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A page from Tanner MS 407, a commonplace late medieval and early modern book

Tue, October 13, 2026

Legal Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

4:00 pm
455 Hagerty Hall

"Incendie du Cap" (Burning of Cape Francais) depicting a "General revolt of the Blacks. Massacre of the Whites" from 1815 Haiti

Mon, October 12, 2026

Slavery, Labor, & Unfreedom in the Age of the American Revolution - Panel 3

4:45 pm
0014 University Hall

Laborers posing at a heavy construction or quarry site utilizing a large wooden derrick crane system

Thu, October 8, 2026

The Landscapes of Reconstruction

4:00 pm
Knowlton Hall, Big Stairs

Thu, October 8, 2026

Democracy, Trust, and the Information Ecosystem

4:00 pm
African American & African Studies Community Extension Center

At stack of books in front of a darkened background with "Graduate Student Colloquium" in white text

Mon, October 5, 2026

Birthing the State's Best Asset: Wartime Pregnancies and Childbirth

12:00 pm
168 Dulles Hall

Black and white close-up photo of a woman's face

Thu, October 1, 2026

IHS: The History that Emerges from Uncertain Futures: On History's Capacity to Generate Certainty

3:45 pm
1039 Derby Hall

A collage of antique photos depicting members of the Webster household

Tue, September 29, 2026

Living with Illness in Nineteenth-Century New York

4:00 pm
168 Dulles Hall

Mon, September 28, 2026

Slavery, Labor, & Unfreedom in the Age of the American Revolution - Panel 2

4:45 pm
0014 University Hall

installation view of Tavares Strachan’s "U.N.I.A. Tea Room" depicting an office with a prominent desk and a UNIA Division #142 sign in neon

Sat, September 26, 2026

Garvey’s Ghost: Frederic Bertley and Mark Christian on Pan-African Histories and Futures

4:00 pm
Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti

Fri, September 25, 2026

Only Nixon (and Nie) Could Go to Accra: Race, Diplomacy, and Decolonization in Ghana’s 1957 Independence Celebration

3:30 pm
129 Mendenhall Lab

Thu, September 24, 2026

Native American Art, History and Culture: Art and Native American History, Identity and Citizenship

12:00 pm
168 Dulles Hall

Wed, September 23, 2026

Buckeye 2026 NYC Climate Week Reception

6:00 pm
The Live Room at Piano's

Wed, September 23, 2026

Native American Art, History and Culture: Native American Pottery-making Demonstration

11:00 am
58 Hopkins Hall

A large red buckeye leaf on a field of buckeye leaves in varying shades of gray

Wed, September 23, 2026

OSURA: 2026 Annual Conference

8:00 am
The Fawcett Center

Fri, September 18, 2026

Why the Renaissance Matters - Giotto, Caravaggio, and Storaro: Renaissance Narrative Art to Modern Film

7:00 pm
Faculty Club

Jesse Owens on a track in a starting stance

Fri, September 18, 2026

Running Against History: The Enduring Legacy of Jesse Owens

4:00 pm
165 Thompson Library

The Constitution laying on the American flag

Thu, September 17, 2026

This Constitution Day, Remember Our Union

4:30 pm
Wexner Center for the Arts

The shape of the state of Ohio in scarlet on a field of gray buckeye leaves

Thu, September 17, 2026

Future Ohio 2076 Public Forums: Ohio as an Energy-Rich State

12:00 pm
Online Zoom Forum

Mon, September 14, 2026

Slavery, Labor, & Unfreedom in the Age of the American Revolution - Panel 1

4:45 pm
0014 University Hall

Blue colorized photograph of Parisian buldings in the late 1800s to 1900s

Fri, September 11, 2026

EHTS: Seeing 'Living with Infrastructure' in Picture Postcards of Paris, 1870–1914

4:00 pm
168 Dulles Hall

Illustration of John, Duke of Berry, enjoying a grand meal circa 1410

Thu, September 10, 2026

Medieval and Renaissance Food Fair

5:00 pm
Crane Cafe, Hagerty Hall

Two people standing with their backs turned facing a forested mountain on a cloudy day

