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

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.

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.

Huping Ling, Professor of History and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of the Chinese Ministry of education, has been selected as a Visiting Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2016.

The Hoover Institution offered the fellowship to assist “(Dr. Ling’s) research at the Hoover Institution of Libraries and Archives regarding her research project ‘Sward Blue: A Chiang-Kai-shek’s Man’,” according to the appointment letter from the Hoover Institution. Professor Ling’s research aspires to explore the currently under-explored areas of the Nationalist history in China from the 1930s to 1949, utilizing the newly unclassified records of Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, T. V. Soong Papers, Kuomintang Project, etc. at the Hoover Institution Archives.

History and Anthropology students had a great time helping a crew from St. Louis on 11 September 2015. The archaeological survey was coordinated by Dr. Douglas Scott, Tom Thiessen, and archaeologist Dr. Steve Dasovich of Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation.

The goal of the survey is to see if any surviving artifacts can be linked to the Battle of Kirksville (1862) and Truman students Steve Emmons, Sarah Lamkin, Mike McCoy, Andrew Milhous, and Mara Stewart assisted in Memorial Park where the Union army camped.

The use of metal detectors helped uncover a number of small pieces including fragments of lamps, a wagon, and a sterling silver thimble (pictured below). Though these pieces cannot be tied to the Civil War battle, excavating them was fun anyway.

Thanks for Professor Amber Johnson (Society and Environment) and Professor Jeff Gall (History) for helping coordinate participation of Truman students in this event.

 

The History Department is commemorating the beginning of World War 1 by hosting several upcoming events.

The first event will be a movie “Oh, What a Lovely War,” a 1969 musical film which summarizes and comments on the events of World War I using popular songs of the time, many of which were parodies of older popular songs, and using allegorical settings such as Brighton’s West Pier to criticize the manner in which the eventual victory was won.

The movie can be seen on Thursday, September 10, at 7:00 p.m. in Baldwin Hall 176 (the Little Theatre). The movie is free and open for all to attend.

Huping Ling, Professor of History and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor, the Chinese Ministry of education, has published the following books:

1. Jinshan Yao: A New Chinese American History (in the Overseas Chinese History Series, China Overseas Chinese Publishing House, 2016).

2. Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (co-editor, 2 Vols. M. E. Sharpe, 2010, Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Editors’ Choice 2010 Award, Chinese edition in the Overseas Chinese Studies Translation Series, World Book Publishing Company 2016).

3. Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870 (Chinese edition, in the Overseas Chinese Studies Translation Series, World Book Publishing Company, 2015).

4. Jinshan Yao: A History of Chinese American Women (Expanded and Revised Edition in Classical Chinese. In the Showwei Social Sciences Series, Taipei: Showwei, 2015).

Jerry Hirsch, professor of history, received the 2015 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education from Gov. Jay Nixon, April 7 in Jefferson City.

Hirsch was one of the 15 outstanding faculty members, each representing a Missouri college or university, to be recognized at a luncheon hosted by the Council on Public Higher Education for their commitment to excellent education for Missouri citizens.

Hirsch began his career at Truman in 1989. He received his bachelor’s degree from Antioch College and both his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the American Folklore Society, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Society, the Southern Historical Association and the Society for Disability Studies.

The HIST 319 presentations at the SRC were very successful and the students did a terrific job!

20 April 2015, Little Theater, BH 176, 7pm
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “Forty Years of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations”