History and American Studies Symposium University of Mary Washington – Department of History and American Studies Friday, April 24, 2015 SESSION ONE. 9 AM. Monroe 210—World War II and Its Aftermath Moderator: Dr. Nabil Al-Tikriti Sarah Palmer—“Illimitable Schemes for Relief”: International Humanitarianism and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (PB) Jordan Harmer—Postwar Japanese […]
This Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7 pm in Monroe 346, UMW will host a lecture by Ambassador Lukman Faily, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States. The ambassador’s lecture, entitled “Challenges of Iraqi Foreign Policy, Status and Prospective,” will outline the new Iraqi government’s approach to foreign policy. Ambassador Faily will focus on Iraq-U.S. relations […]
Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of History and American Studies present: Ferguson in Historical Context Wednesday September 24 7-9pm Monroe 210 Dr. Jess Rigelhaupt, Dr. Will Mackintosh, and Dr. Claudine Ferrell will provide some historical background to the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri followed by a discussion with the audience […]
Women’s and Gender Studies – Brown Bag Lunch Series: Rachel Elfenbein PhD candidate in Sociology at Simon Fraser University and former Fulbright fellow to Venezuela “They Want Our Work, But Not Our Power: Women’s Unpaid Labor in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution” In 1999, Venezuela became the first country in the world to constitutionally recognize the value […]
