Dr. Jesse Spohnholz presented a talk at the Martin Springer Institute at NAU entitled “Are Migrants a Threat to Europeans today: Europe’s Refugee Crisis in Historical Perspective.”
Spohnholz’s research focuses on social practices of toleration in Reformation-era Germany and the Netherlands, experiences of religious refugees during Europe’s Age of Religious Wars, and historical memory of the Reformation.
Dr. Sue Peabody, of WSU-Vancouver, will present an invited lecture, “Freedom: Law and Practice in the French Empire” on Thursday, April 7 at Florida State University, in advance of the conference: The Francophone Indian Ocean, The 2nd Annual Weider History Conference, 8 April 2016, Florida State University, Longmire Hall Room 201.
Co-sponsored by the FSU Department of History’s Institute on Napoleon & the French Revolution and the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, with the generous support of the Weider Foundation.
Commentators: Richard Allen, Framingham State University; Edward Alpers, UCLA; Sue Peabody, Washington State University Vancouver
Presenters: Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University; Kit Heintzman, Harvard University; Jane Hooper, George Mason University; Nathan Marvin, Johns Hopkins University; Laurie Wood, Florida State University – organizer and host
Chair: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
The Department of History congratulates one of its majors, Kevin Schilling, as part of the Washington Corsortium for the Liberal Arts (WaLA) Public Relations team who was the first to receive a $10,000 award to implement their campaign. This interdisciplinary team competed with other undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the state to design a public relations campaign promoting the value of the liberal arts to the citizens of the state of Washington and the region.
Dr. Matt Sutton, author of “American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism,” will give two lectures on March 29 in Chambersburg, PA. Sutton is working on a new book tentatively entitled “FDR’s Army of Faith: Religion and Espionage in World War II.” To see more information on these lectures, see the Public Opinion article.
Sutton is the Edward R. Meyer distinguished professor of history at Washington State University.
Tosh Minohara is a Professor of U.S.-Japan Relations at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, Kobe University, Japan. He is a frequent commentator for NHK, National Geographic, BBC and National Public Radio and has appeared in numerous television programs worldwide.
On April 4 at 6:00 p.m. in CUE 203, he will give a public lecture titled “The Geostrategic Shift in East Asia: Emergency of a Regional Pax Sinica?”
A power shift is now taking place in East Asia. A new political order is gradually emerging as relative U.S. dominance wanes in the region, and in its place an increasingly assertive and confident China is appearing; and China is ever more eager to extend its sphere of influence. How will the rising “Pax Sinica” impact “Pax Americana” in the region? This talk will explore what the shift in U.S.-Japan-Asia strategic relationship means for the future of East Asia.
This lecture is sponsored by the Department of History, Asia Program, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Japanese Prime Minister.
Dr. Casey Cater (Kennesaw State University, GA) will deliver a public presentation: “Public Dams, Private Power: The Fight for Clarks Hill, 1946-1957.” This will be of particular interest to environmental, US West, and 20th century historians. The talk will be on Tuesday, April 5 at noon in the CUB auditorium on the Pullman campus. For more information, see the flyer.
This presentation is sponsored by the Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Berry Family Faculty Excellence Fellows, the Columbia Chair in the History of the American West, and the Sherman and Mabel Smith Pettyjohn Memorial Lectureship.
Tabitha “Beth” Erdey earned her PhD in Public History in 2013. Her thesis title is Wildly Contentious: The Battle for North Central Idaho’s Roads, Rivers, and Wilderness, and her advisor was Dr. Rob McCoy. She is now an archivist for the Nez Perce National Historical Park in Spalding, Idaho, managed by the National Park Service.
Nuunimnix is an exhibition in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Nez Perce National Historical Park, one of 19 parks in the Northwest. The exhibition is at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington until June 12. Bob Chenoweth, Museum Curator and Beth wrote the book within which are numerous photos and stories of the Nez Perce Tribe and is the basis for the exhibition.
The Western History Association Graduate Student Caucus (WHAGSC), invites interested graduate students to join the caucus. Students are encouraged to apply for the various opportunities through the Western History Association that have a major deadline of April 1, 2016. The Indian Student Conference Travel Award is open to both undergraduate and graduate students (whether they are presenting at the WHA conference or not) who identify as Native American.
The Annual Western History Association conference is September 28, 2016 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Applications for WHA Graduate Awards are due April 1.
For more information, see the WHAGSC Spring Newsletter 2016 with Web sites.
The WSU Department of History is pleased to announce that Ai Wang, who received her PhD in East Asian History, has accepted a tenure-track position at Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota. Her dissertation “City of the River: The Hai River and the Construction of Tianjin, 1897-1948″ was under the supervision of Professors David Pietz (now at the University of Arizona), Jeff Sanders and Heather Streets-Salter (now at Northeastern University, Boston).
Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
Dr. Ryan Dearinger of Eastern Oregon University will be giving a public presentation on his recently published book The Filth of Progress (UC Press, 2015) on Wednesday, March 23 at 5 p.m. in the CUB Jr. Ballroom 210. Dr. Dearinger’s work tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dream of a continental empire into a reality, but whose stories are generally left out of the triumphal narrative of westward expansion. This event is sponsored by the Sherman and Mable Smith Pettyjohn Memorial Fund and the Berry Family Faculty Excellence Fellows. See the Filth of Progress flyer for more information.