Colloquium Series
Faculty, guests and students support a lively process of research and exchange of ideas that makes history a vibrant discipline. This series features several such speakers each semester.
SPRING 2026 Schedule
“Calvinists and Indians in the Northeast Woodlands”
Presented by Dr. Stephen Skaggs
Date, time and location to be determined (postponed from original date of January 27).
In this presentation Dr. Stephen T. Staggs will explore the dynamic relationships that developed between Native American and European peoples living in the Northeast Woodlands in the period up to 1750. He will show that Dutch Calvinists relied on their Indigenous neighbors and that Native Americans secured their survival by unwittingly living out the gospel.
“Digital Projects on Asian American History: From International Adoption to South Asian American Communities”
History Student Research Panel: Nazea Chowdhury and Tyler Gugino, Faculty Research Advisor, Dr. Wayne Tan
Wednesday, March 4, at 4:30 p.m., Bultman Center Schaap Auditorium
“Are the Liberal Arts Racist? An Emmaus Scholars Special Guest Lecture”
(More details to come)
Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m., Grave Winants Auditorium
Lubbers Hall126 East 10th StreetRoom 338Holland, MI 49423
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