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May 2008

Friday May 2nd	"Creative Geographies: Artists on the Ground" by Emily Scott; University of California - Los Angeles More Information...	180 Science Hall 3:30 PM
Monday May 5th	"The Soviets at Nuremberg" by Francine Hirsch; Associate Professor of History at UW-Madison More Information...	202 Bradley Memorial 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Monday May 5th	"The Effective Power of Words: Incantations in Ancient Israel" by Theodore J. Lewis; Blum-Iwry Professor of Near Eastern Studies - Johns Hopkins University More Information...	AT&T Lounge, The Pyle Center 7:30 PM
Thursday May 8th	History Department Spring Reception	Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center 3:30 - 6:00 PM
Friday May 9th	Last Class Day
Wednesday May 14th	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Saturday - Sunday May 17 - 18	Commencement Weekend

April 2008

Saturday - Monday April 5 - 7	History Graduate Recruitment Weekend More Information...	See "More Information" for Times/Location
Wednesday April 9	Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate Council Meetings More Information...
Thursday April 10	TA Training	5255 Humanities 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday April 10	Jewish Heritage Lecture Series Center for Humanites/Mellon Workshop on Testimony "Holocaust Testimony in a Genocidal Era" presented by Sterling Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hartman - Yale University More Information...	Chazen Museum, Room L140 6:00 PM
Thursday April 10	Jewish Heritage Lecture Series/Weinstein/Minkoff Lecture "Nature's Chosen People: Darwinism, Eugenics, and the Reinterpretation of Jewish History" presented by Professor Mitchell Hart - University of Florida More Information...	Memorial Union 4:00 PM
Thursday April 10	Manifest Myth Making: Texas History at the Movies by Charles Ramirez Berg Sponsored by: Communication Arts, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies, Folklore, M.E.Ch.A., the Latino Men's Group, La Mujer Latina	4070 Vilas Hall 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Wednesday April 23	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday April 24	Diversity Workshop	Curti Lounge 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Friday April 25	"A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom" by David W. Blight; Professor of History - Yale University More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum 2:00 PM
Tuesday April 29	"General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse" Joseph Glatthaar; Professor of History - University of North Carolina More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum 7:00 PM
Tuesday April 29	"Technologies of War and Masculine Identities: The Introduction and Diffusion of Guns" by Anne Walthal Professor of History University of California - Irvine More Information...	220 Ingraham Hall 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Wednesday April 30	Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate Council Meetings More Information...

March 2008

Tuesday March 4	The 32rd Annual Curti Lecture Series "Between Nationalism and Empire: Violence and the Jewish Question in World War I Russia" - "German Atrocities and Jewish Treason: Propaganda and Public Opinion" by Professor Laura Engelstein, Yale University More Information...	Pyle Center 4:00 PM
Tuesday March 4	Curti Lectures Reception	Pyle Center AT&T Lounge 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Wednesday March 5	The 32rd Annual Curti Lecture Series "Between Nationalism and Empire: Violence and the Jewish Question in World War I Russia" - "Our Very Own Belgium": The Sack of Kalisz by Professor Laura Engelstein, Yale University More Information...	Pyle Center 4:00 PM
Thursday March 6	The 32rd Annual Curti Lecture Series "Between Nationalism and Empire: Violence and the Jewish Question in World War I Russia" - The Old Slavophile Horse: Anti-Semitism and the Dilemma of Russian Identity by Professor Laura Engelstein, Yale University More Information...	Pyle Center 4:00 PM
Monday March 10	CANCELLED! "How I Became A Historian" a Schomburg Lecture presented by Dr. Franklin Knight - Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History; Johns Hopkins University More Information...
Tuesday March 11	History 600 Seminar Information Session More Information...	1121 Humanities 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Tuesday March 11	CANCELLED! “Migration and Culture: A Case Study of Cuba, 1750 – 1900” a LACIS brown bag lunch with Dr. Franklin Knight Leonard and Helen R. Stulman; Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University Migration and Culture: A Case Study of Cuba, 1750-1900 (pdf) More Information...
Wednesday March 12	Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate Council Meetings More Information...
Thursday March 20	Staff Retreat: Office Closed	All Day
Tuesday March 25	Jewish Heritage Lecture Series/Kutler Lectures: "A Generation of No Silence: Post-World War II American Jews and the Memory of the Holocaust" presented by Professor Hasia Diner - New York University More Information...	Pyle Center 4:00 PM
Wednesday March 26	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Wednesday March 26	Jewish Heritage Lecture Series/Kutler Lectures: "When Justice and Brotherhood Shall Reign: American Jews, the Holocaust, and Post-War Political Action" presented by Professor Hasia Diner New York University More Information...	Pyle center 4:00 PM

