Trinity College History Department

Department’s annual C.F. Bankwitz Lecture in History, which will take place on Wednesday, October 19th, 4:30-6:00pm in the McCook Auditorium. We are very pleased to hold this annual lecture in honor of C. F. Bankwitz. I hope you will be able to join us for the lecture as well as the dinner, which will follow immediately afterward at the Smith House in the Reese Room at 6:00pm.

This year’s C. F. Bankwitz Lecture will be delivered by Deborah Coen, Professor of History & History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Professor Coen’s lecture entitled “How the Atmosphere Lost Its Virtue” will explore how a historical perspective is essential for aligning the measurement of climate vulnerability with the goals of climate justice. It focuses on one key turning point in the long history of attempts to measure human response and what it meant to be “sensible” to the atmosphere.

Some pics of graduating history majors from Commencement 2022. Congratulations!

Monday (May 9): History thesis presentations:
As was our tradition prior to the pandemic, the thesis presentations will be held in person – in Seabury N-215 – beginning at 9:30am. We will put out a spread of breakfast foods, so please come and come hungry!

Here’s the line-up:

Kip Lynch, “William Byrd II of Westover, Assertions of Status, and the Paradox of Control in Colonial Virginia, as seen in his 1709-1712 Secret Diary”

Harrison Silver, “Renewal to Wreckage: Redevelopment in New Haven and the Oak Street Project”

Spring 2022 brings to Trinity College many good things, including the 50th anniversary of Prof. Samuel Kassow’s presence as a valued and esteemed member of our faculty. Over the course of a half century of teaching Russian, European, and Jewish history at Trinity, Sam has inspired countless students and become one of the fondest memories of their student days for generations of alumni. A celebration is certainly in order, and as Director of the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and as Chair of the History Department and Director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, we would like to invite you an evening of events, to be held on Wednesday, April 27th, to do just that. The schedule is provided below, along with a link to register for the gala dinner in Sam’s honor.

Schedule of Events:
4:00-5:15pm (Goodwin Theater, Austin Arts Center) Panel Discussion, “Samuel Kassow and the Preservation of the Jewish Past” (with panelists Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Aaron Lansky, and David Roskies; Jonathan Elukin will serve as Chair)

5:15-5:45pm (Austin Arts Lobby) - Reception

8:00-9:45pm (Cinestudio): A showing of the documentary “Who Will Write Our History,” followed by a conversation with director Roberta Grossman and Sam


You can also find information about parking on campus and a campus map indicating the venues of the various events by clicking: https://www.trincoll.edu/history/history-events/celebrating-professor-samuel-kassows-50-years-of-teaching-at-trinity-college/

The History Department at Trinity College cordially invites you to this year’s Ann Plato Lecture, to be held in the Rittenberg Lounge on Tuesday, April 26, at 5pm. This year’s lecture, “Mapping My Mother’s Nations,” will be delivered by Trinity’s Ann Plato Fellow for 2021-2022, Mary McNeil (PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University). Mary’s talk builds upon the concept of “remapping,” as introduced by the Indigenous geographer and literary scholar Mishauna Goeman, to explore Afro-Indigenous identity, migration, and belonging in Massachusetts during the Black Power/Red Power era, through her own family history.

We hope you will be able to join us for Mary’s talk and the dinner in her honor to follow. I have included the registration link below. More details on the event can be found on the flyer.

Please RSVP by Thursday April 21, 2022 – https://trinity.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3WxIAofKBK06B14

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Upcoming November events sponsored/co-sponsored by the History Department 1) The Annual George J. Mead '37 Lecture: "West Indian Elevator Boy,' Hodge Kirnon of Montserrat: Original Theorist of the Negro Renaissance of the 1920s" by Robert A. Hill 2)"William Hardin Burnley: The Slave Master of Trinidad" - Lecture by Selwyn R. Cudjoe and 3) The Annual Philip C.F. Bankwitz Lecture -"Who Will Write Our History" - Film Screening & Conversation between Roberta Grossman and Prof. Samuel Kassow