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NCGS Workshop and Seminar Series #4 (Virtual)

Nineteenth Century Science Goes Global Speaker: Lorraine Daston (Director Emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago) During the latter half of the 19th century, international scientific collaborations of … Read more

NCGS Workshop and Seminar #6 (Virtual)

The Sociology of Empire: German and Habsburg Theories of Multinational Statehood, 1848-1914 Speaker: Thomas Prendergast (Graduate Student, Duke, Department of History) Over the past twenty years, historians have dramatically reevaluated the Habsburg Monarchy. Whereas scholars once characterized the Monarchy as … Read more

Comics and the Cold War

Registration link From their earliest days, American comics either reflected the consensus about the country’s national interest or did their part in bringing that consensus about (as in the case of America’s involvement in World War II). After the war, … Read more