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Vacancy: PhD Position

RIAS Professor Dario Fazzi will be supervising a PhD project on Transatlantic Environmental History. The vacancy is offered by Leiden University’s Institute for History and the position is expect ... Read more

Call for Papers: Spring International PhD Seminar 2024

The next PhD seminar will take place in Middelburg on 26-28 June 2024. ... Read more

Fifth Lecture in Seminar Series by Sean H. Vanatta

On 29 January 2024, Lecturer Sean H. Vanatta will give his talk A Treacherous Ocean of Money: Finance and Failure across the Interwar Atlantic, 1920-1935, Vanatta will explore how small US ... Read more

Public Health and the American State

RIAS staff members Gaetano Di Tommaso and Dario Fazzi and former RIAS academic director Giles Scott-Smith have published a new edited volume, titled Public Health and the American State, w ... Read more

Online Book Talk with Dario Fazzi

RIAS Professor Dario Fazzi discussed his book Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement  in the online Greenhouse Environmental Human ... Read more

RIAS Gets Access to Digital National Security Archive

RIAS secures access to the renowned Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) to offer new research opportunities. ... Read more

Explore Historical US Forest Service Records

The RIAS expands its archival collection with historical US Forest Service Records, enhancing focus on environmental history. ... Read more

Fourth Lecture in Seminar Series by Rebecca Herman

In her talk on 11 December, Rebecca Herman will discuss her last book, Cooperating with the Colossus, (Oxford University Press, 2022). The book brings together the diplomatic history of US ... Read more

The Roosevelts’ Legacies to Human Rights

On 10 December 2023, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns seventy-five. What has been, overall, the role that the Roosevelts played in crafting our modern view of human rights? Pr ... Read more

Third Lecture in Seminar Series by Andrew Preston

On Monday 20 November 2023 Professor Andrew Preston (Cambridge University) will lead the 3rd session of the ... Read more

Black Citizenship Conference 2024

The conference “Contesting Black Citizenship from American Revolution to the Present,” hosted by the RIAS on 12 and 13 December 2024, will explore Black citizenship as a site of contest ... Read more

Dario Fazzi’s New Book: Smoke on the Water

In this book Dario Fazzi traces the rise and fall of ocean incineration, showing how a transnational environmental movement tested the limits of US political and economic power. ... Read more