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Spaces of Coexistence/Spaces of Differentiation: Conversations among Historians

Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 University of Maryland, College Park

In this two-day workshop organized by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the Department of History at the University of Maryland, faculty and graduate students will present on topics that range from real estate segregation in the US to the early modern Jewish ghettos. Their goal is to focus on the spatial organization of ethnic, racial, gender, sexual, cultural, and religious diversity. José Casanova, professor in the Departments of Sociology and Theology at Georgetown University, will give the keynote address titled “Jesuit Intercultural Encounters in Early Modern Global Modernization” on Thursday, April 27, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. […]

Amitav Ghosh — “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable”

Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington

Are we deranged? Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. Ghosh is an acclaimed author whose novels include the Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire), The Glass Palace, and The Shadow Lines. The Great Derangement is his first major work of nonfiction since In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale. The Washington History Seminar is a joint venture of the National History […]