February 2008

Friday February 1	On The Market: Mock Job Talks	Curti Lounge 2:00 - 6:00 PM
Tuesday February 5	MA/Prelim Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Wednesday February 6	Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate Council Meetings More Information...
Thursday February 7	TA Training	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30
Thursday February 7	"Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire" by Professor Amy Greenberg; Penn State University. Sponsored by Mellon Workshop More Information...	7191 Helen C. White 4:00 PM
Thursday February 7	"The Tet Offensive on Television: War, TV News, the President, and Politics in 1968" by Chester Pach; Professor of History; Ohio University More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum, 30 W. Mifflin 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Friday February 8	Graduate Council Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Friday February 8	"War and the Media: From Vietnam to Iraq" by Chester Pach; Professor of History; Ohio University More Information...	336 Ingraham 10:30 - 12:00 PM
Monday February 11	"The Emperor's Prague: Religion, Space and Power under Charles IV (1346-78)" a lecture by Solmsen Fellow David Mengel; Notre Dame More Information...	202 Bradley Memorial Institute for Research in the Humanities 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Wednesday February 13	Funding/SPIN Workshop	Curti Lounge 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Wednesday February 13	Undergraduate Council Meeting	5257 Humanities 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Wednesday February 20	Emeritus Lunch Speaker: Thomas Spear	Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center 11:45 - 1:30 PM
Wednesday February 20	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday February 21	Diversity Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Tuesday February 26	Budget Committee Meeting	3rd Floor Conference Room
Wednesday February 27	"Dean Acheson and the Building of an American-led World Order" by Robert J. McMahon The Mershon Distinguished Professor of History Ohio State University More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Thursday February 28	"(Re)writing the History of the Cold War" by Robert J. McMahon The Mershon Distinguished Professor of History Ohio State University More Information...	336 Ingraham Hall 11:00 -1:00 PM
Friday February 29	"Lessons In Being Gay": Prison Activism and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality a George L. Mosse LGBT History Lecture by Regina Kunzel - Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of History University of Minnesota More Information...	Memorial Library Rm 126 12:00 - 1:30pm

January 2008

Thursday - Sunday January 3 - 6	The 122nd Annual AHA Meeting More information...	Washington, D.C.
Thursday January 17th	TA Training	Curti Lounge 10:00 - 2:00 PM
Wednesday January 23	Faculty Council Meeting	3rd Floor Conference Room 3:30 PM
Thursday January 24	F&S Meeting	3rd Floor Conference Room 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Wednesday January 30	On The Market: Mock Interview	Location: TBA 3:00 - 6:00 PM
Wednesday January 30	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday January 31	"Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods of the Antebellum South" by Professor Anthony Kaye, Penn State University. Sponsored by Mellon Workshop More information...	7191 Helen C. White 4:00 PM

December 2007

Monday December 3	Mock Interviews (Graduate Students)	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Wednesday December 5	What Do You Want To Do With Your History Major? More Information...	Curti Lounge 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Wednesday December 5	Department Council Meetings More Information...
Thursday December 6	"Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story." Part of the Jewish Heritage Lecture Series by Ruth Gruber More Information...	Alumni Lounge Pyle Center, 702 Langdon 4:00 PM
Wednesday December 12	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Monday December 17	History Department Winter Holidays Party

November 2007

Thursday November 1	The Last Soviet Dreamer: Encounters with Leonid Potemkin by Jochen Hellbeck; Associate Professor of History Rutgers University More Information...	206 Ingraham Hall 4:00 PM
Friday November 2	The Catholic Church and Revolutionary Violence in Ireland A Celtic Studies lecture presented by Fr. Oliver Plunkett Rafferty More Information...	7191 Helen C. White 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Friday November 2	Yi-Fu Tuan Brownbag Talk and Lecture with Dr. Thomas Bassett; Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Brownbag Talk: "Doing Political Ecology: Hybrid Methods and Epistemologies" and Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture: "Mapping World Hunger: The Hunger Vulnerability Index" More Information...	See event page for schedule and more information.
Wednesday November 7	Graduate Council Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday November 8	"Force of Light" An evening a music from New York based, Madison-born composer Dan Kaufman. More Information...	Gates of Heaven, 302 East Gorham 7:30 PM
Friday November 9	True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia Professor Louise McReynolds; Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill More Information...	1651 Humanities 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Wednesday November 14	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday November 15	TA Workshop II	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Wednesday November 28	Joint Committee on Teaching Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Thursday November 29	Diversity Workshop II	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM

October 2007

Tuesday October 2	Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945 by Andrew Rotter, Professor of History, Colgate University More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum 7:00 PM
Wednesday October 3	The 'Cultural Turn' in the Writing of International History by Andrew Rotter, Professor of History at Colgate University More Information...	206 Ingraham Hall 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Wednesday October 3	Department Council Meetings More Information...
Thursday October 4	Timeline To Degree Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30
Wednesday October 10	Joint Committee on Teaching Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Wednesday October 10	Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum 7:00 PM
Friday October 12	Globalizing the Undergraduate Experience A collaborative event between UW-Superior and UW-Madison More Information...	3070 Grainger Hall 8:45 - 5:45 PM
Monday October 15	MA Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Wednesday October 17	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Wednesday October 17	"The Global War on Terror: A Status Report" by Daniel Benjamin, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institute More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum, 30 W. Mifflin St. 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Thursday October 18	Prelim Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Monday October 22	Diversity Workshop I	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Tuesday October 23	History 600 Seminar Information Session	Rm. 1111 Humanities 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Tuesday October 23	Dissertator Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Thursday October 25	Civil-Military Relations in the Iraq War Professor Michael Desch, The Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security, Texas A&M University More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum, 30 W. Mifflin St. 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Friday October 26	Israel and American Foreign Policy Professor Michael Desch, The Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security, Texas A&M University More Information...	336 Ingraham Hall 10:00 - 12:00 PM
Wednesday October 31	JCOTA Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 PM
Wednesday October 31	Faculty Council and Undergraduate Council Meetings More Information...

September 2007

Tuesday September 4	Graduate Council Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Wednesday September 5	The War – A Film by Ken Burns A special preview event Film showing and discussion More Information...	Monona Terrace Theatre 7:00 PM
Wednesday September 5	Faculty Council Meeting	3rd Floor Conf. Rm. 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday September 6	Executive Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Friday September 7	History Department Fall Reception	Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center 3:30 - 6:00 PM
Wednesday September 19	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Wednesday September 19	Graduate Funding Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Tuesday September 25	CV Workshop	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Wednesday September 26	School of Library and Information Studies Workshop	Curti Lounge 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Wednesday September 26	Budget Committee Meeting	3rd Floor Conf. Rm. 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday September 27	TA Workshop I	Curti Lounge 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Thursday September 27	Graduate School in History	Curti Lounge 4:00 - 5:15 PM

August 2007

Tuesday August 28	TA Training	Curti Lounge 9:00 - 3:30 PM
Wednesday August 29	New Graduate Student Orientation	Curti Lounge 9:00 - 2:30 PM
Wednesday August 29	Department Picnic sponsored by the Second Year Cohort. All History Department Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited.	Vilas Park 4:00 PM

July 2007

No Events

June 2007

No Events

May 2007

Tuesday May 1	2007 Senior Thesis Conference More Information & Schedule...	See schedule
Wednesday May 2	History Department Council Meetings
Wednesday May 2	PGWH Spring Workshop Series Workshop Presentation Presenters: Chanda Halderman, Tali Bender, and Ikuko Asaka More Information...	Rm 7191 Helen C. White 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Tuesday May 8	2007 Senior Thesis Conference More Information & Schedule...	See schedule
Wednesday May 9	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Thursday May 10	History Department Spring Reception	Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center 3:30 - 6:00 PM

April 2007

Tuesday April 10	Iraq: A Constitutional Perspective Brady Williamson, Godfrey & Kahn, S.A. ( Attorney) More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum 30 W. Mifflin St. 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Wednesday April 11	History Department Council Meetings
Friday - Saturday April 13 - 14	Alternative Print Culture: Social History and Libraries: A Symposium in Honor of James P. Danky The symposium will be free and open to the public. More Information...	See Event Information For Schedule
Thursday - Saturday April 12 - 14	"Religious Pluralism in Modern America" Second Annual Conference Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions More Information...	See Event Information For Schedule
Tuesday - Thursday April 17 - 19	"The U.S. South, the Nation, and the World, 1919-1949" The Havens Center Spring 2007 Visiting Scholars Program presents Glenda Gilmore, History Department, Yale University More Information...	See Event Information For Schedule
Tuesday April 17	Etiquette Diner Sign up at Career Services required to participate. Students attend an actual dinner where they learn proper dining etiquette and can ask etiquette questions. More Information...	5:00 - 8:00 PM Memorial Union
Wednesday April 18	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Wednesday April 18	PGWH Spring Workshop Series Roundtable Discussion: Glenda Gilmore post-talk discussion More Information...	Rm 7191 Helen C. White 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Monday April 23	Concluding Grading Workshop for First time TA's	Curti Lounge 5:40 - 6:40 PM
Tuesday April 24	2007 Senior Thesis Conference More Information & Schedule...	See schedule
Tuesday April 24	Your Next Big Move: Finding the City That's Right For You! Also sponsored by the Career Development Association. Information on cities across the U.S. for students interested in relocating. More Information...	3:00 - 5:00 PM Memorial Union
Wednesday April 25	A Schomburg Diversity Event with David Chang, Assistant Professor of History, UM-Twin Cities More Information...	3:30 - 5:00 PM Memorial Union
Thursday April 26	"Formula for Failure: Pre-1914 Russian Planning and Strategy for a European War" A Michael B. Petrovich Lecture in Russian History with Professor Bruce W. Menning. More Information...	4:00 PM Curti Lounge

March 2007

Friday March 2	Deadline For Undergraduate Awards/Scholarship More Information...
Wednesday March 7	History Department Council Meetings
Wednesday March 7	PGWH Spring Workshop Series "Gender In The Trenches of WWI" Speakers: NEAL DAVIDSON The Propaganda of Endurance: Identity, Survival, and British Trench Newspapers in the First World War MICHELLE WING She is Always With Me: Recovering Community through Catholicism during the Great War in France	Rm 7191 Helen C. White 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Monday March 12	History 600 Informational Meeting Event Flyer...	Rm 1111 Humanities 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Tuesday March 13	Selling Different Kinds of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Public Opinion During World War II Mark Stoler, University of Vermont, Professor of History More Information...	Curti Lounge, 5243 Humanities 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Tuesday March 13	The Road to Iraq: The Origin and Evolution of U.S. Interests in the Middle East A 2007 Distinguished Lecture Series event with Mark Stoler, University of Vermont, Professor of History More Information...	Wisconsin Veterans Museum 30 W. Mifflin St. 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Wednesday March 14	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Monday March 19	Spring Career Expo Also sponsored by the School of Business Career Center. Over 125 companies attend this event - a great opportunity for students to find jobs and internships. More Information...	5:00 - 8:00 PM Kohl Center
Monday March 19	The Legend of The 300 Professor Marc Kleijwegt's lecture will focus on the Battle of Thermopylae in history and world imagination. This is a free event open to all UW Students and faculty. Food and beverages will be provided. Sponsored by: Undergraduate History Association & Phi Alpha Theta More Information...	Curti Lounge Rm 5243 Humanities 6:00 PM
Wednesday March 21	History Graduate Student Forum "Connecting Communities through Nuestra Musica: Latin American Peñas in Chicago" More Information...	Curti Lounge Rm 5243 Humanities 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Wednesday March 21	PGWH Spring Workshop Series Panel Presentation: Lou Roberts More Information...	Rm 7191 Helen C. White 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Wednesday March 21	Caveat Emptor: Nigerians, African Americans, and Free Market Society, 1943-1970" Please join us for the next event in the African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle symposium series: Brenda Gayle Plummer Professor, Afro-American Studies More Information...	206 Ingraham Hall 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Saturday - Monday March 24 - 26	Recruitment Days Event Schedule...	See schedule for time and place of events.
Monday March 26th	What To Do With A History Major Learn about… • Potential Career paths • Resources to explore career options • Information interviews and networking skills • Internships and job search strategies Event Flyer...	Rm 1651 Humanities 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Wednesday March 28th	Resume Writing for Pros Learn about… • Basics of “how to write a resume” • Identification of transferable skills • Create powerful descriptive lines Event Flyer...	Rm 1651 Humanities 12:00 - 1:00 PM
March 31 - April 8	Spring Recess

