From ngrall at uw.edu Tue Oct 18 12:16:49 2022 From: ngrall at uw.edu (Nick Grall) Date: Sun Dec 11 15:33:47 2022 Subject: [Uwhistory] 10/25 Lecture: True Crime and Gender History in 19th Century Oregon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tuesday, October 25 at 4:00 p.m. in the Petersen Room of Allen Library, the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, in collaboration with UW Press and UW Libraries, will host a lecture by Dr. Peter Boag, Washington State University, as part of the Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture Series on Western History and Biography. Boag will discuss his exciting, new book, Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-century Oregon, which examines a late-nineteenth-century case of parricide in Oregon as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Connecting this fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag shows how these violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West. This event is free and open to the public, a reception with the author and refreshments will follow. For more information about Pioneering Death, visit UW Press website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2.png Type: image/png Size: 1957111 bytes Desc: 2.png URL: From histgrad at uw.edu Wed Oct 19 12:23:25 2022 From: histgrad at uw.edu (History Graduate Office) Date: Sun Dec 11 15:33:48 2022 Subject: [Uwhistory] =?utf-8?q?FW=3A_Allen_Library_Exhibit=2C_Nov=2E_7_to_?= =?utf-8?q?Dec=2E_9=3A_Assyrians_from_Persia_=28Iran=29_to_the_U=2ES=2E=2C?= =?utf-8?b?IDE4ODfigJMxOTIz?= Message-ID: From: Histinfo [mailto:histinfo-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Arbella Bet-Shlimon Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 11:28 AM To: histinfo@uw.edu; uwhistory@uw.edu Subject: [Histinfo] Allen Library Exhibit, Nov. 7 to Dec. 9: Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the U.S., 1887?1923 Dear Department of History friends and colleagues, I'm excited to announce that UW Libraries is hosting the exhibit Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887?1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home in the Allen Library North Lobby from November 7th to December 9th. It includes original letters in neo-Aramaic (translated into English by a native speaker of the local northwestern Iranian dialect, Yosip Bet Yosip) and other rare materials from a community that is otherwise usually studied through American missionary accounts, with all the problems that entails. This exhibit was made possible by one family's preservation of the items for over a century after displacement, and the items' curation by Eden Naby and Vladimir Moghadassi. It will be of interest to anyone working in Middle Eastern and Russian imperial history, global Christian history, U.S. missionary history, and migration to the U.S. west, among other topics. The exhibit will open with a lecture at 3:30 pm on Monday, November 7th in Allen Auditorium (adjoining the exhibit space) by David Woodward, who will talk about the history of U.S. ties with Iranian Assyrians and the complex relationship of U.S. missionaries and the Assyrian disapora. I'm grateful to the Department of History and the libraries for co-sponsoring this exhibit along with the Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture. I hope to see you at the talk, or to hear from you with feedback after you've seen the exhibit! Best, Arbella ---------- Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887?1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home November 7th to December 9th, 2022 Allen Library North Lobby Assyrians are the last Aramaic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to a homeland between Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran. The Assyrians of Iran?s Lake Urmia region became a highly literate community in the 19th century despite their minoritization, largely because of their close contact with Western missionaries. For more than a century, documenting this history through Assyrian voices has proven elusive because Assyrians are stateless and struggle to retrieve historical materials following their uprooting and genocide during World War I. The descendants of one Assyrian-Iranian doctor from this era, Joseph David Joseph, who earned his medical degree in the U.S., have retained original documents and objects from a thirty-year period of their ancestor?s life (1887?1923). This unique collection, one of the very few of its kind among displaced Assyrians, is critical to understanding immigration, integration into American life, and the multiple reasons why?at the start of the 21st century?there are more Assyrians in world diaspora than remain in their Middle East homeland. This exhibit is supported by the Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture, the UW Department of History, and UW Libraries. -- Arbella Bet-Shlimon Associate Professor of History University of Washington Box 353560 Seattle, WA 98195-3560 USA ph: (206) 616-5279 UW History bio | City of Black Gold (Stanford, 2019) [sup.org] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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