Boston College Graduate History Alliance

Welcome to the official Twitter account of the Boston College Graduate History Alliance! Here you'll find info about all GHA events, news, and updates!

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Check out the program for #GradStudentVoices !! We're so excited to host grad students from universities across the East Coast and can't wait to hear about their fascinating research.

March 25 | 9-6 | Connolly House

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Happy end of the semester! 🥳 The 2022-2023 GHA board would like to thank you all for an amazing year! We hope that you have a wonderful summer and look forward to next year's GHA activities!

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The History Department is co-sponsoring a Conference on the Four Day Work Week. For more information and to register, check out our event calendar.

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April 21 | 9-5 | Corcoran Commons – The Heights Room

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Why should we write the history of institutions? James M. O’Toole (Boston College), Greg Kalscheur (Boston College), and Margaret McGuinness (La Salle University) discuss the contributions and limitations of writing Boston College's history.

April 20 | 4-6 | Burns Library

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This year's History Department Lecture Series is coming to a close but not without welcoming Alvitah Akiboh (Yale University). Her presentation is titled “The Postmaster’s Empire: The U.S. Postal Service and Colonial Expansion.”

April 14 | 3-4 | Stokes S195

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We are excited to present our newest blog post, from graduate student Sarah Ahmed!

Come read "Les Camisards: Child Prophecy in 'A Cry from the Desart' and 'Le Theatre Sacre'" at A&A!

https://t.co/2FwuOrkaeR

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Congratulations to Meghan McCoy for an incredible keynote address! What an amazing way to wrap up a great #GradStudentVoices

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Meghan introduced her talk with an illustration and passage highlighting the way that racism against indigenous women played into wider questions of race and gender.

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We wrap up the conference with a keynote from our own PhD student Meghan McCoy, who presents "Indigenous Women and the Role of Violence, Erasure, and Memory in U.S. Colonial Expansion, 1820s -1860s"

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Another brilliant set of papers to round out our panels of #GradStudentVoices . We will be back soon with our keynote!

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Rowan Bianchi moderates our final panel, entitled "Empire, Violence, and Minority Voices"!

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Emma replies that it's hard to wrap the brain around the Diaries but that we need to pay attention to the way the writers are thinking.

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On to our Q&A session!

For Emma, a question asks about the masculinity of the Turner Diaries and how gender plays into it.

Emma replies that she is only aware of one woman being involved in an event associated with the Diaries, but it is mostly a masculine conversation.

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Emma discusses the importance of the Turner Diaries to white supremacists extremists including Timothy McVeigh, and questions how we use dangerous texts and banned books as historians to better study their history.