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 27^th 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

Ryan Booth has published an article in the latest Journal of Arizona History entitled “’As So Many Bengal Tigers’: The U.S. Army, Native Scouts, and the Imagined Martial Races of the Southwest.” The entire issue was written, edited, and peer reviewed by Indigenous historians, a first for the journal.

Brenna Miller and Jesse Spohnholz published an article, based on their work on the History for the 21^st Century project: “Collaboratively Reforming General Education History Education: A Roadmap for the 21st Century.” The Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference, 1 (2023): 77–87.  

Nikolaus Overtoom is the keynote speaker for the History Colloquium at LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, Sept. 15, 2023. His talk is titled: “Patricide, Fratricide, and Betrayal: The Role of the Parthians in the First War with Rome.”

Alan Malfavon was notified by Dr. Romeo Cruz Velazquez, Director of the Historical Archive and Library of the port-city of Veracruz, that he is being nominated for this year’s Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Medal, an award given by the IVEC (Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura/ Veracruz’s Institute of Culture), the cultural government agency from the State of Veracruz, given to scholars who dedicate their work and research to the study of African heritage and History in Mexico and Veracruz. The medal is named after the pioneer of Afro-Mexican studies in Mexico, Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, a Physician and Anthropologist from Tlacotalpan, Veracruz who in 1946 published the first Historical and Anthropological study on Mexico’s African descendants.