2008-2009 History Faculty Invited Presentations and Lectures

Research News Archive 2008 - 2009

Faculty Research

Invited Presentations and Lectures

Berkhofer, Robert. "Forgery, Faith, Fact and Fiction." Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 2009.

Borish, Linda J. "Sports in the Service of Jewish Life." Union for Reform Judaism, Northeast Lakes Council/ Detroit Federation Regional Biennial in Grand Rapids, MI, November 14, 2008.

Chiarappa, Michael J. "Framing an Oral History Project." National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oral History Workshop and Training, May 5-7, 2009.

Coryell, Janet. "Lincoln and the Ladies." Butler County Community College and El Dorado Rotary, El Dorado, KS, April 2009.

Haight, Bruce with J. Kelli Sweet. "Five Easy Pieces: The Five Regions of Africa, A Lesson Plan for 5th Grade." Michigan Council for Social Studies, Grand Rapids, MI, February 2009.

Haight, Bruce with Maria Perez-Stable. "How Everyone Can Use the Michigan Electronic Library (MeL) to Teach Better." Michigan Council for Social Studies, Grand Rapids, MI, February 2009.

Haight, Bruce with Kimberly Adams and Cynthia Bloom. "Out of Africa: Bringing Rice to the Carolinas--A Lesson Plan for 8th Grade." Michigan Council for Social Studies, Grand Rapids, MI, February, 2009.

Haight, Bruce with Kimberly Adams and Cynthia Bloom. "Rice and South Carolina: A Balanced Approach." Michigan Council for Social Studies, Grand Rapids, MI, February, 2009.

Heasley, Lynne. "Transnational Research Across the U.S.-Canada Border: An Example From the Great Lakes." University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, January 2009.

Heasley, Lynne. "Heterogeneity and Development: Methods and Perspectives from Sciences and Science Studies." New England Workshop on Science and Social Change, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, April 18-21, 2009.

Kachun, Mitch. "All for Democracy: America's Transformation at the End of a Century." Teaching American History Grant Workshop, Flint Community Schools, Flint, MI, March 19, 2009.

Maier, Paul. "The Concordia Advantage." Winter commencement address at Concordia University, River Forest, IL, December 13, 2008.

Martini, Edwin. "Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000." Association for Humanist Sociologists, Boston, MA, November 2008.

Martini, Edwin. "Hearts, Minds and Herbicides: Rethinking the Chemical War in Vietnam." Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2008.

Martini, Edwin. "Asymetrical Warfare in the Vietnam War and the War on Terror." Portage Central High School, Portage, MI, May 2009.

Palmitessa, James. "The Painter and the Princess: Èlisabeth Louise Viglée Le Brun and Marie Antoinette." Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, January 22, 2009.

Rubin, Eli. "The Destruction of Germans' Things from 1937 to the Summer of 1945: an Initial Sketch of a Project." Germans' Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West, 1949-2000, University of California Los Angeles (in conjunction with the Wende Museum and the German Historical Institute), Los Angeles, CA, October 2009.

Rubin, Eli. "Berlin-Marzahn: Geschichte eines Aufbaus und Gedanken zu einer Theorie von Materialität und Gedächtnis." Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, June 2009.

Rubin, Eli. "Plattenbau and Postdualism: Thoughts on the History of the GDR, the Cold War, and Modernity After the Subject." Writing East German History: What Difference does the Cultural Turn Make? Ann Arbor, MI, December 5-7, 2008.

Steuer, Kenneth. "The United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize: From Pre-World War I Peace Organizations to the UN." United Nations Association, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI, March 15, 2009.

Steuer, Kenneth. "Norwegians and the Nobel Peace Prize." Sons of Norway Lodge, Portage, MI, October 11, 2009.

Warren, Wilson J. "Japan's Meat History and Culture: Tentative Findings and Areas of Inquiry." Graduate School of American Studies Workshop, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, June 16, 2009.

Xiong, Victor. "Liu Zhiji and Medieval Chinese Historiography." Oxford University, Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford, UK, February 24, 2009.

Xiong, Victor. "Housing in Tang Chang'an." Sun Yat-Sen University Department of History Symposium: Society and Religion in Sui-Tang and Five Dynasties China, Guangzhou, China, November 7, 2008.