Associate Professor Lawrence Hatter’s article, “The similarities to the last invasion of the Capitol matter — so do the differences,” was published in the Washington Post on January 11th. You can read his thoughts on the events at the U.S. capitol by clicking here.
Dr. Jesse Spohnholz was recently interviewed on the New Books Network podcast about his book, The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press 2017; paperback 2020). Click here to listen to his recent interview!
Dr. Andra Chastain recently published a new article in the Journal of Transport History: “A shameful and uncivilized spectacle”: Taxibuses, students, and the conflicted road to deregulation in Pinochet’s Chile, 1975–1978.” You can access the article by clicking here!
Dr. Tracey Hanshew’s article “‘Here she comes wearin’ them britches!’ Saddles, Riding Skirts, and Social Reform in the Turn-of-the-Century Rural West” is now published in Montana The Magazine of Western History (Winter 2020). Learn more by clicking here!
Dr. LoSavio recently published “Burma in the Southeast Asia Peninsula Games, 1950-1970: Buddhism, Bodhisattvas, Decolonization, and Nation Making through Sport” in the International Journal of the History of Sport. Below is the abstract for the article but you can read the full article by clicking here.
Abstract
Histories of transnational sports in Southeast Asia remain largely unexamined for multiple reasons. To date, the history of transnational sporting events in the Burmese context has not been explored, making this essay a small but valuable contribution to this growing subfield. Transnational competitive sports, like the Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, performed critical roles in Burma’s nation-building and decolonization agendas. The state used these platforms to dismantle racist cultural conceptions, remnants of persistent hierarchies of colonial culture and politics. Moreover, athletic participation in such events communicated Burma’s sovereign status to the world at large. For internal Burmese audiences the state and its presses developed a transformative narrative of modernization around transnational sports and celebrated athletes as the ideal modern citizen. Foreign notions of modernity were refracted through indigenous Buddhist epistemologies. Athletes were cast into the role of bodhisattvas, authorized to disseminate modern knowledge. Through the National Fitness Movement and the Sports Month Programme, the Burmese state capitalized on transnational sports and athletes’ celebrity, and marketed their vision of ideal, embodied, modern citizenship to the Burmese public. Transnational sports became a vehicle, not only to introduce foreign notions of modernity to Burma, but also to make modernity compatible with being Burmese.
Prof. Kawamura’s essay, “Naval Powers in the Pacific at the Crossroads,” has just come out. It is in Tosh Minohara and Evan Dawley, eds., Beyond Versailles: The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.
Prof. Sue Peabody’s essay, “Slaves as Witnesses, Slaves as Evidence: French and British Prosecution of the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean,” has been published in Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: “The King is Listening,” edited by Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau (Routledge, 2021), 281-303.
Assistant Professor Nikolaus Overtoom celebrates for the release of “The Parthians’ Failed Vassalage of Syria: The Shortsighted Western Policy of Phraates II and the Second Reign of Demetrius II (129-125 BCE)” in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 60.1-2 (2020).
“Acta Antiqua publishes original research papers, review articles and book reviews in the field of ancient studies. It covers the field of history, literature, philology and material culture of the Ancient East, the Classical Antiquity and, to a lesser part, of Byzantium and the Latin culture of Mediaeval, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, as well as the ’Nachleben’ of Classical Antiquity,” (AKJournals).
A new book Dr. Sue Peabody consulted on, L’étrange histoire de Furcy Madeline, a catalogue companion to the exhibit which opened last fall in Réunion, is now available. Together with the museum director, she is in the process of creating a bilingual traveling exhibit, as well as a pedagogical website. An independent documentary film is also in the works. Congratulations!
Dr. Katy Whalen will soon be appearing in a virtual panel on October 27 to talk about –among other things– eco-racism in Washington State’s oyster industry history. The event is co-sponsored by the Museum of Food and Drink in New York City and New York public radio. Take a look at the event at this link here.