Dear History Department Friends,
As always, the fall has been a busy term in the history department. We have hosted a number of lectures, held a career networking event for majors, and a sneak peek (on spring courses) event with students and faculty. Our communications intern, major Kaleigh Calvao, is hard at work on our first ever department newsletter for alums and we are looking forward to a busy and exciting spring semester.
Some recent news and events worth mentioning are included below:
This weekend, November 8th and 9th, the UVM Humanities Center and Silver Special Collections–along with the history department–are sponsoring a colloquium on “Interpreting the Handwritten Book: Medieval Manuscripts at UVM.” Here’s the program: https://specialcollections.uvm.edu/events/colloquium. On Friday, Nov. 8th, 3:30-6:45, are student presentations from Professor Charlie Brigg’s HST 225 seminar. Most of the presenters are History grad students and undergraduate majors. On Saturday, November 9th from 9:00-5:00 invited speakers and UVM faculty will be delivering various talks on recent research on these topics. We hope that people who are interested will attend these events.
Professor Erik Esselstrom will be delivering his Full Professor Lecture on November 20th at 4:30 p.m. in Memorial Lounge in Waterman. The title for his talk is “In the Shadow of Mao’s Mushroom Clouds: Japanese Reactions to Chinese Nuclear Weapons in the 1960s.” The department would like to encourage all who can to attend.
Professor Nicole Phelps has been invited to become a commissioning editor for H-Diplo. H-Diplo is one of the largest H-Net networks, with several thousand subscribers around the world, and is particularly active in reviewing books and articles. Professor Phelps will be concentrating on expanding the network’s reviews of scholarship on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
We will continue to share information through the remainder of the fall term. And, as always, we are willing to share relevant news.
