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Nov 21, 2024

Nov 21, 2024

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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Join us for a talk by Jake Ransohoff, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin College, about the intersection of punishment, incapacity, and exclusion in the Byzantine world. Ransohoff will focus on a particular penalty — blinding — commonly used by Byzantium’s rulers to disqualify rivals from positions of political leadership. Despite its official justification as a merciful alternative to death, “political” blinding in Byzantium often backfired and provoked popular opposition. D...

Dec 4, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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The Graduate Students of the History Department are having a Fall Book Sale! Lots of new books since last sale. Lots of good deals on fiction, nonfiction and textbooks, of all topics including (but not limited to): women's history, Latin American history, economic/labor history, art history, science/environmental history, religious studies, political science, Asian history, English ... and the list goes on! Stop by 302 SH any time between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.