February 2007

Wednesday February 7	Department Forum on Web Courses	Rm 1641 Humanities 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday February 6	Forgetting and Remembering 1798: Folk Memory and Social Amnesia in Irish History Dr. Guy Beiner will be visiting Madison as part of his lecture tour of North American universities to mark the publication of his new book, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory More Information...	5:30 PM Memorial Union
Thursday February 8	Economies of Empire: British Political Economy and Modernization Keynote Speakers: Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) More Information...
Monday February 12	Grading Workshop for First time TA's	Curti Lounge Humanities Bldg. 5:40 - 6:40 PM
Wednesday February 14	Multicultural Career Fair Also sponsored by the Multicultural Student Center and the School of Business. This annual event brings together UW student of color and recruiters for a specialized opportunity to explore jobs and careers.	3:00 - 6:00 PM Memorial Union
Thursday February 15	Special Lecture: President Bush Versus Congress: War Powers and Iraq in Historical Perspective Professor David Canon, Professor of Political Science, UW-Madison. Sponsored by: Undergraduate History Association & Phi Alpha Theta More information...	Curti Lounge Humanities Bldg. 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Friday February 16	Submit your work to Archive: A Journal of Undergraduate History! Now in its tenth year of publication, Archive is an award-winning journal that is staffed by undergraduates and publishes only undergraduate work. More information...
Friday February 16	Deadline: UW Hilldale Award More information...
Wednesday February 21	Lunch Honoring Emeritus Faculty More information...	University Club 11:45 - 1:45 PM
Wednesday February 21	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge Humanities Bldg. 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Thursday February 22	Jews and Turks: Model of Coexistence Professor Kemal Karpat, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison More information...	2120 Grainger Hall 5:30 PM
Friday February 23	Diversity Workshop I with the Diversity Education Project	Curti Lounge Humanities Bldg. 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Tuesday February 27	'Genoese, Therefore a Merchant': The Vocation of Trust in the Western Mediterranean Ricardo Court, Visiting Assistant Prof, Dept of History, UW Madison Sponsored by: Center for European Studies	336 Ingraham 12:00 PM

January 2007

Thursday - Sunday January 4 - 7	AHA Conference The 2007 Annual Meeting will be held in downtown Atlanta with events scheduled in the Hilton Atlanta (headquarters), Atlanta Marriott Marquis (co-headquarters), the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, and the Westin Peachtree Plaza Atlanta. Event Website...	See Event Website For Schedule.
Tuesday - Friday January 16 - 19	Advising and Orientation Week
Wednesday January 24	History Department Meeting	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Thursday January 25	Mock Interview Day (prior registration required at 1305 Linden Drive, Suite 205) Students who register for this event have an opportunity to practice interviewing before a big interview! Employers volunteer to work individually with students to help ease their anxiety and give them valuable feedback. More Information...	10:00 - 3:00 PM Memorial Union
Thursday January 25	“The Soviets at Nuremberg: International Law. Propaganda, and the Making of the Postwar Order” Department of History Professor Francine Hirsch will discuss the first phase of findings on her new project.	4:00 PM Lubar Commons (Rm 7200) Law School
Friday January 26	Career Services Open House Students, staff and faculty are welcome to stop by and learn more about our services. There will be a one day sale for eRecruiting for $12.00. Free food! Visit all 4 SAA open house offices and win a free Ipod! More Information...	1:00 - 4:00 PM Career Services Office (1305 Linden Drive, Suite 205)
Wednesday January 31	Government and Non-Profit Volunteer and Career Fair Also sponsored by the Morgridge Center for Public Service. Lots of workshops and information regarding jobs in the government and the non-profit workforce. More Information...	11:00 - 2:00 PM Memorial Union
Wednesday January 31	History Department Council Meetings

December 2006

Wednesday December 6	History Department Council Meetings
Thursday December 7	History Department Winter Holidays Party	Curti Lounge 3:30 - 5:00
Friday December 15	Last Class Day
Saturday - Sunday December 16 - 23	Exams

November 2006

Wednesday November 1	History Department Council Meetings
Tuesday November 7	What To Do With A History Major? Learn about... · Potential Career paths · Resources to explore career options · Information interviews and networking skills · Internships and job search strategies Event Flyer...	Curti Lounge (Rm. 5243 Humanities) 12:00 PM
Wednesday November 8	The Real Kazakhstan A Lecture by Professor Uli Schamiloglu, Chair of the Central Asian Studies Program. Free event open to all UW students and faculty. Food and beverages will be provided.	Curti Lounge (Rm. 5243 Humanities) 6:00 PM
Thursday November 9	Resume Writing for Pros Learn about... · Basics of “how to write a resume” · Identification of transferable skills · Create powerful descriptive lines Event Flyer...