January 23 (Friday) at Noon Bridget Collins, Kellen Backer, and Jocelyn Bosley, UW-Madison “Prelims: Everything you needed to know but were too afraid to ask.” January 30 (Friday) at Noon An open forum for all …
2009
Harvey Goldberg, The Bootleg Lectures, Madison, Wis., 1974-76 – CDs For Sale
India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding – Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical — in Honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg
“Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg — arguably the historian most responsible for promoting studies of intercultural and interreligious interactions in the South Asian context — the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, …
All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2009
September 4 (Friday) at Noon Judy Kaplan, UW-Madison Introductions followed by a brown bag talk by Judy, topic “The Long Rangers: pre-historical linguistics from Moscow to Michigan.” September 11 (Friday) at Noon Sarah Pfatteicher, UW-Madison …
Professor Florence Bernault Edits Special Issue of Politique Africaine
Professor Florence Bernault just guest-edited a special issue of France’s international flagship journal in African Studies, Politique Africaine on the recent events in Gabon (Equatorial Africa). Last June, Omar Bongo Ondimba, the longest serving president of …
Professor James Donnelly publishes Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824
Named for its mythical leader “Captain Rock,” avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821–24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained …
Honors for Lynn Nyhart
October 2009 Lynn Nyhart has won the 2009 Susan E. Abrams Prize for the best book in the history of science published by the University of Chicago Press in the previous two years, for her …
Professor John M. Cooper, New York Times op-ed contributor, writes column “Obama’s Prize, Wilson’s legacy” (pdf)
George L. Mosse Exchange Faculty Exchange Fellow – 2009-2010
Diego Olstein Areas of Research and Teaching Medieval Iberia My first field of research is Medieval Iberia. To date, my contributions to this field are contained in my book La Era Mozarabe. Los mozárabes de …