Dr. Brecher at Southwest Conference
claudia.mickasPuck Brecher gave a talk titled “How Japan’s Animal Welfare Movement Created a Biodiversity Boondoggle” at the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies in Houston, Texas.
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Dr. Peabody Chairs Panel
claudia.mickasSue Peabody chaired and commented on the panel “Biography as Legal History / Legal History as Biography” at the American Society for Legal History in Philadelphia, October 27, 2023.
Fallen Cougars Presentation
claudia.mickasRay Sun and graduate students Jordan Bergstrom, Kyley Canion-Brewer, Cassie Crisman, and Samantha Edgerton will be giving another Fallen Cougars presentation on Thursday 11/9 from 7pm-8pm at the Pullman Depot Heritage Center.
***CANCELLED DUE TO GAS LINE RUPTURE – STAY TUNED FOR RESCHEDULE UPDATE***
“Buffalo Soldiers” Documentary Screening
claudia.mickasJoin us for the ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ documentary screening today, November 7, 4:30–6 p.m. in CUE 203 on the Pullman campus. The film will be introduced by Dr. Ryan Booth, who is featured in the film and addresses the displacement of Indigenous peoples in the American West by U.S. military, including the Buffalo Soldiers.
PhD Student Drew Gamboa Chosen as State Humanities Fellow
claudia.mickasPhD student Drew Gamboa was chosen to be a state humanities fellow: https://www.humanities.org/blog/introducing-the-2023-2024-public-humanities-fellows/
Humanities Washington’s Public Humanities Fellowship program supports early-career scholars and professionals who wish to design and implement innovative projects for underserved communities.
Dr. Brecher Speaks at Consortium Workshop
claudia.mickasPuck Brecher spoke on “On Japan’s Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji” for The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia’s “East Asia since 1800” workshop at the University of Southern California (virtual).
Dr. Peabody Presented Invited Paper
claudia.mickasSue Peabody presented her invited paper, “Gender and the Afterlives of Slavery in the Indian Ocean: Microhistory as Method,” Sawyer Seminar: Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom, funded by the Mellon Foundation. Dialogue One: Slavery, Racialization, and Gender, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 5-6, 2023
RCI Event Series – “Shifting Narratives: The Steptoe Battlefield and Popular Memory”
claudia.mickasWednesday, November 1, 2023
6PM
Neill Public Library
Dr. Booth Publishes New Article
claudia.mickasRyan Booth has published an article in the latest Journal of Arizona History entitled “’As So Many Bengal Tigers’: The U.S. Army, Native Scouts, and the Imagined Martial Races of the Southwest.” The entire issue was written, edited, and peer reviewed by Indigenous historians, a first for the journal.
RCI Event Series – “History in the Future”
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