The latest news and information from the
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion (SHPR)
Oregon State University

SHPR NEWS:

SHPR faculty were active preparing and publishing new works and giving presentations at academic conferences around the world, in your community, on television, and even in virtual worlds online!    Here are some highlights from across the School from Fall 2013.

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Benny is not only a cool mascot,
he’s also a good role model!

As the mascot for Oregon State University, it should not be surprising that Benny Beaver is a positive ethical role model.   This term, Benny collaborated with Philosophy professor Stephanie Jenkins for the “Be Like Benny” project to help demonstrate what it means to ‘Be Orange.’

 This collaboration grew out of the Phronesis Lab for Engaged Ethics project “Be Good, Be Orange” – a blog devoted to exploring, developing, and challenging what it means to “Be Orange”, or an OSU Beaver.  “Being Orange” means being an active citizen of the OSU community.  We all perform our “Orangeness” in our everyday actions and engagement with the world. At the blog, they encourage OSU students, faculty, staff, alumni, family, and friends to reflect on the values outlined in the Oregon State Strategic Plan: accountability, diversity, integrity, respect, and social responsibility.

                              (Visit http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/begood/ to learn more)

Congratulations are also in order for Jenkins who has been awarded both an LL Stewart Faculty Development Grant and a CLA Research Grant this Fall.

In September, she participated in  the International Disability Rights Affirmation Conference – a high-tech virtual conference held in the online realm of Second Life.   There, she presented “Gender, Community, and Collaboration: The Experiences of Women Living with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy,” a study co-authored with Nina Slota.   She also presented “Using Foucault’s Genealogical Body in Disability Ethics,” at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy conference at the University of Oregon.

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Stuart Sarbacker presented a paper entitled “Otto and the Numinous: Religious Emotion and the Roots of the Real” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, held Nov 23-26 in Baltimore, MD.

While in the DC area, Sarbacker also attended a private tour of the exhibit “Yoga: The Art of Transformation” at the Smithsonian Institute with fellow yoga scholars given by the curator, Debra Diamond.

Left:  The Chakras of the Subtle Body, part of the new exhibit Yoga: The Art of Transformation at the Sackler Gallery till January 26, 2014

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Christopher McKnight Nichols’ article “The Enduring Power of Isolationism: An Historical Perspective” appeared in Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, [Vol. 57, No. 3 (New York: Elsevier Press, Summer 2013): 390-407]  noting doubts about American involvement abroad are on the rise, up 10 percent in a decade.    This led to multiple international news stories including:  The Huffington Post, The Albany Tribune,  The North Korea Times, The Kenya Star, and the Malaysian Sun (and many more!).

Nichols Co-moderated a plenary session on the “The United States and the World: Intellectual Histories of American Foreign Relations” at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting (Nov 1-3; Irvine, CA, UC-Irvine) as well as chairing two panels: one on transnational intellectual exchanges and one on ideas and foreign relations.  He also presented a paper at the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting (Denver, CO) on August 10, 2013

C-SPAN “American History TV,” aired the Keynote Panel on “American Power in Historical Perspective” recorded at the OSU American Military and Diplomatic History Conference in May.   The panel featured Nichols, co-authors Milne and Lynch and SHPR Director Ben Mutschler.   It first aired on August 3-5, 2013

Nichols was also recently spotlighted by the American Historical Association!

Finally, alumnus and student Steven McLain and Matt Sharpe, who have been working with Nichols as part of the prestigious PROMISE Program summer, presented the results of their research at the PROMISE internship fair this Fall.

Nichols said “McLain and Sharpe have achieved a great deal and have learned a lot, including acquiring new advanced skills in primary source research and analysis.   They’ve done a great job!”

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Speaking of fantastic students, undergraduate philosophy student Trenton Ogden delivered a paper of his own at the 2nd Annual SDSU Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy held at San Diego State University on Oct. 19th and 20th.   His paper presentation was entitled “Pragmatic Alternatives to the Melting Pot Theory and Solutions for Modern Immigration Problems.”    When not busy with academics and research, Trent also helps to direct the newly founded Religious Studies Student Group.    Visit them on Facebook to learn more!

