Fall 2026 Events

November 2026

Wednesday, November 18th / Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series with Dr. Natayla Watson and Dr. Veronika Maliborska

310 Renaissance Park

4:45pm – 6:15pm

Dr. Natayla Watson and Veronika Maliborska present, “Teaching during Wartime: Education Challenges in Ukraine”

October 2026

Thursday, October 8th / Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series with Dr. Jared McBride

909 Renaissance Park

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Dr. Jared McBride presents, “The Returns of Summer 1941: Perpetrators and Pogroms in Western Ukraine”

Wednesday, October 28th / Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series with Dr. Peter Richardson

310 Renaissance Park

4:45pm – 6:15pm

Dr. Peter Richardson presents, “No War, No Peace, No Incentives: Political, Economic & Strategic Inertia in Russian-Japanese Reconciliation in the Putin Era”

September 2026

Tuesday, September 8th / Department of History Welcome Back Event

440 Egan Research Center

4pm-6pm

The Department of History celebrates the start of the fall 2026 semester with a faculty research lightning round and ice cream social.