History Department Public Events

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

• History Treasure Hunt

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Gregory Hall 213

  Join us for a scavenger hunt to learn more about the Department of History! For incoming history freshmen and transfer students.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, September 10, 2026

• American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism -- a Lecture by Keidrick Roy (Dartmouth College)

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center

  Join us for a lecture with Keidrick Roy, associate professor of Government at Dartmouth College and author of "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton, 2024), a prize-winning study of how medieval legacies of feudalism haunt liberal democracy in the United States.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, September 11, 2026

• A Workshop with Prof. Keidrick Roy (Dartmouth College)

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  300C GH

  Faculty and graduate students are invited to register for this workshop with visiting scholar Keidrick Roy, to discuss part of a new project on ideas of patriotism in early Black America.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• A Book in Common

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  314B Illini Union

  Join us for a discussion of the book Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England by Michael Collins.

  • Meeting

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• History Book Club with PhD Alumni Juan Ignacio Mora, Michael Staudenmaier & Robert M. Rouphail

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Gregory Hall 223

  Join us to celebrate the new books of three history PhD alumni.

  • Lecture