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In Oct., Jonathan Kaplan attended a conference at Stanford University celebrating what has come to be known as The Stanford School of Philosophy of Science, featuring prominent philosophers such as Nancy Cartwright, John Dupré, Peter Galison,  Peter Godfrey-Smith, Patrick Suppes, and  Debra Satz.  As a graduate of the program mentored by these key figures, Kaplan was chosen to speak on the “Next Generations Panel”   See the full line up here.

Kaplan has also continued his research collaboration with Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther on issues surrounding “race” and biology.  Together they have so far written three papers together on these topics: “Realism, Antirealism, and Conventionalism about Race,” in Philosophy of Science;  “Ontologies and Politics of Bio-Genomic ‘Race'” in Theoria; and “Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of ‘Race’,” in Biological Theory.

Finally he continues to collaborate with Audrey Chapman (Healey Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Connecticut School of Medicine) and Adrian Carter (University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Ethics, Addiction Neuroethics Unit) on issues surrounding genetic research into addition and addictive behaviors.  They have written a book chapter on these issues together, and are expanding that work into a series of articles, and possibly into other media.

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The Oregon Humanities ‘Conversation Project’ offers Oregon nonprofits free, humanities-based public discussion programs about provocative issues and ideas.  In the first four years of the program, more than 170 nonprofits across the state hosted almost 400 Conversation Project programs as stand-alone events, parts of a series, and supplements to their regular programming.    This year, this program features twenty-two programs, including several new conversations that will inspire and challenge Oregonians to talk and think.

Two of these programs are from Hundere Professor of Philosophy, Courtney Campbell:

Church and State

Grave Matters

Click here to learn how to bring these programs to YOUR community!

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Historian Anita Guerrini has been busy during this fall, writing and presenting six different papers across three countries including:

• one at the Society for Ecological Restoration meeting in Madison, WI entitled “Back to Eden?  Restoration and its meanings in seventeenth-century England”;

• one in London, UK to the Wellcome seminar in pre-modern medicine entitled “The Galenist as Mechanist: Claude Perrault and the Natural History of Animals”;

• and four in the past month as a “visiting director of studies” (ie visiting professor) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France including:“Jean Riolan, Experimenting, and the Circulation of Blood”
  “Humanism, Animals, and the Origins of the Paris Academy of Sciences”
  “The Ghastly Kitchen: Cooking, the Household, and Experimental Science”
  “The King’s Animals and the King’s Books: the illustrations for the Paris Academy’s Histoire des animaux”

The Work of Printing.
Photo by Roberta Ballestriero

Congratulations are also in order as Anita’s new book manuscript, *The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris*  has just been accepted by the University of Chicago Press and will soon go into production.

Left:  Guerrini had the opportunity to operate this beautiful ornate cast-iron nineteenth-century manual printing press while visiting the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England.   Coincidentally, this Fall, Guerrini will teach HST599, a special topics course on “The History of the Book.”

You can read about the work of printing and more on Anita’s blog “History, animals, science, food”

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Shari Clough had a busy writing term with three essays going to press including:

–  “The Objectivity of Feminist Values and Their Place in Science”
in the Italian collection La Contingenza dei Fatti e l’Oggettività dei Valori
(The Contingency of Facts and the Objectivity of Values)

–  “Pragmatism and Embodiment as Resources for Feminist Interventions in Science”
in the journal Contemporary Pragmatism, and

Super-Hero Space Consultant of the Night.

–  “Feminist Theories of Evidence and Biomedical Research Communities: A Reply to Goldenberg” in the new on-line resource The Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.

Clough also travelled to New York City to work with a co-author on an upcoming paper on biomedical explanations of sexuality, and gave a presentation to the New York Society for Women in Philosophy.

At our November Open House, Shari was recognized, along with Dwanee Howard & Ben Mutschler, for their work on the extensive renovations and redesign of Milam Hall’s 3rd Floor.

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Professor José-Antonio Orosco had a comment piece on the Syrian chemical weapons published in the October issue of the journal Etsákupani Internacional, a publication put out by the Universidad Latina de América (UNLA).   The issue was on the subject of human rights and you can read it here.  (p. 10)

Orosco also received a Faculty Internationalization Grant from the International Programs Office in September to fund the development of the Peace Studies class, PAX 199 Peace and Conflict in the Americas.   This was a binational course that allowed OSU students and students from the Universidad Latina de America in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico to discuss together questions of violence and nonviolence through video conferencing.  This grant allowed me to travel to Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico in September to give a couple of lectures at the Universidad Latina de America on human rights and peace studies.  In October, the grant paid to bring Professor Enrique Fuentes from UNLA to Oregon State University.    In an event co-sponsored by the Oregon State University Peace Studies Program, the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, and the Center for Latina/Latino Studies and Engagement (CL@SE), Flores gave a presentation on the Challenges for Higher Education in Mexico.   You can see his presentation below:

Finally, Orosco and Tony Vogt joined forces this Fall to create The Anarres Project for Alternative Future.   The Anarres Project is a forum for conversations, ideas, and initiatives that promote a future free of domination, exploitation, oppression, war, and empire, to the fullest extent possible.

The project is off to a strong start and sponsored
several well attended events during Fall term including:

Imagination and Social Change: The Creativity of Occupy  (10/15)

Liberation Leadership for Anti-Racist and Feminist Social Justice  (10/25)

and

Surrender: Guerilla to Grandmother  (10/31)

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Kara Ritzheimer delivered a paper called “The Gender of Germanization: The BDM in the Reichsgau Wartheland” at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association held in Denver in early October.

Ritzheimer also completed her manuscript “Battling Buffalo Bill: Regionalism, Gender, and Censorship in Early 20th Century Germany” which is now under review at Cambridge.

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Paul Kopperman’s recent book Regimental Practice” by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual was favorably reviewed in the journal Social History of Medicine 26-3 Aug 13.

Marisa Chappell (author of the War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America) was quoted in a recent Media and Public Opinion Post article on the causes of poverty in America.

Stacey Smith’s new book Freedom’s Frontier was recently given
The Page 99 Test.    Read the article and learn more!

Jake Hamblin’s new book Arming Mother Nature was recently featured in the Ecologist in an article entitled “What greens can learn from Dr. Strangelove.“

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Education Beyond the Classroom

Education doesn’t stop in the classroom.   Events on campus provide opportunities for academic discourse and inspiration, for community education and outreach, and for student interaction with top researchers in their field.   The School of History, Philosophy, and Religion continues to raise the bar and sponsor diverse quality programming that enhances the culture of learning and community on the Oregon State University campus.

Students, faculty, alumni, and friends all showed their
support during our first Open House in November.

Fall 2013 may have been one of our busiest terms yet.   During the 10 week Fall term, we hosted the 15th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, as well as the annual Oregon State University Constitution Day event, two speakers in the Horning 2014 ‘Culture and Religion’ Lecture series, a three speaker series examining the life and faith of Emperor Constantine I, two events sponsored by the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word, four events sponsored by the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, five events co-sponsored by the Hundere Endowment and the newly formed Religious Studies student group, and a host of smaller events!!  (Whew!)  In all, SHPR was involved with 28 events this term – that’s nearly 3 a week – including several standing room only events!

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has come out and attended our events this term and encourage you to join us for some of the diverse programming coming during Winter quarter.

