Dr. Lawrence Hatter will speak with Oregon and Washington teachers at Portland Art Museum on Thursday, October 13, as part of a Teacher Initiative Workshop organized by George Washington’s Mount Vernon. The title of his talk will be “Wars of Independence: From Metacom to Tenskwatawa.”
Dr. Sutton is writing a book entitled “(Un)Holy Spies: Religion and Espionage in World War II.” He was recently interviewed by a Spokesman-Review reporter regarding John Birch, who was a missionary-turned-spy in World War II China. See the entire article here.
Dr. Steven Kale, Chair of the Department of History, will present a lecture “French Secularism as a Target for Jihad” on September 27, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. in Todd Hall 276. This lecture is free and open to the public. This is part of the Asia Program Lecture Series as it continues its focus on the Middle East and the West. For our entire Fall Lecture Series, please visit our website at libarts.wsu.edu/asia or contact the Director, Dr. Lydia Gerber at asia@wsu.edu.
A free, public lecture about Islamic contributions to Western civilization will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in Todd Hall 216 at Washington State University.
Charles Weller, WSU clinical assistant professor of history, will discuss how the historical interdependence of people and culture promotes mutual understanding, peace and cooperation. This view suggests a fundamental redefining of “the West” and “Islam” and their relation to one another in historical and contemporary contexts.
Fluent in Kazakh, the language of Kazakhstan, Weller joined the WSU faculty in 2011. He is a nonresidential visiting researcher at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University through 2017.
Part of the WSU common reading program (https://commonreading.wsu.edu/), the talk is co-hosted with the History Club. The common reading book, “I Am Malala,” recounts the young Pakistani author’s personal, near-fatal encounter with the Taliban.
Contacts:
Karen Weathermon, WSU common reading, 509-335-5488, weathermon@wsu.edu
Emma Epperly, WSU Undergraduate Education communications, 509-335-9458, UCHCCommMar.5@wsu.edu
Tuesday, September 20th from 3:30pm – 5:00pm in the CDSC (Holland Library, 4th Floor).
Public talk details: This past summer the CDSC sponsored its first three fellowship projects at the WSU Pullman campus. The six-week summer fellowships offer faculty and graduate students project planning assistance along with technical training for projects that use digital tools, technologies, or platforms to develop research and teaching agendas. The Summer 2016 Fellows were selected from a competitive pool of applicants to pursue projects that develop digital pedagogy and online teaching resources. We will showcase their work with a public unveiling of those projects. Reception to follow.
Fellow bios: Dr. Hallie Meredith is an ancient art historian in Fine Arts. She recently published Word Becomes Image: Openwork Vessels as a Reflection of Late Antique Transformation (Archaeopress). Dr. Jeffrey C. Sanders is an Associate Professor of History. His most recent book is titled Childhood and Environment in the Postwar American West (forthcoming at Cambridge UP, 2016). Ms. Brianna Webb is a graduate student in History. She works on political and cultural histories of memory with a special focus on German memorializations of World War II.
A series of lectures presented by a variety of History faculty, graduate students, and instructors is scheduled for August through November. Dr. Lydia Gerber, Asia Program Director, has coordinated this lecture series. See the schedule for dates, locations, and times: Asia 301 F16 Lecture Series
Matt Sutton has received a Public Scholar Program grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to write a book titled “(Un)Holy Spies: Religion and Espionage in World War II.” For the entire Daily Evergreen article, click this link.
On September 20th, The Columbia Chair in the History of the American West is sponsoring a lecture by Darren Dochuk from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt, which one some significant awards. He will be speaking on the confluence of oil, religion, the American West, and the growth of the US as a petri-state in the 20th century.
The talk will be held in the CUB Junior Ballroom East on September 20 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. The announcement can be seen here.
In conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences’ Week of Welcome, the Department of History hosted an open house August 18. Several faculty and graduate students attended and discussed various programs with interested students. A variety of refreshments was enjoyed by all.
