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Workshops

The history department's active intellectual life is reflected in workshops that meet regularly and in clusters, a looser grouping of faculty and graduate students who share interest in a common theme or approach to history. Both activities typify our commitment to intellectual exchange across geographic fields and to interdisciplinary pursuits. The workshops are the settings for presentations by our own faculty and graduate students and by visiting scholars.

American Indian Studies Workshop

The American Indian Studies Workshop provides a place for graduate students and faculty members from all disciplines to come together and share research related to indigenous studies. Each meeting consists of one or two presenters who share dissertation or book chapters, articles, syllabi, conference presentations, or other works, and receive feedback from the other participants in a supportive environment. The workshop meets about eight times per semester and alternates between the East Bank and West Bank campuses each year. For more information, please contact the workshop coordinator, Robert Gilmer, at gilme015@umn.edu.

Comparative Early Modern History Workshop

The Center for Early Modern History sponsors this workshop, which typically meets over the noon hour on most Fridays throughout the academic year.  Workshops are often organized collaboratively with and co-sponsored by other departments, institutes, and centers with interests in the early modern period, making them a key site of intellectual exchange among faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars who work in a similar time period but in different world areas and in a variety of disciplines.

Comparative Women's History Workshop

The Comparative Women's History Workshop provides a forum for discussing articles, works in progress, and dissertation and grant proposals on the history of women and gender. In particular, the aim is to create a setting where the insights of faculty and graduate students who study different regions and time periods can be brought to bear on the work discussed.

Early American History Workshop

A number of faculty and students from history and other disciplines participate in the history department's Early American History Workshop. It is an informal weekly gathering to discuss pre-circulated works in progress (drafts of articles, conference papers, dissertation chapters) or other common readings, of our own or of scholars visiting the workshop.

Graduate Workshop in Modern History

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History is an interdisciplinary workshop where graduate students preparing work for publication in a journal or for presentation at a conference can present their work in progress and receive feedback from faculty and graduate students. Graduate seminars are usually oriented around a specific theme, but the Graduate Workshop in Modern History offers you an opportunity to share your work with an audience that you might not typically encounter. The workshop welcomes work in any area of the globe that is historically-minded and based in the modern period (loosely defined as 1840 to the present).

Legal History Colloquium

The Program in Law and History sponsors this interdisciplinary workshop that brings together faculty and students in law, history, and other disciplines to discuss research at the intersection of history and law from the ancient to the modern world. Each fall semester, the workshop meets weekly as a graduate colloquium (Hist. 5644/Law 6228) featuring work in progress by visiting scholars. The fall colloquium is open to faculty and students and may also be taken by students for graduate course credit. In the spring semester, the workshop meets biweekly and offers an opportunity for faculty and students at Minnesota to present and discuss their work in progress.

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