Oct 15, 2017
In today’s episode, I talk Great
Lakes History Conference as we reach the one-week-to-go mark! With
me is Andrew Peterson, a visiting assistant
professor at GVSU, and we talk about his panel on
“Rethinking the World History Survey.” We chat
about his career arc, how to orient a world history survey around
the environment, exchange networks, and energy regimes, how to
solve problems related to periodization, and why the X-Files
monster episodes are redeemable (they are!). The full presentation
is planned for October 21 at 3:15pm, and he will be joined by
Craig Benjamin (GVSU), Whitney
Dirks-Schuster (GVSU), Leah Gregory
(SDSU), and Alex Holowicki (Maui
College). For more information on other panels and
presentations please visit the conference website. Recommendations
are:
Andrew – Collingham, A Taste of
War
Dave
– Pauketat, Cahokia (and Homefront + Paradise Lost from Deep Space
Nine)