2009-2010 History Faculty Invited Presentations and Lectures
Research News Archive 2009 - 2010
Faculty Research
Invited Presentations and Lectures
Berkhofer, Robert. "Reckoning and Writing: Counting, Accounting, and Accountability." Learned Tools in Medieval Administration, Historisches Seminar, University of Zürich, Switzerland, February 2010.
Beyan, Amos J. Briefing on Liberia, Michigan Army National Guard, Lansing, Michigan, April 1, 2010.
Beyan, Amos J. Seminar, Department of the Army, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, Springfield, Virginia, July 21, 2010.
Borish, Linda J. "Perceptions of Jewish Women in American Sport: Women's Voices and Changes in Chicago History and American History." Jewish Studies Program, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, April 1, 2010. Included guest lecture in Jewish Studies class and presentation of documentary film "Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics."
Borish, Linda J. "Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics: A Documentary Film." 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.
Coryell, Janet. "Lincoln and the Ladies: The Question of Woman Suffrage." College and University Library Section, Kansas Library Association Annual Meeting, Wichita, KS, April 2010.
Coryell, Janet. "Lincoln the Suffragist?" Spring Lake Public Library, Spring Lake, MI, September 2009.
Elder, E. Rozanne. "Bernard of Clairvaux: Contemplative and Chimaera." University of Chicago, January 14, 2010.
Hadden, Sally. "Comparative History Meets Legal History." Comparative History Workshop, McMaster University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 2010.
Hadden, Sally. "What's done, what's undone: An assessment of legal history written about the period 1700-1775." Manchester American Studies Seminar, Manchester, UK, February 2010.
Hadden, Sally. "Comparative history meets legal history: problems of method, evidence, and analysis in colonial America." Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, London, UK, April 2010.
Hadden, Sally. "Lawyers' Libraries in Charleston and Boston." Michigan Legal History Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2009.
Haight, Bruce. "Lamidi Fakeye: His Life and His Art." Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, October 8, 2009.
Haight, Bruce. "Lamidi Fakeye: Man of Paradox." Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, November 9, 2009.
Haight, Bruce. "If I Knew Then What I Know Now." Professional Development Institute, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, February 26, 2010.
Haight, Bruce with J. Kelli Sweet. "Forced Labor in World History." Kalamazoo Public Schools, Kalamazoo, MI, August 27, 2009.
Havira, Barbara. "The Ethics of Woman Suffrage." Unitarian Universalist Community Church, Kalamazoo, MI, March 28, 2010.
Heasley, Lynne. "Making it Home in the Kickapoo Valley: Wisconsin Cultural Tour for K-12 Teachers." Wisconsin Arts Board, August 2, 2010 (Keynote Address).
Julien, Catherine. "Complexity in Lowland South America: The Province of Xarayes in the 16th Century." Anthropology Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA, April 9, 2010.
Kachun, Mitch. "Julia C. Collins and African American History in Williamsport." Williamsport Juneteenth Celebration, Williamsport, PA, June 19, 2010.
Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. "Even Artists Have to Eat: Employment Programs and the New Deal." League of Women Voters of the Kalamazoo Area Annual Meeting, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2010 (Keynote Address).
Maier, Paul. "Jesus and Current Scholarship." Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI, September 15-16, 2009.
Maier, Paul. "Comparing Sacred and Secular Sources." Michigan Association of Non-Public Schools, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, October 30, 2009.
Maier, Paul. "History - The All-pervading Panorama of the Past." Concordias International School, Shanghai, China, March 6, 2010.
Martini, Edwin. "Intersections of Diplomatic, Cultural, and Social History." Kalamazoo County Social Studies Committee, Kalamazoo, MI, September, 2009 (Keynote Address).
Martini, Edwin. "Afghanistan: Another Vietnam?" Portage Central High School,
Portage, MI, February 2010.
Norman, John. "Vasillii Vereshchagin: A Russian Artist Encounters American, 1888-1902." America Engages Russia symposium, New York Public Library, New York, NY, July 2, 2009.
Palmitessa, James. "The Breaking Down of 'Walls between Praguers': The Elusive Search for Neighborhood in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period." Workshop on Neighborhood and the Sense of Community, Technical University Dresden, Germany, June 25-26, 2010.
Palmitessa, James. "Ze jsou ti mezi jinymi nejpravejsi: Confessional Rapprochement at the Diet of 1575 as portrayed in the Diarium of the Bohemia Brethren." 9th 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 23-25, 2010.
Pyenson, L. "Science and Medievalism." Studies in Medievalism seminar, Department of English, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, July 16, 2009.
Pyenson, L. "Two Incarnations of Athena: Scientists in the Service of Lebensraum in the Nineteenth Century in the United States, Argentina, and Russia." Empires of Science in the Long Nineteenth Century, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, April 9-10, 2010.
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.
Xiong, Victor. "Sui Literary Figures and Their Works." Center for East Asian Studies Guest Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, April 7, 2010.
Xiong, Victor. "Education, Teaching, and Research." History Department undergraduates, Xianmen (Amoy) University, China, November 23, 2009.
Xiong, Victor. "Researching the Shitong." History Department Graduate Seminar, Xianmen (Amoy) University, China, November 22, 2009.
Xiong, Victor. "Tang Chang'an and the Western Regions." Silk Road Seminar, New York University, New York, NY, October 20, 2009.
Yoshida, Takashi. "Peace, Patriotism, and Reconciliation: A Comparative Analysis of Postwar Japanese Peace Museums and Activism." Lecture presented at University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, February 12, 2010.
Yoshida, Takashi. "Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture of the Japanese Americans." Lecture presented at the First United Methodist Church, Kalamazoo, MI, March 14, 2010.
Yoshida, Takashi. "Remembering Japanese American Experience during WWII." Lecture presented at the First United Methodist Church, Kalamazoo, MI, March 7, 2010.
Yoshida, Takashi. "How Nisei Served in WWII: Internment of Japanese Americans." Kalamazoo Public Library, Kalamazoo, MI, March 25, 2010 (Moderator).