Month: January 2017

Dr. Ethan Segal will give a talk titled “Rethinking Women’s Roles in Early Medieval Japan: Was Hojo Masako Japan’s Only Female Shogun?“ at the University of Notre Dame.  The paper, part of his broader research project on gender in pre-modern Japan, explores the problematic ways… Continue Reading Segal to speak at Notre Dame on women in early medieval Japan

Professor Helen Veit is interviewed about the history of chocolate in the January 30, 2017 episode of the award-winning podcast, Gastropod.

Lewis Siegelbaum was interviewed on Sunday, January 29 by CTV (Canadian Television) about the phone conversation between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He put the conversation in the context of the history of US-Russian relations.

Dr. Yelena Kalinsky, Associate Director of Research and Publications at H-Net in the Department of History, has published “The Schizoid Objects of Moscow Conceptualism,” in Thinking Pictures: The Visual Field of Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Jane Ashton Sharp (New Brunswick, NJ: Zimmerli Art Museum, 2016), pp.… Continue Reading Kalinsky Publishes Article

Naoko Wake’s “Madness in History: Real and Imagined” will be broadcasted by C-SPAN “Lectures in History” program https://www.cspan.org/series/?lecturesInHistory at 8pm EST on January 21, 2017.