Global Utopias Reading Group, Meeting #6
Conclusions: Environmental Utopia and Dystopia
Monday, May 1, 8:00pm / Mark Steinberg's house (see Compass for address)
Readings:
Conclusions: Environmental Utopia and Dystopia
Monday, May 1, 8:00pm / Mark Steinberg's house (see Compass for address)
Readings:
- Ghosh, Amitav. "Writing the Unimaginable." The American Scholar (Autumn 2016): 42-53.
- Solnit, Rebecca. "Grounds for Hope." Tikkun, (31 January 2017), 30-39.
Department of History
Center for Historical Interpretation
Calendar of History Events, Spring 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 3:30-5:00pm (315 Gregory Hall)
Global Utopias Reading Group: “Contextualizing Standing Rock: Native Peoples, Energy, and Environment in Historical Perspective”
Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 3:30-5:00pm (319 Gregory Hall)
Politics Not As Usual: Historical Perspectives on the 2016 Election, with Peter Fritzsche, Ian Toller-Clark, Erik McDuffie, Kathryn Oberdeck, and Kristin Hoganson
Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 3:30-5:00pm (315 Gregory Hall)
Global Utopias Reading Group: Prasenjit Duara, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (2015)
Thursday, February 23, 2017, 3:30-5:00pm (319 Gregory Hall)
Spring Department Lecture / Friends of History Lecture
Prof. Prasenjit Duara (Duke University)
Related events:
-Thursday, February 23, 12:00pm: Graduate student lunch discussing his The Crisis of Global Modernity
-Friday, February 24, 12:00-2:00pm: Workshop with graduate students.
* For more information, contact Roderick Wilson [email protected] *
Saturday, February 25, 10:30am-2:30pm (210 Illini Union, General Lounge)
Graduate Student Teaching Workshop
Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 3:30-5:30pm (317 Gregory Hall)
Annual Associate Professor Lecture
Prof. Teresa Barnes, “Family Non-Fictions: On Not Writing History”
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 7:00-9:00pm (210 Illini Union, General Lounge)
Third Annual History Soapbox
Wednesday April 19, 2017, 3:30-5:30pm (317 Gregory Hall)
Annual “Historians Among Us” lecture
Prof. Amanda Ciafone (Media)
Saturday, May 13, Professional Development Workshop for K-12 Teachers (210 Illini Union)
Monday, May 1, 2017, 8:00pm (Mark Steinberg's house)
Global Utopias Reading Group (final session of 3-year theme)
Conclusions: Environmental Utopia and Dystopia
Center for Historical Interpretation
Calendar of History Events, Spring 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 3:30-5:00pm (315 Gregory Hall)
Global Utopias Reading Group: “Contextualizing Standing Rock: Native Peoples, Energy, and Environment in Historical Perspective”
Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 3:30-5:00pm (319 Gregory Hall)
Politics Not As Usual: Historical Perspectives on the 2016 Election, with Peter Fritzsche, Ian Toller-Clark, Erik McDuffie, Kathryn Oberdeck, and Kristin Hoganson
Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 3:30-5:00pm (315 Gregory Hall)
Global Utopias Reading Group: Prasenjit Duara, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (2015)
Thursday, February 23, 2017, 3:30-5:00pm (319 Gregory Hall)
Spring Department Lecture / Friends of History Lecture
Prof. Prasenjit Duara (Duke University)
Related events:
-Thursday, February 23, 12:00pm: Graduate student lunch discussing his The Crisis of Global Modernity
-Friday, February 24, 12:00-2:00pm: Workshop with graduate students.
* For more information, contact Roderick Wilson [email protected] *
Saturday, February 25, 10:30am-2:30pm (210 Illini Union, General Lounge)
Graduate Student Teaching Workshop
Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 3:30-5:30pm (317 Gregory Hall)
Annual Associate Professor Lecture
Prof. Teresa Barnes, “Family Non-Fictions: On Not Writing History”
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 7:00-9:00pm (210 Illini Union, General Lounge)
Third Annual History Soapbox
Wednesday April 19, 2017, 3:30-5:30pm (317 Gregory Hall)
Annual “Historians Among Us” lecture
Prof. Amanda Ciafone (Media)
Saturday, May 13, Professional Development Workshop for K-12 Teachers (210 Illini Union)
Monday, May 1, 2017, 8:00pm (Mark Steinberg's house)
Global Utopias Reading Group (final session of 3-year theme)
Conclusions: Environmental Utopia and Dystopia
For other history department events, see http://www.history.illinois.edu/