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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

At the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America at Chicago in early April, Arthur Field chaired a session on "New Approaches to Education during the Renaissance," and chaired a session and delivered a comment on "Poggio and Other Humanists in Florence."

Klaus Mühlhahn’s edited volume The Limits of Empire, New Perspectives on Imperialism in Modern China, Muenster / London: LIT 2008, has just been published. He also gave an invited lecture at the Department of History, University of Chicago. He spoke on “The Dark Side of Globalization: Political Internment in Republican China”.

John Nieto-Phillips gave an invited lecture titled “The Majestic River: Latinas & Latinos and the American Mainstream” at Penn State University on April 25.   John’s book, The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s, has been recently reissued in paper by the University of New Mexico Press.

Scott O’Bryan is the recipient of the First Book Prize of the Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Studies at Columbia University for his forthcoming book, Glorifying Growth: National Purpose and the Idea of Abundance in Post-Imperial Japan.  This monograph will be published under the imprints of both Columbia University and the University of Hawai’i Press.  The prize includes a cash award.

The Open House at the American Historical Review is today, 3:00-5:00 pm, 914 E. Atwater.

This is the final edition of the History Newsletter for 2007-08.  You may continue to send Becky Bryant (bryant@indiana.edu) your news over the summer; publication will resume in August.  Have a great summer!