Natasha Lightfoot will be presenting the Department of History at Sacred Heart University’s 2025 Endowed Lecture on 3/18 at 2:00 PM, where she will be presenting on a chapter of her new book in progress about an enslaved woman in the Caribbean who tries to free herself by sea and the politics of self emancipation.

Natasha Lightfoot will be presenting the Department of History at Sacred Heart University’s 2025 Endowed Lecture on 3/18 at 2:00 PM, where she will be presenting on a chapter of her new book in progress about an enslaved woman in the Caribbean who tries to free herself by sea and the politics of self emancipation. See more about the lecture here.

april 2025

3apr12:30 pm- 1:30 pmDisrupted City: A Lunchtime Seminar with Manan Ahmed

4apr12:00 pm- 1:00 pm“Howe everye thing commeth to passe within your bodies": Anatomy and Accessibility in "The Woman’s Booke"

10apr12:10 pm- 1:30 pmCreative and Narrative Nonfiction History Writing

11apr12:00 pm- 1:00 pmCrafting the "Artful Housekeeper": Women’s Artistic Practices in an 18th century Hausmütterbuch

24apr1:00 pm- 3:00 pmThe 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize Honors Kim Phillips-Fein

may 2025

2may12:00 pm- 1:00 pmWhat’s in a Name? Sciences of Language at the Society of Biblical Archeology

2may4:10 pm- 5:40 pmThe Rise of Muhammad al-Nahrawali al-Makki: Locating Arabic Historiographical Traditions Between Gujarat and Hejaz in the Sixteenth Century

Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 4th Edition. 2024: Wiley-Blackwell.

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History. 2024: Columbia University Press

Mae Ngai, Chee Wang Ng, and Corky Lee (eds.), Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2024: Clarkson Potter

Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books

Neslihan Senocak and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani . A People’s Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050 – 1300. 2023: Cornell University Press.
Neslihan Senocak. Lateran IV: Theology and Care of Souls. 2023: Brepols Publishers.
Carl Wennerlind. Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis. 2023: Harvard University Press.
Matthew L. Jones and Christopher Wiggins. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. 2023: W. W. Norton & Company.
Marc Van De Mieroop. Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires. 2022: Oxford University Press.
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