History department kicks off talk series
By David Imburgia
The CSU Department of History will kick off what hopefully will be a regular series of informal discussions on various historical trivia called “Coffees and Conversation in World History” on March 26 in UC 364 with a reception starting at 5:30 p.m.
The first topic that will be addressed deals with anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia in the late 1990s and is called “Problematising Notions of ‘Normal’ and Limited Violence.”
It will be led by Dr. Jemma Purdey, a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and author of Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia 1996-1999.
Assistant Professor Nicole Tarulevicz, a new addition to the CSU faculty and graduate of the University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland, has arranged the talk.
She said the Coffees and Conversations idea was a good step in creating student awareness to discuss historical phenomenon that were not dealt with too often in America.
“It’s a great idea for students to be part of a more informal talk rather than just a lecture,” she said.
The talk should prove to be a different step in the atmosphere of educational events, and if successful it will be followed by more similar informal gatherings of important historical discussion.