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The Department of History Departmental Research Colloquium showcases resear ch within the department\, as well as that of invited speakers from beyond UBC. It brings together works-in-progress by scholars who are explor ing important methodological\, chronological\, or geographical issues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and contribute strongly to our co llective discussions.
This term\, the colloquium will focus on global history before 1500.
On Thursday\, September 23 at 12:30 pm\, join P rofessor Patrick J. Geary (Institute for Advanced Study\, School of Historical Studies)\, who will speak on "Genetic Approaches to a History of Premodern Eurasia."
This is a virtual event.
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Patrick Geary is Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the Institute f or Advanced Study and Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA. He received PhD in medieval studies from Yale. He has taught at Princeton U niversity\, the University of Florida\, Notre Dame\, and UCLA. He is former director of the Notre Dame Medieval Institute and the UCLA Center for Medi eval and Renaissance Studies.
Geary's research concentrates on Contin ental history between the fifth and twelfth centuries and he is author of a number of books including Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages\; Aristocracy in Provence: The Rhone Basin at the Dawn of the Carolingian Age\; Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformatio n of the Merovingian World\; Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages\; Pha ntoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the end of the first Millenniu m\; The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe\; Women at the Begi nning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary\; Writing History: Identity\, Conflict and Memory in the Middle Ages\; and Language a nd Power in the Early Middle Ages.
He is former President of the Medieval Academy of America and is a fellow of the Medieval Academy\, corr esponding fellow of the British Academy\, the Austrian Academy of Sciences\ , the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen\, the French National Society of Ant iquarians\, and an honorary member of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Currently he co-directs an international\, interdisciplinary pro ject funded by an ERC Synergy Grant that is using genomic\, historical\, an d archaeological data to understand population structures during the so-cal led Migration period at the end of the Roman Empire in the West.
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