Chad Cussen, M.A. candidate in the history department, has been awarded a fellowship from New York University and Centre national de la recherche scientifique to study in Paris from January-February 2010. He will be researching for his M.A. thesis dealing with memory and emotion as analytical models in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and attend a seminar led by Henri Rousso, author of The Vichy Syndrome (1994).
You and your students/colleagues are cordially invited to the following student panel.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall
2:45-4:15 p.m. Panel: “World War II Memories in Japan and Beyond”
– Organized by Dr. Jinhee Lee, History Department, Eastern Illinois University
Student Presenters:
Mitsumi Takei, Eastern Illinois University (History):
“World War II Memories in Japanese Popular Culture under American Occupation”
Bridget Quinlivan, Western Illinois University (History):
“Memories of the ‘China War’ in Japan”
Charlie Kim, Northwestern University (Sociology):
”Civil Society, State, and Memory Movement: The Biographical Encyclopedia of ‘Pro-Japanese Collaborators’ in Korea”
Tristan Soderberg-Baar, Eastern Illinois University (History):
“A Divided Memory: Assessing the Cultural History of Yasukuni Shrine in Postwar Japan”
Discussant:
Dr. Febe D. Pamonag, Assistant Professor of History, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
The following history graduate students will present their research papers on war memories in East Asia at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in Oxford, Ohio on October 18, 2009. In preparation for their presentation, the panel organizer Prof. Jinhee Lee is scheduling a practice session at 9am in History Seminar Room. All insterested history faculty and students are invited to their talk to provide constructive comments and suggestions on their interesting works. For further information, please contact Prof. Lee at jlee@eiu.edu. Congratulations to Amanda, Mitsumi, and Tristanon on the acceptance of their paper proposals!
2009 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Panel #84 SOCIAL SPACES OF WAR MEMORIES IN JAPAN AND KOREA
46 IRVIN HALL
Chair/Discussant: Jinhee Lee, Eastern Illinois University
“Dokdo/Takeshima: Juxtaposed Memories in Cartographic Practices”
Amanda Evans, Eastern Illinois University
“Reconstructing the History of Muic in the Korean War: Reconciling Written Histories, Oral Histories, and the War Archives”
Heejin Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“A Divided Memory: Evaluating the Cultural History of Yasukuni Shrine”
Tristan Sodergren-Baar, Eastern Illinois University
“A-Bomb Memories and Representations in Postwar Japanese Art”
Mitsumi Takei, Eastern Illinois University
History graduate student Jason Miller presented his paper “Home Fires Burning: Desertion, the Draft, and Political Violence on the Illinois Home Front” at the Illinois History Conference, Springfield, 1 October 2009. The paper explored regional variations of violence within the state and the implications for local conflict centered around the installment of the Provost Marshal Office at the local level.
Lynne Curry served as chair and commentator for two panels at a conference on the history of constitutional rights sponsored by San Francisco State University, September 18-19. The panels featured recent scholarship exploring new perspectives on the history of bodily autonomy rights, including compulsory vaccination laws, constitutional protections for parents who choose faith healing over traditional medicine, and litigation strategies using the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Historical Administration students and faculty traveled to Indianapolis the first week of classes for the annual fall study trip and to attend the American Association for State and Local History annual conference. The behind the scenes tours at Conner Prairie and the Indiana State Museum provided insight into the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of museum work. The students volunteered at the conference (thus receiving waivers on registration), met loads of HA alums, and attended a wide variety of sessions.
The second edition of Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds., Sources and Debates in English History: 1485-1714 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), has been published. The substantively revised and edited sourcebook has been published in both the United Kingdom and the U.S.A.
Newton Key, history, presented a paper titled, “A Tory Interpretation of History? Varieties of Whiggism in Sermons from the Celtic and Colonial Fringe About 1688-89,” at the Bangor Conference on the Restoration: Politics, Religion and Culture in the 1680s, in Bangor, Wales, July 2009.
Amy Steadman, HA 2000, curator at the Eudora Welty House museum in Jackson, Mississippi, has a nice write-up in the Jackson Free Press. Go to http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/amy_steadman_040809
On February 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm the Department of History will host this very special occasion. Celebrating the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Dr. Jennifer L. Weber will be on campus giving a talk entitled “The Civil War at Home: Abraham Lincoln and the Copperheads.” Dr. Weber is currently a professor of History at the University of Kansas. She received her education at Princeton University, graduating in 2000 with her PhD. She has had a very busy and colorful life. Spending part of her life as a journalist and another part as part of the California State Legislature, her desire to know more about the Civil War drew her to academia. We are honored to host her talk here at Eastern. This event is free and open to the public and could not have been possible without support from the Robert and Nancy Hennings History Fund. Click Here to view flyer.