Presented By The Truman Faculty Forum
The World In A Game: How Chess Paved The Way For Globalization
A Lecture by Torbjörn Wandel, Professor Of History
Wednesday November 4, 2015, at 7:00 pm
In Baldwin 176 (Little Theatre)
In his world history of this ancient game, Torbjörn Wandel does not just tell an engaging tale that takes us from ancient India and Persia through the Islamic world into al-Andaluz, medieval Europe, Renaissance Sicily, Spain, and beyond. Through his history of the game, he also reveals surprising paths and patterns of globalization that offer a fresh perspective on world history itself.
For more information on the Truman Faculty Forum series go to forum.truman.edu
Month: October 2015
Jason McDonald featured speaker at WWI symposium
Dr. Jason McDonald, visiting assistant professor of history, is a featured speaker at a November 6-7, 2015 symposium at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City on the Global War, 1915 | Empires at War, Churchill’s Gallipoli and an America Divided. This symposium explores the rising tensions in America and the globally escalating conflict that defined the world in 1915.
Kentucky Folk Art
Jerrold Hirsch, professor emeritus of history, has published, “Kentucky Folk Art: New Deal Approaches,” in Kentucky By Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture, ed. Andrew Kelly. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015. The book has been nominated for the Fred Kniffen Book Award for the best authored book in the field of North American material culture and for the Allen Nobel Book Award given in honor of superior scholarship in the field of North American material culture.