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History Professor Trude Jacobsen has a new book out that sheds light on sex trafficking, family, debt and labor in Southeast Asia Jacobsen will deliver a talk on the book, Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A History of Desire, Duty, and Debt (Routledge), at a reception held from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, in...
NIU’s Pick Museum of Anthropology has been awarded a $19,750 grant from the Dunham Fund for a two-year project to document and share the experiences of Burmese Karen refugees living in northern Illinois. Led by the museum’s research assistant, Rachel Drochter, the project employs NIU students who will work with a local Karen Advisory Group...
Book cover of “The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History” and Andy Bruno
History professor Andy Bruno has a new book out that sheds light on the experiences of Soviets with the Arctic environment. During a reception celebrating its publication, Bruno will deliver a talk on the book, titled “The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History” (Cambridge University Press). The reception begins at 2:30 p.m. Friday,...
“Judith and Holofernes” by Donatello, 1455-1460
Judith Testa, an NIU Presidential Teaching Professor Emerita, will speak at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, on “Webs of Desire and Violence: Power Politics and Sexual Politics in Three Works of Florentine Renaissance Art.” Part of the 2015-16 Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series, the presentation will take place in Room 102 of...
Robert Berkhofer, associate professor of history at Western Michigan University, will deliver the inaugural Wagner Lecture in Medieval Culture at NIU on “Forgery and Faith in the Liber Traditionum of Saint Peter’s, Ghent.” Berkhofer will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in Cole Hall 100. During his presentation, he will examine motives for the...
Sinclair Bell, associate professor of art history at NIU, is the co-editor of a new book on the ancient Etruscans published by Wiley-Blackwell press. Professor Bell co-edited this volume with his colleague, Alexandra Carpino, professor of art history and chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. Their new collection, “A...
FYI written on Post-It Note
Members of the NIU Black Counselors Association are presenting 28 days worth of interesting pieces of African-American history in recognition of Black Heritage Month. The term African-American is offensive to many black Americans. The term was created in an attempt to create an equivalent of “German-American or Italian-American.” However, blacks in America don’t have such...
Rosemary Feurer
Northern Illinois University professor Rosemary Feurer, an expert on U.S. labor history, is among the scholars featured in a two-hour PBS documentary that aired Tuesday on WTTW Channel 11. The American Experience film, titled “The Mine Wars,” takes viewers into the coal miners’ bitter battle for dignity at the dawn of the 20th century. The...
Beatrix Hoffman, an NIU history professor accustomed to presenting her research in articles, is now letting the pictures tell thousands of words for her. Hoffman is curator of a traveling exhibition, “For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform,” which describes how citizen action has helped shape the American health...
NIU professor Kenton Clymer has authored a newly published book on the history of U.S. diplomatic relations with Myanmar, and it couldn’t be timelier in light of the historic elections unfolding this month in the country. Clymer is a Distinguished Research Professor in the NIU Department of History and a leading scholar in the history...
Mark Bradley
More than 35 Ph.D. and master’s students will present their research Friday, Nov. 6, during the NIU History Graduate Student Association’s eighth annual conference. The research presentations, which begin at 8 p.m. cover topics including the language of law; new histories of the American West; constructing histories of health and disease; genocide and the modern...
Nurses from the 1940s
NIU’s Regional History Center will host a reception Thursday, Oct. 15, in conjunction with its current “The Doctor Will See You Now: The History of Medical Science in Northern Illinois Communities” exhibition. In celebration of American Archives Month, the exhibit focuses on education, practice and public and mental health in northern Illinois from 1845 until...
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