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Marina Tolmacheva attends summer conferences

As we settle into this new academic year we want to take a moment to look back and appreciate some achievements that were not previously recognized over the last few months as we transitioned through staff changes!

Marina Tolmacheva traveled to two international meetings this summer. In August, she attended the 25th International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tolmacheva presented a paper in the symposium on the “History of Isla…mic Science: Global and Local,” and also gave the academic year’s Inaugural Lecture in the Geography Program at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Foz do Iguaçu, Parana). In July, she attended the regional conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. The conference was hosted by the American University of Central Asia. In addition to presenting a paper, Tolmacheva was invited to speak at two other local universities: the International Relations Faculty at Balasagyn National University and in the Department of Foreign Languages at the International University of Kyrgyzstan.

Review the conferences and their content at the links below!

http://www.escas.org/conferences/

http://www.ichst2017.sbhc.org.br/site/capa

Professor Sue Peabody has a new book out!

Professor Sue Peabody has published a new book: Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies.

Madeleine’s Children is rare narrative in world history of an enslaved person challenging his status in court and winning his freedom. It is the first full length biography tracing slavery in the Indian Ocean world and contains a detailed family saga of love, betrayal, hope, and struggle set against the broader context of plantation slavery, Parisian society, and colonization.

Madeleine’s Children

Sue Peabody has published a new article!

Sue Peabody, Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at WSU Vancouver, has published an article, “S’affranchir ou s’enraciner? Le droit français sur la migration des colonies à la metropole à l’époque de l’esclavage.” In Archéologie des migrations, edited by Dominique Garcia Hervé Le Bras, (Paris: La Découverte, 2017).

Find more information on her work and review a list of her publications by visiting the Department of History’s faculty directory.

 

Ryan Booth speaks at Gonzaga University

Please join us in congratulating PhD student, Ryan Booth, on his invitation to speak at Gonzaga University. The event, “’They Are Always at the Front:’ Native American Soldiers in the Great War,” will be held in Wolff Auditorium at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, October 31, 2017.

Ryan’s research focuses on Native American military scouts and military service from the mid-nineteenth century through World War I.

Above is a photo that Ryan has included with the presentation of his research; image credit to the Mather’s Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University.

https://www.gonzaga.edu/Academics/Hate-Studies/conferences-events/cfj-fall-2017-programming.asp