September 2017

YDN: History department increases “global perspectives”

ANGELA XIAO SEP 22, 2017

Beginning this fall, Yale’s History Department is introducing a sequence of undergraduate lecture classes that, instead of focusing on a specific region or event, will develop global history and perspectives around a particular time period.

The offering of classes will be organized chronologically, and the first of these classes, “The World Circa 1000,” is currently being taught by history professors Valerie Hansen and Anders Winroth.

Q&A with our new faculty

This academic year the History Department welcomes four new full-time faculty members, Deborah Coen (History of Science and Medicine), Samuel Moyn (Law), Sergei Antonov (Russia) and Carolyn Roberts (African American Studies/HSHM). Get to know our new professors by scrolling through below and click on the picture to visit their individual bio pages. Special thanks to History graduate student, Adrián Lerner Patrón for interviewing and compiling the questions and answers.

 

 

The Meiji Restoration and Its Afterlives: Social Change and the Politics of Commemoration

In advance of the sesquicentennial in 2018 of the 1868 Meiji Restoration, Professor Daniel Botsman is co-organizing one of three international conferences to mark the anniversary, the others were held at Wake Forest University and Universitat Heidelberg, both in 2015.  The conference entitled: “The Meiji Restoration and Its Afterlives: Social Change and the Politics of Commemoration” will take place September 15-17 at Edward P. Evans Hall in New Haven.  

Anne Eller and fellow researchers win grant from the British National Library’s Endangered Archives Programme

Professor Anne Eller and fellow researchers Erin Zavitz (University of Montana), Lewis Clormeus (l’Université d’État d’Haiti) and Claire Payton (Duke) were awarded a one-year grant from the British National Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to help preserve and digitize a very rare collection of newspapers in Port-au-Prince. The grant is called “Beyond the Revolution: Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l’Instruction Chrétienne Collections, Bringing Nineteenth-Century Haitian History to the World.” 

Eurozine: "A pre-history of post-truth, East and West" by Marci Shore

In 2014, Russian historian Andrei Zubov was fired from his Moscow professorship for comparing Putin’s annexation of Crimea to Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland.1 Two years later, at a festival in the post-industrial Czech city of Ostrava, Zubov spoke to a large audience about the task of historians. ‘My dolzhni govorit’ pravdu’, he said. We should speak the truth. This declaration – all the more so when uttered in Zubov’s baritone – sounded quaint, even old-fashioned.