History Newsletter 2017-18 – “The Past in the Present” Chair’s Welcome Twenty Years of ARCHIVE Drunk History Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25 Wisconsin 101 Progress Report Faculty/Emeriti News News Professorships Graduate Student/Alumni Notes Undergraduate/Graduate Awards and …
2017
African Studies celebrates the contributions of Florence Bernault
The African Studies Program congratulates and bids a fond farewell to longtime colleague Florence Bernault, who will be returning to her home country of France for a senior professorship in African History at the Institut …
Making Tracks: Gregg Mitman
A recent autobiographical essay on how Gregg Mitman became an environmental historian, commissioned by the Rachel Carson Center. Read the essay on their blog, Seeing the Woods.
History of Science Brown Bag – Marie Hicks
“Searching for Genderqueerness in the Archive” Marie Hicks UW-Madison, Department of History Upcoming History of Science brown bag: December 8th with Lynn Nyhart – Town Hall
Lecture: Evan Laksmana
“Reshuffling the Deck?: Organizational Evolution, Officer Promotion, and Military Reform in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia” Evan Laksmana Doctoral Candidate Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University Senior Researcher Center of Strategic and International Studies Jakarta …
Lecture: Susan Brewer
“A Place Called Home: Family and Identity on Oneida Land” with Susan Brewer Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:00 PM 7191 Helen C. White Susan Brewer investigates the history of Oneida Indian land in central New …
Better Health Through the Humanities
A new certificate teaches students historical, cultural and philosophical ways people intersect with health care and provides them a broader, more nuanced understanding of health. Last spring in a Biology and Society course, Makenzie Wydra …
Seminar: Mira Green
“Digesting Bodies: Status, Gender, and Mastery in Roman Society and Homes” Mira Green History, University of Washington Classics Monday, December 4, 2017 3:30 – 5:00 PM 212 University Club Providing a distinct window into the …
History of Science Colloquium
“Saints and Science in Early Modern Italy: Filippo Neri and Francesco Borgia as Patron Saints of Earthquakes” Prof. Monica Azzolini Dept. of Philosophy and Communication U. of Bologna; Davis Center, Princeton Friday, December 1, 2017 …
Lecture: Dr. Zach Fredman
“The Jeep Girl Crisis of 1945: American Servicemen and Chinese Women in Wartime China” Dr. Zach Fredman U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow Dartmouth College Thursday, November 30, 2017 3:30 – 5:00 Masley Media …