Featured Events

Tassels have been turned, hoods have been bestowed, and the 2022-2023 academic year was one for the history books.

The History of 2022, paired with the return of weekly Coffee & Donuts, was the first indication of the beginning of a new year and a return to History Corner. The Africa Research Workshop, British History Lectures, East Asian History Reading Group, Kruzhok Reading Group, Gender History Workshop, Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop, and U.S. History Workshop were all back in full swing, joined by the return of the Digital History Workshop, as well as our new reading group on Black Marxism. Through a partnership with the Lane Center for the American West, Professors David Kennedy and Kathryn Olivarius organized The Western History Lecture Series, which presented lectures focused on the history of western North America. We also brought together colleagues, friends and family for a memorial event for Professor Peter Duus, and returned to Citrus Courtyard for our diploma ceremony for the first time since 2019.

2022-2023 was also a stellar year for conferences. In the Fall, Professor Fiona Griffiths organized Priests’ Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West (8001200). In the Winter, Professor Jonathan Gienapp led Rakoviad | The Origins and Afterlives of the American Founding: A Conference in Honor of Jack Rakove, and Professor Jim Campbell brought the BOCA LONGA Conference, a gathering U.S. historians from Boston, California, London and Georgia, to History Corner. Lastly, in the Spring, Professor Ali Yaycıoğlu spearheaded the conference Connected Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Eurasia.

Combining our workshops, reading groups, and conferences with standalone events, Historical Conversations, and events co-sponsored with our campus partners, the Department of History brought over 150 events to life this past year - that’s more than an event a day, every day, for ten weeks each quarter!

2023-2024 will be here before we know it, and there’s no sign of slowing down. We’re planning to relaunch History Mondays and conference and workshop planning is already underway. You can always find out what’s coming up next on the Events tab on the History website. See you soon!

Colin Hamill Events & Communications Coordinator

Rakoviad | The Origins and Afterlives of the American Founding

This two-day conference brought together prominent scholars of U.S. legal history to reflect on Professor Emeritus Jack Rakove’s research, teaching, and service in the field.

Friends and colleagues, as well as former and current students, from across the nation gathered to honor Professor Rakove, discussing topics ranging from constitutional structure and rights to religion, Originalism, Federalism, slavery and freedom.