Professor Andy Horowitz, author of the prize-winning book Katrina: A History, 1915–2015, has been consulted widely around Katrina’s 20th anniversary. Listen to him on NPR Morning Edition, and read his essay “Katrina’s America” in a special issue of the journal Southern Cultures that he guest edited.

Luke Reynolds has been invited to deliver the annual Siborne Lecture at the National Army Museum in London on June 19th. This lecture is part of the National Army Museum’s Waterloo Week (16 – 22 June) held to mark the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

In collaboration with Connecticut Humanities and the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Fiona Vernal has made an online platform TheirStory accessible to CT organizations and residents to support the creation of oral history collections. Vernal began working with TheirStory creator Zack Ellis in 2022 working on a project on West Indian, African American, and Puerto Rican migrations to Hartford. The article also details the other CT organization and communities that have benefitted from this collaboration.

Professor Helen Rozwadowski was interviewed for the Blue History Network Podcast, which is now up on Spotify and the network’s website. In this podcast, Professor Rozwadowski delves into “a wide variety of subjects, from oceanography in the Nineteenth century to how we, in the present, bring ocean history to the attention of the public“. She also discusses her books, Fathoming the Ocean and Vast Expanses.

On the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, a special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies offers thirteen original translations of Vietnamese songs, poems, memoirs, and fiction about the end of the war and its aftermath. Co-edited by Nu-Anh Tran and Trinh M. Luu, the collection is ideal for teaching at the college- and high school-level. Browse the issue at https://online.ucpress.edu/jvs/issue/20/2

Earlier this month, Professor Alexis Dudden was quoted in the New York Times article, “How ​South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader”. The article, written by Choe Sang-Hun, analyzes the attempted coup by former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol and what its outcome says about democracy in South Korea.

To read the article: Article

Today, Professor Manisha Sinha‘s interview with Salon, an online news website, was published. The article, which can be read here, connects Professor Sinha’s work to the modern day and delves into her book “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Reconstruction 1860-1920”.

Later this month, Professor Sergio Luzzatto will be delivering the Virgilio Lectures at the University of Chicago, sponsored by the Romance Languages and Literatures Department.  He will be giving three different lectures, on April 16, April 18, and April 22, on “Primo Levi and His Auschwitz Companions: Between History and Literature.” The lectures will draw on his recently published book Primo Levi e i suoi compagni (Donzelli, 2024).  While the lectures will be in Chicago, they can be followed virtually on line as well. Full details can be found on the U Chicago website:  https://events.uchicago.edu/event/246646-virgilio-lecture-series-with-sergio-luzzatto-.

 

Congratulations to Professor Luzzatto on this important new book, and major honor.

Earlier this month, the “My Story, Our Future” exhibit opened at the Greenwich Historical Society. The exhibit, which will run from February 3rd to March 2nd, was a joint effort on the part of the Greenwich Historical Society, the India Cultural Centers, and the UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute. This is the program’s third year running, and was created “in alignment with Connecticut’s mandated K-12 Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) curriculum”. The goal of this initiative is to bring focus onto the voices of South Asian American youth in Connecticut through the collection of their stories, and explore the history of the South Asian American community in Connecticut. For this years exhibit, local students interviewed their family members about their experiences immigrating to North America from South Asia, and then learned how to create their own display of curated objects to help tell that history.

Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, who was a main proponent of the creation of the initiative and of the inclusion of AAPI curriculum in schools, spoke at the opening of the exhibit. Professor Chang “shared his experiences as faculty mentor and guide and spoke of the challenges and opportunities of introducing the AAPI curriculum to the state’s 170 school districts and to the teachers who have not previously studied it“.

The exhibit will be open to the public until March 2nd at the Greenwich Historical Society. To listen to the oral histories, you can visit the historical society’s website, where there is a link to their Spotify.