Research News Archive 2007-2008
Faculty News
Conference Presentations
Berkhofer, Robert. “Charters in Rhetoric and Social Practice in Eleventh- and Twelfth
Century France” Haskins Society Conference, Washington, D.C. (panel chair).
Berkhofer, Robert. “Forgeries and Historical Consciousness in Medieval Monasteries in France.” International Medieval Society, Paris, France. June, 2007.
Berto, Luigi. “Longobardi inetti, Saraceni sanguinari e Saraceni misericordiosi. L’immagine dei cristiani e dei musulmani a Montecassino nel Medioevo.” Convention of the American Association of Italian Studies, Giardini Naxos, Italy, May 22 - 24, 2008.
Beyan, Amos. “Contacts and Social Transformations: The Case for the Windward Coast’s New Social Arrangements and Making of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 27, 2007.
Beyan, Amos. “Legal and Environment Influences on the Conduct of the Slave Trade.” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 27, 2007.
Borish, Linda J. “Jewish Women in American Sport Documentary Film, Ethnicity, Gender Sporting Culture and Public Culture,” Middle Atlantic American Studies Association-Great Lakes American Studies Association: American Play Conference, Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY, April 5, 2008.
Borish, Linda J. “Doing Sport History, Documentary Film, and Public Scholarship: Executive Producing, Funding, Researching, and Writing in “Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics,’” North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference, Lake Placid, NY, May 24, 2008.
Brandão, José Antonio. “Contested History and Historiography: 17th-Century Iroquois Wars.” New York State Archaeological Association, Syracuse, NY, April 19, 2008.
Brandão, José Antonio. “Material Expressions of French Identity at Fort St. Joseph.” French Colonial Historical Society Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, May 14-18, 2008.
Brandão, José Antonio. “The Fort St. Joseph (Niles, MI) Cilice and its Implications for Understanding Religious Practice on the French Colonial Frontier.” Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico January 9-13, 2008.
Chirappa, Michael. “Building with Nature: Landscape and Home in Environmental History” American Society for Environmental History, Boise, Idaho, March 12-15, 2008.
Chirappa, Michael. “Making Fish at a Beautiful Place: Landscape Planning and Conservation Ideals at a Michigan Fish Hatchery.” American Society for Environmental History, Boise, Idaho, March 12-15, 2008.
Chirappa, Michael. “Reckoning with the City’s Multiple Environmental Histories—The Case of Philadelphia.” American Society for Environmental History, Boise, Idaho, March 12-15, 2008.
Chirappa, Michael. “Saving Fishtown: Memory, Shared Authority, and the Vernacular Landscape.” Sharing Authority: Building Community-University Alliances through Oral History, Digital Storytelling and Collaboration. A Bilingual International Conference Workshop, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, February 7-10, 2008.
Devenney, Andrew. “One Britain, One Europe, One World: Arthur Woodburn and the Last Throes of Socialist Internationalism in Scotland, 1960-1970.” Midwest Conference on British Studies, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, September 2007.
Dooley, Howard. “’The Battle of Algiers’: History, Film, and Lessons.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 14, 2008.
Dooley, Howard. “Suez and Panama: Highways Between the Seas, Microcosms of World History.” 17th Annual World History Association Conference, Queen Mary, University of London, U.K., June 29, 2008.
Elder, E. Rozanne. “Zisterzienser Formungsprozess im zwölften Jahrhundert.“ Plurality and Representation: Religion in Educatin, Culture and Society. Joint Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions and the Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft, September 23-27, 2007.
Faires, Nora. “Blacks on the Border: Migration, Freedom, and Detroit as Portal and Destination.” European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, February 2008.
Faires, Nora. “Freedom Lies Across the River: The International Underground Railroad Memorial, the Great Lakes Borderland, and U.S.-Canada Relations.” Organization of American Historians, New York, March 2008.
Heasley, Lynne. “Teaching Environmental History in the Field: NEH Workshops for K-12 Teachers on the American Farm.” American Society for Environmental History, Boise, Idaho, March 12-15, 2008.
Julien, Catherine. “Collaborative Research on Cabeza de Vaca’s Travel in South America, 1540-45.” Modern Languages Association, Chicago, December 27-30, 2007.
Julien, Catherine. “Making Sense of Larger Processes of Change with Regard to the Potosí “Hotspot.” Crossroads Of Globalization: “Hot Spots” in the Early Modern World. Conference held at Ohio State University, October 12, 2007.
Julien, Catherine. “Se acaudillan por bandos”: los límites en la práctica de historia y antropología y su significado.” La etnohistoria: fronteras trandisciplinarias en a producción del conocimiento, Sucre, April 23-26, 2008.
Julien, Catherine. “What to Read and What Not to Read on the Subject of Inca Religion.” Native American Studies Across Time and Space: International Symposium on the Indigenous Americas. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, July 12-14, 2007.
Kachun, Mitch. Paper, "First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks and African American Patriotism in the Black Press, 1848-1920.” American Studies Association, Philadelphia, Oct. 11-14, 2007.
Kachun, Mitch. “Reparations Manifestoes in Two Eras: From Reconstruction to Black Power.” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 27, 2007 (Chair and commentator).
Kachun, Mitch. “Women and Print Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States.” 14th Berkshire Conference for the History of Women, Minneapolis, June 12-15, 2008 (Roundtable Discussant).
Martini, Edwin. “Heroes and Villains Abound: The Life and Work of H. Bruce Franklin.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association Philadelphia, PA, October 2007 (Session organizer).
Palmitessa, James. “Sixt of Ottersdorf’s Diarium of the Diet of 1575.” 8th Biennial Symposium on the Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, Collegium Europaeum and the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, June 17-20, 2008.
Rubin, Eli. "The Flow of Traffic on Three Streets: Landsberger Allee, Karl-Marx-Strasse, and the Allee des Kosmonauten." The Socialist Car, Free University Berlin and the German Historical Institute of Moscow, June 13-14, 2008.
Simon, Larry. “The Enigma of Ricoldo da Montecroce: Authority, Authorship, and Audience in Religious Polemic.” 11th Annual Mediterranean Studies Congress, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany, May 28-31, 2008.
Steuer, Kenneth. "The Diplomacy of Hunger: The Allied Blockade and Prisoner of War Food Relief in Germany during World War I.” Society of Historians in American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 26 , 2008.
Warren, Wilson. “State of the Field: History Teaching and Learning.”Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New York City, NY, 29 March 2008.
Yoshida, Takashi. “For Whom Should We Remember, Minzu, Minjok, or Minzoku? Museum
Displays of Japan’s Imperial Past in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.” Japan Studies Association of Canada. Toronto, August 18, 2007.
Yoshida, Takashi. Workshop on the Nanjing Massacre at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. February 13, 2008 (Panelist and Discussion Group Member).
Yoshida, Takashi. Workshop on the Nanjing Massacre at the Hopkins- Nanjing Center, Nanjing, China, December 12, 2007 (Panelist and Discussion Group Member).