WINTER TERM EVENTS:

01/06:  Winter Term Begins

01/14:  Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws and the Sochi Olympics
4pm – MU Journey Room
(a panel discussion with Kara Ritzheimer, Bill Husband, and Bradley Boovy)

01/15:  A Gathering for Peace and Conflict Studies at OSU
12pm – Milam 319A

01/15:  California Bound: Reckoning with the American West’s Unfree Past
4pm – MU Asian/Pacific Room (An American Conversations Lecture)

01/22:  World Peace and Other Fourth Grade Achievements
7pm – Majestic Theater (Part of the City of Corvallis MLK celebration)

01/23: The Seeds of Peace Tomorrow are in the Children of Today
7pm – Milam Aud.  (The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Peace Lecture)

01/28:  Native American Spirituality and Traditional Healing
7pm – MU Journey Room (Hundere Lecture with Susan Crawford O’Brien)

02/11:  The Role of Mormon Women
7pm – MU Journey Room (Hundere Lecture with Susanna Morrill)

02/14 & 02/15:  Transformation Without Apocalypse
All Day – LaSells Stewart Center (A Spring Creek Project event with Tim DeChristopher, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, Rob Nixon, and more… Click here for more information.)

02/19:  Sex in Crisis 
7pm – LaSells Stewart Center (Carson Lecture with Dagmar Herzog)

02/24:  Why the World Needs Religious Studies
7pm – MU Journey Room (A Hundere Lecture with Nathan Schneider)

03/06:  Nietzsche and Spirituality in the US
4pm – MU Journey Room (Horning Lecture with Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen)

THE LAST WORD:

“As we leave the moon and Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind,” he spoke. “As I take these last steps from the surface for some time to come, I’d just like to record that America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow.”

– the last words ever spoken on the Moon…

– Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 ; which returned to Earth on this day in 1972.

SHPR NEWS

Courtney Campbell was recently featured as a medical ethics guest expert on an episode of “The Blaze.”   With hospitals facing a shortage of organ donors, this show asked if there is a free market solution that can solve the shortage and save lives.  Fortunately, Courtney was on hand to weigh in on the ethics and implications of creating an open market for human organs.
You can watch Courtney’s full interview here.

Campbell was also quoted in the Oregonian earlier this month regarding the current organ transplant system pointing out that “roughly 7,000 people die each year – 19 a day –waiting for the organs that could save them.”

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Congratulations to Jon Dorbolo who was awared the 2013 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Exemplary Course Design by the folks at Blackboard, Inc.    They stated, “The efforts made by Jon Louis Dorbolo really do make a difference in enhancing the learning experience at your institution and for many other institutions across the globe.”  His work will be highlighted at the Blackboard World 2013 conference awards luncheon which will take place on July 11, 2013 in Las Vegas.

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Congratulations to Jacob Darwin Hamblin who was interviewed on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s show Think Out Loud.  According to the accompanying article entitled “How the Cold War Created Environmental Science,” Jake’s new book, Arming Mother Nature, has scene after scene that makes you wonder if Dr. Strangelove or Dr. No weren’t so fictional after all…  (It really is a great read!)

Click here to read the article and listen to the full interview

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The Phrōnesis Lab group, led by Sharyn Clough and Stephanie Jenkins, has just wrapped up teaching a ten-week course in Peace and Social Justice to a group of 11 at-risk youth from neighboring College Hill High School.  The course focused on topics chosen by the high school students, including LGBT issues, poverty, homelessness, and bullying.  The philosophy program at OSU is a perfect incubator for the Phrōnesis Lab because the faculty here have always been committed to philosophy engaged with and in the real world.   This course will be offered every Spring.

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Stephanie Jenkins also recently presented a paper at the 7th Annual Meeting of philoSOPHIA in Banff, Alberta Canada.   Her paper, which was part of the Bios, Biopower, and Bioethics: Critical Disability Theory Perspectives Session, was entitled “Morally Considerable Life: Towards a Feminist Disability Ethics.”

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Earlier this month, the Religion in American History blog did a week long series of critical interpretations of John Lardas Modern’s Secularism in Antebellum America.    Kicking off this week long event was Amy Koehlinger who had recently chaired a provocative and well-attended session on the topic at the American Academy of Religion conference in Chicago.

You can read Amy’s introduction and the entire series here!

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The 2013 Society for U.S. Intellectual History conference committee announced two main plenary sessions to be held the evenings of November 1 and November 2, 2013, at UC-Irvine.    One of these sessions, The United States and the World: Intellectual Histories of American Foreign Relations, will be co-chaired by Christopher McKnight Nichols.

Click here to learn more about the 2013 US Intellectual History conference.

Nichols’ class on the U.S. role in the world in the post-Cold War era/ca. 1989-2001, which was taped on March 12, 2013, aired on June 8 & 9 on C-SPAN’s “Lectures in American History.”   Nichols has since received a flood of positive emails on both his teaching and the high quality student insights and participation.

Click here to watch the class broadcast online!

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Earlier this month, Allen Thompson presented at the 2013 OSU Authors and Editors Recognition Luncheon.   Joined by faculty from across the University, Allen discussed his most recent book “Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change.”    Allen was the only professor from the College of Liberal Arts to present.

Click here to learn more about Allen’s work.

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Anita Guerrini had a wonderful blog/article featured on the website for the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine which will be held 21-28 July in Manchester England.   Her post is based on the paper , “Une affreuse cuisine: The ghastly kitchen,” which she is due to give at ICHSTM as part of symposium T159, “Place and affect in early-modern sciences,” on Monday 22nd July.

Click here to visit the ICHSTM website and read the article!

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It is one thing to hear about social injustice second hand.  It is another to go out and see for yourself.    During Spring term, Joseph Orosco and Tony Vogt hosted the OSU Peace Studies Social Justice Reality Tour to give students the opportunity to go out and investigate social justice in their own community and to report back about their experiences.   As one part of this project, they have set up a fantastic blog entitled “Ground Truthing Social Justice:  Reports from the Field” to give students the opportunity to publicly post about their research and findings.  They hope to offer this course regularly and investigate a different series of on-the-ground issues each time.

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Congratulations to recent MS History of Science graduate Peter Rumbles who has accepted a post at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City.  Chartered by the State of New York in 2009, the museum is the only museum of mathematics in the USA and has  substantial outreach missions to K-12 students and the general public.  For more on the museum and its history see: http://momath.org/about/

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Award winning history student and recent graduate Maanas Tripathi was featured this month in an article by the College of Liberal Arts entitled “Off the Beaten Path.”   In this article, he says, “I honestly used to be really bored with my experiences in school until I decided to major in history. For once, I was actually excited about going to class.”    Maanas has been accepted into medical school and begins his advanced classes this fall.

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The University Honor’s College at OSU has awarded Victoria Price the Honors Promise Finishing Scholarship for 2013-2014.   Her award was one of only two given to students in the Humanities.   This $5,000 scholarship is the highest dollar value award made by the UHC.  This award adds to Victoria’s already impressive list of awards and accomplishments this year including the School’s WIC Culture of Writing award and the Robert Wayne Smith Book award.

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 TIMELY NOTICE:

Note that the east entrance to Milam Hall will be closed to foot traffic.  They will be trimming the boxwoods and plants near the entrance and then painting just as they did the front north entrance.  This project will most likely take most of the summer.

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NEW FEATURE NOTICE:

SHPR now has a Flickr Photo Account!!   Click below for recent photo’s from:

Milam Hall Construction

Philosophy Student Awards Ceremony

History Student Awards Ceremony

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 FALL EVENTS:

As you all know, we are already deep in scheduling events for this Fall!
Current events on the schedule include:

• September 26:   A Horning Lecture with David Hollinger
• October 3-5:  The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Conference
• October 07:  “Muslim Cool” – A Hundere Lecture with Su’ad Khabeer
• October 24:  A Pauling Nobel Anniversary Lecture with Tim Naftali
• November 20 (Tentative):  A Horning Lecture with Jon Butler
• April 28-May 1st:  Holocaust Memorial Week

If you have events planned for Fall that are not on this schedule, please set up an appointment to meet with me asap.

