2009-2010 History Faculty Conference Presentations
Research News Archive 2009-2010
Faculty News
Conference Presentations
Berkhofer, Robert. "The Confession of a Forger." Haskins Society Conference, Boston, MA, November 2009.
Berkhofer, Robert. "Books, Readers, and Religions in the Middle Ages II." International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2010 (Panel Chair).
Berto, Luigi. "Narrating a Crisis: The Decline of the Lombards in the Chronicles of Saint Benedict of Cassino." Annual Meeting of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Salamanca, Spain, May 26-30, 2010.
Borish, Linda J. "'Comparative Obscurity': Identity, Practice, and Historical Patterns in
American Jewish Women's Sport." International Sport Sociology Association World Congress, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 16, 2009.
Borish, Linda J. "'C'Mon Girls--Gertrude Ederle did it! . . . Give the Men Some Wild Competition!': Jewish Young Women, Sport, and Democratic Pursuits at American Jewish Organizations." Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 7, 2010.
Borish, Linda J. "American Jewish Sportswomen: National and Ethnic Identities in the Maccabiah Games and in the 1930s." International Society of History of Physical Education and Sport Conference at the 2010 Wingate Congress of Exercise & Sport Sciences, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel, June 4, 2010.
Borish, Linda J. "Education, Ethics and Economy." International Society of History of Physical Education and Sport Conference at the 2010 Wingate Congress of Exercise & Sport Sciences, Wingate Institute Netanya, Israel, June 6, 2010 (Panel Chair and Moderator).
Brandão, J. A. "Ambivalent Foes: Iroquois Policy Toward New France in the Eighteenth Century." 21st Annual French and Indian War Seminar, Jumonville, PA, November 4-5, 2009.
Brandão, J. A. "No Grants, No Travel, No Excuses: Researching and Writing Early North American History in the Digital Age." Archivi e biblioteche: dalla memoria del passato al web, Cagliari, Italy, Nov. 25-26, 2009.
Brandão, J. A. "Fort St. Joseph to 1763: A History of the People, Place, and its Material Culture." The American Revolutionary War Symposium, The Northwest Territory Alliance, Hammond, IN, April 17, 2010.
Chiarappa, Michael J. "Usable Pasts of Harvested Waters: The Working Role of American Fisheries History." Gulf of Maine Symposium: Advancing Ecosystem Research for the Future of the Gulf, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, October 4-9, 2009.
Chiarappa, Michael J. American Society for Environmental History, Portland, OR, March 10-14, 2010 (Panel Commentator).
Chiarappa, Michael J. "Cultivating Bivalves: Challenges and Refinements to Oyster Growing in the Delaware Bay, 1880-1940." North American Society for Oceanic History, University of Connecticut, Avery Point and Mystic, CT, May 13-15, 2010 (Presenter and Panel Commentator).
Coryell, Janet. "Contesting Domesticity: Varieties of Women's Political Voice in the Early Republic." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, July 2010 (Panel Commentator and Chair).
Dooley, Howard. "Mission Impossible? The American Protestant Effort to Evangelize Arabia, 1889-1973." Hawaii Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 16, 2010.
Dooley, Howard. "Singapore: Paragon and Paradox on the Pacific Rim." World History Association Conference, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, June 25, 2010.
Elder, E. Rozanne. "Early Christians: Martyrs, Preachers, and Monks." The 44th Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, October 14-17, 2009 (Chair and Commentator).
Elder, E. Rozanne. "'Devoid of this Discipline'?: William, Bernard, and Dialectics." International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan University, May 13-16, 2010.
Elder, E. Rozanne. Cistercian Studies Conference, International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 13-16, 2010 (Organizer and Session Chair).
Faires, Nora. "Memorializing Freedom: The Underground Railroad Monument and the Canada-U.S. Border." Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, San Diego, CA, November 2009.
Faires, Nora. "Political Culture and Discursive Place of a Twenty-First Century Monument to the Underground Railroad." Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, November 2009.
