College of Social Science
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
November 9, 2011, 5:30-6:30pm, B-91 “Indian Lands and Imperial Authorities: The Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Ohio River Valley”Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University Europeans misunderstood Indian identity and misrepresented the ethnically diverse villages of the thousand mile-long Ohio River valley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.… Continue Reading Newberry Seminar in American Indian Studies, Nov. 9th, 2011
MSU historians presented papers at the 10th North Eastern Workshops on Southern Africa (NEWSA) conference in Burlington, Vermont. NEWSA meetings are intimate, interdisciplinary gatherings of scholars who work on Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Papers are pre-circulated,… Continue Reading MSU historians at the 10th North Eastern Workshop
David Robinson and the Writing of African History David Robinson is a pioneer in the writing of the history of Muslim communities in Africa. In the 1960s and 1970s, when African history was emerging as a new area of study, historians of Africa were mainly… Continue Reading Conference Honoring Dr. David Robinson
Professor Liam Brockey will be speaking at the International Conference on St. Francis Borgia in Valencia, Spain next week. His lecture is titled “Son of the Fathers: Juan de Borja, Francisco de Borja and the Lisbon Jesuits” and will be presented on April 8, 2010.… Continue Reading St. Francis Borgia