Last Week, 12 Apr 2018

Rector’s Tea with Professor Borland: Life at the Epicenter. Happening on 12th April, 6pm!

Last Week, 11 Apr 2018

History Capstone Final Presentations are happening on Wednesday 11 April 2018, 12.30-4pm at Classroom 21!

Previous Month, 23 Jan 2018

Associate Professor Istvan Szijarto from Eötvös University, Budapest, will be giving a lecture on microhistory, the intense historical investigation of a relatively small subject. The lecture will give an overview of microhistory, concentrating on its Italian origins, its definition and the theoretical problems it raises. The lecture is held at 6.15pm on 23 January at Saga Common Lounge.

Previous Month, 05 Apr 2017

The History majors of the inaugural batch of 2017 completed their capstone projects with their project presentations. Each student gave a 15 minute presentation on their year-long work, with a question and answer session that followed. It was a fulfilling finish to mark the completion of their hard work!

Previous Month, 04 May 2017

ETH Zurich Doctoral Studentship

Dr Bernhard Schar (ETH, Zurich) has announced the availability of a four-year PhD studentship in the field on Swiss mercenaries in the 19^th century Dutch Colonial Army in Southeast Asia, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. http://www.gmw.ethz.ch/en/news/offene-stellen.html. 

For those interested, please contact Dr Schar directly at bernhard.schaer@gmw.gess.ethz.ch

Previous Month, 29 Mar 2017

We are delighted that Dr Mate Rigo will be joining the History faculty from 1 July as a modern European historian. Dr Rigo obtainted his PhD from Cornell University, and is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a rare historian who works on trans-European history, by linking East-Central Europe to Western Europe. He will be offering a new range of courses, starting from a new 2000 level course on ‘Europe and the Sea: The Making of a Continent, 1500 to the Present’ in Semester 2 of AY2017-18 (subject to approval). We would like to give a big warm welcome to Dr Rigo!

Previous Month, 20 Mar 2017

Professor Thomas A. Foster, “Sexual Violations of Black Men Under American Slavery”, Professor of History at DePaul University

Previous Month, 06 Mar 2017

Professor Peter Kornicki, “Why are there so many different scripts in East Asia? Writing, diversity and linguistic nationalism in premodern East Asia”, University of Cambridge

Previous Month, 25 Feb 2017

Ng Qi Siang ’19, Min Lim ’18, and Karen Ho ’17 presented papers at “Conversations in Singapore History”, an undergraduate conference held at Trinity College, Oxford.

From left: Ng Qi Siang ’19, Min Lim ’18, Karen Ho ’17

Previous Month, 09 Feb 2017

Professor Trevor Burnard, “Planters and Fear in the Age of Revolutions”, Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne