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Volume 6 Winter 2017/2018 Center for Global and Area Studies Bulletin COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

Greetings! I am pleased to introduce the 2017 issue of the newsletter of the Center for Global and Area Studies. We welcome two new Area Studies directors, who began three-year terms in September: Daniel Kinderman (POSC) for and Eve Buckley (HIST) for Latin American & Iberian Studies. Colin Miller, Darryl Flaherty, and Contents Polly Zavadivker continue as directors of African, Asian, and , respectively, and Rudi Matthee returns for a three-year term directing after a research CGAS Highlights 2 leave, spent in part as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The cover of this year’s Bulletin features the banner announcing our Global Research Grants 3 Populism lecture series. Organized by Daniel Kinderman, this endeavor brought outstanding scholars to UD, as well as our own Julio Carrion (POSC), to share their insights into this 4 phenomenon that is impacting regions of the world. The series will continue in the spring (see page 6 for details). 5 Other presentations across the Area Studies programs this fall covered a range of compelling and timely issues, for instance the complexity of art curating in conflicted “post- European Studies 6 apartheid” public spaces (African Studies), the legacy of Chinese thought (Asian Studies), the Islamic Studies 7 influence of the Russian Revolution around the world (co-sponsored with and other units), the “other Iran” (Islamic Studies), Holocaust history and memory (Jewish Studies), Jewish Studies 8 and artists’ reflections on the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando (Latin American & Iberian Studies). In spring 2017, we were privileged to serve as co-sponsor of two major Latin American & events: iMusicX: Encore! A World Music Pops Concert and ECCE HOMO (This is a 9 Iberian Studies Human!): Ethics, Engagement, and Human Rights, a symposium organized by the Department of Languages, & . Spring 2018 Courses 10 ARSC300, our “Issues in ” lecture series and 1-credit course, Spring 2018 continues to present important and engaging topics that attract large audiences. The spring 12 Speaker Series topic, Global Digital Cultures, coordinated by Persephone Braham (DLLC), explored manifestations such as digital citizenship and virtual communities, gaming, and online mobilization of social and political activism. This semester’s topic, The Fragility of States, coordinated by Muqtedar Khan (POSC), turned out to be so popular that the class had to move to a larger lecture hall. Some of the topics it addressed included the status of the states of Sudan, Pakistan, Syria, and Afghanistan as well as the impact of Brexit on the European Union. We look forward to another series of compelling lectures with this spring’s series, “Sustainable Futures,” coordinated by Carla Guerron-Montero (ANTH). Our Global Studies minor is thriving, with currently nearly sixty students. Due to the popularity of the minor, CGAS is working with POSC to explore the possibility of a major in Global Studies. We are pleased to continue our cooperation with the Institute for Global Studies, and this spring we will focus on ways that CGAS can enhance its collaboration with the English Language Institute. I invite you to peruse this bulletin to read about the activities of our Area Studies programs, the accomplishments of our students and faculty, and our research grant activities. Professor Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, Director Center for Global & Area Studies

Page 2 Center for Global and Area Studies 2CGAS 0 1 4 HINIGHLIGHTS R EVIEW Notable events Looking Ahead Spring 2017: Sustainable Futures  ARSC300 “Global Digital Cultures” (Global Studies) Issues in Global Studies  Lecture Series (ARSC300) African Feminism Symposium, a tribute to Elaine Salo: “A Grotesque Sense of Spring 2018 Entitlement: Trump, Zuma, and Feminist Activism Against Sexual Assault in the US and South ” (African Studies) Students, faculty, and staff are  “World War II: Memorializing War & Peace in Asia” with UD Professor Emeritus invited to this lecture series David Pong (Asian Studies) (also a one-credit class). Social  “Intolerant Islam: Democratization, Religion and Conflict in Southeast Asia” scientists, humanists, and (Asian Studies, Islamic Studies) scholars in the natural sciences  iMusic X: A World Music Concert and “Conflict Music” pre-concert presentation will share their knowledge to (Global Studies) study and foresee ways to solve our most current Fall 2017: problems (including climate  ARSC300 “The Fragility of States and Superstates” (Global Studies) change, migration, mobilities,  “ArtRage and the Politics of Reconciliation: Decolonizing Curatorial Practice in global political turmoil, and South Africa” (African Studies) others).  Global Populism Lecture Series - four lectures in fall (European Studies)  “The Other Iran: A Visual and Cultural Voyage through Iran” (Islamic Studies) Visit www.cgas.udel.edu or see  “The Russian Revolutionary Moment: A Symposium and Public Lecture” (History, the back cover of this Bulletin for details. European Studies, and Jewish Studies)

Student Awards

Every year, Area Studies faculty selects top students to be honored for their scholarly excellence and dedication to the interdisciplinary study of world regions. At our spring Area Studies Convocation on May 27, 2017, the following graduates were recognized for their accomplishments:

Mengzheng Yao, Asian Studies Major, Area Studies Academic Achievement Prize Photo courtesy of Grad Images Dunia Tonob, Asian Studies Minor, Area Studies Enrichment Award Mengzheng Yao, Asian Studies Major, David Pong Asian Studies Scholarship Dunia Tonob, Asian Studies Minor, David Pong Book Award Marcianna Green, Asian Studies Minor (rising senior), David Pong Book Award Katelyn Hesse, Jewish Studies Minor, Vivian Z. Klaff Memorial Award in Jewish Studies Nicole Golomb, Jewish Studies Minor, Vivian Z. Klaff Memorial Award in Jewish Studies Alyssa McGraw, Jewish Studies Minor, Vivian Z. Klaff Memorial Award in Jewish Studies Sandra Vieyra, Latin American & Iberian Studies Minor, Latin American & Iberian Studies Award for Academic Excellence

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Volume 6 Winter 2017/2018 Page 3 RESEARCH GRANTS

The CGAS Research Grant 2017 CGAS Research Grant Awardees program supports UD faculty research that spans the globe. Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Women & , Latin American & Iberian In this section, we highlight Studies. Gender and Sexuality in the Colombia Peace Process how our recipients used their Muqtedar Khan, & , Islamic Studies. Ideology or grants. Good Governance? Constitutional Reforms in Turkey and Philippines Daniel Kinderman, Political Science & International Relations, European Studies. German Stay tuned for the next call Business Elites and Corporate Social Responsibility in an Age of Resurgent Nationalism and for proposals, which will be Authoritarian Populism announced to the University in February 2018. Kelebogile Setiloane, Behavioral Health & Nutrition, African Studies. An Exploration of Black Women's Breastfeeding Practices and Experiences in North West Province South Africa David Shearer, History, European Studies. Foreign Explorers in Mongolia and Tibet, 1870-1930 In the Words of our Patricia Sloane-White, , Women & Gender Studies, Asian Studies, Islamic Researchers Studies. New Ports of Call in the Infrastructure of Islamic Identity: Revitalizing Muslim Cosmopolitanism from Ham Bantota, Sri Lanka to Nuso Jaya, Malaysia “Foreign Explorers in Chungmin Tu, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Asian Studies. Ethics in Gilles Deleuze and Mongolia and Tibet, 1870- Chinese Philosophy: A Project of Global Disjunctive Synthesis 1930” David Shearer, H i s t o r y , E u r o p e a n Polly Zavadivker, History, Jewish Studies. Jewish Humanitarianism in Russia's Great War and Studies, 2017 grant Revolution recipient Research Spotlight I conducted research in “Photo Voices in Food Sovereignty Tourism and Knowledge Exchange” Russia on Russian, Soviet, Lindsay Naylor, , 2016 grant recipient and other European explorers in Mongolia during The award from CGAS enabled me to travel to Cuba in December 2016 and undertake the late 19th and early 20th fieldwork with farmers. The major goal was to pilot the photovoice method for research on centuries. I worked in food sovereignty and knowledge exchange. While in Cuba I met with a subset of farmers archives in Moscow during participating in the larger research project and introduced the photovoice concept. In summer 2017. My conversation with farmers I was able to develop the method more fully and experiment examination of archives in with the original concept. Ulan Ude (Buryatia) has been delayed until winter due to For example, in an interview with a farmer in the province of unexpected closure of that Sancti Spiritus, I discussed loaning them a camera during the week archive in the summer. and then returning to talk about the photos. This particular farmer praised the idea and was willing to participate, adding his own The Moscow material in the ideas. One week was not adequate to capture the changes on his State Archive of the Russian farm and demonstrate the different methods, educational aspects, Federation (GARF) included and changes in the field. He suggested I leave the camera for a full records of the post-Tsarist year, which would allow us to have a conversation about the Russian government during changes over a much longer period. This invaluable advice the Russian revolutionary changed the way I will approach this part of the project in the war period. I also examined larger study. records of the early Soviet government’s Commission I used photos already taken to converse with another set for Study and Exploration of of farmers to determine our ability to exchange ideas Mongolia and Tuva. through photography. In response, the couple showed me photos they had taken on their phones throughout the I was able to access rare year. These examples demonstrate the potential of the material from the short-lived method and have provided preliminary data that will Mongolian-Buryat nationalist contribute to an original research article. Continued on pg. 11 Photos courtesy of Lindsay Naylor

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Page 4 Center for Global and Area Studies AFRICAN STUDIES

Colin Miller, frican Studies launched the fall semester with a talk by Dr. Nomusa Makhubu, Interim Director A visual artist and professor in Art History and Visual at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her talk, titled ArtRage African Studies Program and the Politics of Reconciliation: Decolonizing Curatorial Practice in South Africa, looked at how the politics of reconciliation and outrage became pivotal in understanding the complexities of curating, not in controlled institutional exhibition spaces, but in volatile and conflicted “post- apartheid” public spaces. Dr. Makhubu took time to meet with graduate students from the Department of Art & Design and the African American Public Initiative.

Faculty News Young African Leaders will continue, albeit with fewer W u n y a b a r i ( W . O . ) participants. An application Maloba (chair of Africana has been made to host the Studies, formerly Black program in 2018. If ) is the approved, Gretchen Bauer author of two new books on and Colin Miller will con- the history of Kenya and its tinue as academic and founding president, Jomo administrative directors, Kenyatta. Maloba’s book respectively. In previous Kenyatta and Britain: An years, the program brought A c c o u n t o f P o l i t i c a l 25 young African leaders to Department of Art & Design graduate students at ArtRage Transformation, 1929-1963, UD campus where they will Photo courtesy of Colin Miller has been hailed as the first a c q u i r e a d d i t i o n a l serious political biography knowledge and skills to of Jomo Kenyatta in 40 better support civic engage- years. It explores Kenyatta’s ment projects in their home life as an anti-colonial countries. activist through 1963, when he became prime minister of Artistic director and Kenya. choreographer, Lynnette Overby, has gathered a The examination of team of poets, dancers, Kenyatta’s legacy is composers and researchers completed in Maloba’s Choreographer and dancer Tumi Vil-Nkomo to help recognize and value second volume, Anatomy of One of Wunyabari the impact of women Maloba’s recent books Neo-Colonialism in Kenya: British Imperialism and leaders. The production fo- cuses on the lives of Kenyatta, 1963-1978, which Tumi Vil-Nkomo, that project investigating overall African-American and follows Kenyatta’s years in reflects on the role women health behaviors of the power until his death. Both African women from the played in the armed students at University of books were published this past, present, and future. liberation struggle in South Pretoria and will use the fall. Wh en pr es ent ed in Africa. results to work on interven- February 2018, the final President Barack Obama’s tions including training and production of Women of Con- flagship program, Kelebogile Setiloane awareness campaigns. The sequence- Ambitious, Ancillary the Young African Leader- (Behavioral Health & project team is applying for and Anonymous will include a ship Initiative, has been cut Nutrition) traveled to the the Carnegie Diaspora piece titled Four Roses, by back. The Mandela Wash- University of Pretoria, Fellowship. ington Fellowship for choreography and dancer South Africa, to work on a

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Volume 6 Winter 2017/2018 Page 5 ASIAN STUDIES

uring the 2017 calendar year, Asian Studies offered events and programs that addressed issues Darryl Flaherty, D connecting our community and the world ranging from war and peace to contemporary art. In Director February, we welcomed program founder and Department of History Professor Emeritus David Pong to deliver a lecture on Asian memorialization of war and peace in the wake of World War II. Continuing a Asian Studies Program collaboration from 2016, Asian Studies hosted a role playing exercise with the Korea Economic Institute of Washington, D.C. in May. Faculty and student participants represented , Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, and the in the six-party talks aiming to denuclearize North Korea. After three hours of negotiation, some groups found success and others met failure but all learned about the challenges of multi-party diplomacy. In September, political scientist of Japan, and specialist in disaster recovery, Daniel Aldrich, shared his research findings about the importance of tight bonds among community members and argued that social networks can be more determinative of recovery after a disaster than other variables, including level of government assistance or degree of devastation. In November, the campus was treated to two presentations on the legacies of Chinese thought by P.J. Ivanhoe of the City University of Hong Kong. Talks on “The Values of Spontaneity” and “Selfishness and Self-Centeredness” provoked spirited exchanges during a question-and-answer session. For its penultimate public event of the semester, Asian Studies supported Jewish Studies in inviting Daravann Yi to discuss his experience of the Cambodian genocide. Listeners were moved by Yi’s personal presentation, which viewed the deeply troubling history of the Cambodian genocide through the eyes of a his younger self. In the final event of the semester Alexandra Munroe, Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim in New York, shared her thoughts on contemporary Asian art.

