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 …
2016
History Department Colloquium – Spring 2016
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 …
“If It Were Only the Blues” – McKay Lecture in the Humanities
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 …
The 2016 Sandoway Workshop
“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 Land of Social Revolution’ and Back: American Encounters with Soviet Russia
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. …
History Department Colloquium
“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 …
Cold War Roadshow
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 …
Arendt and America
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 …
Sport and The Cold War: Conflict without Weapons
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 …