Nikolaus Overtoom’s chapter “Logistics and Strategy in the Hellenistic World: Parthians and Seleucids,” will be published later this month in Brill’s Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare. Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Series: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Vol 8. Brill. J. Donahue and L. Brice (eds.). 258-86.
Jeff Sanders published “History Uncontained at the B Reactor,” a chapter in Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure. The book is the final product of a series of workshops as part of the Oregon State University Downwinders Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. His contribution first appeared as a paper at the 2020 workshop: “75 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure.”
The Clements Center at Southern Methodist University selected Ryan Booth as a symposium scholar for 2024-2025. The symposium is entitled “Rethinking the Indian Wars.” Booth will contribute a book chapter on the subject of death and burial of US Army soldiers (particularly the US Indian Scouts and Black regulars). Clements Center symposia are held at SMU’s Taos campus and a public presentation will be held in Tempe, Arizona in cooperation with the Arizona Historical Society in 2025. The University of Nebraska Press has agreed to publish the collection.
Ryan Booth is one of twelve authors. He will be joined by Nathan Braccio (Lesley), Bonnie Cherry (Berkeley Law), Greg Downs (UC Davis), Luis Garcia (U de Monterrey), Ari Kelman (UC Davis), Stuart Marshall (Sewanee), Nick Myers (National Park Service), Darren Parry (Utah), Sherry Smith (SMU), Lindsay Stallones Marshall (Illinois State), and Cecily Zander (Texas Woman’s U).
https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and-Centers/SWCenter/Symposia/Future/IndianWars
Jesse Spohnholz presented a research paper titled “Defining and Preserving Community in Exile: Baptismal Practices of Dutch Reformed Refugees in Cologne” at Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, on October 27th in Baltimore, MD. While here, he also chaired a panel on the book, The Church of the Dead, which investigates the creation of Indigenous Catholicism in colonial Mexico following the devastating 1576 smallpox epidemic.
Puck 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.
Sue 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.
Puck 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).
Sue 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