SHAFR is pleased to support and affiliate with the Washington History Seminar, an initiative of the National History Center. The seminar aims to facilitate the understanding of contemporary affairs in light of historical knowledge of all times and places, and from multiple perspectives. It meets weekly on Monday afternoons at 4 p.m., January—May and September—December. Wm. Roger Louis, of the National History Center, and Christian Ostermann, of the Wilson Center, are the co-directors of the seminar. Below is the list of speakers. Please click on the event to find out more information or to watch a video presentation of the seminar.
Spring 2011 Seminar Schedule:
- January 24: Sheldon Garon (Princeton University) on why America spends while the world saves (video)
- January 31: Trudy Peterson (Independent Archivist) on war crimes tribunals in Guatemala, Rwanda, and South Africa (video)
- February 7: Charles Maier (Harvard University and WWC Fellow) on sovereignty and globalization
- February 14: Klaus Larres (University of Ulster) on Churchill and the Cold War (video)
- February 28: Henry Laurens (Collège de France) on France and the Arab World
- March 7: Katherine Lynch (Carnegie Mellon University) on the French welfare state (video)
- March 14: Susan Carruthers (Rutgers University and WWC Fellow) on United States military occupations (video)
- March 21: Gabriel Gorodetsky (University of Oxford) on Stalin
- March 28: Thomas Schwartz (Vanderbilt University) on Kissinger’s Realpolitik (video)
- April 4: Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia University) on reading history through biography (video)
- April 11: Richard Kohn (University of North Carolina) on civil and military relationships (video)
- April 18: no meeting
- April 25: Don H. Doyle (University of South Carolina and WWC Public Policy Fellow) on the international dimensions of the American Civil War
- May 2: Paul Landau (University of Maryland) on the end of Apartheid
Fall 2010 Seminar Schedule:
- September 13: Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the United States Senate, on the U.S. Congress (video)
- September 20: Frédéric Bozo, Sorbonne & Wilson Center Fellow, on François Mitterrand and the Cold War (video)
- September 27: Caroline Elkins, Harvard University, on reassessing the Mau Mau Rebellion (video)
- October 4: Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, on secularism and gender equality (video)
- October 11: No meeting: Columbus Day
- October 18: Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia & Wilson Center Fellow, on lessons from the Cold War (video)
- October 25: Timothy H. Breen, Northwestern University, on Ordinary People and the American Revolution
- November 1: Erin Mahan, United States Department of Defense, on weapons of mass destruction (no video available)
- November 8: Brian Harrison, University of Oxford, on the Anglo-American “Special Relationship” video
- November 15: David Hollinger, University of California at Berkeley, on American Missionaries effect on the U.S. (video)
- November 22: Philip Zelikow, University of Virginia, on the history of U.S. foreign policy (no video available)
- November 29: David Painter, Georgetown University, on oil and world power (video)
- December 6: John Pocock, Johns Hopkins, on the decline and fall of empires (video)