UPCOMING AND RECENT NEWS & EVENTS

Recent News

Oscar-winning file comes to High Point, Oct 9th (September 2008). Laura Waters Hinson's award-winning film As We Forgive: A Documentary, telling the story of Rwanda's rebuilding process after genocide, seeks to answer the question "Can mercy restore what genocide destroyed?" Hinton's documentary focuses on two Rwandan women who come face-to-face with men who slaughtered their families during the genocide in 1994.

The film will be shown on Thursday, October 9th from 6:00-7:30pm; in the Hayworth Fine Arts Center.

To view a trailer, visit:
www.asweforgivemovie.com

Three Volumes of the Selected Papers published (May 2008). Professor Schneid and his editorial staff have published three volumes of the Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era this year, 2004, 2006 and 2007.  The 2005 volume was published last year.

2008 Rothenberg Seminar in Military History: November 7-8, 2008
Dr. Fredrick Schneid, Prof. of History will again coordinate that Gunther E. Rothenbery Seminar in Military History. This year's theme will be "War in the Age of Louis XIV." Seminar speakers are: Jeremy Black, University of Exeter; John Lynn, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; John Stapleton, United States Military Academy at West Point; and Ciro Paolletti, Ufficio Storico, Stato maggiore escercito, Rome.

The Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History is a tribute to Professor Rothenberg's scholarship and dedication to the field of military history. High Point University is the permanent host of the seminar whose theme in military history changes each year. Leading scholars are invited to present their most recent research, and latest interpretations. Their papers serve as a point of departure for extensive discussion and debate of the subject matter. The participant's papers are published annually in an edited anthology. The seminar is opened to the university community and the public. Students and scholars from across the country are encouraged to attend.

More information will be available soon, and a complete schedule of past and current conference speakers as well as additional background information and video footage from the seminar can be found at: http://www.highpoint.edu/conferences/rothenberg/

2007 Rothenberg Seminar in Military History to Gather Distinguished Scholars to Examine the Projection and Limitation of Imperial Powers (November 2007). Dr. Fredrick Schneid, Prof. of History will again coordinate the two-day event, which annually meets on the High Point University Campus. This year's conference will be held on November 2-3.

The Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History is a tribute to Professor Rothenberg's scholarship and dedication to the field of military history. High Point University is the permanent host of the seminar whose theme in military history changes each year. Leading scholars are invited to present their most recent research, and latest interpretations. Their papers serve as a point of departure for extensive discussion and debate of the subject matter. The participant's papers are published annually in an edited anthology. The seminar is opened to the university community and the public. Students and scholars from across the country are encouraged to attend.

A complete schedule of past and current conference speakers as well as additional background information and video footage from the seminar can be found at: http://www.highpoint.edu/conferences/rothenberg/

History Professor Frederick Schneid's Latest Book Published (September 2007). Ashgate Press has published Dr. Schneid's fourth book, Warfare in Europe, 1792-1815. The edited volume includes an analytical narrative of the history of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and 22 articles which illuminate two decades of European conflict.

History Professor to Speak at West Point (May 2007). Dr. Frederick Schneid, Prof. of History, has been invited to speak on June 5 at West Point on the subject of Napoleonic Warfare. His lecture is part of the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History, which is designed for recent Ph.D.s and doctoral candidates who plan to become military historians or to teach military history. Schneid received his Ph.D. from Purdue University and has been at High Point since 1994. He teaches courses on military history and European history from 1600-1945 at the university. He has authored four books and numerous articles. Schneid is also the director of the University Honors Program.

History Senior Presents Original Research Paper at Big South Academic Conferences (April 2007). Jonathan Amos, a history and secondary education major, was one of a select group of High Point seniors to have a paper accepted for the Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium at Coastal Carolina University on March 24. His well received presentation was based on the senior seminar project he completed in the fall semester entitled “Ordinaries to Public Houses: Tavern Changes in the Eighteenth-Century American Upper South.” Jonathan is currently student teaching at Reagan High School in Forsyth County.

