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Welcome to the homepage of the Transatlantic History Student Organization, the first graduate student organization dedicated to transatlantic history.

Founded in 2000, the Transatlantic History Student Organization (THSO) is a graduate student organization for anyone interested in transnational history or comparative history that deals with encounters, discoveries, and interaction across frontiers and borders situated in the countries and continents surrounding the Atlantic Basin. The primary purpose of the organization is to provide UTA history graduate students with a forum for the discussion of issues relating to transatlantic studies. THSO hosts the Annual Graduate Student Symposium on Transatlantic History, which has proved to be an excellent venue for the discussion of the interrelations between peoples and ideas of the Old and New Worlds. The symposium has attracted scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. We function as a social and networking organization. Meetings, socials, and other planned events provide an opportunity to get to know peers and professors in a more relaxed, non-classroom setting. Twice a semester we hold Professional Development Seminars where faculty members or other invited guests present topics ranging from “Searching for a Job in the Academy,” to “The Process of Publishing Your Work.”

Upcoming Events

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September 10, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, UH 321 – Meet and Greet, snacks will be provided, come meet fellow members, and professors; Evening session 6:00-7:00pm, UH 317

September 15-16, 2008, Library Courtyard – Book Sale, co-sponsored with Phi Alpha Theta – please donate any kind of books for the sale and come work the sale with us

September 24, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, UH 321 – Professional Development Seminar with Dr. Thomas Adam on the inner workings of H-NET, food will be provided

October 1-2, 2008, 8:00am-1:00pm, UH Lobby – Bake Sale – donate your baked goods and/or your time to help raise money for THSO

October 23, 2008 – Ninth Annual Graduate Student Symposium on Transatlantic History – “Slavery in the Transatlantic World” – hear a range of papers by graduate students all over the country on the topic, with a keynote address by Dr. Trevor Burnard of the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), author of the acclaimed work Mastery, Tyranny, & Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (The symposium is jointly sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta and the Barksdale Lecture Series)

November 19, 2008, Time and place TBA – Professional Development Seminar, food will be provided

December 6, 2008, TBA – Social, co-hosted with Phi Alpha Theta

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