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CMU
Graduate History Colloquium
Organizers: Dr. Andrew D. Devenney and Professor Eric A. Johnson
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(For PDF copies of session papers, please click on the name of the presenter.)
THURSDAY, 3 APRIL 2008
3:00-4:30pm -- Keynote Lecture –- Park Library Auditorium
“Fortuyn (killed), Van Gogh (killed) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (banished): Driving out
The Unholy Trinity from the Netherlands,” Dr. Henri Beunders, Professor of the
History of Society, Media, and Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam
4:30-6:00 -- Reception –- Baber Room, Park Library
FRIDAY, 4 APRIL 2008
(Unless otherwise noted, all Friday events are in the Strosacker Room, Park
Library)
9:00-9:30am -- Breakfast Refreshments
9:30-9:40am -- Welcome: Professor Eric A. Johnson
9:40-11:10am -- Session One: The United States and Europe in the 20th Century
--Chair/Respondent: Professor David Snyder
Chelsea Mead:
“’Exactly What Am I’: An Examination of the Complexities and Challenges of
Native, African, and Multi-ethnic Identity in America”
Christopher J.
Hagen: “The Nazi Swindle”
Elizabeth Kay Chamberlain: “Anti-Communism and the 1949 Detroit Mayoral
Election”
Thomas Darragh:
“Ramparts, The New York Times and The CIA: The Weakening of State Secrecy,”
11:10-11:15am -- Coffee Break
11:15am-1:00pm -- Session Two: The Atlantic World -- Chair/Respondent:
Professor Carrie Euler
Charles Bradford Bow:
“Sir Francis Drake’s Contributions toward the Terminological Development of
English Privateers”
Frank Klackle:
“Did They Know Their Enemy? The Altepetl System and the Spanish Conquest of
Mexico”
Michael Scott
Martin: “The Goal and the Gold Mine: Constraints Management and the Dutch
Herring Fishing Industry, 1400-1700”
Kevin Nehil:
“Impact of Conquest Writings of Nahua Historians in post-Conquest New Spain”
1:00-1:15pm -- Break for Lunch Set-up
1:15-2:30pm -- Buffet Lunch
2:30-3:45pm -- Session Three: British Studies -- Chair/Respondent:
Professor Timothy O’Neil
Stephen Gutwald:
“Victorian Clubland: A Spatial Approach”
Jennifer Dowie: “A Spiritualist Education: The Children’s Progressive Lyceum
1863-1910”
Matthew P. McCabe: “Public
Housing and Social Stratification in Glasgow, 1919-1939”
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LOCAL MEDIA
"Keynote addresses cultural conflict," CM Life, 8 April 2008, by Robin
Nagayda.
Professor Henri Beunders will speak Thursday about Islam in contemporary Europe
and some of the problems that have arisen between the cultures.
His presentation, entitled "Fortuyn (killed), Van Gogh (killed) and Ayaan Hirsi
Ali (banished): Driving Out the Unholy Trinity from the Netherlands," is the
inaugural keynote address for the CMU Graduate History Colloquium.
Beunders will address the integration of the Islamic population into European
countries at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium, said
Andrew D. Devenney, a temporary history faculty member.
"Many parts of western European societies have high Muslim populations, and they
are having issues integrating them into the society," Devenney said.
Beunders is an exchange professor from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the
Netherlands, and is co-teaching a course on the history of warfare. He also has
been a prominent journalist in the Netherlands, said history professor Eric
Johnson.
Beunders said he will discuss the differences between the U.S. and Europe to
help his audience better understand the situation.
Though Michigan has the highest percentage of Islamic people in the United
States, they only make up a small percentage of the state's overall population,
Johnson said.
The Islamic population in Europe is much more significant and continues to grow,
Johnson said.
Johnson compared some of the controversy surrounding Islamic immigration in
Europe to Mexican immigration in the U.S. However there is no real political
organization of Mexican radicalism endangering America, he said.
European countries experience violence caused by Islamic radicalism and the
clashing cultures, Johnson said.
"Islamic immigration to Europe is a far bigger issue," Johnson said.
"Islamic radicalism is a big concern in the U.S., but it's more of a problem for
them internally."
The address focuses on the Netherlands, which has had difficulty adjusting to an
Americanized way of life and multi-cultural society, Beunders said. The country
has experienced a lot of violence because of these difficulties.
"It's a very fragile situation," Beunders said.
Johnson said it is important for students to understand the importance of Islam
to our partners in Europe and the great difficulties they have with it.
"Contemporary issues of Islam and terrorism are on a lot of people's minds,"
Devenney said. "This address will have some interesting perspectives students
can benefit from. It's good to look outside the box once in a while."
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Fortuyn (killed), Van Gogh (killed) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (banished): Driving out
The Unholy Trinity from the Netherlands”
By
Dr. Henri Beunders
Professor of the History of Society, Media, and Culture
Erasmus University Rotterdam
April 3, 2008
Park Library Auditorium
3:00pm
Reception afterwards in the Baber Room, Park Library
Free and Open to the Public
(Sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Transnational and
Comparative History)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Graduate History Colloquium
Central Michigan University
April 3-4, 2008
The CMU Department of History, in co-sponsorship with the Center for
Transnational and Comparative History (CTCH), is pleased to announce the
establishment of a Graduate History Colloquium, with the inaugural event
scheduled for 3-4 April 2008. The colloquium will consist of two parts: first, a
keynote lecture (speaker to be announced) at 3:00pm in the Park Library
Auditorium on 3 April; and second, a series of paper presentation sessions and a
free, catered lunch on 4 April, location to be announced.
The organizing committee seeks paper proposals from CMU history graduate and
doctoral students that fit within the colloquium’s four thematic areas: American
and British Studies; The United States and Europe in the Twentieth Century;
Medieval/Early Modern Europe; and The Non-Western World. Current CMU history
doctoral candidates and doctoral students are strongly encouraged to submit
paper proposals to take advantage of this opportunity to practice conference
presenting skills. While this year's colloquium is only open to current
CMU graduate and doctoral students, it is hoped that in the future participation
will include postgraduate students from CMU's consortium partner institutions.
Presenters should expect to give papers of 15-20 minutes in length
(approximately 8-12 pages). Paper proposals must include a 250 word abstract
with paper title and a brief CV (no more than two pages) that includes the
presenter’s name and contact information (with e-mail). The deadline for
submissions is 15 February 2008. Proposals should be emailed as an attachment
(in Word or PDF format) to ctch@cmich.edu. Proposals can also be mailed or
dropped off to:
Graduate History Colloquium
242B Powers Hall
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
Finished papers are due to the organizing committee no later than 28 March 2008,
in order to provided commentators with enough time to review the papers before
the colloquium.
For more information about the colloquium or other questions, please feel free
to contact either Dr. Andrew D. Devenney (deven1ad@cmich.edu)
or Professor Eric Johnson (johns1ea@cmich.edu)
or visit the CTCH website at
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/ctch/conferences2.htm.
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