Research News Archive 2005-06

Berkhofer, Robert. Commentator in Panel on"Accountabilty in High and Late Medieval Governance.” International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2006, Kalamazoo MI.

Beyan, Amos J. "Transatlantic Slave Trade Case for the Malaguetta Coast."  Liberian Studies Association Conference, April 17, 2006, Charleston, South Carolina. April 17, 2006.
 
Beyan, Amos J. "The Transatlantic Slave Its Abolition and the Founding of the Liberian Colony." Liberian Studies Association Conference, April 1, 2005 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Borish, Linda. “Jewish + Female = Athlete: Exhibition and Historical Perspective,” American Jewish History Biennial Scholars Conference, June 6, 2006, Charleston, SC.

Borish, Linda. “Jewish Girls, Gender and Sport at the Chicago Hebrew Institute: Athletic Identity in Jewish and Cultural Spaces,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, December 18, 2005, Washington, DC.

Chiarappa, Michael. “New York City’s Oyster Barges: Architecture’s Threshold Role Along the Urban Waterfront.” Vernacular Architecture Forum, June 14-17, 2006, New York City, New York.

Chiarappa, Michael. “Returning to the Bay and River: Shad, Sturgeon, and the Delaware Estuary’s Fisheries Landscape.” American Society for Environmental History, March 29-April 1, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Coryell, Janet. Chair, “Southern Women and the Law in the Nineteenth Century,” and Participant, “Mentoring Workshop.” SAWH Seventh Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 2006, Baltimore, MD.

Dooley, Howard J. "1956 in World History: Global Perspectives of 50 Years", at 15th Annual World History Association Conference, June 24, 2006, California State University Long Beach.

Elder, E. Rozanne. “Redeeming the Whole ‘Man.’” 41st International Medieval Studies Congress, May 6, 2005, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.

Faires, Nora. “Gendered Imperialism: The American Woman’s Club of Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the Interwar Years.” Conference on “History, Gender, and Migration in the 19th- and 20th- Century Atlantic World,” March 2006, Paris, École Supérieure and Université Paris I, Paris.

Faires, Nora. “Jewish Refugees in Autotown: Two Waves of Immigrants to Flint, Michigan.” European Social Science History Association, March 2006, Amsterdam.

Faires, Nora. “Newcomers in the ‘Old World,’” contribution to a roundtable on Leo Lucassen’s The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe, 1850-2002. Social Science History Association, November 2005, Portland, OR.

Faires, Nora. “Gendered Imperialism and Class Privilege: The American Woman’s Club of Calgary, Alberta, Canada—and Beyond.” Invitational conference on “History, Gender, and Migration in the 19th and 20th Century Atlantic World.” École Supérieure and Université Paris I, March, 2006, Paris.

Faires, Nora. “Jewish Refugees in Autotown: Two Waves of Immigrants to Flint, Michigan.” European Social Science History Association, March, 2006, Amsterdam.

Faires, Nora. “Newcomers in the ‘Old World.’” Contribution to a roundtable on Leo Lucassen’s The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe, 1850-2002. Social Science History Association, November, 2005, Portland, OR.

Gray, Marion W. "Frederick the Great's Colonies: Human and Environmental Engineering Projects of the Eighteenth Century." Midwest German Historians' Workshop, 21-23 October, 2005, Minneapolis.

Gray, Marion W. "Taxes, Settlers, Fields and Trees: Environmental Change in the Village of Schlalach 1760-1800." German Studies Association Annual Conference, 29 September-2 October, 2005.

Heasley, Lynne with James Feldman. “Recentering the ‘American Environmental History’ Survey: A Great Lakes and Canadian Studies Approach From Two Campuses.” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting. March 29-April 2, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. September 2005, “Cut-in Gardens or Simply Conifers? Assessing Midwestern Landscape Choices in the Gilded Age.” Ninth Annual Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation, September, 2005, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island.

Martini, Edwin. “Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary and International Journey.” Annual National Meeting of the American Studies Association, October, 2005, Washington, D.C.

Ramos, Frances. “Diverse Affiliations in the City of Angels: Promoting Urban Identity in Eighteenth-Century Puebla, Mexico.” Florida Conference of Historians, 5 May 2006, Miami Beach, Wolfsonian-FIU.

Rubin, Eli. "Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Toward an Economic, Consumer, Design, and Cultural History." German Historical Institute, Washington DC, Nov. 18, 2005.  Presentation as part of acceptance of 2005 Fritz Stern Dissertation Award for best dissertation in German History.

Rubin, Eli. “Kolonien des Eigensinns.  Material Memory, Destruction and Replacement in East Germany:  A Reflection in Stages.” Midwest German Historians Workshop, 29 October, 2005, Minneapolis. 

Rubin, Eli. “'Wohnung der Zukunft' or 'Massenverwahrung'?  The rise of functionalist architecture, material rupture, and the domestic space in the new apartments of East Germany." German Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 1 2005, Milwaukee.

Simon, Larry. “Historicity in Ramon Llull’s Blanquerna.” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7, 2006, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI.

Simon, Larry. “Genoese-Mallorcan Relation in the Thirteenth Century” at “Genoa, Columbus & the Mediterranean,” Ninth Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Università di Genova, May 24-27, 2006, Genoa, Italy.

Simon, Larry. Co-organized with Donna M. Rogers (Dalhousie University) and John A. Bollweg (Western Michigan University), four sessions at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Studies in Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture in Honor of David J., May 4-7, 2006, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI.