Dr. Jesse Spohnholz will be giving the plenary lecture at a conference on “Religious Migration during Europe’s Confessional Age” in Amsterdam on March 21. The conference is sponsored by the European Union and will be held at a church used by French-speaking refugees in the city starting in 1586. A photograph of the church can be seen here Amsterdam Church.
Lawrence Hatter’s book Citizens of Convenience: Empire, Nationhood, and the Northern Border of the American Republic, 1783-1820 is the recipient of the 2016 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for “an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies” by the University of Virginia Press. Citizens of Convenience will be published in early 2017.
A book by Dr. Jen Brown, PhD ’12, Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, was highlighted in the spring 2016 issue of Washington State magazine. Brown grew up in Montana and learned to fly fish on the Beaverhead and Big Hole rivers while in college. She is now an assistant professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. While earning her PhD at Washington State University, she worked closely with her advisor, Dr. Jeff Sanders.
The College of Arts and Sciences Ambassadors’ IIC is inviting students to participate in a unique opportunity. The application deadline is February 24. Students from all majors/levels can engage in a team-based problem solution activity that will enhance academic and professional skills. The winning team can receive up to $1,000 in scholarship money – for each team member! For more information, see cas.wsu.edu/iic. The flyer announcing this terrific opportunity can be seen here: Interdisciplinary Innovation Challenge.
The Foley Institute is hosting Coffee & Politics Tuesday, February 23 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. Dr. Joris D. Kila will discuss how global policies are failing to deal with this crisis. For more information, the announcement flyer can be seen here.
“I think this book has had a real impact on students,” says WSU history instructor Ken Faunce, who uses Just Mercy in his Roots of Contemporary Issues course. “We discuss a chapter every Friday.” The book, required reading for first-year WSU students and incorporated into various course curricula as this year’s common reading program selection, has sparked numerous discussions among students, faculty, and staff about the troubling incongruities. For the entire article, see the Spring 2016 edition of Washington State Magazine.
“Forbidden Passages is an engaging study of the slippage between social standing, social perception, and self-fashioning among Moriscos in both southern Spain and in the Spanish Americas. Karoline P. Cook demonstrates the complex religious and cultural environment inhabited by these men and women, providing a nuanced addition to our understanding of the early modern Iberian global world.”—Martin Nesvig, University of Miami. See more about Dr. Cook’s latest book here.
A roundtable discussion on Jennifer Thigpen’s Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World is now available on H-Diplo. The roundtable editor is Thomas Maddux and the discussion is introduced by Professor David Igler at the University of California-Irvine. The complete discussion with reviews and author’s response can be found here.
An exhibit created by the descendants and survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre of November 29, 1864 is being held at the Clark County Historical Museum beginning February 13 through February 20. For more information, see the WSU Vancouver One November Morning flyer.
Drs. Yvonne Berliner and Julian Dodson will participate in EWU’s colloquium held during the week of February 9-11. Dr. Berliner will present a paper on February 10 titled “Mexican Feminism in the Twentieth Century.” Her paper traces the struggle for political rights for women in Mexico, culminating in 1953 with the right to vote. Dr,Julian Dodson will participate in a Roundtable Discussion: Ayotzinapa in Context: Social Violence, Media Repression, Police Impunity, and Popular Resistance in Contemporary Mexico.