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Mission
The mission of the Hill Center for World Studies
is to raise our general level of world historical consciousness.
Toward this end we focus on the historical study of empires
since 1500 and we bring to your attention the insights offered
by new scholarship.
The HCWS staff and its Working Group maintain this website.
On it we post materials that we and our participating scholars
have developed: curricular suggestions, short articles,
annotated bibliographies and web links dealing with our
current topic of inquiry. The material is intended for all
students of history—and by students we mean not just
scholars and teachers, but all (far from) 'ordinary' citizens,
eager to understand and even to change the world, or at
least the way we think about it.
As a teacher-scholar collaborative we have been in operation
since 2000. We have now concluded our service aimed specifically
at teachers, and as of 2009, we instead are producing 'virtual'
workshops on this site. We do intend to sponsor an annual
lecture and information about it will be published on the
topic homepage. We continue to archive materials from some
of the workshops we have presented on various college and
university campuses since we began.
Our topic for the year 2010, is Pacific Renaissance: Laboratory
for the Study of Cultural Globalization, click
here to go to the Pacific Renaissance Home page.
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Previous
workshops
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2000-2003:
The
New Ways of Looking at the World Seminar
2000: Historiography and
Historical Method
2001: Reconstructing the
Past through Objects, Texts and Traditions
2002: On Violence
2003: The Afterlife of
Workshops
2003:
Modernity
and East Asia (New York University)
2004: The
Hajj in History (Packer Collegiate School)
2004: Korea
(Smith Museum of Art)
2005: Cambodia:
History, Memory, and the Arts (Marlboro College)
2006: Islam
and Modernity in Middle Eastern Scholarship
(Kevorkian Center, New York University)
2007: Comparative
Approaches to the Study of Empires: Rome and
India
2008:
Empires
and Science
2009:
Empires,
Science, Travel, Art
2009:
Hill
Center Lecture: " Using Museum Collections
to Understand Cultural Diversity in Papua
New Guinea" Robert Welsch, Franklin Pierce
University
2010 The Hill Center
Lecture: "Cheap Meat: Globalization
and Food in the Pacific Islands" Deborah
Gewertz, Amherst College, and Frederick Errington,
professor emeritus, Trinity College (Hartford)
At an evening seminar with
the HCWS Reading Group, on Friday, April 9,
in Northampton, MA. the authors discussed
their recent book, "Cheap Meat: Flap
Food Nations in the Pacific Islands"
in the context of a globalizing economy and
the quest for sustainability. |
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