Public Seminars

ASHP/CML regularly hosts public events on a variety of history-related issues and trends. Recent seminars and workshops have focused on LGBTQ+ history, monuments in American culture, the visual culture of the American Civil War, CUNY history, and teaching and learning new scholarship in Latino history and culture. 

LGBTQ+ History: a series of workshops and presentations focused on new scholarship and pedagogy, funded by the CUNY LGBTQ+ Consortium. [link needed]

Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation – a series of public programs bringing together historians, art historians, community activists, and artists to discuss the ongoing reevaluation of public monuments and memorials across the country and in New York City.

Still Hazy After All These Years – a series of public seminars examining recent trends in the study of the American Civil War.

Saving CUNY’s Past – a discussion on the history of activism at CUNY and CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA), a digital repository organized to collect archival materials related to the history of the City University of New York.

Bridging Historias Conference – marking the end of a three-year faculty development program on the importance of Latino/a culture in American history.