Sue Peabody (History, WSU Vancouver) will participate in a roundtable, Representing Slavery in Museums: The French World, at the University of Texas, Austin, on Tuesday, January 17^th, sponsored by the French Embassy Cultural Services and the Department of French and Italian, UTA. Interested WSU students and faculty are invited to attend. The roundtable will take place from  11-12:35 Pacific (1:00-2:45PM Central) over Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsfuCvrD8pHte4O4rB8YAkzXgoplCFbL6T (you’ll need to register first; QR code in the poster). Keynote speaker: Prof. Ana-Lucia Araujo, Howard University. Other panelists: Dr. Jérémy Boutier and Jean-Barbier, Musée de Villèle: History of Slavery and the Plantation. Chair: Prof. Mélanie Lamotte, UTA. Respondant: Prof. Nathan Marvin, U. Arkansas, Little Rock.

Andra Chastain was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Global Urban History Project (GUHP). You can learn more about this organization here: https://www.globalurbanhistory.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=803980&module_id=256970

Andra Chastain published a review of Sebastián Hurtado-Torres, The Gathering Storm: Eduardo Frei’s Revolution in Liberty and Chile’s Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020), in H-LatAm: https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/reviews/11805663/chastain-hurtado-torres-gathering-storm-eduardo-freis-revolution

Sue Peabody’s contribution to the online roundtable recognizing the prize-winning Caribbean New Orleans: Race, Empire, and the Making of a Slave Society (UNC, 2019), by Cécile Vidal (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), has been published by the Toynbee Prize Foundation: https://toynbeeprize.org/posts/roundtable-panel-cecile-vidals-caribbean-new-orleans-rethinking-the-interconnected-nature-of-the-global-north-and-south-through/

Andra Chastain won a 2022 New Faculty Seed Grant for her project entitled “Global Urban Histories in the Americas: Santiago, Chile,” which includes support to complete revisions her book Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City, as well as preliminary research for a new project on the history of urban air pollution in the Americas.