Department of History

A work in progress presented by Dr. Lilian Guerra. Copies of the paper will be available before the talk. To get one, contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu.

Talk by Professor Aviad Moreno, Ben Gurion University This lecture examines the process of Jewish emigration from Spanish-dominated northern Morocco, and points to the trans-regional, inter-personal, communal and institutional networks that jointly shaped the character and pace of that exodus to Israel and Latin America, beginning in the 19th century. The talk is free and …

Lunchtime seminar with Professor Aviad Moreno, Ben Gurion University.   Lunch provided, please RSVP to mcampos@ufl.edu

This paper will be presented by recent Cameron Ruff (MA History). For questions, or copies of this paper, contact fcurta@ufl.edu    

For information, contact Dr. Sean P. Adams, spadams@ufl.edu

The Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History presents a workshop with Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University. For further information, contact Dr. Sean P. Adams, spadams@ufl.edu

A talk by Raef Zreik (SJD, Harvard Law School), the academic co-director of the Minerva Center for the humanities at Tel Aviv University. Is the National State Law legislated this year in Israel really new or just a continuation of old, settled and known Zionist ideology and practice? In many ways the new basic law …

In this conversation I will probe the political imaginary that frames and nurtures the increasingly used analogy of present-day Palestine/Israel to apartheid South Africa. This inquires as to why the analogy has gained momentum only in the last two decades and seeks to explain the circumstances of its emergence. First, I discuss the construction of …

Dr. Austin will talk about her book, The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America and Dr. Ortiz will talk about his recent work, An African American and Latin History of the United States.

Working paper presented by Professor Devin Naar (University of Washington) Abstract:  Speaking Ladino rather than Yiddish, with different customs and appearances, Sephardic Jews from the Ottoman Empire who arrived in the United Stated during the early twentieth century did not fit the typical American Jewish mold, not even in New York. The Jewishness of these …

The 68th Annual Conference of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida. This multidisciplinary conference aims to explore various facets of the Jewish experience in the Americas from …

The 2019 UF History Graduate Symposium will honor the 90th anniversary of the first publication of the Annales Journal, which dramatically transformed the post-WWII historical field. We invite graduate students to present their research influenced and inspired by, or disrupting, this varying legacy. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of histoire totale and mentalités, which …

National Symposium organized by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and the George A, Smathers Libraries to commemorate the opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History, a collection of more than six hundred oral histories with African Americans on topics including slavery, segregation, and civil rights. This is part of a …

Sponsored by the Bob Graham Center, the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities, the Department of Journalism, and the Gus Burns Fund of the Department of History

“The Rural Afterlives of Slavery: Landownership, Politics, and Farming Practice Among Black Farmers in Clarke County, Georgia, 1865-1980” Motivated by the controversy over the University of Georgia’s 2016 disturbance of a burial ground of enslaved people, this paper examines the "rural afterlives" of slavery by looking at the dynamics of race, land ownership, and agricultural transformation in …

Talk by Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, Assistant Professor, Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago. Recent scholarship and activism paint a troubling picture of the American carceral state and chart a way out by utilizing the framework of abolition. But disability and madness and their histories of oppression and resistance are largely missing from as ways to …

A talk by Joel Blecher (Ph.D. Princeton) is Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University. He is the author of Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium (University of California Press, 2018). His current book project on Islam and the Spice Trade has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the …

A work in progress by Florin Curta. If you are interested in reading the paper before the talk, please contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu

A talk by Joshua Teplitsky Assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University. He specializes in the history of the Jews in Europe in the early modern period, with a particular interest in cultures of knowledge-making, printing, and book collecting David Oppenheim (1664–1736), chief rabbi of Prague …

The Caribbean: A Cultural Encounter The conference schedule is here: https://discoveryhistory.org/2019-conference-schedule/ Throughout time, humans have ventured over the hill, beyond their own territories.  Wherever such journeys of exploration have taken us, we have learned about ourselves while interacting with others and sharing our ideas, history, and culture.  The Society for the History of Discoveries celebrates the …

A work in progress presented by Grace Hoffman. If you would like a copy of this paper in advance, please contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu

A work in progress presented by Bogdan Dumitru. If you are interested in seeing a draft of this paper, contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu

Presentation by Ciprian Cretu, Fulbright Scholar from Bucharest, Romania. For advanced copies of the paper, contact the author: ciprian.cretu@drd.unibuc.ro

Presentation by Norman Goda.

The Gary C. and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture on American History. Speaker: Liette Gidlow, Associate Professor of History, Wayne State University

Screening at the Museums Challenge Symposium presented by the Mellon Intersections Group on Mass Incarceration. At The Wooly (20 N. Main Street) Hidden Lives Illuminated is a project commissioned by Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site of animated short films created by artists incarcerated at the Pennsylvania State Corrections Institution at Chester and Philadelphia’s Riverside Correctional Facility for …

Lunchtime seminar featuring Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, UNC Wilmington. This talk is funded by Sean Adams, the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History.

