On the midterm elections, Matt Sutton was briefly interviewed on the BBC’s Sunday religion/news show. His interview begins at the 32:09 mark: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001f4gf. On Wednesday, he published the following in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/11/16/falwell-religious-right-herschel-walker/
For the second year in a row, Jesse Spohnholz co-organized a five-panel series at the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference in Minneapolis, MN, October 27-31, titled “The Loose Ends of History” aimed at providing alternative narratives from early modern history by asking new questions of underutilized sources. He presented on his own research on sixteenth-century Dutch refugees as part of this series, in a panel dedicated to “Recategorizing the Archive.” He also participated in an evening roundtable on “Crisis and Refuge: Historical Reflections on War, Persecution, and Exile.”
Sue Peabody, Professor of History, WSU Vancouver, was the discussant for the panel “Global Perspectives on Using Names of Liberated Africans in Digital Humanities Projects,” international Virtual Workshop on the Ethics and Politics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects, hosted by Stanford University, October 28, 2022.
She is also participating in the roundtable: “Life Stories of France and the French Empire: Researching and Writing Biographies” at the meeting of the Western Society for French History in Victoria, BC, November 5, 2022.
Nikolaus Overtoom has secured his third book contract. Lexington Books will be publishing his forthcoming third book, The Parthians at War: Combat, Logistics, Reputation, and the First War with Rome (2025).
Nikolaus Overtoom’s book Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East has been translated by Prof. Shahin Aryamanesh into Farsi and published by the Research Institute and Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Tehran, Iran.
PhD student Aaron Jesch recently gave a presentation at the Pacific Northwest History Conference held in Tri-Cities on September 30, about the Performativity of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Jesse Spohnholz is giving an invited lecture at the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University on Friday, October 7th, titled “A Reformation of Refugees: Dutch Protestant Escapees to the Holy Roman Empire, 1550–1600.”