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A FOND FAREWELL:

After many years with the Religious Studies Department, the Philosophy Department, and ultimately the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Lois Robertson has retired.   There are not enough words of praise for the fantastic work she has done all these years in support of our programs.    Her warm smile and pleasant demeanor will be greatly missed.

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THE LAST WORD:

“Space isn’t remote at all.  It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”  – Sir Fred Hoyle (b. 06/24/1915)

Notes From the Chair

Welcome to the first installment of the SHPR Digest – our new monthly-ish summary of news from across the School.  A big thanks to Bob for pulling this together and all of you who wrote in with updates.  As he says in his final words, we really do encourage you to keep us all up to date on your activities.

Have a great March!

Ben

Faculty News

A huge congratulations go out to Anita Guerrini who was just elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to be Chair of the Section on History and Philosophy of Science.

Dr. Guerrini officially became ‘chair-elect’ on February 19, 2013 and will assume the role of chair in 2014.    The 2014 annual meeting of the AAAS will be held in Chicago, IL – February 13-17, 2014 on the theme “Meeting Global Challenges: Discovery and Innovation.”

It would be great to have a large SHPR presence at this meeting as this would be a fantastic opportunity to showcase our programs.    You can submit symposium proposals through April 23rd, 2013.

Be sure to check out Anita’s new blog, Anatomia Animalia!

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Stuart Sarbacker was featured in the most recent issue of OSU’s research magazine, Terra in an article entitled “Green Yoga: Posture for the Planet“.   Stuart explained that in India, the birthplace of the exercise, yoga is beginning to stretch beyond the boundaries of one’s self and into the ecological realm.   A new movement called “Green Yoga” encourages men and women who practice yoga — called yogis and yoginis — to strive for bettering their environment.

Stuart will be teaching a course during Spring Term devoted to Green Yoga.

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• Amy Koehlinger‘s recent article “By Whose Authority” on the conflict between nuns and the Vatican was featured on the cover of the “American Catholic Studies Newsletter.”

Visit the Cushwa Center @ Notre Dame to read the full article!

• Amy along with Stuart Sarbacker has also started a reading group for faculty in SHPR, and throughout the university, on theories and methods in the academic study of religion.   Contact Amy or Stuart for more information!

• Amy and Courtney Campbell also teamed earlier this month to present:

“God Talk” in the Public Presidency

You can watch their presentation below!

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Joseph Orosco hosted the annual conference of the the Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium (PCSC) entitled “The Chemistry of Peace: Transforming Cultures of Fear Through Education.”   Peace and Conflict Scholars converged on Milam Hall earlier this month to compare notes, programs, and lessons learned.

The keynote for this event, “Crucible of Dissent: Ava Helen and Linus Pauling,” was delivered by Mina Carson who will be releasing a biography of Ava Helen Pauling later this year.   You can watch her presentation below:

Be sure to also check out Mina’s new blog, The Historian’s Lens

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The Sun Magazine recently interviewed Kathleen Dean Moore for an article entitled “If Your House is on Fire” discussing the twin threats of climate change and corporate hegemony.

Moore’s presentation “Red Sky at Morning: Ethics and the Oceanic Crisis,” which was given at the Nobel Conference 48: Our Global Ocean, was also recently uploaded to YouTube.

You can watch her excellent presentation below:

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Congratulations go out to Stacey Smith who will be guest blogging for the New York Times starting this month.

Look for her first published article sometime in mid-April!

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Stephanie Jenkins and Shari Clough have begun laying the groundwork
for a new philosophy outreach project entitled “Phronesis.”

Look for more details on our homepage in the coming months!

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Congratulations also go out to Michael A. Osborne, Professor of History of Science who has just been elected a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science.

The Academy, based in Paris, was formed in 1928 to represent and organize the history of science at an international level.

