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Under the Skin: Dismantling Borders within Borders

You are warmly invited to this exhibit of collective art works on representing identity and stereotypes at Gallery 3 Fine Arts Department WSU. This will include work completed by our own Yvonne Burliner at the Under the Skin workshop last Thursday with some of her students. There will be food and a chance to share thoughts.

 

https://education.wsu.edu/event/under-the-skin-exhibit/

 

“Under the Skin is a community that started to be formed in 2016 and continues to offer spaces of dialogue, creation, and healing. Our revolution is a process and a practice to decolonize the self by continuously attempting to listen to our voices, write our stories, and transform our discourses and interactions. Under the Skin is an invitation to be part of a critical and dialogical community that dismantles stereotypes and labels.”

Marina Tolmacheva attends summer conferences

As we settle into this new academic year we want to take a moment to look back and appreciate some achievements that were not previously recognized over the last few months as we transitioned through staff changes!

Marina Tolmacheva traveled to two international meetings this summer. In August, she attended the 25th International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tolmacheva presented a paper in the symposium on the “History of Isla…mic Science: Global and Local,” and also gave the academic year’s Inaugural Lecture in the Geography Program at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Foz do Iguaçu, Parana). In July, she attended the regional conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. The conference was hosted by the American University of Central Asia. In addition to presenting a paper, Tolmacheva was invited to speak at two other local universities: the International Relations Faculty at Balasagyn National University and in the Department of Foreign Languages at the International University of Kyrgyzstan.

Review the conferences and their content at the links below!

http://www.escas.org/conferences/

http://www.ichst2017.sbhc.org.br/site/capa

Professor Sue Peabody has a new book out!

Professor Sue Peabody has published a new book: Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies.

Madeleine’s Children is rare narrative in world history of an enslaved person challenging his status in court and winning his freedom. It is the first full length biography tracing slavery in the Indian Ocean world and contains a detailed family saga of love, betrayal, hope, and struggle set against the broader context of plantation slavery, Parisian society, and colonization.

Madeleine’s Children

Sue Peabody has published a new article!

Sue Peabody, Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at WSU Vancouver, has published an article, “S’affranchir ou s’enraciner? Le droit français sur la migration des colonies à la metropole à l’époque de l’esclavage.” In Archéologie des migrations, edited by Dominique Garcia Hervé Le Bras, (Paris: La Découverte, 2017).

Find more information on her work and review a list of her publications by visiting the Department of History’s faculty directory.

 

Ryan Booth speaks at Gonzaga University

Please join us in congratulating PhD student, Ryan Booth, on his invitation to speak at Gonzaga University. The event, “’They Are Always at the Front:’ Native American Soldiers in the Great War,” will be held in Wolff Auditorium at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, October 31, 2017.

Ryan’s research focuses on Native American military scouts and military service from the mid-nineteenth century through World War I.

Above is a photo that Ryan has included with the presentation of his research; image credit to the Mather’s Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University.

https://www.gonzaga.edu/Academics/Hate-Studies/conferences-events/cfj-fall-2017-programming.asp

Awards Ceremony 2016

Many scholarship and fellowship recipients attended this year’s awards ceremony on April 29. Thanks to great alumni and friends, the department is blessed with numerous scholarships available to our majors.  Many undergraduate and graduate students have excelled in research, writing, and academic excellence.

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Dr. Steven Kale, Chair of the Department of History, introduced Dr. Jennifer Thigpen and Dr. Matt Sutton who gave students certificates. Several students earned more than one scholarship or fellowship.
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Dr. Jennifer Thigpen discussed each undergraduate awardee’s accomplishments and focus of study.
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Dr. Matt Sutton and Graduate student, Greg Atkins.

 

See the 2016 Awards Program.

Eastern Washington University Colloquium on Mexico

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.

Dr. Candice Goucher’s book Congotay! Congotay! wins 2016 Gourmand Award

Dr. Candice Goucher’s recent book Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food (Routledge, 2014) has won the 2016 Gourmand Award for Best Book on Caribbean Food (National Category)

Her book will go onward to compete in the Gourmand International Cookbook Awards Global Finals awards category on 28th May 2016 in Yantai, Shandong, China.
Congotay! Congotay! captures the culinary essence of the Caribbean and highlights the role of Africans in the history of the region.

 

History Club


The WSU History Club is a recognized student organization open to students from any major.  History Club members participate in a variety of social, educational, and service activities.

History Department Chair and French historian, Dr. Steve Kale, delivers a talk and answers questions from more than 230 students as part of a History Club-sponsored presentation following the ISIS attack on Paris in late 2015.

The History Club’s goal is to help students, of any year and major, explore their historical interests and interact with lovers of history on campus.

 

This year the History Club has elected an entirely new panel of student leaders and is planning a year full of on campus events, trivia, debate, and internship opportunities.

2023 – 2024 Officers and Information:

President: Madison Watt
Vice President: Mariah Landon
Treasurer: Asia Larocque
Secretary: Andersen Barry
Public Relations: Camryn Kintner
Club Faculty Advisor and RSO Coordinator: Dr. Nikolaus Overtoom

 

For more information about the Club, please contact the faculty advisor at nikolaus.overtoom@wsu.edu

 

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