Faculty News National Security Language games.” She has published Initiative for Youth— Summer “Representing Race and Alice Ba (Political Science & Institute. Prof. Chen gave a Disability: GTA San Andreas International Relations) keynote address on “The Art as a whole text.” Hutchinson provided the keynote of Translation” at a the Third has been elected to serve as presentation on a public panel Nishan International Forum, liaison to the Association for discussion hosted by the Asia hosted by Shandong Publishing Asian Studies for the Mid- Foundation, the Foreign Policy Corporation and also reports Atlantic Region. Community of Indonesia that Bill Gates has received a (FPCI), and Jakarta’s Centre copy of Chen’s book, The Melissa Melby Above: Coal-clay pottery workshop for Strategic and International Analects of Confucius Revisited. (Anthropology) is the co- in Yingjing, Sichuan Province China Studies (CSIS). The panel author with W. Takeda of Photo courtesy of Chandra Reedy discussed findings and recom- Alan Fox (Philosophy) “Spatial, temporal and health mendations of the Founda- published “A Process associations of eating alone: A Studies with her daughter, UD tion’s report “Asian Views on Interpretation of Daoist cross-cultural analysis of young undergraduate Cara Reedy. America’s Role in Asia,” and Thought” in Frontiers of adults in Australia and Japan,” Philosophy in China. published in Appetite. the implications of US foreign Vimalin Rujivacharakul (Art policy under President Trump History) received the Paul Rachael Hutchinson (DLLC) Chandra Reedy (Center for so far. Ba also served as a Mellon research grant, the gave a number of invited talks member of the US task force Historic Architecture & Terra Foundation Grant, and including the keynote address, that contributed to the report. Design) has published a has been appointed “Trans-media Storytelling in In addition, she gave two number of articles including Visiting Professor at Tsinghua Japanese Videogames,” at invited presentations related to “Talc-rich Black Tibetan University. She published an t h e Replaying Ja- the Association of Southeast Pottery of Derge County, essay in Architecture Beyond Asian (ASEAN) and pan conference; a discussion Sichuan Province, China” and Europe, and one of her articles was an invited panelist on “The of Modern Japanese “Research into Coal-clay was translated into Chinese. Future of Asia: Voices of the at Temple University; and a paper at the Mid-Atlantic Composite Ceramics of Next Generation,” hosted Patricia Sloane-White again by the Asia Foundation. Region Association for Asian Sichuan Province, China” both (Anthropology, Chair of Studies conference. Prof. in MRS Advances. Prof. Reedy Women & Gender Studies) Jianguo Chen (DLLC) Hutchinson also received the also published “Making was elected to a three-year continues to serve as principal Mae and Robert Carter Traditional Pottery Sustainable term as Chair of the Malaysia, investigator for a federal grant Endowment Women’s Studies Today: Three Case Studies in Singapore, Brunei Study Group awarded by the U.S. Faculty Research Award, for Akita Prefecture, Japan” which she gave a public lecture, of the Association for Asian Department of State & in Inventive Approaches and American Councils for “Representations of Women in Studies. Explorations in Ceramic International for the Japanese War-themed Video-

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Page 6 Center for Global and Area Studies EUROPEAN STUDIES

Daniel Kinderman, uropean Studies has focused on the Lecture Series on Global Populism, which has brought a Director E number of scholars to UD this fall: Kim Scheppele (Princeton) gave the inaugural talk “The End European Studies Program of the End of History.” She was followed by Justin Gest (George Mason University) who spoke about “Donald Trump and the White Working Class Revolution.” David Timberman (independent scholar and Systems International) spoke about “Rodrigo Duterte and Populism in the Philippines,” and our very own Julio Carrion spoke about “Understanding Populist Governance in Latin America.” The lecture series will continue in the spring with talks by Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton), Mabel Berezin (Cornell), and Bart Bonikowski (Harvard).

Faculty Activities were paired with excursions the National Endowment and “Dichotomies vs in the city and weekend for the Humanities. She Complexities” in the book James Brophy (Francis H. trips to Erfurt, Eisenach discussed her recent book Georgia in the Shadows of Squire Professor of History) and Berlin. The students Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Stalinism. He also wrote the was elected president of the completed research projects Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology preface and gave an invited Central European History on 500 years of reformation and Poetics in 17th Century presentation for the book Society, North America’s and the role of Martin Italy at Harvard, presented a launch of The Soviet Gulag: leading association for Luther and explored the lecture on “Early Modern Evidence, Interpretation, and historians of Central German capital to find Women and Communities Comparisons at Georgetown Europe. Brophy published remnants of the former of Science” at City College University. Shearer three essays in the last year: division of the city. of New York, served as a organized and presented a “Bookshops, Forbidden panelist on a roundtable on paper in the symposium, Print, and Urban Political Daniel Kinderman early modern feminism in lecture, and poster exhibit at Culture in Central Europe, (Political Science & Venice titled “Sirens of La UD, “1917: The Russian 1800- 1850,” “‘The International Relations) Serenissima: Creative Revolutionary Moment.” Modernity of Tradition’: conducted research in Women and Feminist P o p ular P r o t es t in Germany on business Forerunners in Early Deborah Steinberger N i n e t e e n t h - C e n t u r y responses to the new Modern Venice” sponsored (French, Comparative Germany,” and “Die weite nationalism and populism. by New York University Literature) presented politsche Welt in der He presented three papers and Carnegie Hall, and “Whose Life is it Anyway? Provinz: das Landesarchiv i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y a n d presented as part of Brown Le Mercure Galant and the Speyer und seine Bestände.” domestically, and published University’s Italian Studies Art of the Early Modern He also presented papers at four journal articles. Colloquium. Obituary” at Stanford three conferences: the Kinderman also served as a University and “Le Parnasse Am er ic an H is t o r i c al discussant at the American Laura Salsini (Italian, au féminin dans Les Nouvelles Association’s annual Political Science Association DLLC) is co-editor (with nouvelles de Donneau de conference in Denver, a convention and at the Virginia Picchietti) of the Visé” at the NASSCFL conference on the “Printed Philadelphia Europeanists volume Writing and Performing conference in Lyon, Book in Central Europe” at Workshop. Female Identity in Italian sponsored by a consortium St. Andrews University, Culture. of French universities. She Scotland, and the German Meredith Ray (Italian, has articles forthcoming on Studies Association’s annual DLLC) was awarded a David Shearer (recently both topics. conference in Atlanta. research fellowship from the appointed Thomas Muncy Renaissance Society of Keith Professor of History) Owen White published two During winter 2017, Iris K. America for a new book published essays: articles this year in French Busch (German, DLLC) project titled “East of Italy: “Recidivism, Social Atavism Politics, Culture and Society: took UD students to Early Modern Women and State Security in Early “The French Empire and Leipzig, Germany, where Abroad in Italy, Poland, and Soviet Policing” in Born to be the History of Economic the students enrolled in Dalmatia.” Ray also had her Criminal: The Discourse on Life” (co-authored with classes at book Daughters of Alchemy: Criminality and the Practice of Elizabeth Heath), and “Roll InterDaF am Herder Women and Scientific Culture in Punishment in Late Imperial Out the Barrel: French and Institut. Four weeks of Early Modern Italy featured in Russia and Early . Algerian Ports and the Birth intensive language study Humanities, the magazine of Interdisciplinary Approaches of the Wine Tanker.”

