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2012 Conference Program Draft

Rob Ketcherside — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:07:19 +0000

Subject to change, but we’re pretty much settled!

It’s an outstanding set of topics and presenters, including heavyweights like Ochsner, Becker and Dorpat, a range of material from Music of the Early 1960s toMid-Century Modern Landscape to Hegemonic Gastronomic Enculturation. There’s also an optional film and walking tour!

View it here: PNWHG Preliminary 2012 Conference Program.

Tickets are on sale for the May 12 conference, and don’t miss the reception on Friday evening, May 11.

April 2012 Newsletter

Rob Ketcherside — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:55:53 +0000

February 2012, vol. 28, no. 2

April 2012 PNWHG Newsletter(PDF)

(Image courtesy UW Libraries)

Got a Book for Sale?

Rob Ketcherside — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:47:05 +0000

Island Books will be selling at our upcoming May 12 conference at the Seattle Center. They’ll bring whatever we ask them to sell. So if you’re a member and have a book currently in print, drop a note to our conference committee.

If you haven’t paid your membership dues yet, stroll on over to the membership page and ring up your credit card on PayPal first.

Volunteers for 2012 Conference

Rob Ketcherside — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:33:56 +0000

If you’re planning to attend this year’s conference, why not consider volunteering as well? Volunteers help to make the conference a real success by meeting and greeting attendees, assisting workshop/session speakers and managing busy information and resource areas.

There are many ways to help and time slots are flexible and convenient— you can volunteer before, between or during sessions.
Volunteering is a great way to meet new people, get connected and give something back to our organization.

The various types of volunteers needed during conference and the responsibilities for each volunteer assignment are explained below.

Conference Volunteer Job Descriptions

Registration/Information Table: Registration volunteers will assist attendees when they arrive, checking people in who have pre-registered and handling those who will need to register at the door or arrive late. Volunteers will help orient attendees and make sure that everyone gets their conference packets and name tags.
Set-up and Take Down Helpers: Volunteers are needed to assist Seattle Center staff, Guild board members and speakers distribute materials, prepare rooms for presentations and at the end of the day make sure everything not belonging to Seattle Center is collected and cleaned up. Set up begins at 8:00am. Don’t worry – we’ll have coffee!
Session Moderators: Moderators will assist speakers with room and AV set-up, will introduce speakers at the beginning of the session and wrap-things up at the end, summarizing what was said and guiding the question and answer portion. An important task for session moderators is keeping everyone on schedule.

If you are interested in volunteering at the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference in May, please email Conference Coordinator Sarah Frederick.

2012 Conference Tickets On Sale

Rob Ketcherside — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:25:02 +0000

To purchase tickets, visit Brown Paper Tickets to order online. Or fill out this form and snail mail it ot us.

$30 for Guild members, $25 students, $35 general public. After May 1, prices goes up to $45. Boxed lunch is $12.

Keynote speakers are Robert Nellams, Seattle Center director and Jeffrey Ochsner, UW Professor of Architecture and author of Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects

Other conference highlights include: 7 conference sessions, such as “Design of the Fair,” “Social History of the 1960s,” and “Food of the Fair,” featuring 17 presentations from local historians; a screening of the KCTS 9 documentary When Seattle Invented the Future, a walking tour of the Seattle Center campus, and a viewing of the MOHAI exhibit The Future Remembered.

Contact conference@pnwhistorians.org with any questions.

March 2012 Newsletter

Rob Ketcherside — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:42:51 +0000

March 2012, vol. 28, no. 3

March Newsletter (pdf)

February 2012 Newsletter

Rob Ketcherside — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:00:02 +0000

February 2012, vol. 28, no. 2

February Newsletter (pdf)

2012 History Award Winner Profile: Dr. John Findlay

Rob Ketcherside — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:27:28 +0000

Profile of 2012 History Award Winner Dr. John Findlay

Education

A.B., University of Puget Sound, 1976
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1982

Research Interests

John M. Findlay works on the history of the North American West and Pacific Northwest. He has written especially on social and urban history, with a particular focus on the 20th century. His books include People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas (Oxford University Press, 1986); Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940 (University of California Press, 1992); and Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West, with Bruce Hevly (University of Washington Press, 2011). His current book project is a scholarly overview of the American West after Pearl Harbor, tentatively titled “The Mobilized West, 1941-2001.”

Professor Findlay has written articles and chapters on such topics as Indian reservations in 19th-century California; utopianism in the American West; regional identity and literature in the Pacific Northwest; Euro-American contact with Natives in the Great Basin; world’s fairs of Washington state; the nuclear West; the history of the University of Washington; and the historiography of the American West. He has also co-edited three multi-author volumes that had their origins as symposia at the University of Washington’s Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest: The Atomic West, eds. Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay (1998); Power and Place in the North American West, eds. Richard White and John M. Findlay (1999); and Parallel Destinies: Canadians, Americans, and the Western Border, eds. John M. Findlay and Ken Coates (2002).

Professor Findlay has supported other people’s research and teaching about the Pacific Northwest by serving as Managing Editor of Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1992-2003 and 2008-present, and as Director of the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest (1991-99, 2005-6). Both the Quarterly and the Center are part of the UW Department of History. Professor Findlay also served as Chair (2002-7, 2010-11) and Associate Chair (2011-12) of the UW Department of History.

Graduate Students

Professor Findlay offers graduate fields on the North American West. He has directed dissertations on such topics as historic preservation planning in downtown Seattle during the 1960s and 1970s; cars and America’s national parks; military-civilian relations around Puget Sound during the 20th century; city planning in Tacoma, 1870-1920; suburban communities in the post-war U.S.; the development of theater in Spokane, 1880-1920; the discourse of gender and race in the gold rushes to California and British Columbia; African American musicians and segregation in Chicago, 1920-1970; the urban Indians of Seattle, 1850-2000; and acculturation and allotment on the Puyallup Indian reservation, 1850-1935.

Undergraduate Students

Professor Findlay occasionally offers the survey of American history (HSTAA 101) and the history of the American West after 1840 (HSTAA 413). He annually offers Pacific Northwest history (HSTAA 432), and variations of the History Department’s HIST 388, HIST 494, and HIST 498 colloquia. From time to time he offers HSTAA 412 (the American West before 1840) and HSTAA 433 (A Documentary History of Pacific Northwest Identity).