Month: May 2012

In this new episode of the podcast hosted by MSU historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb, David Newbury (Smith College) discusses the historical dynamics of kingship, legitimacy, and violence in Central and East Africa. He focuses on Alison Des Forges’s Defeat is the Only Bad News:… Continue Reading Episode 62 of Africa Past and Present released

Professor Liam Brockey is delivering a paper entitled “The Unpublished Travels of a European Theologian in Late Ming China”. The symposium is sponsored by the University of Bonn and the Ostasien Instititut (Bonn), and is accompanied by a museum exhibition and other festivities celebrating European-Chinese… Continue Reading Liam Brockey- Delivering paper in Bonn, Germany