November 2015 The UW Center for the Humanities has awarded History of Science Assistant Professor Nicole Nelson a First Book Award, one of the three UW junior faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to receive this support. The award will allow Nelson to assemble a “dream team” of readers for her first academic …
November 2015 The UW History of Science Department will be well-represented at the annual History of Science Society (HSS) meeting this month in San Francisco. Graduate students James Brannon, Melissa Charenko, Bridget Collins, Dana Freiburger, Molly Laas, and Daniel Liu are giving talks at this conference. Collins and Freiburger organized the sessions for their talks …
Emily Callaci Assistant Professor of History UW–Madison Nov. 23, 2015 3:30 – 4:30 PM 212 University Club Building Urban migration in Africa in the second half of the twentieth century has been one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in history. Yet in the midst of this urban revolution, many African nationalist intellectuals and political …
The second of three films apart of “Russia and America Through the Filmmaker’s Lens” Tuesday, November 15, 2016 7:00 – 8:30 PM 1651 Humanities Bldg. Join us in this 3-part series as we explore Russia and America through film. Each viewing will include a brief introduction and a moderated discussion after the viewing. The second …
Richard King Emeritus Professor in American and Canadian Studies, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham Tuesday, November 15, 2016 4:30-6:00 PM 212 University Club Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science and the Intellectual History Group at UW–Madison. Richard …
with David McDonald and Alice D. Mortenson Tuesday, November 15, 2016 12:00-1:00 PM 165 Bascom Hall “Sport and the Cold War: Conflict without Weapons” will examine the ways in which such occasions as the Olympic Games became symbolic arenas for confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union or, in many cases, between “west” …
Professor University of Chicago Nov. 13, 2015 1:30 – 3:00 PM Conrad A Elvehjem Building, Room L140 Prof. Pomeranz is a specialist on society and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China and the past president of the American Historical Association. His most recent book is The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of …
Lila Corwin Berman, Temple University “The Death and Life of Jewish Urbanism” Monday, November 9, 2015 4:00 p.m. Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (330 N. Orchard St.) In modern times, Jews emerged as the consummate urban dwellers. How, then, were Jewish and urban life transformed when Jews joined the droves of Americans who left cities for …
“Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Early Modern Europe” Featuring Professor Anthony T. Grafton Princeton University November 3 – November 5, 2015 4:00 PM Pyle Center Vandeberg Auditorium Topics Tuesday, Nov 3rd “How Jesus Celebrated Passover: The Birth of Christianity Transformed” Wednesday, Nov 4th “Bearers of Memory and Makers of History: The Many Paths …
October 2015 History of Science Professor Florence Hsia recently penned a piece for The Conversation about Pope Francis, the Jesuits, and science. Titled “Jesuits as science missionaries for the Catholic Church”, Hsia ponders the historical relations between these three parties since the founding of the Society of Jesus nearly 500 years ago.