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On January 8th, Oxford University Press released the The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History co-edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols.   We will be celebrating the release of this monumental reference book with the American Military and Diplomatic History Conference which will be held on May 7th.

This release comes while Nichols is still getting a flurry of publicity and a recent 17 page rountable review in the Journal of American Studies about his most recent book, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of the Global Age.

…Nichols has accomplished a major feat, demonstrating that isolationism was a far richer and more complex intellectual tradition than its critics have ever imagined–one that still speaks to our own time, freshening the stale formulas of the Washington consensus and allowing us to re-imagine the role of the United States in the world.  –Jackson Lears

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Speaking of books, Paul Kopperman‘s most recent book “Regimental Practice” by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual has been released to the Scholar’s Archive at OSU.   Unlike the 2012 version published by Ashgate Press, this complete and unabridged version includes over 300 pages of additional notes and historical context on Buchanan’s therapy for select diseases, surgical operations, and the uses and recipes for drugs.

We recently sat down with Dr. Kopperman to discuss this unique collaboration as the inaugural video for our new SHPR “Behind the Books” video series.

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Last month, the Horning Endowment for the Humanities sponsored an Alpine Environments workshop featuring several climate historians and scientists including Mark Carey (UO), Toby Dittrich (PCC), Mike Osborne (OSU), and Harold Zald (OSU).   The keynote for this event featured environmental historian Roderick Nash who was introduced by Jake Hamblin and spoke to an overflowing standing room only audience.

All of the presentations can be seen on our departmental YouTube Channel,
but you can view Nash’s full talk below:

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On Feb. 11th, the annual Carson Lecture was held featuring Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra who presented a talk entitled “Silencing the Past: On Imperious Historical Categories.”   His talk, introduced by Nicole von Germeten, has rocketed up our YouTube channel and in one week is already our third most viewed video.    (David Luft‘s fall talk on Philosophy and Science in Nineteenth-Century Austria is still #1)

You can watch Dr. Cañizares-Esguerra’s lecture below:

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Upcoming Events

March 6, 5:00 PM (Milam Hall, 301):
Religious Studies @ OSU: Perennial Philosophy

March 6, 5:30 PM (Valley Library, Autzen Room):
History Students Association Career and Job Fair

March 7, 7:00 PM (LaSells Stewart Center, C&E)
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures
The Spring Creek Project presents Virginia Morell

March 8, 3:00 PM (Memorial Union, Journey Room)
Thinking About Animals Thinking
A Spring Creek Project Symposium with Michael Nelson, Kathleen Dean Moore,
Dave Mellinger, Bill Ripple and Virginia Morell.

April 2, 7:00 PM (LaSells Stewart Center, C&E)
A Hundere Lecture with Felicia Cohn

April 4, 7:30 PM (LaSells Stewart Center, Austin)
Nonviolence in the Contemporary World / Samdhong Rinpoche
The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Peace Lecture

April 08-11, 7:30 PM (LaSells Stewart Center, C&E)
OSU Holocaust Memorial Week
Alex Hinton, Ruth Klüger, Peter Hayes, & Henryk Grynberg

April 16, 4:00 PM (Memorial Union, Journey Room)
American Liberalism and the Cold War: The Case for Monroe Sweetland
An American Culture and Politics Lecture with Bill Robbins

April 25, 4:00 PM (Memorial Union, Pan Afrika Room)
Lincoln’s Bequest: Losing and Finding Religion in a Time of War
A Hundere Lecture with Ray Haberski

April 29, 4:00 PM (LaSells Stewart Center, C&E Auditorium)
Cultural Competence: The Spirit Catches You
A Hundere Lecture with Anne Fadiman

May 06/08/10 (Memorial Union, Journey Room)
Science and Nationhood
A Horning Visiting Scholar Lecture Series with Robert Fox

May 07 (MU, Journey Room / LaSells C&E)
The American Military and Diplomatic History Conference
David Milne, Timothy Lynch, Danielle Holtz, Christopher McKnight Nichols

For Your Consideration

Grant Proposal:  These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. For example, training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.

