Month: May 2019

Fourth year PhD candidate Ramya Swayamprakash was invited to participate in a symposium, ON EDGE: Mediating Cultural Borders, at the University of Windsor on May 23 where she presented a paper—”Borderlands as Infrastructurescapes: Rethinking political borders.” Additionally on May 29-30, she will be participating in… Continue Reading Swayamprakash Presents Papers

Dr. Charles Keith will be giving two talks at Peking University in Beijing. The first, “Indochina in France: Metropolitan Migrations and the Making of Modern Vietnam” is on May 27th, and the second, “Catholicism in Vietnam from Imperialism to Independence” is on May 28th.

CBHA/ACHA Announces Winner of 2019 Best Book in Canadian Business History The Canadian Business History Association – l’association canadienne pour l’histoire des affaires (CBHA/ACHA) is pleased to announce Michael Stamm’s Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in 20th Century North America(Baltimore, MD:  Johns Hopkins University… Continue Reading Stamm Wins Book Award

Doctoral candidate Brian Van Wyck has been named a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Van Wyck will defend his dissertation, titled “Turkish Teachers and Imams in Postwar Germany: Race, Islam, and Belonging,” in July. A Fulbright scholar and recipient of… Continue Reading Van Wyck Postdoc at Harvard

Yulian Wu was invited to participate in workshop “Images, Objects, and Gender in China” at Harvard University in April, 2019. At the workshop, she presented a paper titled “Jade Thumb Rings: Object, Skill, and Manchu Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century China.”