Newsletter
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Department of History Newsletter is published weekly during the academic year. Copy for the next edition of the History Department Newsletter should be submitted by Thursday noon to Becky Bryant in Ballantine 742; or via e-mail (bryant@indiana.edu), or fax (812-855-3378). This newsletter is also available on the History Department’s web page, at http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/
Over the summer Ann Carmichael published "Universal and particular: the language of plague, 1348-1500" in Supplement No. 27 to the journal Medical History. The supplement volume is titled Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague.
On August 14th Mark Roseman gave a master class on recent trends in Holocaust history for docents at the Houston Holocaust Museum. In the evening he gave a public lecture at the museum, entitled “Hitler’s Al Qaeda? Making sense of participation in the Holocaust”
Kirsten Sword is a fellow at the IU Institute for Advanced Study for the 2008-2009 academic year, where she is working on her book Wives Not Slaves: Dependence, Authority and Justice in Early America. Kirsten has also made a number of conference presentations in the past several months: "Remembering Dinah Nevil and the Origins of American Antislavery" at the McNeil Center for Early American History's Conference on Atlantic Emancipations in April, "Patriarchy in Theory and Practice: Runaways in Early America" at the 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women in June, and "Strategic Deceptions and the Memory of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery" at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in July.
Five of the eleven graduate students listed as Fulbright-Hays Award recipients by the IU News Room are History graduate students. Congratulations to Kevin Coleman (destination Honduras), Aimee Dobbs (destination Azerbaijan), Jennifer Hart (destination Ghana), Christina Heisser (destination Mexico), and Michael Thorne (destination Romania). The complete list of awardees can be found at - http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/8647.html
The Historical Teaching and Practice discussion group will meet throughout the fall term on the first Thursday of each month, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm. On Thursday, Sept. 4, history doctoral candidate Jennifer Stinson will speak on "Bringing the Past to Life or Consigning it to Death?: Representing 19th-Century Midwestern Rural African Americans and Rethinking Living History." Her talk takes place in the IMU Walnut Room. All faculty and students are invited to attend. Students planning to minor in Historical Teaching and Practice should plan to sign up for 1 unit of H575 in connection with the discussion group for at least one term prior to their oral exams.
Save the date! Plans are currently being made for the annual History Graduate Student Association/Department of History Pizza Party on the evening of Wednesday, September 10, at the IMU University Club. This event is a fundraiser for the HGSA, and it is an opportunity to meet the new students and to catch up with the returning students in a casual social setting. Pizza, soda, beer and wine will be provided. More information will be forthcoming -- please plan to attend!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, September 2, 5:00-7:00 pm, IU Auditorium Lobby
The College will hold a welcome reception for new faculty on Tuesday, September 2, 5:00-7:00 pm, at the IU Auditorium Lobby. There will be a brief program at 5:45; hors d’oeuvres and cocktails will be served.
Thursday, September 4, 1:00-2:00, IMU Walnut Room
History doctoral candidate Jennifer Stinson will speak on “Bringing the Past to Life or Consigning it to Death?: Representing 19th-Century Midwestern Rural African Americans and Rethinking Living History.” Faculty and students invited to attend this Historical Teaching and Practice discussion group.
Thursday, September 4, 5:00 pm, University Club, IMU
Installation program to honor Jewish Studies colleagues Judah Cohen, Shaul Magid, and Jeffrey Veidlinger as the first incumbents of the Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study of Jewish Culture, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies, and the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies, respectively. Each of the chair holders has a book forthcoming from the IU Press and will offer those present a brief glimpse of some of their most important findings. A reception will follow the presentation in honor of the chair-holders and those whose generosity established their chairs. No reservations required, contact the Borns Jewish Studies Program for more information, 855-0453 or iujsp@indiana.edu.