Mark R. Hatlie

News and Shameless Self-Promotion

Before I had a blog and for some time after, I kept a "news" column on the sidebar of hatlie.de. It has now been removed. Here is a complete archive of items listed there:

Arab-American Dialogue: See Mark's blog for the latest on the Arab-American Dialogue at the German-American Institute.
Latvia in the 20th Century: Mark will be speaking on this topic in Stuttgart on October 12th. See the story in blog '66 for details.
Reports from Riga: Mark spent the first week of September doing research in Riga. Read about it at blog '66.
Sites of Memory: The Sites of Memory blog is bringing in new authors.
Humanismus/Jugendweihe: Sind Sie an so etwas im Raum Tübingen interessiert?
Blog: Blog '66 has more of Mark's up-to-date thoughts and projects.
Conference: Mark will be speaking on the Germans of Riga during World War One at the Academia Baltica conference in Sankelmark on Friday afternoon, the 27th of April, 2007.
Church and State: Mark will be speaking on the separation of church and state (or lack thereof) in Germany and the United States at the American Monthly Luncheon in Stuttgart on March 9, 2007. Read more about it at blog '66.
"Aufklaerung": Mark's critique of television "psychics" is now available online: Psychic Follies
Politics: The Tübingen Progressive Americans have now gone public. Also check out their ProgBlog.
University Politics: Mark lost his bid for the adjunct slot on the University of Maryland University College Faculty Advisory Council. He'll take another shot at it next year.
University Politics: Mark is running for the adjunct slot on the University of Maryland University College Faculty Advisory Council. See his pitch and the other nominees here.
Teaching: Soon Mark will no longer be teaching the world civilization courses at APUS. He has begun developing the new course HS 320 Russian History for the winter term.
Conference: Mark will be presenting a paper entitled "Exploring the Baltic in Russian imperial and world colonial contexts: the example of 19th -century religious missions in Livonia. at a Washington, D.C. conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies in June.
Conference: Mark will be presenting a paper on the mental maps of ethnic groups in Riga during the First World War at a conference on Riga and Tartu As Sights Of Memory in Tartu, Estonia in June.
Conference: Mark is presenting a paper at the all-online history conference of the American Association for History and Computing from the 24th to the 27th of April. He will present his Sites of Memory webpage and online teaching assignments requiring online "fieldwork".
Sites of Memory: The places and monuments section of the webpage has a new name and a new face. Check out Sites of Memory and the Sites of Memory Blog.
New Publications:An article Mark wrote several years ago has now appeared in print (in German): Bevölkerungs- verschiebungen in Riga während des Ersten Welt- und Bürgerkrieges 1914-1919 in: Wittram, Heinrich (Hg.): Der ethnische Wandel im Baltikum zwischen 1850-1950. Lüneburg, 2005, 53-80. Mark's other recent article, on the Russian Orthodox Church in Latvia from the 1840s through World War One, has been published in Religion, Ethnie, Nation und die Aushandlung von Identität(en) edited by Istvan Keul.
Music:Read (in German) about Mark on the banjo at a reading of the authors Johannes Beilharz and Ulrike Dietmann from the July 27th issue of the Vaihinger Kreiszeitung
Student Writing:The Quigley/Nelson Note Card System (PDF), a simple way to organize your research for high school and college term papers, is now online.
Baltic History: On the evenings of 22 and 29 April, Mark will lecture on the histories of the Baltic states at the Gemeindehaus of the Catholic congregation in Leidfelden, Germany. The congregation is planning a 10-day trip to the Baltic.
Banjo news: On the 9th of April, Mark will play his banjo at the baptism of Johann Reese Kiegelmann in Immenhausen. The following weekend, Mark will participate in the Banjoree in Hagen.
Conference:See the report on the London conference Metropolitan Catastrophes where Mark gave a paper entitled "Re-mapping Riga: Sudden Regime Change in War and Revolution" this summer.
The EUCOM Harmonizers are offering Singing Valentines on Patch Barracks!
On the Wednesday evenings of 12, 19 and 26 January, 2005, Mark is presenting a short course (in German) on the history and currency of the question of "Amerika als Imperium" (American Empire) in Pfullingen, Germany. The short lectures and discussions are sponsored by the Volkshochschule in cooperation with the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. Details will be available starting on September 8th at http://www.vhs-pfullingen.de/prog.htm . This course was cancelled.
"Gesellschaft und Politik der USA" (Society and Politics in the USA) will be another course in German Mark is offering at the vhs Pfullingen in January. Details will be available starting on September 8th at Details will be available at http://www.vhs-pfullingen.de/prog.htm. This course was cancelled.
Starting in September, Mark is teaching history on-line for the American Military University (American Public University System). His first courses will be "Russian Military History", "The Spanish Civil War" and "World Civilization since 1650".
From the 7th to the 10th of October, 2004, Mark is attending the annual conference of the Nordost Institut in Lüneburg as an interpreter and participant. The topic of the conference will be "Revolutionen in Nordosteuropa".
On June 16th, the EUCOM Harmonizers are singing at the annual Heroes Luncheon of the Association of the United States Army on Patch Barracks in Stuttgart.
From April to July 2004 Mark is teaching Western Civilization to 1600 on-line for the University of Maryland.
On Tuesday, July 13th, Mark will speak at aconference on "Metropolitan Catastrophes" sponsored by the Centre for Metropolitan History and held at the Institute of Historical Research in London. His paper will be on "Re-mapping Riga: Sudden regime change during war and revolution".