All seniors in the History Department at High Point complete a thesis as part of their majors' required course work. The thesis project is undertaken in close, one-on-one collaboration with a faculty member and is presented to the department's faculty and the public prior to graduation. 

History Professor Presents Research at Conference (March 2007). Dr. Frederick Schneid, Prof. of History, presented a paper at the 36th annual meeting of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era held earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Schneid's paper, "The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Monarchy during the War of the Third Coalition," argued that although the Habsburgs desired to reassert their dynastic control in Italy and the Holy Roman Empire (Germany), they had to contend with growing Russian power in these regions. The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era is a national organization composed of 18 colleges and universities, including High Point University, that support the research and study of the revolutionary era, 1750-1850. Schneid serves as a member of the Board of Directors. He is the editor in chief of the organization's annual publication.

The Annual Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History Brings Napoleon Scholars to HPU (November 2006). Gunther E. Rothenberg was a world-renowned military historian. He authored scores of books and articles on a wide-range of military history with particular emphasis on the Habsburg Empire and the Napoleonic Wars. He was a Professor of History at Purdue University until his retirement in 1999 when he moved to Australia where until 2001 he was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. From July 2001 until his death in April 2004, he was a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of History at the Australian Defense Force Academy.

Featured Speakers of the 2007 Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History

This year's two-day conference featured four leading scholars:

"The Napoleonic Wars in a Global Context."
Jeremy Black
Professor of History
University of Exeter

"Reform and Stability: Prussia's Military Dialectic from Hubertusburg to Waterloo."
Dennis Showalter
Professor of History
Colorado College

"Military Effectiveness in the Armies of 1813."
Robert Epstein
Professor of History
School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth

"Napoleon as a Strategist."
Charles Esdaile
Professor of History
University of Liverpool

Details and complete video recordings of the seminar are available on the event's website: http://www.highpoint.edu/conferences/rothenberg/.

War on Terror Lecture Series to Feature Prominent Legal Scholar Speaking on Israel (October 2006). Michael I. Krauss, Professor of Law at George Mason University, will visit with classes and deliver a public talk that discusses his recent article in Commentary, which examines Israel's right to set its own borders. Professor Krauss has been teaching at George Mason since 1987, where he was named the law school's first-ever "Teacher of the Year" in 1994. He previously taught at the law schools of Seattle University, the University of Toronto, and the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada.

Prof. Krauss holds advanced degrees from Université de Sherbrooke and Yale University. He was Columbia University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981 and was hired as a law clerk by Justice Louis-Philippe Pigeon of Canada's Supreme Court. Before entering academia, Professor Krauss practiced law for Quebec City's largest law firm and also served for five years on Quebec's Human Rights Commission. Professor Krauss sits on the advisory boards of several think tanks and holds appointments as both a Salvatori Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and an Academic Fellow of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. He or his op-eds have appeared in varied electronic media (including CNN, C-Span, Fox News, National Public Radio, National Review Online, Voice of America, C.B.C., and Radio-Canada).

War on Terror Lecture Series to Host Renowned Expert on Middle Eastern Politics (October 2006). Dr. Walid Phares will be on campus on October 26 to meet with students and give a public talk, which will be delivered at 5:00pm in Conference Room B in the Slane Center. Professor Phares visit is sponsored by the History Department, the Honors program, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Dr. Phares is an associate professor in Florida Atlantic University's Department of Political Science and a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, where he serves as an expert on terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Jihad movements. He has written seven books on the Middle East, including most recently Future Jihad : Terrorist Strategies Against America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He has published hundreds of articles in newspapers and scholarly journals such as Global Affairs, Middle East Quarterly, and Journal of South Asian and Middle East Studies. Dr. Phares has made numerous appearances in the international and national media, including CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, and BBC. He regularly testifies before the US Senate Subcommittee on the Middle East and South East Asia and conducts congressional and State Department briefings.

