revolutions

Thu, Feb 6, 2025 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 3703

Lectures, Symposia, Etc.

Global Perspectives on the Role of Faculty in an Age of Campus Repression

Fri, Feb 7, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm

Lectures, Symposia, Etc.

Exploring the Legacies of Authoritarianism in Latin America: Archival Research and Collective Memory

Thu, Feb 13, 2025 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 4130

Lectures, Symposia, Etc.

From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union

Thu, Feb 27, 2025 5:00pm

Lectures, Symposia, Etc.

Death Among the Trees: Worry as Care and Fear in 1990s Appalachia

Mon, Mar 17, 2025 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 3703

Lectures, Symposia, Etc.

Silent Voices: The Absence of Laborers and Artisans in Global Narratives

Fri, Apr 4, 2025 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 4130

New Lectures, Symposia, Etc.
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Recent Events

Frameworks for History’s Future: Climate Change and the Anthropocene

Fri, Dec 6, 2024 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 4130

Humanists Working with Scientists: An Interdisciplinary or Multidisciplinary Anthropocene?

Fri, Dec 6, 2024 10:30am to 12:00pm

Space Research Coordination Center, 214

Trainings & Workshops

Global Justice Activism at Pitt: An Intergenerational Roundtable and Pedagogy Workshop

Thu, Nov 14, 2024 3:30pm to 5:00pm

William Pitt Union, 630

From the 1921 Quota Acts to the Trump Wall. ‘Replacement’ thinking then and now, from a global perspective

Tue, Oct 29, 2024 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 3911

Lectures, Symposia, Etc.

Read & Discuss: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

Thu, Oct 10, 2024 2:30am to 4:00am

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 3703

Meetings & Conferences

Accommodating for Absence and Navigating Narrative Gaps: The Paradigmatic Corruption of Ancient Crete a talk by Jesse Obert

Thu, Sep 19, 2024 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 3703

Lectures, Symposia, Etc.
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