September 4 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 11 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Stephen Neal, History of Science, UW–Madison “Making Science Global During the Cold War.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 18 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Stephen Young, Geography Department and International …
Willard Sunderland, Professor of Russian History, University of Cincinnati Friday, December 4, 2015 1:30 – 3:00 PM 212 University Club Sponsored by: Alice D. Mortensen/Petrovich Chair in Russian History, the George L. Mosse Program in History, the Harvey Goldberg Center, the Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), the Anonymous Fund and the …
Thursday December 3, 2015 Memorial Library Room 126 3:30 to 5:00 pm Kathryn Ciancia on Inter-war Poland Assistant Professor of History, UW–Madison Judd Kinzley on the Early People’s Republic of China Assistant Professor of History, UW–Madison Willard Sunderland on Imperial Russia Professor of History, University of Cincinnati This workshop will adopt a comparative perspective for …
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 …
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.