Research News Archive 2007 - 2008
Faculty Research
Invited Presentations, Lectures, etc.
Berkhofer, Robert. “Forgeries and Historical Writing, 900-1200.” Oxford Medieval Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, England. January, 2008.
Borish, Linda J. “American Jewish Women Playing Sports: Historical Voices and Images,” Ahavas Israel Sisterhood Donor Dinner, Ahavas Israel Congregation, Grand Rapids, MI May 28, 2008.
Borish, Linda J. “Jewish Women’s Experiences in American Sport” and screening of Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics, Inaugural “International Conference on Sport and Spirituality,” York, St. John’s University, York, England, August, 28-31, 2007.
Borish, Linda J. “Sport, Physical Education, and Youth: Why the Connection between Sport and Character in American Historical Perspective,” Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, August 13, 2007.
Borish, Linda J. “`Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics’: Research and Sport History in Women’s and American Jewish History,” Penn State University, Department of Kinesiology Colloquium Series, February 21, 2008; also Presentation to Jewish Studies Department ,Hillel Center, Center for Ethics and Religious Affairs, and Center for Women’s Students, February 22, 2008, University Park, PA.
Borish, Linda J. Invited Speaker for Presentation and Discussion of the film, Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics, Rauh Jewish Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA, October 14, 2007.
Borish, Linda J. Invited Speaker, Chicago Premiere of Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics, The Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL, September 16, 2007.
Coryell, Janet. “Music in the Civil War.” Presented at “ Michigan’s Fight for Freedom: The Civil War Era.” Albert L. Lorenzo Cultural Center, Macomb Community College, May 2008.
Faires, Nora. “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered, Behind, or Betwixt?” What has the Cultural Turn Made of Us?” York University Department of History, February 2008.
Faires, Nora. “Freedom Lies Across the River: Meditations on a Monument, Migration, and Canada-U.S. Relations.” Michigan State University, May 2008; York University (Toronto), April 2008; York University (Toronto) Glendon Campus, March 2008.
Faires, Nora. “Population Movements and the Making of Canadian-U.S. Relations: The Windsor- Detroit Borderland.” Migrants and Labor Markets: Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean as a Migration Region. North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University in April 2008.
Faires, Nora. “Turkey Dinners and Malaria Nets: American Women's Clubs and the Construction of National Identities Abroad.” Fulbright Orientation Academic Conference, Ottawa, in September 2007.
Heasley, Lynne. Keynote Address at Smithsonian Institution’s “Museum on Main Street” traveling exhibition: “Between Fences,” La Farge, Wisconsin, January 12, 2008. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
Kachun, Mitch. “Clinton and Obama: Historians Comment on a Historic Election.” 14th Berkshire Conference for the History of Women, Minneapolis, June 12-15, 2008 (Roundtable discussant).
Kachun, Mitch. “Remembering and Forgetting in American History,” Grand Rapids (MI) Torch Club, Sept. 11, 2007.
Maier, Paul. “Christianity and the Competition.” Jerusalem Conference, Sherwood (Little Rock) AR, August 9-10, 2007; and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis MO, October 7-9.
Maier, Paul. “St. Paul – Theologian, Missionary, Universalizer.” Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 16-17, 2007.
Martini, Edwin. “Human Rights and Civil Rights in a Global History Context,” Michigan History and Geography Workshop, Lansing, MI. June 2008.
Martini, Edwin. “Agent Orange and the Legacies of the Vietnam War,”Portage Central High School, Portage, MI. May 2008.
Martini, Edwin. “U.S. Relations with Vietnam, 1975-2005,” West Michigan Chapter of the United Nations Association, Kalamazoo, MI. March, 2008.
Martini, Edwin. “Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000,” Portage Central High School History Club, Portage, MI. December 2007.
Rubin, Eli. "Berlin-Marzahn: Geschichte eines Aufbaus und die Grundrisse einer neuen Theorie der Erinnerung." The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, April 28-29, 2008.
Szylvian, Kristin. “Preserving your Community’s Fruit-Growing Industry History” White Lake Public Library, October 22, 2007.
Xiong, Victor. “From Chinese Historians to Chinese Historical Review: The Transformation of an Academic Journal.” Cornell University, History Dept. Workshop on Chinese Historical Review. February 9, 2008.
Xiong, Victor. “North-South Rivalry and Reunification in Early Medieval China.” The First Great Divergence: Europe and China, 300-800 CE, Stanford University. April 9, 2008.
Xiong, Victor. "The Rise and Fall of Sui Yangdi.” Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University. April 19, 2007.
Yoshida, Takashi. “Educating the Pacific War: Peace and Patriotic Museums in Japan.” Augustana College. Rock Island, IL, January 10, 2008.
Yoshida, Takashi. “Evolving Memory: Changes in How China Remembers Nanjing.” Jōchi (Sophia) University. Tokyo, Japan, December 20, 2007.
Yoshida, Takashi. “Peace Activism and Museums in Postwar Japan.” Kalamazoo College. Kalamazoo, MI, April 9, 2008.
Yoshida, Takashi. “Teaching the History of the Pacific War in the United States: The Role of the Past and Conflict and Reconciliation.” The United States Institute of Peace. Washington, DC, July 30, 2007.