Recently, Dr. Joseph Hodge was invited to present the opening lecture for the Master’s Degree Course on Local and Global Development at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy. The lecture, titled “Development and Its Experts: From Colonial to Postcolonial Times”, took place on September 20, 2016. Dr. Hodge was welcomed by Professor Mario Zamponi, Coordinator of the Local and Global Development Program, and by Dr. Massimiliano Trentin, Professor of History and International Relations of the Middle East, who gave the introductory remarks. The lecture was sponsored by the Department of Political and Social Sciences and the Center of Historical....
Ph.D student Francis M. Curran III was invited by the Monongalia
Historical Society to present his research
on Southern sectionalism prior to the Civil War at their quarterly dinner meeting
Friday, September 16, 2016.
“The shot John Wilkes Booth shot at Ford’s Theatre was the
first shot in the war to come after, the war on Black freedom and equality…a
war we are still fighting today,” Martha Hodes said as a striking final thought
in her lecture “Mourning Lincoln: The Assassination and the Aftermath of the
Civil War” given at WVU on September 29.
Katherine Aaslestad, Professor of History, recently contributed to the international workshop “The Persistence of Civic Identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848” at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. An internationally renowned scholar on civic identity, Aaslestad was invited by Professors Henk te Velde and Judith Pollmann in Leiden to serve on the Expert Committee for the workshop to contribute her expertise on German Central Europe and provide transnational perspectives on the research projects presented at the meeting. The experience offered an exciting opportunity to be part of international collaboration and a research team that focuses on an area crucial to....