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Volume 6 Winter 2017/2018 Page 7 ISLAMIC STUDIES

Faculty Activities Rudi Matthee, Director Muqtedar Khan (Political Islamic Studies Program Science & International Relations) published Five American Perspectives on Islam: A Policy Primer, and co- authored with Tahir Shad “From Jihad to Salam in Pursuit of Political Change: A Perspective based on the Quran,” and wrote two Center for Global Policy papers titled “Playing to Photos from “The Other Iran,” a visual voyage Win: the Qatar Crisis into Iranian culture, presented by Rudi Matthee Decoded” and “Hamas and and Fariba Amini Fatah Reconcile—Again.” Photos courtesy of Rudi Matthee Khan spoke at fifteen invited lectures, in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Finland as University to a symposium Context.” His co-written podcast on the New Books well as many domestic book, The Monetary History of Network, and was the focus lectures. on Iraqi Literature Today and she organized a concert Iran, Frm the Safavids to the of an “author meets critics” Qajars, came out in a Persian session at the annual Ikram Masmoudi (Arabic) of Arabic music by the group Layaali at UD. translation. He was a guest meeting of the of was a co-organizer of Ecce of honor at the 33rd Religion conference. Sloane- Homo, a Symposium on Rudi Matthee (John and German Middle Eastern White contributed “Islamic Ethics, Engagement, and Conference, where he Finance and Muslim Human Rights, with a panel Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of delivered a keynote speech. Capitalist Modernity in on “A Middle East in Crisis He also talked at Princeton Malaysia” to the Hoover and the Failure of Ethics.” History) became a trustee of the American Institute of and presented papers at Institution’s Middle East She gave two papers, “What conferences in London and Analysis, The Caravan, as Needs to Die in Syria: (AIrS), a non-profit consortium of Paris. In late spring, he well as an article “Men of Insights from Khalid spent three weeks in Iran, the Mosque and Market” to Khalifa’s Novel Death is US universities and promoting the where he gave six invited the Middle East Institute’s Hard Work” at UD, and talks. online research site. She “Surviving the Wilderness: interdisciplinary study of Iranian civilization and US- presented her research on The Dialectics of Violence Patricia Sloane-White Corporate Islam at the and Migration in the Iran cultural dialogue. He also assumed the presidency (Anthropology, Chair of European Association for Contemporary Iraqi Novel” Women & Gender Studies) Southeast Asian Studies at the annual meeting of the of the Persian Heritage Foundation. Matthee spent is the author of a new book, annual meeting in Oxford, American Comparative Corporate Islam: Sharia and the England and at the Max Literature Association in the spring semester as the Agnes Gund and Daniel Modern Workplace, published Planck Institute for Social Utrecht. She participated in by Cambridge University Anthropology in Germany, multiple forums on Shapiro Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Press and called “essential where she will return as a immigration policy and reading for anyone with an visiting fellow in 2018. bigotry at UD. She was Study in Princeton. He published “Alcohol and interest in Islamic politics invited by the Middle East and culture in modern life.” Studies Center at Duke Politics in Muslim Culture: Pre-Text, Text and The book was featured in a

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Page 8 Center for Global and Area Studies JEWISH STUDIES

Polly Zavadivker, he Jewish Studies Program is pleased to share news of its programs and developments. In Director T May 2017, the Program hosted award-winning author and artist Alan Kaufman for a Chaiken Center for Jewish lecture about Holocaust history and memory. Kaufman’s visit to UD coincided with an Studies exhibit organized by Special Collections in Morris Library entitled “Remembrance and Visions,” featuring selections of Kaufman’s paper and artworks that are currently held in Special Collections. The Jewish Studies Program also co-sponsored a series of speakers for the Department of History monthly workshops: in spring 2017, presenters included Polly Zavadivker of UD and Raz Seagal of Stockton University; and in fall 2017, Anna Kushkova of University of North Carolina. The Program also hosted lectures from two survivors of genocide, including the Holocaust survivor Ann Jaffe and Cambodian genocide survivor Daravann Yi. In October 2017, the JS Program co-sponsored an evening lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian. In November 2017, the Program co-sponsored a day long symposium at UD devoted to commemorating the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