Receipt Deadline March 7, 2013 for Projects Beginning October 2013
Click here for more information.

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CFP:  Oregon Humanities is still seeking scholars, community leaders, innovators, provocateurs, artists, and other engaged thinkers to lead Conversation Project programs.

The Conversation Project offers Oregon nonprofits free, humanities-based public discussion programs about provocative issues and ideas. We are looking for leaders who are smart, passionate about ideas, and curious–who understand the role of the humanities in the public sphere, but who are also teachers at heart, regardless of their day job.

Proposals for 2013-15 Conversation Project programs are due March 8, 2013. Visit oregonhumanities.org to read the full Request for Proposals and apply online.

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CFP:  The Seventeenth Annual Meeting or the International Association for Environmental Philosophy will be held in Eugene Oregon on October 26–28, 2013.

There is still (a little) time to submit!   The Deadline on the CFP is MARCH 8, 2013.
Click here for more information!

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CFP:  The Interdisciplinary Encounters in Religion, Law, and Ethics working group at the University of California-Irvine contributes to the culture of interdisciplinary reading that focuses on probing the tensions in religious and secular ethics and legal systems.

The group is holding its first interdisciplinary conference on May 10, 2013 at the University of California-Irvine.

Deadline for submissions is March 10, 2013, 5pm PST.
Click here for more information.

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Grant Proposal:  The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor will support a program to promote freedom of expression and association for majority and minority religious populations, focusing on youth and religious leaders. The program will design and implement a participatory online network and related social media tools to help foster respect for religious diversity, reduce sectarian tensions, counter violent extremism, and respond to calls for the punishment of blasphemy and apostasy.  Focused on Near East Asia / Indonesia.

Click here for more information and details.

Deadline for submissions is  March 22, 2013

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Grant Proposal:  Land O’Lakes Foundation Community Grants range from $500 to $25, 000. Some larger donations are made.   Land O’Lakes Foundation Community Grants Program provides support through cash grants to nonprofit organizations that are working to improve communities where Land O’Lakes has a significant concentration of members or employees. These include organizations:

•     Such as United Way that provide funding to community human services.
•     That work to alleviate hunger.
•     Designed to build knowledge and leadership skills of rural youth.
•     Active in addressing and solving community problems.
•     Promoting artistic endeavors — especially in under-served rural areas, touring or outreach programs.

Land O’Lakes Foundation funds national programs and programs in 20 states: Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.

Generally, grants are restricted to organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Community Grants are limited to one per organization per calendar year.

Click here for more information!

Final Deadline:   April 1st, 2013 (others later)

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Grant Proposal (for those up for a real challenge):  The Program Challenge Fund was created to support high-profile, primetime, limited series for the national public television schedule. The Program Challenge Fund is jointly administered by CPB and PBS, which make funding decisions based on mutually established programming goals and objectives.

Click here for more information!

Final Deadline:   April 4th, 2013 (rolling/bi-annual)

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Grant Proposal:  The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America’s documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture.  This grant application information is for Publishing Historical Records projects.

Colonial and Early National Period
(projects preparing publications whose documents fall predominantly prior to 1820)

Final Deadline:   June 6, 2013

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Grant Proposal:  The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America’s documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture.  This grant application information is for Digitizing Historical Records projects.

Final Deadline:   June 11, 2013

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The Last Word

This is our first attempt at a monthly-ish news post and this will be an evolving process.   I hope to release one of these around the first day of each month so that we can all keep up with everything going on across the SHPR.   Are there things that could be better?   Are there things you would like to see more / less of?    Do you have a great source of information you’d like to share?   Have you actually read this far?

If you have items or updates that you would like included in the next issue, please send them as well as any comments/suggestions to Robert Peckyno before March 24th.