Kate Brown Professor of History University of Maryland, Baltimore County Friday, March 4, 2016 4:30 – 6:00 PM Wisconsin Historical Society Opening Talk Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies: A Vocabulary for the Repressed: Native Presence, American Trauma, and John Muir’s Wisconsin Sponsored by: Department of Geography, Harvey Goldberg Center for …
All events in Curti Lounge from 11:50-1:20 pm. Monday, February 29th “Movies, Protest, & Gender in South Korea’s Sixties” Dr. Charles Kim Monday, March 28th “A Fisherman’s Death in Riau: Gender, Authority, & mobility from the Mediterranean to the S. China Sea” Anthony Medrano History PhD Candidate “A Frenchwoman’s Scandal in Beirut: Complicating Notions of …
Earl Lewis Historian and President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Tuesday, February 23, 2016 5:30 – 7:00 PM Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L140 800 University Avenue About: Earl Lewis is President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A well-regarded social historian, he has been a champion of the importance of diversifying the academy, enhancing …
“Undercover Archives: Surveillance and Historical Interpretation” Featuring this year’s Sandoway Fellow, Athan Biss and Department Chair, Jim Sweet. Monday, February 22, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Curti Lounge (5243 Humanities Bldg) This event is open to the public. Click here to view event poster (pdf)
Tony Michels Professor, Department of History, UW–Madison Friday, February 19, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club In the 1920s, Americans traveled to the Soviet Union to witness the Russian Revolution up close. Some saw a daring social experiment that wedded scientific planning with ideals of equality in all areas of human endeavor. …
“Historical Authority, Gender, & a Clever Princess in 12th-century Constantinople” Leonora Neville “What’s Old is Queer Again: Antiques, Historic Preservation, & Normative Time in Small-Town WI” Christopher Hommerging Monday, January 25 11:50 – 1:20 Curti Lounge With Florencia Mallon as Moderator
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” …