The XVIII World Economic History Congress is taking place on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Cambridge Marriott, Kendall Square from July 29-August 3, 2018. Professor Anne McCants, History, MIT, is the Chair of the Organizing Committee for this major conference.
News
The Human Factor/Insurance and Individualism in the U.S.Interview with Caley Horan who is a United States historian who focuses on research interests in the cultural and intellectual
Professor Malick Ghachem is a new addition to the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lecturers for 2018-19 as is Professor Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia, who received her PhD from the HASTS Doctoral
Four professors named 2018 MacVicar Fellows Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award. Read
Professor Hiromu Nagahara was recently on BBC radio show on the history of jazz in Japan dicussing two of the songs that are featured in his book Tokyo March" and "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie". You can listen to it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
MIT class reveals, explores Institute’s connections to slavery
Findings show founder William Barton Rogers possessed enslaved persons before coming to MIT; research, community dialogue to ensue. Read
MIT and the Legacy of Slavery: Reviewing the Early Findings
Friday, February 16
1:00-2:30 pm
MIT Media Lab, 6th floor (E14)
President L. Rafael Reif, Dean Melissa Nobles, Professor Craig Wilder, the MIT Black Students’ Union and MIT Black Graduate
Music and Global Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
February 23, 2018, 1-6pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building E51-Room 275
Workshop Schedule
1pm: Part 1, Keynote Presentation by Mamoru Tōya
Associate Professor Christopher Capozzola has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie Council on International Affairs (CCIA) to support his new research project, “Merchants of Death? The Politics of Defense Contracting, Then and Now.”
Malick Ghachem featured in MIT News article, "How Haiti helps us think differently about history" MIT historian Malick Ghachem gets readers and students to look anew at the Atlantic world by Peter Dizikes.
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