Faculty Invited Presentations and Lectures

The Department of History faculty at Western Michigan University regularly give invited presentations and lectures. For additional information about our faculty, visit faculty directory pages and scholarworks.wmich.edu.

2015-16 Faculty invited presentations and lectures

Benac, David, “Log Rolling, Axe Throwing, and the Owl: The Heritage Legacy of the Timber Industry in Oregon,” Oregon State University Libraries and Press

Berkhofer, Robert. Faith and Forgery in the Liber Traditionum of Saint Peter’s, Ghent,” Program in Medieval Studies, Northern Illinois University, March 2016.

Berkhofer, Robert. “Reality Fictions and Forged Pasts: Monastic Historical Writings and Forgeries in the 11th and 12th Centuries,” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities , October 2015.

Berkhofer, Robert. “The Cotswolds and Oxford” and “London: A Stay in England’s Capital.” Smithsonian Journeys.

Borish, Linda. “`Religion Among the Young has Never Been as Popular as the Gymnasium or the Swimming Pool’: Jewish Young Women in American Sport in Gender and Ethnic Contexts,” at “Arenas of Competition. Challenging Perspectives on Sports and Religions” Conference, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, October 14–16, 2015.

Borish, Linda.  “American Jewish Sportswomen: The 1935 Maccabi Games and the 1936 Berlin Olympics,” The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936 Lecture Series, presented by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, in conjunction with the H.J. Luther Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports and the Texas Program in Sport and Media, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, January 24, 2016.

Borish, Linda. “Making Jewish Women Visible in American Sport History” for “Michigan Women who Made a Difference Jewish Voices Conference,” Michigan Jewish Historical Society, Grand Rapids, MI, June 27, 2016.

Brandão, José. “Pathways of Change: Natives, Newcomers and the Waterways of Northeastern North America.” Lee Honors College Lyceum Lecture Series, Western Michigan University, January 13, 2016.

Coryell, Janet. “A Team of Their Own: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League,” film showing and talk at the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Players’ Association Annual Reunion, South Bend, IN, August 2015; at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, October 2015; at the Heritage Museum and Cultural Center, St. Joseph, MI, May  2016.

Hadden, Sally. "The Last British Justice in Colonial America: Charleston's Board of Police, 1780-1782," Ohio State University Early American History Workshop, Columbus, 2016.

Hadden, Sally. “Loyalist Lawyers in Exile,” British Library, Eccles Centre for American Studies, London, 2015.

Heasley, Lynn. “Image as Data, Image As Art: Exploring Photography as a Field Method,” Stewardship Network annual conference, Lansing, Michigan, January 15-16, 2016.

Kachun, Mitch. Presentation, “First Martyr of Liberty? Crispus Attucks in American Memory,” Perspectives Interdisciplinary Study Group, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India, March 4, 2016.

Kachun, Mitch. “Violence and Memory in World History: The Case of American Slavery,” International Seminar on Politics, History and Fiction in South Asia with Special Focus on Pakistan and North East India, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, Feb. 26, 2016.

Kachun, Mitch.  “America’s and India’s British Colonial Experiences: A Comparison,” B. Borooah College Honorary Lecture, B. Borooah College, Guwahati, Assam, India, Feb. 19, 2016.

Kachun, Mitch.  “The Historical Context of E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime,” American Literature seminar, B. Borooah College, Guwahati, Assam, India January 25, 2016.

Kachun, Mitch.  “Literary Texts as Historical Sources: American Slave Narratives,” Graduate Literature Special Seminar, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, Jan. 23, 2016.

Palmitessa, James. “Reproducing the State: Associational Life, Agency, and State Socialism in a Plattenbausiedlung”at “New Research on the GDR,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of German Studies, April, 2016.

Palmitessa, James.  “Amnesiopolis: Space, Time and the City” at “Chronopolis: Time & Urban Space,” University of Michigan Department of German Studies, October, 2015.

Xiong, Victor. “Pre-Qin Luoyang and Urban History,” Union University, Beijing, China. June 3, 2016.

Yoshida, Takashi. “Remembering Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre in American, Chinese, and Japanese History and Memory,” Eastern Michigan University, January 14, 2016.

Yoshida, Takashi.  “Reappraising the ‘Rape of Nanking’: The History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan, China, and the United States,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 22-24, 2015.

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