In September 2017, the JS Program announced a new Research and Conference Funds Program, to provide small grants each academic year to support research and conference attendance in any area of Jewish Studies to any faculty and graduate students at the University of Delaware. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Two Jewish Studies students completed independent research projects and internships in 2017. Julia Grossman received a Community-Based Research Grant from UD’s Office of Service Learning, which she used to interview and research his- tories of survivors of the Holocaust in Soviet lands. Katelyn Hesse completed an internship at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, where she catalogued collections of Jews in the history of business.

Faculty News can Jewish Studies from the School of , Jewish Book Council, and Moscow. In November, she Rebecca Davis (History) the Dorothy Rosenberg presented a paper entitled presented her ongoing Prize for the history of the “Jewish Humanitarianism in research about the conversion Jewish diaspora from the the Russian Civil War,” at of Sammy Davis Jr. to Judaism American Historical Associ- the National Convention of as part of a special opening ation. the Association for Slavic, roundtable with a paper East European & Eurasian entitled “Conversion Through Polly Zavadivker (History) Studies, held in Chicago. In Above: Roger Horowitz, speaking History,” at The Politics of Con- received a Faculty Research April 2017 she presented a at the Jewish Federation in version, Newberry Library, Grant from the Center for paper entitled “The Holo- Wilmington, DE Chicago. In March she re- Global & Area Studies, caust: A Human Story,” at ceived the Director’s Fel- which she used to complete the symposium ECCE Below: Flyer advertising the lowship at Jacob Rader Mar- archival research in St. Pe- Homo, held at University of Kaufman exhibit at Morris Library cus Center of the American tersburg and Moscow in the Delaware. Photos courtesy of Polly Zavadivker Jewish Archives to examine summer. She conducted collections related to the con- research for her current versions to Judaism of Sammy project about Jewish public Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, organizations in Russia Elizabeth Taylor, and others. during the First World War. In June 2017 she organized Roger Horowitz’s (History) and presented research at a book Kosher USA: How Coke panel entitled “Jewish Became Kosher and Other Tales of Families in the Second Modern Food was named a World War and Holocaust Choice Outstanding Academic in the USSR, Problems and Book, received the National Methods of Using Personal Jewish Book Award in Ameri- Sources” at the Higher

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Volume 6 Winter 2017/2018 Page 9 LATIN AMERICAN & IBERIAN STUDIES

n April, two LAIS faculty members participated in the Global Digital Cultures lecture Eve Buckley, Director I series (ARSC300). Persephone Braham discussed “Social Media and the Mexican Drug Latin American & Iberian Wars” and Phillip Penix-Tadsen presented “Gaming Beyond the Digital Divide: Video Studies Program Games and Game Cultures of the Global South.”

This fall, the Delaware Humanities Forum provided UD students an opportunity to hear Prof. Vicki Ruiz of the University of California at Irvine lecture about “Nuestra América: Latino History as U.S. History.” Twenty students traveled to the Hagley Soda House in Wilmington for this event. On Oct. 12, director Andy Fernandez brought his film Risers to campus along with two of the DACA students whose experiences are depicted in that documentary. Delaware State University recipients of DREAM scholarship and their liaison in the DSU administration also attended to discuss immigration policy, particularly as it pertains to university students.

Prof. Alex Selimov invited Cuban poet Dr. Amauri Gutiérrez Coto and painter Matiko Mamaladze to present artists’ reflections on the Pulse Nightclub massacre, in a set of events entitled “Remembering Orlando.” Finally, political science professor Julio Carrion presented “Understanding Populist Governance in Latin America” as part of the Global Populism lecture series sponsored by CGAS.

Faculty News Applied Anthropology to Death: Hybrid Thrillers Sustainable Futures”. Convey Argentina’s Vexed Eve Buckley (History) G u e r r ó n - M o n t e r o Role in a Precarious Global presented “The Political presented four papers, in Order” at the XX Congreso Economy of Hunger in the Ecuador, Brazil, California, Internacional de Literatura Early : A Brazilian and New Mexico. She has Hispánica, held in Santiago Nutritionist Combats also published two book de Compostela, Spain. She Overpopulation Discourse” chapters, two peer-reviewed also moderated the session at a symposium on Race journal articles, and a book “Lo siniestro, la Sex, and Reproduction in review. desesperanza y el terrorismo the Global South hosted by en la narrativa argentina the University of Sydney, In addition to her CGAS- contemporánea” (The Australia. grant funded fieldwork in sinister, despair, and Wine press in Basque Cuba and Spain where she terrorism in contemporary Country, Spain Carla Guerrón-Montero conducted research on food Argentine narrative) at the Photo courtesy of Lindsay (Anthropology) was sovereignty exchanges same conference. Naylor appointed Program Chair of (more on p. 3), Lindsay the 2018 Annual Meeting of Naylor (Geography) also the Society for Applied published three articles on Anthropology and Member her work in Latin America: of the Advisory Board of two on Fair Trade coffee the Fifth International farmers in Chiapas, Mexico Conference “Why the and one on Cuba. World Needs Anthropologists.” She Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz received a grant from the (DLLC) presented a paper Slovenian Research Agency entitled “Terrorist Attacks for a US-Slovenia bilateral on Buenos Aires and project, “A Contribution of Nisman’s Mysterious UD and DSU students and faculty at the panel screening of Risers (a film on DACA students) Photo courtesy of Pascha Bueno-Hansen

