Research News Archive 2005-06

Graduate Student Professional and Research Activities

Conference Presentations

Anderson, Krista. “Mineria y metalugía en los Andes centrales y del sur: desde la época prehispánica hasta el siglo XVII.” Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia, June 26-27, 2006.

Baughman, Karl. “Irenaeus and the Gospel of Judas.”  Saint Thomas Lutheran Church, Eastpointe, MI, April 23, 2006.

Baughman, Karl E. “Strange Bedfellows?: Book VIII of Eusebius’ Church History and the Church Under Philip the Arab.” American Society of Church History, January 5-8, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Becker, Brian.  “New Evidence for the Genoese Cryptography in the Late Fifteenth Century: Antionio De Montaldo’s Cifrario of 1477 and the Defense of Chios against the Ottomans.” International Symposium on Islamic-Turkish civilization and Europe (11th-18th Centuries), Istanbul, Turkey, November 24-26 2006.

Becker, Brian.  “When the Boundary between Dreams and Reality Blurs: The Strange Case of Benedetto de Ologar.”  “Night in the Italian Renaissance” session of the Renaissance Society of America Conference, Miami, FL, March 22-24 2007.

Black, Jennifer. “Gendered Anomalies: White Nudes and Female Agency in Orientalist Harems.” 14th Annual Women’s History Network Annual Conference, September 2-4, 2005, Southampton Solent University.

Bollweg, John. “Arnau, Desclot, and il Vespro: Catalan Triumphalism and the court of Peter the Great.”  41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalmazoo, MI,  May 4-7, 2006

Bruce, Travis. “The 1058 treaty between Denia and Barcelona: Inter-religious dialogue between al-Andalus, Hispania and the Mediterranean.”  First collogquium on the Cultures of Christian and Islamic Iberia.  Exeter, UK, September 4-5, 2006.

Bruce, Travis. “Travel and migration in the Mediterranean Muslim world.”  Rencontres des doctorants en histoire arabo-musulmane médiévale.  Toulouse, France.  June 2006.

Bruce, Travis. “Intercultural Contact in the Eleventh Century Western Mediterranean.” Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Boundary Crossing and Cultural Exchange in Medieval and Early Modern Societies, November 15, 2005, University of Michigan.

Ciletti, Michael.  Panel on “The Civil Rights Era in Michigan.” GAAAH Conference in Memphis Tennessee, September 2006

Duke, Robert. “There Goes the Neighborhood.” Great Lakes Regional History Conference, October 29, 2005, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

DiTucci, David. “Clovis and Frankish Identity.”  Society for French Historical Studies.  Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2006.

Hampton, Valerie. “Carolingian Arms and Armor.”  41st Internatonal Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2006.

Johnson, James (Clay). “The Huffman Prairie Flying Field: A Rescued National Memory.” Michigan Museum Association Conference, October 7, 2005, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Zwart, David. “Staying Connected: The Christian Reformed Church and Its Armed Services Members During Worl War II.”  15th Biennial conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studeis.”  June 3-4, 2005.

Zwart, David. “Formed by Faith: The Dutch Immigrant Community in the Southern San Joaquin Valley: 1890-1930.”  Newberry Library’s Rural History Seminar.  October 1, 2005.

Zwart, David. “Receiving the Homeland: Dutch-Americans and Netherlands Information Bureau, 1940-1960.”  European Social Science History Association, panel entitled “Communications between Migrants and Sending Countries.”  March 22-25, 2005.