The past is never dead. It's not even past
Raymond Hyser is a Ph.D. student at the Department of History at the University of Texas as Austin.
What happens when someone googles your name? Whether the search result pulls up your forgotten MySpace page highlighting your 2007 obsession with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or your meticulously curated personal website, the answer to that question is entirely dependent on how you have cultivated your online presence. As we move further into […]
The Climate in Context Conference took place on April 22 & 23, 2021. To view recordings of sessions, visit our virtual conference page. Session I: Emerging Perspectives: A Graduate Student Roundtable The first panel of the conference was a roundtable composed of five graduate students from the University of Texas at Austin’s History Department. Although […]
Last summer, as the global pandemic threatened to push yet another academic year into the Zoomiverse (a threat that soon became a reality), it became clear that we all needed to put on hold our standard conceptions of graduate school. While online classes became the new normal and access to the library slowly returned, we […]
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This article is written as part of the IHS Climate in Context series. Anyone who lives in Texas knows Hurricane Harvey. Harvey, which made landfall in southern Texas on August 25, 2017, was the last major hurricane (Category 3 storm or above) to hit the Lone Star State. The immediate recognition of Hurricane Harvey has […]
As the next iteration of the Institute for Historical Studies’ 2020-21 theme on “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented,” Dr. Jared Farmer, a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk on Thursday, December 3rd at 3:30 PM Central time. His talk entitled “Ancient Trees in Modern Times” will […]