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Lecture by Daniel Macfarlane on Friday, “Negotiating High Modernism: The Niagara and St. Lawrence Transborder Projects”

Posted onMarch 12, 2013October 23, 2018AuthoradminLeave a comment

Friday, March 15th 3:30 pm 255 Old Horticulture This Friday, Daniel Macfarlane will be giving a talk titled “Negotiating High Modernism: The Niagara and St. Lawrence Transborder Projects”. Daniel is a Fulbright Scholar in Canadian Studies at MSU. This presentation will explore various transnational aspects of… Continue Reading Lecture by Daniel Macfarlane on Friday, “Negotiating High Modernism: The Niagara and St. Lawrence Transborder Projects”

Research Presentation Thursday: “Black, White, Brown, and In Between: Early Honduran and West Indian Immigration to New Orleans and the Racialization of a People, 1924 to 1941.”

Posted onMarch 11, 2013October 23, 2018AuthoradminLeave a comment

Thursday, March 14th at 3:30p.m. History Conference Room Room 255 Old Horticulture On Thursday, March 14th, Glenn A. Chambers from Texas A&M will be presenting his research titled “Black, White, Brown, and In Between: Early Honduran and West Indian Immigration to New Orleans and the… Continue Reading Research Presentation Thursday: “Black, White, Brown, and In Between: Early Honduran and West Indian Immigration to New Orleans and the Racialization of a People, 1924 to 1941.”

Passing of Professor Emeritus Walter E. Gourlay

Posted onMarch 8, 2013October 23, 2018AuthormedlerLeave a comment

Professor Emeritus Walter E. Gourlay died this week at his home in Monterey, California. Walter served in the History Department at MSU from 1967 to 1987. He was a specialist in East Asian History. For more on his life, visit our memorial page.

Dr. Ethan Segal organizes community forum to remember the 2011 Japan disasters

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Professor Segal, a scholar of Japanese history, will be presenting on efforts at recovery ollowing the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant meltdown that claimed 20,000 lives and devastated northeastern Japan in March of 2011. He will be joined on the panel by Professor Kazuya… Continue Reading Dr. Ethan Segal organizes community forum to remember the 2011 Japan disasters

Leslie Page Moch has just published “Lessons and cautionary tales from the Past: Building bridges from migration history to Europeanness,” in National Identities 15:1 (2013) 9-19

Posted onMarch 6, 2013AuthormedlerLeave a comment

This article traces the history of international migration in Europe since the seventeenth century articulating the connections between historical migrations in Europe and the Europeanness in practice, if not in self-identity, of its mobile inhabitants. The volume of migration has fluctuated dramatically since the seventeenth… Continue Reading Leslie Page Moch has just published “Lessons and cautionary tales from the Past: Building bridges from migration history to Europeanness,” in National Identities 15:1 (2013) 9-19