6/09/2009 Website updated!

As some of you are aware, the HGSA council has spent the past several months developing the capacity to update its own website. After much money spent, and a few brave souls lost, we are proud to announce that the HGSA council has finally discovered the secrets of nuclear fission. We also figured out how to update the website. Stay tuned for more news.

HGSA events: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Dear Graduate Students and Faculty,

Please join the History Graduate Student Association for two events on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.

At 12.00 pm, Nicholas Schlosser, Ph.D. candidate, will present his paper “‘The Road to Hell is Paved with RIAS Broadcasts,’ The East German Campaign Against RIAS Berlin, 1950-1961.” Andrew Palmquist, Ph.D. student, will comment. This colloquium event will meet in Taliaferro Hall, room 2110. Several copies of his paper are available in the Graduate Student Lounge, and it can be downloaded here: http://hgsaumd.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/schlosserhgsacolloquium30apr.pdf

At 4.00 pm, we will be joined by Prof. Bernard Moitt, Chair and Associate Professor at the Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University. Prof. Moitt will give a talk on “Slavery, Emancipation, and ‘Adoption’ of Minors in Urban Senegal, 1848-1905.” This event will also meet in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110.

Minutes

Spring 2008

April 14, 2008

HGSA Meeting April 14, 2008

HGSA Colloquium: Andrew Kellett, April 15 2008 at 1.00 pm

Andrew J. Kellett
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland

But My Dad Was Black: Masculinity, Modernity, and Blues Culture in Britain

Comment by:
Malia McAndrew
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Francis Scott Key 2120 (Merrill Room)
1.00 p.m.

Papers copies available in Graduate Student Lounge, or e-mail creed@umd.edu to request an electronic copy.

Third Annual HGSA Conference

You are cordially invited to the Third Annual History Graduate Student Conference at the University of Maryland on February 7th and 8th, 2008 (information).