September 12, 4 pm
The new Irish Studies International Speakers Series will host its first event at 4 PM in the Geballe Rm, Townsend Center. Professor Jane Ohylmeyer (Trinity College, Dublin) will be speaking on "The 'Old British and Irish Histories': Where do We Go from Here?". This new series is made possible by the Irish government, the Irish Consulate of San Francisco in association with the Western Institute of Irish Studies, and the Center for British Studies at Berkeley.

September 13, 3-5 pm
Workshop with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
Revisionism: Debates on Irish History
Readings:  J. G. A. Pocock, “British History: A Plea for a New Subject,” Journal of Modern History 47:4 (1975): 601-21; Nicholas Canny, “Writing Early Modern History: Ireland, Britain, and the Wider World,” The Historical Journal 46:3 (2003): 723-47. (Linked files are .pdfs)

September 15, 6 pm
Sir David King in Conversation with Michael Pollan and Sandy Tollan on "Climate Change: The International Response." -- Earlier, King will be interviewed by Harry Kreisler for his broadcast "Conversations in History."

September 22, 5-7 pm
The 3rd Annual Fall Reception for CBS in the Morrison Room, Doe Library

September 23-2, Geballe Room
The first Mellon Consortia Conference on British Studies, in conjunction with the Center for British Studies at University of Chicago and British historians at Yale University.  This conference will revisit debates about economic modernization. Plenary speakers include Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge), Deborah Valenze (Barnard) and Robert Brenner (UCLA).

October 11, 4 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Dissertation Workshop
Mark Allison, Dept of English
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CBS will also be holding  dissertation workshops throughout the semester and talks by Professor Rod Phodes (Political Science, Australian National University) and Professor Tom Laqueur (Berkeley).