Contemporary History Institute
September 2018 Newsletter

Associate Professor of History & Director of the Contemporary History Institute

2018-19 is shaping up to be an exciting year for our students and faculty affiliates at the Contemporary History Institute. We’ll get to interact with outstanding scholars from different fields and disciplines (History, International Studies and Political Science, Journalism) in the fall, and we have an equally diverse lineup of CHI talks planned for the spring.... Read more.

Presenter: Bradley Simpson
Self-Determination in the Age of World War II

When: Sept. 13 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Baker 242
Presenter: James Mosher
Trade War, Trade War: A Talk and Discussion about the Current Trade War

When: Sept. 27 at 3 p.m.
Where: Baker 231
Alumni Panel
History of World Peace Since 1750

When: Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Bentley 12
Presenter: Filmmaker Meg Prior
Afghanistan Documentary: Outside the Wire

When: Oct. 30
Presenter: Amitav Acharya
Elizabeth Evans Baker Endowed Lecture

When: Nov. 29
Where: Baker Ballroom A
Dr. Sebastian Hurtado Torres and is currently assistant professor of history at Universidad Austral in Valdivia, Chile. CHI caught up with Torres recently about what he has been doing….

The Contemporary History Institute congratulates its 2017-18 graduates who earned the graduate Contemporary History Certificate.
For 10 weeks this summer, history M.A. student Jen Sutton interned at the U.S. Embassy Madrid in the Economic section.

Luke Griffith, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, will serve as an adjunct professor at the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College during the 2018-19 academic year.
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