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Iran & America at a Time of Crises

Dr. Oliver Bast discusses Iran’s foreign policy-makers and the United States in the wake of World War I.

Monday, April 23

6:30—8:00 p.m.

SUB LOOKOUT ROOM

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Dr. Oliver Bast is an Associate Professor in Middle Eastern History and Persian at the University of

Manchester. He read History and Persian in Berlin, Tehran, Paris, and Bamberg and is currently Visiting Fellow in Iranian Studies at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He researches diplomatic and political history of Modern Iran and the interface between historiography, politics and cultural memory.

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Free and open to the public.

Presented by the BSU History Department.

For more info contact 426-1255

Jim Crow, Idaho, and the Economics of Racism

The Department of History is joining the Idaho Black History Museum in presenting a talk by Dr. Jill Gill, Associate Professor of History, who will discuss the historic economic roots and continuing repercussions of racism, and the politics of this, both nationally and in Idaho.

A panel discussion immediately follows with with Idahoans who experienced this history first-hand. The panel includes Ms. Clarisse Maxwell, Mr. Warner Terrell, Rev. Dr. Mamie Oliver, and Rev. Henry Webb. The audience will be invited to ask questions of and converse with the panel.

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 / 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Student Union Building, Barnwell Room

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Brown Bag Series – Remaking the Boise River on the Eve of the Millennial Flood

Please join Dr. Todd Shallat, Department of History, for a presentation on the “Remaking the Boise River on the Eve of the Millennial Flood” for the next Brown Bag series.

Wednesday, November 9 @ 3:00 p.m.

ILC Room 213

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Idaho and Race

Errol Jones and Jill Gill, both of the History Department, helped coordinate and participated in a panel titled “Idaho and Race” for the Western Historical Association annual meeting on Oct. 13-16 in Oakland, California. Jones presented his paper titled “Confronting Racial Discrimination: Mexicans and Other Latinos in Idaho’s History.” Gill presented a paper titled “Idaho’s Aryan Education: Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Racial Politics.” From BSU Update

BSU Grad Student Publishes Book

Women Helping Women: A Centennial History of the Boise YWCA/WCA

Sarah Nash, author & BSU Grad Student
Carol Martin, editor

Through a detailed narrative and more than 180 photos, the WCA’s (Women’s and Children’s Alliance)  newly released 144-page history book tells stories of empowerment, advocacy, independence, and female strength.

Order the book.

Sarah and Carol will be at a book party at Rediscovered Books in downtown Boise on Saturday, December 3rd at 11 a.m.  The books are being sold at the WCA 720 W. Washington and at Rediscovered Books.

Joanne Klein – History

Dr. Klein, of the Department of History, authored Invisible Men: the Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, 1900-1939 Liverpool University Press, July 2010.

Lisa Brady – History

Lisa Brady was invited to speak at the World Knowledge Forum Conference in Seoul, Korea, about the history and future of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and its ecological importance. She presented there on October 15.

Charles Odahl – History

Dr. Charles Odahl has had five publications in 2010 — a cover article on “Christian Symbolism on Constantinian Coinage,” and two book reviews in The Ancient World, Vols. 40 & 41; and two new books–Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy (New York: Routledge, February, 2010, 120 pp.), and Constantine and the Christian Empire, 2nd Edition (London: Routledge, June, 2010, 444 pp.).