Rice University Department of History

Beat the heat and join us NEXT THURSDAY, 2-4PM in the Humanities Building courtyard.

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The History and Legacy of British Colonialism in India (1600-1947)

Explore the history and legacy of the British colonial presence in India, from the founding of the East India Company to resistance, independence and the wrenching partition into contemporary nation-states in a short course at Rice with Dr. Lisa Balabanlilar, “The History and Legacy of British Colonialism in India (1600-1947)”. For more information, click the course link (https://glasscock.rice.edu/course?id=47858237).

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Humanity

Join Rice University faculty for the upcoming short course this fall, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Humanity. Explore the possibilities and perils that generative artificial intelligence, machine learning and related tools like ChatGPT hold for education, work, health, creativity, equity, justice, democracy and what it means to be human. For more information, click the course link (https://glasscock.rice.edu/course?id=47865137).

2 WEEKS away from the Annette Gordon-Reed Lecture on her book "On Juneteenth"‼️

Join Dr. Lisa Balabanlilar to experience a sweeping overview of Turkish history from the seminomadic origins of its people through the powerful Ottoman Empire to the modern Republic of Turkey. This is a short, non-credit course open to the public and delivered in person with Rice University. For more details, click on the course link at the bottom of this post: https://bit.ly/3HuOGGT

A Conversation On Writing with Bryan Washington

Join Fay Yarbrough ’97, professor of history and associate dean for undergraduate programs and special projects in the School of Humanities, on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 12:00 p.m., in Humanities Building 117, for a Humanities NOW conversation with Bryan Washington, assistant professor of creative writing in the Department of English.

Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.

Humanities NOW conversations are open to all Rice students and the entire Rice community. They provide a sense of the wide variety of work scholars in the humanities are engaged in and how this work connects to current problems we face in society.

humanities.rice.edu/humanities-now

Join us TODAY a 4:30pm in Sewall Hall for a conversation on Black & Indigenous Mobilization & Racial Politics in Colombia hosted by Dr. Laura Correa Ochoa‼️ 🦉

Examine how early maps not only captured but shaped history, depicting trade, colonization, evangelism and the movement of people, and promoting an interconnected Atlantic World. This is a short, non-credit course open to the public and delivered in person at Rice University. For more details, click on the course link in the bio: https://bit.ly/3PZNYUf.

Examine how early maps not only captured but shaped history, depicting trade, colonization, evangelism and the movement of people, and promoting an interconnected Atlantic World. This is a short, non-credit course open to the public and delivered in person at Rice University. For more details, click on the course link at the bottom of this post: https://bit.ly/3PZNYUf.

A Bridge Between Worlds: Victoria Saeki-Serna '22

As she prepares to pursue her PhD in history at Georgetown University this fall, history major Victoria Saeki-Serna ’22 (Baker College) reflects on the lessons she’s learned from her innovative and interdisciplinary undergraduate research experiences.

Born in Mexico City and raised in Round Rock, Texas, Saeki-Serna wanted her studies at Rice to be an academic bridge between the two nations she called home. In her first year, she enrolled in a course on Mexican history taught by Moramay Lopez-Alonso, associate professor of history and undergraduate advisor for the Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities (PJHC) minor. Lopez-Alonso says it was serendipitous to cross paths with a first-year student whose research interests aligned so well with her own and decided early on that she wanted to mentor Saeki-Serna by exposing her to several methods of research, teaching and service.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3Lnx5Ra

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