War on Terror Lecture Series to Host Renowned Expert on Russian Politics (April 2006). Dr. Steven Rosefielde is coming to HPU on April 19 to meet give a lecture on Russian security policy in the 20th Century. He is a professor of economics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is the author of numerous books on economic systems and global security, including most recently: Masters of Illusion: American Leadership, Public Culture, and Strategic Independence (Cambridge University Press 2006, with Daniel Quinn Mills); Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower (Cambridge University Press, 2004); and The Russian Economy (Blackwell, 2006). Dr. Rosefielde's visit is sponsored by the History Department and the university's Honors program

Final Talk in War on Terror Lecture Series to Focus on Middle Eastern Politics (April 2006). Khairi Abaza will be visiting campus at the end of April to meet with students and give a public talk. His visit is sponsored by the History and Political Science Department, the Honors program, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The FDD is a Washington-based, non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts and sponsors research on terrorism.

Born in Rabat, Morocco and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Mr. Abaza, is a Senior FDD Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy focusing on Egyptian politics and democratic reform. Previously, he served as Cultural Committee secretary and a Foreign Affairs Committee member of the Egyptian liberal Wafd Party. Mr. Abaza holds a master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern studies from the University of London, where he is currently a PhD candidate in politics.  

Professor James W. Stitt Publishes Book on British Industrial History (April 2006). Published by Praeger, Joint Industrial Councils in British History: Inception, Adoption, and Utilization, 1917-1939 is a study of how a WWI proposal for "permanent improvement" in labor-management relations came about, why the target industries ignored it, and how it found a purpose in the second-tier industries, for which it was not originally intended. The press, social reformers, academics, and various business interests touted JICs as the beginning of worker control of industry, while skilled trade unions saw them as a plot to harm workers' interests. Their eventual modest use was directed to needs within individual industrial enterprises and not to more global missions, such as the remaking of British industry in general. But successful JICs undertook serious issues that management and unions needed to address, such as wage rates, retirement plans for workers, and safety-related concerns. Moreover, the level of labor-management understanding in JIC industries improved to the point that these industries suffered no strikes in the inter-war period; the conditions of employment for the workers improved; and productivity increased.

Dr. Stitt's research interests concern industrial productivity and efficiency in Britain between WWI and WWII, with a focus on labor and management cooperation for common purposes and the related political and social issues associated with business change.

CNN and NBC Correspondents to Participate in Political Science Classes & Dine with Majors (April 2006). Ron Allen and Adaora Udoji--both Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows--will be on High Point's campus for several days, beginning Monday, April 1. In addition to giving a public presentation at 11:00am on Tuesday in the Hayworth Fine Arts Building, the journalists will dine with political science and communications majors and participate in half a dozen political science classes during their visit. 

Mr. Allen recently returned to the United States after many years based in London, covering stories across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia for NBC and MSNBC. His most recent assignments for the NBC Nightly News and The Today Show include reports from Baghdad, Pakistan, and Afghanistan on the war on terror and from Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza on the Middle East peace process. He has won numerous journalism awards, including both an Emmy and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his coverage of the Sudan Famine in 1994. In 1999, he was voted Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in political science. He was then awarded several Ph.D. fellowships to continue studying American politics. 

Ms. Udoji joined CNN in December 2003 from ABC News, where she had worked for over a decade as an international correspondent also based in London. She reported and produced international stories covering Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and contributed to Good Morning America, World News Weekend, and ABC Radio. Ms. Udoji has covered historic events both in the United States and abroad, including the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, the 1996 presidential campaign, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Israel and Jordan, and the war in Iraq from Qatar and Iraq. Ms. Udoji was part of the team that won a Cine Eagle award in 1997 for an ABC primetime documentary about death row. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she earned her bachelor's degree in political science and sociology from the University of Michigan. Her law degree is from from UCLA School of Law.

Allen and Udoji come to High Point sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program, which was established in 1971 to encourage the flow of ideas between the academic and non-academic sectors of society, and to connect a liberal education with the world beyond the campus. In 2004-05, the University hosted a visit by NPR's Deborah Amos and the BBC's Rick Davis.