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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… Continue Reading MSU Historians and Matrix at Digital Humanities Conference
Ethan Segal will be speaking on “Medieval Women and the Economy” at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Dr. Segal is currently on leave from MSU and conducting research for his next book as a Visiting Scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard… Continue Reading Professor Ethan Segal to speak at Smith College
Congratulations to Lewis Siegelbaum, for his recent publication “Sputnik Goes to Brussels: The Exhibition of a Soviet Technological Wonder” , in Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies
Episode 58 of Africa Past and Present, the podcast about African history, culture, and politics, is available at: http://afripod.aodl.org In this episode, Professor Aili Mari Tripp (Political Science, University of Wisconsin Madison; President-elect, U.S. African Studies Association) discusses African women’s movements, democratization, and the paradoxes… Continue Reading African Women in Politics
The Football Scholars Forum is holding its second fall session on Wednesday, November 9, at 2pm Eastern Time. The topic is “Soccer in the Classroom.” Peter Alegi, Alon Raab, Tom McCabe, Steven Apostolov, and Sean Jacobs will each make 5 minute presentations to spark discussion… Continue Reading Football Scholars Forum