Tom Robisheaux
2018
Type: Lab
The Microworlds Lab hosted a series of workshops focused on a microhistorical topic or method, or a related topic. Presenters included Duke faculty members, students, and staff, as well as guests from outside the university. A Q&A rounded out each workshop, where attendees were encouraged to bring examples and questions from their own research projects to discuss.
For a full listing of events with descriptions, visit the Microworlds Lab website.
Spring 2020
- Digital Scholarship Workshop I: Managing Archival Materials as Data
- Doing History: Analyzing Primary Sources
- Material Objects, Their Meanings & the People Drawn to Them: A MicroWorlds Workshop: Actor-Network Theory
Fall 2019
- The Paris 1572 Project: Collaborative Research in the History Classroom
- Emotional Breakdown: A Collaborative Workshop on Analyzing Emotions within Your Research
Spring 2019
- Emotions, Religious Experience, & the Emergence of Psychiatric Medicine: Exploring the Case of the Seeress of Prevorst
- Thick Description/Narrating the Execution of Charles I, 1649 (also offered in Fall 2019)
- Finding Women’s Voices in the Archive
- Turning Trial Records into History (also offered in Fall 2019)
- Ephemera as Historical Objects
- Narrative
- Close Reading Primary Sources
- From Topic to Archive/From Idea to Research
- Emotions Research Group Discussion
Fall 2018
- Social Network Analysis for Humanists, Part II: Digital Visualization of Social Networks
- Social Network Analysis for Humanists, Part I: Social Networks Analysis
- Finding Stories in the Archives (also offered in Fall 2019)
Summer 2020
- Summer Interns’ Symposium
- Mission Records as Method: Towards a Microhistory of Global China
Eugenio Menegon (Associate Professor of History, Boston U)
Spring 2020
- Monsters, Murder, and Mayhem in Microhistorical Analysis
Jay M. Smith (Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill) - Microhistory of a Jewish Community
Verena Kasper-Marienberg (Assistant Professor of History, NC State University)
Fall 2019
- Talking Houses: Stories from a Small Hungarian Town
Researchers at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg - Radicalism Between Race, Class and Generation: Conversation on the Social History of Modern Hungary
Károly Halmos (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) - Julius Szekfű and the Books of Ezekiel: Patriarch Joseph used as an Anti-Semitic Topos
Károly Halmost (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) - Meeting Capitalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Pest (Hungary)
- What Undid Chinese State Medicine?
Miriam Gross (Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma) - An Egyptian Sheikh’s Literary World: Digitally Reconstructing Islamic Print Culture Through Mustafa Salamah al-Najjari’s Book Collection
Adam Mestyan (History) and Kathryn Schwartz (Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Forming Intimate Communities in Modern China
Nicole Barnes (History)
Spring 2019
- From Persecution to Revolution: A Jewish-Gentile Local Community in Budapest from 1938 to 1956”
Erika Szívós (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) - Making Love out of History: 19th-century pleasure gardens and modern romance fiction
Theresa Romain (bestselling author) - Microhistory and The Revolt of Snowballs
Claire Judde de Larivière (Université Toulouse II, Département d’histoire, Toulouse) - Cruise Ships, Cops, and the Black-Market Organ Trade: Researching real microworlds to write fiction
Sonali Dev (USA Today bestselling author) - Working on Women’s Life Stories
Laura Nenzi (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Spring 2020
- "Black is the Root of Liberty:" Race, Class, and Liberation Theology in Nova Iguaçu, Brazil
Travis Knoll (History)
Fall 2019
- Catgut in God's Hands: The Maryknoll Sisters' Pusan Mission, 1950-1957
Hannah Ontiveros (History) - The World’s Problems Are Your Own: Literacy, Development and the Sea
Islands’ Cold War
Aaron Colston (History)
Spring 2020
- Getting What You Came For: Conferences And Why They Matter
- Training Future Humanists: Critical Approaches to Undergraduate Teaching in History and Beyond
Fall 2019
- Teaching Innovation in the MicroWorlds Lab
- Graduate Student Grant Workshop
Spring 2019
- Graduate Students Building Professional Networks