Faculty Research

Conference Presentations

Berkhofer III, Robert F. “The Canterbury Forgeries Revisited.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2005, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Beyan, Amos. “The Transatlantic Slave Trade – Its Abolition and Founding of the Liberian Colony.” Liberian Studies Association Conference, April 1, 2005, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Beyan, Amos. “John Brown Russwurm and the American Civilizing Efforts in Liberia and Maryland in West Africa, 1799-1851.” 20th Annual Symposium on African American Culture and Philosophy in Conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of African American Studies, September 12, 2004, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC.

Beyan, Amos. “The Historiography of the American Colonization and Its Legacy to 2004.” Liberian Studies Association Conference, April 12, 2004, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC.

Borish, Linda J. “Commemorating American Jewish Women in Sporting Communities in Documentary Film and Historical Writing.” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, December 2004, Chicago, IL.

Borish, Linda J. “Jewish Women, Athletics, and Social Change in Southern Jewish History and American Culture.” Southern Jewish Historical Society Annual Conference, October 2004, Charleston, SC.

Borish, Linda J., and Stacey L. Moore. “American Women Swimmers, Activism and Social Change in Olympic Competition: A Document Project.” North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference, May 2004, Green Bay, WI.

Brandão, J. A. “A Capsule Social and Material History of Fort St. Joseph (1691-1763) and Its Inhabitants.” French Colonial Historical Society Conference, June 3-5, 2005, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Brandão, J. A. “The Ojibwa-Iroquois War Remembered.” Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, October 27-31, 2004, Chicago, IL.

Elder, E. Rozanne. Organized 14 sessions and chaired 2, Cistercian Studies Conference 2005, International Medieval Studies Congress, May 5-8, 2005, Kalamazoo, MI.

Faires, Nora. “Telling Jewish Stories in a General Motors Town; Portraying Community Life in Flint through Photographs and Text.” Organization of American Historians, April 2005, Washington, D.C.

Faires, Nora. Commentator, “Marginal Differences?” Canadian Historical Association, May 2005, London, Ontario, Canada.

Gray, Marion W. "Place in German History." Midwest German Historians' Workshop, 23 October, 2004, Minneapolis.

Heasley, Lynne, with Keith Rice, Raymond Guries, and Hawthorne Beyer. “Claims on Paradise: Land Ownership and Landscape Dynamics in the Kickapoo Valley, Wisconsin, 1930-1995.” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, March 16-20, 2005, Houston, TX.

Heasley, Lynne, with Keith Rice, Raymond Guries, and Hawthorne Beyer. “Solving the Landscape Puzzle of the Kickapoo Valley: Investigating Land Tenure History with GIS.” North American Cartographic Information Society, Annual Meeting, October 6-9, 2004, Portland, Maine.

Julien, Catherine. “Inca Remembrance of War.” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, October 27-31, 2004, Chicago.

Kachun, Mitch. "'Those awful scenes of blood': the Role of Violence in Antebellum African American Commemorations." Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 1, 2005, San Jose, California.

Kachun, Mitch. "The Politics of Celebration: African American Freedom Festivals, 1808-2004." Center for Research in Festive Culture, April 8, 2005, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.

Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. “The Most Attractive Portion of the Work: Interpreting Lithographic Illustration in Nineteenth-Century Combination Atlas Maps.” Agricultural History Society Symposium entitled, “Art and Agriculture: Material Expressions of Rural People and Their Lifeways,” The Benson Ford Research Center, Dearborn, MI.

Martini, Edwin. Session Organizer, “Roundtable: The Intersections of Cultural Studies and Diplomatic History.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, November 2004, Atlanta, Georgia; Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, June 2004, Austin, TX.

Norman, John O. “The Affinities of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra for Pre-Petrine Russian Religious Culture.” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 5 May, 2005.

Rubin, Eli. “The Form of Socialism without Ornament: Consumption, Ideology, and the Fall and Rise of Modernist Design in the German Democratic Republic.” 2004 Design History Society Conference, “Politics of Design,” University of Ulster, September 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Sabra, Adam. “Why Give Alms? The Spiritual Economy of Almsgiving in Medieval Islamic Thought.” Symposium on Religious Perceptions of Poverty and Welfare Policy, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, May 7-9, 2005, Cincinnati, OH.

Sabra, Adam. “Islamic Foundations and the Economy of Late Medieval Egypt.” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 5-8, 2005, Kalamazoo, MI.

Schmitt, Peter. Conference Chair and Commentator, “Rivers Through Time: Rethinking Rivers in the Midwest.” 29th Annual Great Lakes History Conference, October 29, 2004.

Simon, Larry. “Converting the Converter: Mallorcan Catechumens and Ramon Lull’s Dream of Conversion.” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, College of Charleston, March 10-13, 2005, Charleston, SC.

Simon, Larry. Session Co-Organizer, “Arthur in the Alhambra? Mediterranean Courtly Culture and the Alhambra’s ‘Enigmatic’ Ceilings.” Two sessions, 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 5-8, 2005, WMU.

Simon, Larry. Commentator, “Dealing with Difference in Medieval and Reformation Polities.” Midwest American Academy of Religion, DePaul University, April 8-9, 2005, Chicago.

Xiong, Victor. “The Personality of Sui Yangdi.” Second International Conference on Chinese History from Multiple Perspectives, Tsinhua University, August 22, 2004, Beijing.