Wed, September 9, 2026

Until They Are Found: The Search for Colombia's Disappeared

5:00 pm
WOSU

Stephen Gavazzi, David Rosowsky, and E. Gordon Gee headshots in front of a vintage photo of University Hall

Thu, September 3, 2026

Redefining Ohio State’s Land-Grant Compact Panel Discussion

6:00 pm
US Bank Conference Theater, The Ohio Union

Black and white portraits of Bruno Cabanes and Cameron Givens

Tue, September 1, 2026

IHS: Bruno Cabanes & Cameron Givens

3:30 pm
Mershon Center, 1039 Derby Hall

Monochromatic art of Silvia Hector Webber

Mon, August 31, 2026

CLAS Lunch & Learn: Recentering the Story & Legacy of Silvia Hector Webber - The Harriet Tubman of Texas & the Underground Railroad to Mexico

12:00 pm
Enarson Classroom Building, Room 100

Fri, June 19, 2026

Juneteenth Jubilee

8:00 am
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

America's Founding Son book cover and pictures of Bob Crawford and Chris Nichols

Wed, June 17, 2026

Bob Crawford in Conversation with Chris Nichols

7:00 pm
The Book Loft of German Village

Origins Game Fair sign with attendees standing nearby

Wed, June 17 - Sun, June 21, 2026

Origins University & War College at Origins Game Fair 2026

2:00 pm
Greater Columbus Convention Center

A comic illustration depicting a group of African Americans

Wed, June 10, 2026

Comics for the Humanities Classroom

10:00 am
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Sullivant Hall

Sat, June 6, 2026

Great Council State Park Heritage Celebration

10:00 am
Great Council State Park

Event Poster for Hasan Jeffries, Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs in Ohio

Thu, April 30, 2026

Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Fight for Freedom and Democracy in Ohio

6:00 pm
Arthur C. Johnson Auditorium, Ohio History Center

Wed, April 22, 2026

"The White House Effect," Environmental History Initative and Wexner Center for the Arts Documentary Screening

7:00 pm
Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater

jason c parker event flyer international history seminar

Tue, April 21, 2026

Jason Parker, "The Last Resort? Populations, Partitions, and the Postwar Rise of the Federal Idea in the Decolonization Era" an IHS Event

3:30 pm
1039 Derby Hall

Tue, April 14, 2026

IHS: Yiğit Akın, "The Ottomans in a Revolutionary World, 1917-1923"

3:30 pm
1039 Derby Hall

Mon, April 13, 2026

"The Political Economy of Serfdom: Servitude and State Formation in Imperial Russia," Tracy K. Dennison, California Institute of Technology

4:00 pm
University Hall, Room 14

red grad student colloquium event poster for derrik rivet

Mon, April 13, 2026

Graduate Student Colloquium: Derrik Rivet, “Business and Legitimacy: Yugoslavia and Idi Amin’s Rise to Power”

12:30 pm
Dulles 168

Fri, April 10, 2026

“A Long Story: Objects, Museums, and Archaeology,” Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina

3:30 pm
Dulles 168

Mon, April 6, 2026

"Losing Nuclear Support and Building Environmental Opposition,” Jennifer Eaglin, History Faculty Colloquium

12:30 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Thu, March 26, 2026

"Talk About Diversity!: Race, Class, and Private Schools in the Post-Civil Rights Era" Graduate Student Workshop, with speaker Lily Geismer

11:00 am
18th Ave Library Research Commons, 3RD Floor, Room 352

Mon, March 23, 2026

"Classic yet Exceptional: Slave Societies of Medieval East Asia," Don Wyatt, Middlebury College

4:00 pm
University Hall, Room 14

Mon, March 16 - Tue, March 17, 2026

“Virgins, Philosophers, Emperors, and Eunuchs: The Study of Late Antiquity in the 21st Century”

8:00 am
Barbie Tootle Room, Ohio Union

Thu, March 5, 2026

"What not to wear: a man(ikin) in a suit & other fashion faux pas from the archives of thermal physiology," Bharat Venkat

