Event category: Department of History
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The Afghan Female Tactical Platoon: Challenges, Successes, and Partnering with VT
After the fall of Kabul in September 2021, several dozen members of the Afghan Female Tactical Platoon (FTP) were evacuated and eventually brought to the US. Though protected from retaliation by the Taliban, the FTPs faced challenges living in a new country, learning English in particular. Through a partnership with VT’s Center for Refugee, Migrant, […]
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A Discussion of The Sewing Girl’s Tale with historian John Wood Sweet
On a moonless night in the summer of 1793, a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel — the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in U.S. history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. […]
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Celebrate Women’s History Month with Christiansburg Institute and Montgomery County Community Review Council
Celebrate Women’s History Month with Christiansburg Institute (CI, Inc.) and Montgomery County Community Review Council (MCCRC) on March 28 at 7 p.m. at The Lyric Theater in Blacksburg, Virginia. This event, part of CI, Inc. and MCCRC’s cultural preservation speaker series, features Karice Luck-Brimmer, a genealogist with over 20 years of experience. Luck-Brimmer’s work explores […]
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How We Write Our Future: Methods of Indigenous Writing for Academia
Please join us for a public lecture delivered by Dr. Marisa Duarte from Arizona State University. Dr. Duarte is a citizen of the Pascua Yaqui Nation and she is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation. Academic writing is a genre in of itself, one that can challenge prevailing modes of sharing knowledge […]
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The Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Research Conference
On March 22 – March 23, 2024, we will host the Bertoti Conference in-person. Our conference is an opportunity for graduate students and advanced undergraduates to share research projects in a supportive, professional environment and a chance to network with future colleagues. Our conference values interdisciplinary approaches to the past, and we invite proposals from […]
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Israel-Palestine Crisis: Three-Part Panel Series | Panel 3: The Current Situation
Open to the Virginia Tech community, this event features a three-part panel series to discuss the Israel-Palestine Crisis. Please pre-register at the link below and be ready to show your VT ID at the door on the day of the event. Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/RKYJqu70t6 Panel 3: The Current Situation Confirmed Speakers include: – Sa’ed Atshan, […]
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Israel-Palestine Crisis: Three-Part Panel Series | Panel 2: Historical Context and Representation
Open to the Virginia Tech community, this event features a three-part panel series to discuss the Israel-Palestine Crisis. Please pre-register at the link below and be ready to show your VT ID at the door on the day of the event. Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/RKYJqu70t6 Panel 2: Historical Context and Representation Confirmed Speakers include: – Arie […]
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Israel-Palestine Crisis: Three-Part Panel Series | Panel 1: International Law, Human Rights, and Local Politics
Open to the Virginia Tech community, this event features a three-part panel series to discuss the Israel-Palestine Crisis. Please pre-register at the link below and be ready to show your VT ID at the door on the day of the event. Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/RKYJqu70t6 Panel 1: International Law, Human Rights, and Local Politics Confirmed Speakers […]
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Related to Strangers: Ebony Coletu
The technology for kin-finding has exploded in recent years to reconstruct distant-heritage and repair disconnections from migration, death, adoption, and war. However, the search for stories behind names proves more complicated. Where do stories come from? This talk explores kin-finding as a technique to build interpretive stories about the past. Based on a practice of […]