This Spring, three History for the 21st Century authors will present a series of virtual workshops hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Alliance for Learning in World History and Global Learning Center. Each session will explore one peer-reviewed module created for the H21 website, facilitated by its creator.
Wednesday, March 20 “Refugees in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” with Jesse Spohnholz, 6:00PM-8:00PM on Zoom
In this module, students ask what caused the forced migration of refugees in Europe, West Africa, and the Americas in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and, more broadly, who gets to define a refugee and why.
Wednesday, April 10 “Hunting, Imperialism, and the Wilderness,” with Erica Mukherjee, 6:00PM-8:00PM on Zoom
This module explores the ways humans hunted, poached, and preserved wildlife during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly in imperial contexts.
Wednesday, May 1 “Unsovereign Space” with Phillip Guingona, 6:00PM-8:00PM on Zoom
This module examines understandings of space, as well as claims, negotiations, and ways humans have attempted to share space across time.