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Ward Stavig Memorial Lecture 

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This is a lecture sees inaugurated in 2008 to honor the memory of our former colleague Ward Stavig, who was a beloved social historian of colonial Peruvian and Bolivian peasant culture. Every year, the History Department will select a prominent scholar to deliver a public lecture on a topic of interest to the department, the university, and the community at large.

 

2025 - TBA.

2024 - Dr. (Florida International University), "How Florida Helped Shape the Nation’s 'Culture Wars': A History of the 1950s and 60s" The event, co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and, the ľ¹ÏÊÓÆµ Humanities Institute, and the History Department Graduate Student Organization, provided much needed historical context to the current debates around gender and sexuality happening in our state.