Hadden, Sally. "Probate Data on Lawyers' Professional Libraries in Eighteenth-century Boston and Charleston." Nineteenth Biennial British Legal History Conference, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, July 2009.
Havira, Barbara. "Women's Reform Movements in the 19th Century." Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, March 27, 2010.
Heasley, Lynne. American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL, February 25-March 1, 2010.
Heasley, Lynne. "Paradigms and Paradoxes of Abundance: The St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes Basin." First World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 4-8, 2009.
Julien, Catherine. "Como Contar la Historia de la Conquista [How to Tell the History of the Conquest]." Aproximación Interdisciplinaria a los Conflictos en Torno a los Discursos Andinos, National Ethographic Museum and the University of Osaka, December 8-10, 2009.
Julien, Catherine. "Garcilaso no Menciona a Titu Cusi." Coloquio Internacional, Discurso e Historia en los Comentarios Reales del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega en el Cuarto Centenario de su Publicación, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, November 17-20, 2009.
Julien, Catherine. "The Chinchaysuyu Road as Imperial Landscape." 50th Anniversary meeting, Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, CA, January 7-9, 2010 (Session Organizer).
Julien, Catherine. Inaugural conference of the academic year 2010, Andean Studies Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú, April 22, 2010 [with simultaneous broadcast on the university website].
Julien, Catherine. "La Huaca en la Puerta del Galpón [The Shrine in the Threshold of the Public Hall]." Los Inkas y la Interacción de Sociedades, Paisajes y Territorios en los Andes: Homenaje a Craig Morris, Centro Cultural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, June 14-16, 2010.
Kachun, Mitch. "African American Historical Writing in the 19th and 20th Centuries." Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 3, 2009 (Panel Commentator).
Kachun, Mitch. Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, March 27, 2010 (Awards Committee Member).
Martini, Edwin. "Agent Orange: The History and Legacies of the Chemical War in Vietnam." Renaissance Journalism Center, San Francisco State University, San Jose, CA, April 2010.
Martini, Edwin. "Forest Fire as a Military Weapon." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 2009.
Martini, Edwin. "Contested Knowledge: Science, the Body, and the State in Agent Orange Exposure Cases." World Environmental Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2009.
Palmitessa, James. Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, March 27, 2010 (Panel Chair).
Pyenson, L. "Image et Nature aux colonies européennes." Laboratoire de Philosophie et d'Histoire des Sciences, Université Paris-Diderot/CNRS, Paris, France, December 2009.
Rubin, Eli. "Concrete Colony: Berlin-Marzahn, the Wende of 1989/90, and the longue dureé of the Mark." American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Diego, January 2010.
Rubin, Eli. "Viewing the Battle of Berlin and its Aftermath as a Material Rupture." German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 2009.
Simon, Larry. "Dialogue and Disputation in the Medieval Western Mediterranean." Deconstructing Dialogue: New Perspectives on Religious Encounters: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, IL, January 21-23, 2010.
Sorrels, Katherine. "Oscar Jaszi, the Danubian Federation, and the Cold War." Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, August 2-6, 2009.
Steuer, Kenneth. Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, March 27, 2010 (Conference Organizer).
Szylvian, Kristin M. "The Word on the Waterfront is…New Media and the Preservation of Working Waterfronts." Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Oakland, CA, October 2009.
Warren, Wilson J. with D. Antonio Cantu. "Historical Thinking in a Digital World." Illinois Council for the Social Studies Conference, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, March 19, 2010 (Keynote Address).
Warren, Wilson J. "Civil Rights in Japan: A Closer Look at the Buraku." National Council for the Social Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 13, 2009.
Warren, Wilson J. "Creating a History Teaching and Learning Community: Experiences of a Secondary School-University Alliance in Southwestern Michigan." Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 9, 2010.
Warren, Wilson J. Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, March 27, 2010 (Session Chair).