Lecture by Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. Presented by the Mellon Intersections, Mass Incarceration Working Group See details here: https://humanities.ufl.edu/event/migrating-to-prison-americas-obsession-with-locking-up-immigrants-cesar-cuauhtemoc-garcia-hernandez/

Dr. Tony Michels, Department of History, University of Madison will be the speaker. The event is sponsored by Mitchell Hart, the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History.

The UF Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa invites you to join us on Monday, October 19, for a public lecture by Joan Waugh, renowned historian from UCLA and President-elect of the Society of Civil War Historians. Her talk is entitled “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe”: The Crime of the Century. Professor Waugh researches and writes about 19th-century America, …

In April 1980 renowned African writer Chinua Achebe and African American literary giant James Baldwin met for the first time at the African Literature Association conference devoted to the African Aesthetic. On the 40th anniversary of Achebe and Baldwin's historic encounter at the University of Florida, The Center for African Studies invites guests to a two-day …

This paper will be presented by Zoom. A copy of the paper is available before the talk. To obtain a copy of the paper or to receive the zoom link to this talk, contact Professor Sean Adams. This presentation is sponsored by the Hyatt and Cici Brown Chair of History.

"Twenty Years of Black Power Studies: Reflections and Horizons" Dr. Ashley Farmer (UT-Austin) Abstract: When Peniel Joseph published “Black Liberation Without Apology: Reconceptualizing the Black Power Movement” in 2001, he ushered in the field of Black Power Studies. Since the publication of this Black Scholar article twenty years ago, the field has grown in depth …

“ ‘Something Bigger and Better’: The Rebirth of Black Banking in the United States, 1964-1983” Dr. Brandon Winford (University of Tennessee) Abstract: After the passage of milestone civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, the United States experienced a rebirth in black banking. In particular, the emergence of new black-owned banks coincided with the passage of …

A Talk by Dr. Scot Brown, Associate Professor of African American Studies & History, UCLA Questions: contact Elizabeth Dale (edale@ufl.edu)

A talk by Felix Germain, Assoc Professor Africana Studies, University of Pittsburg This talk will be on Zoom. For more information contact Elizabeth Dale (edale@ufl.edu)

“Armed Mothering: Activism and Armed Black Women in the United States” Dr. Jasmin Young (UC-Riverside) Abstract:  This article and talk is based on the experiences of several women who were armed revolutionaries and also mothers. While scholars of revolutions in Latin America, Africa and Asia have considered motherhood and armed resistance, scholars of the U.S. …

Jon Ellis Meacham will give the Inaugural lecture honoring Dr. Michael Gannon, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Florida. Jon Ellis Meacham is a writer, reviewer, and presidential biographer. A former Executive Editor and Executive Vice President at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, …

“‘Mr. Muhammad Says All of This is Possible for You and Me’: Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks, and Black Nationalism during the Space Age” Dr. D'Weston Haywood (Hunter CUNY) Abstract:  Scholars have analyzed Elijah Muhammad and the NOI’s demands for a separate Black territory within the United States, but have missed another critical side of their …

A zoom talk by Miriam Rich, History of Medicine, Yale University For more information, contact Elizabeth Dale (edale@ufl.edu)

TBA Dr. Hassan Jeffries (Ohio State University

Meeting of 19th century VAP search committee. Questions, contact Sean Adams, chair of the search committee: spadams@ufl.edu

Questions? Contact Sean Adams, Chair of the Committee (spadams@ufl.edu)  

Please join us for our next History Workshop which will feature a pre-circulated paper by our esteemed colleague Alice Freifeld, recently retired but still flourishing with her scholarship. Alice has assembled a stunning array of three discussants, whose scholarship spans Germany (with our very own Norm Goda), France (Jean-Marc Dreyfus of Manchester), and Poland (with …

Charlotte Denoël, Chief Curator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France's Manuscripts Department, presents on the Bibliothèque's collections and programs.

We will be discussing two chapters from Lillian Guerra’s forthcoming book, Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981. The workshop will take place over Zoom. Contact Prof. Phillip Janzen for the chapter and link to the meeting. The discussant will be María de los Ángeles Torres, Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of …

Please join the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center on January 14, 4:30 pm for the inaugural event in the 2023 Challenging Racism public program series. Staff and students at the Gainesville Sun and the Proctor Program have embarked upon a partnership to explore the history of the Sun’s coverage of race relations from …

Dr. Dan Simone earned his Ph.D. from UF in 2009. He wrote his dissertation, “Racing, Region, and the Environment: A History of American Motorsports," under the guidance of Dr. Jack Davis. While at UF, he also served as Program Coordinator of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.  From 2010-2015, Dr. Simone taught World History and …

Our annual showcase of theses by undergraduate honors students. For more on our program, check out its homepage here: https://history.ufl.edu/undergraduate-studies/undergraduate-honors-program/