4:00 pm
Location: TBA

Thu, March 5, 2026

IHS: Mary Elizabeth Walters, "Unlikely Friends: The Clinton Administration and Kosovo,"

3:30 pm
1039 Derby Hall

upstream downriver documentary screening event poster

Mon, March 2, 2026

"Upstream, Downriver: Uniting for Water Justice," Environmental History Documentary Screening

7:00 pm
Ohio Staters Founders Room, Ohio Union

Mon, March 2, 2026

"Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Geniza," Jane Hathaway, History Faculty Colloquium

12:30 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Fri, February 27, 2026

"The Making of Karen Silkwood and the Unmaking of the Plutonium Economy"Sarah Milov, University of Virginia

4:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Mon, February 23, 2026

Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Bondage, and Resistance in Asia

3:30 pm
University Hall, Room 14

Tue, February 17, 2026

“Rhodesia’s Enduring Legacy, 60 Years Later,” Carl Watts

3:30 pm
Derby Hall 1039

Tue, February 17, 2026

“The Ghosts of Peleliu: The Intertwined Traumatic Memories of a World War II Battle," Bruno Cabanes

12:00 pm
Live Streamed via Zoom

Mon, February 16, 2026

"Demon Mineral," Environmental History Documentary Series

7:00 pm
Barbie Tootle Room, Ohio Union

Wed, February 11, 2026

"Rethinking Environmental Wisdom before Environmentalism: Nature, Environment, and Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America"Chris Wells, Macalaster College

4:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Thu, February 5, 2026

"Invisible Illness: A (Part of the) History, from Hysteria to Long Covid," Emily Mendenhall

4:00 pm
Dulles 168

Mon, February 2, 2026

"Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans," Theodora Dragostinova, History Faculty Colloquium

12:30 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Mon, January 26, 2026

"Upstream, Downriver: Uniting for Water Justice," Environmental History Documentary Screening

7:00 pm
Tanya Rutner Hartman Room, Ohio Union

Thu, January 22, 2026

International History Seminar: Molly Wood and Forms of Diplomacy, Female Diplomats, and Pedagogy

3:30 pm
1039 Derby Hall

Tue, January 20, 2026

"Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines," Peter Mansoor

12:00 pm
Live Streamed via Zoom

Tue, December 9, 2025

"Striking with a Sword: Pesticides, Pests, and Ecology in Cotton-Growing Soviet Central Asia," Nick Seay

4:00 pm
Live Streamed via Zoom

Fri, December 5, 2025

Histories of Native American and African American Citizenship Symposium

9:00 am
Dulles Hall, Room 168 (a.m. sessions) and Page Hall, Room 10 (p.m. sessions)

a person's hands on a laptop keyboard with the letters A and I in the air above it

Wed, December 3, 2025

What Should History Teaching and Research Look Like in the AI Era?

3:45 pm
168 Dulles and Live Streamed via Zoom

Mon, December 1, 2025

"'My name is Arneid': Nobility, Thralldom, and Human Trafficking in the Viking Age," Christopher Paolella, Valencia College

4:00 pm
Journalism Building, Room 360, 242 W. 18th Ave., Columbus

four people sitting at a table with electronic devices, AI chart is above them

Wed, November 19, 2025

AI and History Teaching (Hands-on Approaches to Assignments and Teaching Writing, Reading, and Analysis)

3:45 pm
168 Dulles and Live Streamed via Zoom

Tue, November 18, 2025

Book Launch Discussion: The Ghosts of Peleliu Island - Writing Narrative Non-Fiction as a Military Historian

4:30 pm
Thompson Library's 11th floor reading room

Tue, November 18, 2025

The Soviet West Revisited: Individual and Collective Agency in the Estonian SSR

1:00 pm
160 Enarson Classroom Building

Tue, November 18, 2025

"Fractured Pasts Revisited. Histories of Conflicts and Connections in the Lake Kivu Region (DR Congo and Rwanda)"

12:30 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 264

Fri, November 14, 2025

Turning Your Ideas Into An Op-Ed

12:00 pm
Live Streamed via Zoom

a doctor's office with doctor and onlookers watching a patient on a bed

Thu, November 13, 2025

“Why Slavery Still Matters: Examining the Genealogy of American Gynecology,” Deirdre Cooper Owens, The John C. Burnham Lecture