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Page 10 Center for Global and Area Studies SPRING ’18 OFFERINGS This is a very limited selection included. Possible topics studies and historical material Latin American & Iberian of Area Studies courses offered include Chinese Art and to comprehend ideals, Studies in spring 2018. This is by no Collecting, Modern practices, and themes of POSC426 Latin American means a complete list – please Architecture in East Asia, Meiji gender and gender relations in Politics visit www.cgas.udel.edu for Art and architecture, East Islam. Introduces Prof. Julio Carrion complete course lists. Asian and representations of Islamic Nationalism. belief in doctrinal, historical, An examination of the Global Studies and contemporary contexts. dynamics that explain current HIST371 Postwar Japan politics in the region. ARSC300 Issues in Global Prof. Darryl Flaherty HIST381 Islam & the West: Studies The History of Mutual SPAN462 Hispanic Short Prof. Carla Guerrón Montero Traces the emergence of Perceptions Fiction: Latin American contemporary Japan in its Prof. Rudolph Matthee Short Story cultural and social spheres. Prof. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz The theme of this one-credit Emphasis is on analysis of the Surveys the history of mutual lecture series in spring 2018 is historical significance of views of Islam and An in-depth study of four “Sustainable Futures.” This postwar Japanese culture. Christianity/Judaism/the West major short story writers of course is a core component of Investigations explore everyday from the Middle Ages to the Latin America: Juan Rulfo, the Global Studies minor. For life as depicted in literature, present. Topics include Jorge Luis Borges, Julio more information, see the back film, journalism, memoirs, and medieval polemics, Cortázar, and Gabriel García page of this Bulletin. historical writings. Enlightenment attempts at Márquez; as well as selected respect and understanding, the stories by women writers such African Studies European Studies question of , and as Clarice Lispector, Elena the current specter of a clash Garro, and Cristina Peri ANTH333 Peoples of Africa HIST338 Greek-Roman of civilizations. Rossi. Class discussion will Prof. Andrew Brown Sport-Recreation focus on the obsessive themes Prof. Steven Sidebotham Jewish Studies and writing techniques of these Social institutions and cultural a u t h o r s . F r o m t h e traditions of Africa; political, Covers 2000 B.C. to 6th JWST201 Issues & Ideas in cosmopolitan ambiance of economic, legal, and kinship century A.D. from point of Jewish Studies: Jewish Buenos Aires to rural Mexico systems, and modes of view of spectator and Studies, Jewish Stories and the steamy tropical coast thought. participant; use of ancient Prof. Hillary Neben of Colombia, these authors in translation, artistic masterpieces of short fiction ENGL382 Studies in representations and secondary A forum for scholars to share offer a fascinating insight into Multicultural Lit: Bodies & literature. their thoughts and research on Latin America. Commodities the culture, literature, and Prof. Emily Davis HIST356 Modern European history of the Jewish people. SPAN479 Resurrecting Intellectual History Topics range from historical Mexico’s Dead Consideration of Prof. John Bernstein reviews to contemporary Prof. Phillip Penix-Tadsen multiculturalism as it pertains issues. to American culture or Philosophical and political Death and resurrection have literature in English from thought from English JWST254 Jewish Holocaust: been used as tropes in various Africa. Romanticism and German 1933 - 1945 media in Mexican culture to Classicism through Prof. Polly Zavadivker discuss social, political, and Asian Studies Existentialism. Readings from economic concerns. These Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Focuses on the infamous recurring tropes hold symbolic ARTH445 Columns, Sky, Nietzsche and Thomas Mann. “Final Solution,” with power, evinced in festive Día Cosmos in East Asian Art particular emphasis on the de los Muertos celebrations as Prof. Vimalin Rujivacharakul Islamic Studies roots of Anti-Semitism, well as in violent drug National Socialist policies and trafficking wars. Art, architecture, and ANTH316 Islam and Gender plans, ghetto and camp life, the archaeology of China, Japan, Prof. Patricia Sloane-White Einsatzgruppen, resistance, the and/or Korea. Materials from politics of rescue, and the art nearby regions may also be Uses anthropological case and literature of the Holocaust.

