Month: November 2014

Ethan Segal (MSU History Dept) and Sandy Tupper (MSU Office of Study Abroad) will host an information session on the Student Exchange Program with the University of the Ryukyus (Japan). The session will be from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20th, in… Continue Reading History’s Student Exchange in Japan

Professor Ethan Segal will speak to the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association on Tuesday, Nov. 18th, at 1:30 p.m. The topic of his presentation will be “Rebuilding Northeastern Japan: The Ongoing Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Crises.” The talk will be in the Community Room… Continue Reading Segal on Post-2011 Japan Recovery

Peter Alegi, Peter Limb, and Dean Rehberger are presenting at the “African Studies in the Digital Age” workshop organized by the University of Michigan’s African Studies Center. On Thursday, November 13, Alegi will discuss coproduction of digital history projects with African scholars and institutions and… Continue Reading MSU Historians @ Digital Africa Workshop

In Episode 86 of Africa Past and Present — the podcast about African history, culture, and politics — Tebogo Motswetla, a leading African cartoonist from Botswana, shares his journey of becoming a cartoonist; the 25th anniversary of his character “Mabijo” (http://mabijo.com/home/); the applied aspects of… Continue Reading Africa Past & Present podcast 86

To commemorate Armistice Day, American Food Roots and the World War I Museum have released the first in a series of short videos on food in World War I, featuring Assistant Professor of history Helen Veit and two other historians, Dr. Julia Irwin and Dr.… Continue Reading Veit in documentary on WWI food