4:00 pm
The Faculty Club's Grand Lounge, 181 Oval Dr. S., Columbus

Thu, November 13, 2025

International History Seminar: David Glovsky, Harvard University

3:30 pm
1039 Derby Hall

Mon, November 10, 2025

The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks UNESCO World Heritage Site: Indigenous Wonders of the World

6:00 pm
Arthur C. Johnson Auditorium, Ohio History Center

Mon, November 10, 2025

"Malicious Accusations of Homicide as a Form of Lawfare in Lay-Clerical Relations during the Long Thirteenth-Century," Sara Butler

12:30 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Fri, November 7, 2025

“The Transformation of China: Origins of Our Times,” Arne Westad, Yale University

4:00 pm
Faculty Club, Upper Level Main Dining Room

Wed, November 5, 2025

"Carving a Path to Rome: the Catholic Conversion of Ski Pioneer Sir Arnold Lunn," Margaret Sutton Berry, Univ. of Notre Dame

4:00 pm
Live Streamed via Zoom

Mon, November 3, 2025

"Global Moral Order, Local Legalities, and the Gendered 'Business' of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire"

4:00 pm
Journalism Building, Room 360, 242 W. 18th Ave., Columbus

Fri, October 31, 2025

"The Challenge of Equality in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey," Prof. Edhem Eldem

4:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Mon, October 27, 2025

International History Seminar: Renata Keller and the Cuban Missile Crisis

3:30 pm
The Faculty Club

Fri, October 24, 2025

Jim Harris Book Launch

1:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

a hand touching the letters A and I on a clear glass screen

Wed, October 15, 2025

AI Basics and Introduction to OSU Plans for AI Fluency

3:45 pm
168 Dulles and Live Streamed via Zoom

Mon, October 13, 2025

"Lost in the Land of Plenty: Alienation in the Affluent Society, WWII to the Unabomber," David Steigerwald, History Faculty Colloquium

12:30 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Thu, October 9, 2025

"The Unwritten Life of Sperm Whales: Towards an Animal Social History," Tom Fleischman, University of Rochester

4:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Mon, October 6, 2025

Comparative Perspectives on Slavery Before the Age of Exploration Panel

3:30 pm
Journalism Building, Room 360, 242 W. 18th Ave., Columbus

Fri, October 3, 2025

"Climate and Capitalism: A Conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about her New Book 'Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature'"

4:00 pm
Hagerty Hall, Room 050

Thu, October 2, 2025

From the Page to the Stage: A Historian’s Journey through the Land of Television

4:00 pm
WOSU Public Media, 1800 N. Pearl Street, Col.

Fri, September 26, 2025

International History Seminar: Keisha Blain

11:30 am
1039 Derby Hall

Thu, September 25, 2025

Keisha Blain in Conversation with Christopher McKnight Nichols

7:00 pm
The Book Loft, 631 South Third St., Columbus, OH 43206

Thu, September 18, 2025

“Political Use and Misuse of the Past in Russia, the United States, and Elsewhere,” Ivan Kurilla

4:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Tue, September 16, 2025

“Dust Bowl Politics and the Birth of the Modern Right on the Plains,” Jeff Roche, College of Wooster

4:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Mon, September 15, 2025

“Paul and Corinth: A Historiographical Perspective,” Bert Harrill, History Faculty Colloquium

12:30 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Fri, September 12 - Sat, September 13, 2025

Central Eurasian Studies Society 2025 Graduate and Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Workshop

8:30 am
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Thu, September 11, 2025

"The Central Asian Origins of Post-Socialist Economic Reforms" with Artemy Kalinovsky (Temple U.)

4:00 pm
Dulles Hall, Room 168

Wed, September 10, 2025

Colloquium on "Religion in the Americas" with Jessica Delgado

4:00 pm
18th Ave. Library Research Commons

Thu, September 4, 2025

International History Seminar: R. Joseph Parrott and Dreams the Size of Freedom Book Launch

3:30 pm
1039 Derby Hall