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In their words… I was able to travel to in 1618-22 by court artist Thanks to CGAS support, I Continued from p. 3 and the Czech Ottavio Miseroni, very likely was able to travel to government that existed Republic to conduct for the Holy Roman Argentina to continue the from 1918 to 1921. My research for my book-length Emperor Ferdinand II, a search for pedagogical primary interest is in two project Pearls at Court: staunch supporter of the materials and carry out individuals, native Buryats European Courtly Art and the Catholic Counter - author interviews on the who also worked for Rise of the Atlantic Pearl Trade, Reformation. topic of “Children’s Russian expeditions. Little 1500-1800. This research Literature under information exists about was a continuation of prior “The Road Not Taken: Dictatorship.” The these individuals during this year’s research in Venezuela. What Will China Become discovery of new books has period, but archive materials in the 21st Century?” allowed me to revise course show that both were In spring 2017, I traveled to Jianguo Chen (2014 grant materials for my classes on extensively involved in this Vienna, Prague, and recipient) Human Rights and Latin nationalist movement. to conduct American Literature while Other materials proved research at several early This grant enabled me to providing me with insights extremely useful, especially modern collections holding progress in my project needed for future articles. discussions about important pearl objects that focused on China’s social As a direct result of the expeditions to Mongolia originally belonged to transformation and its research grant, I was invited that were never realized for members of the Habsburg effects on international to speak at the prestigious reasons involving family: the Imperial relations, particularly on the “VIII Congreso interference by Soviet Treasury and the complex US-China relations. Internacional de political police. I have done extensive Investigación y Práctica in Vienna, the Hradcany research in both countries Profesional de Psicología. This was a fruitful trip, (also known as Prague on social, cultural, and Encuentro de Investigdores despite not being able to get Castle) and the Sternberg literary texts; documentaries de Psicología del to Ulan Ude, and I am palaces in Prague, and the and films; China’s social MERCOSUR” held in grateful for CGAS support. and Tyrolean media as a dynamic Buenos Aires. My I have already incorporated State Museum in Innsbruck. indicator of the country’s presentation, entitled some of the Moscow Close inspection of socio-political and economic “Human Rights: Inclusion material in an article under collections of art and changes; and filed interviews and Exclusion in consideration, “Heroes Sung curiosities compiled by Holy with people from different Contemporary Society: and Unsung.” I plan to Roman Emperors walks of life. Based on my Childhood Subjectivity,” combine materials from Maximilian II, Rudolph II, research, I have given was part of a panel of both sites into a draft article and Ferdinand II, as well as several talks and am speakers. Prior to this, I on the Pan-Mongolian- Archduke Ferdinand II of working on a journal article introduced the topic of Buryat national movement , along with titled “China in the 21st infancy under terror and its during the Russian bibliographic research, made Century: A Critical literature in the XIX revolutionary era. My it clear that Habsburg rulers Perspective.” I have Congreso de la Asociaion eventual goal is to produce a used pearls not only to incorporated this research International de Hispanistas monograph in foreign decorate secular pieces into courses I teach for (AIH) in Munster, exploration and politics in articulating their claims of Chinese and Asian Studies Germany. This research is Central Asia. sovereignty over the world, students. I have co-authored an attempt to explore and but also in a number of a book of Chinese culture, interpret Human Rights in “Pearls at Court: sacred objects that conveyed Shandong the Magnificent, and Latin America through European Courtly Art and their particular devotions am under contract for a new interdisciplinary theoretical the Rise of the Atlantic and religious policies. These book, The Analects Revisited: and pedagogical practice. Pearl Trade, 1500-1800” artifacts have not received Towards a Critical New Mónica Domínguez- sufficient scholarly Reading. Torres (2016 grant attention, so I changed the recipient) focus of the second chapter “Children’s Literature of my book to study an under Dictatorship” With the support of a impressive pearl-studded Gladys Ilarregui (2016 research grant from CGAS, reliquary created in Prague grant recipient)

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Announcing the Spring 2018 Issues in Global Studies Lecture Series

SPRING 2018 LECTURE SERIES MONDAYS The theme Sustainable Futures brings to the forefront a dialogue about how to 12:20 –1:10 PM meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability is understood in its broadest sense, and it includes considerations of the distribution of wealth and resources and environmental renewability in our time and in the contexts of nationality and ethnicity, race and social class, and gender and sexuality.

This lecture series is offered by the Center for Global and Area Studies. It may be taken as a one-credit Pass/Fail course: ARSC300 Issues in Global Studies. The course is open to all students and is a core course for the minor in Global Studies.

Please direct your inquiries to Prof. Carla Guerrón Montero ([email protected])

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The Center for Global and Area Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences’ hub for world scholarship and engagement, supports academic programs in African, Asian, European, Islamic, Jewish, Latin American & Iberian, and Global Studies. CGAS also organizes lectures and events in global and area studies, develops related majors and minors, and awards research grants to faculty whose work contributes to our knowledge of the world.