Welcome! The Department of History at Michigan State University is a large, vibrant intellectual community. The faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, staff, alumni and friends of the Department of History are actively engaged in an enormous range of activities involving research, publishing, teaching, learning, and public outreach. It is my honor to share these with you.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Walter Hawthorne discuss the Atlantic Slave Data Network — a digital history project of Matrix and the History Department at Michigan State University funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Click here to listen to Episode 60 of Africa Past and Present.
Ethan Segal, Associate Professor of Japanese History at MSU, will speak on “Visualizing Meiji Nationalism and Japan’s Wars For Empire.” In this presentation, Dr. Segal will highlight visual materials including photographs, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and political cartoons associated with Japan’s wars against China (1894-95) and Russia (1904-05), both of which were key events in the creation of modern Japanese nationalism and imperialism. The talk will be at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, February 8th, at 3:00 p.m. at Dartmouth College
Ben Sawyer will be presenting a paper at The Great Experience Conference at Princeton University titled “Soviet State Institutions and the Pursuit of Foreign Technology in the Era of NEP, 1921 – 1928″
Javier Pescador will give a lecture on U.S. Mexican soccer communities, national identities and global sports media.”Wearing la Camiseta Nacional: Mexican Soccer Communities in the United States and the Birth of the Tricolor Brand in Big Time Sports Global Landscapes”. Tuesday, February 2, 2012 at 7 PM.
To see more, follow this link: http://www.csbsju.edu/News/Juan-Javier-Pescador-2012.htm
Dr. Alegi interviewed on Soccer and Nationalism in Africa.
Full text article: http://bit.ly/wOlE1b
Pero Dagbovie is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Distinguished Speaker with special guest Gwendolyn Mildo Hall. The lecture is titled: “A Warrior for Freedom: Mabel Robinson Williams and the Civil Rights- Black Power Movement”
The lecture is on Friday, January 20th, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Room 303 International Center
Georgina Montgomery (Lyman Briggs and History) and Dr. Linda Kalof (Sociology and Director of MSU’s Animal Studies Graduate Specialization) edited a book entitled Making Animal Meaning that has just been published with Michigan State University Press. An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection — vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption — these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.
The article, ”De senzala para a rede: Biografias de escravos serão disponibilizadas em banco de dados na Internet,” features Biographies: The Atlantic Slave Data Network, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more see, http://www.revistadehistoria.com.br/secao/em-dia/da-senzala-para-a-rede
Professor Wheat has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for work on a project titled “Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640.” The fellowship will fund research and writing, which he will undertake in Spain between September 2012 and August 2013. Less than ten percent of NEH applicants receive funding. Congratulations David.
History faculty and Matrix staff are hosting an invited panel at the HASTAC conference at the University of Michigan (Dec. 1-3) on international collaborative projects in digital humanities. Among the projects to be discussed are: the Cape Town-based Community Video Education Trust digital archive; the Malian Photo Archives funded by the Endangered Archives program of the British Library; and the Africa Past and Present podcast hosted by Peter Alegi and Peter Limb. In addition, Alex Galarza is presenting on the Football Scholars Forum, an online academic book club based in the History Department.
View Summer 2012 Online Courses Register for online summer courses Online courses offer students at MSU and elsewhere the opportunity to study important subjects and work toward graduation while off campus in the summer. Our internationally known faculty offer 22 online summer courses.
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