Professor Cathy Adams will give a talk this Sunday in the Livingston County Historical Society Museum on how the Underground Railroad operated in this area. The talk is free and open to the public, and all are encouraged to attend. Professor Adams has been a member of the Geneseo faculty …
Tumbling Walls: A GISP Dinner & Dialogue on U.S. Immigration Policies Tuesday, February 7, 2017 5:30 – 7:00 pm | Interfaith Center, Franklin Street, Geneseo The Fifth Annual Geneseo Interfaith Service Project (GISP) Community Dinner & Dialogue is one of the featured events in the GISP Series. Two SUNY Geneseo …
The panel “Black Lives Matter: An Intergenerational Conversation on Fifty+ Years of Struggle” will take place at SUNY Geneseo on October 25 from 4-7pm in the College Union Ballroom. It will be an intergenerational conversation on 50+ years of struggle, including 1960s Civil Rights Movement activists and contemporary activists in …
Professor Oberg will host this round table discussion as part of SUNY Geneseo’s Cultural Harmony Week 2016. The panel will focus on the responsibilites and obligations that colleges and univerities have to Native American history and to contemporary Native communities. Participants will include Kevin White, Assistant Professor of American Studies …
Thanks to everyone who attended last night’s “What Can You Do With Your History Degree?” alumni event, particularly our speakers Katie Smart (’10), Alexandra Tramposch (’09), and Jamie Bosket (’05). It was great to get a glimpse of the smart, purposeful things that SUNY Geneseo history alums are doing with …
Please join the history department on Wednesday, 12 October, as we welcome some alumni back to campus. They will be participating in a panel discussion entitled “What Can You Do With Your History Degree?”, where they’ll share career advice and inspiration in an informal and supportive setting. The event is …
Continuing the tradition begun with last year’s Teachers’ Day, the department hosted fifty social studies educators from more than twenty western New York for a day of programs on Friday, 13 March. Participants attended a teaching workshop on Latin American history led by Professors Ryan Jones, a workshop on modern …
Geneseo was fortunate to have alumnus Tom Ingrassia back on campus for a week as part of a writer-in-residence program. He made several campus presentations, including a reading of his book One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity by Following Your Dreams and a class visit with students from Professor Cathy Adams’s …
Geneseo hosted the New York State Association of European Historians’ Annual Meeting for the first time since 1998 over the weekend of October 3-4. Scholars from across the state and country participated in this academic conference, with several panels devoted to the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War …
History faculty member Joe Cope and Rob Doggett from the English Department escorted a group of Geneseo alumni on a ten day learning trip to Ireland in July and August. The trip featured visits to a number of sites of historical and cultural interest, including historical walking tours on the …
