“Pain, Torture, Rights: Political Violence and the Modern State in Pre-Revolutionary Iran” Golnar Nikpour (UW-Madison, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow) Friday, March 10, 2017 3:30-5:00 PM Curti Lounge Sponsored by the Department of History. Event organized by …
2017
Writing the Ottomans onto the World Map
Virginia H. Aksan Emeritus Professor of History McMaster University (Ontario) Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:00-7:00 PM Union South (check TITU for room) This talk will concentrate on new approaches to the study of the Ottoman …
History Department Colloquium
Omri Shafer Raviv “Early Dilemmas of the Israeli Occupation: Pacification, Modernization & the Reshaping of Palestine” Hye-Eun Choi “Munye-bu and Korean Record Production in the 1930s” Monday, February 27, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge Click …
Rethinking Empire in the Twentieth Century: Lessons from Imperial and Post-Imperial Japan
Louise Young Professor of Japanese History, UW-Madison Wednesday, February 22, 2017 5:30-7:00 PM 212 University Club Building Japan built a wartime empire in Asia in the 1930s, and after losing that empire in 1945 created …
“The Class Deficiency of the Israeli Left” & “The Populist Spell of the Israeli Right”
Professor Daniel Gutwein University of Haifa Department of Jewish History “The Class Deficiency of the Israeli Left” Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 – 3:45 pm 6102 Social Sciences “The Populist Spell of the Israeli Right” Thursday, …
Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics
Patrick William Kelly 2015-2017 A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Friday, February 10, 2017 12:00-1:00 PM Banquest Room, University Club We live in a world where the idea of “human rights” animates people across the globe. But …
Jan Vansina (1929-2017)
Professor emeritus Jan Vansina, one of the world’s foremost historians of Africa, died peacefully in Madison on Wednesday, February 8, 2017. He was surrounded by his wife, Claudine, and his son, Bruno. Diagnosed with lung …
“Histories that Don’t Fit: The Chinese ‘South Seas’ and its End in the Twentieth Century”
Shelly Chan UW-Madison Assistant Professor of History Friday, February 3, 2017 12:00 – 1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall This talk asks how Chinese diaspora histories across the “South Seas” (Nanyang)—a maritime region connecting East and …
A Quiet Revolution: Tax Reform in Russia and the North Atlantic from the Eighteenth Century to the 1920’s
Yanni Kotsonis Professor of European History New York University Thursday, February 2, 2017 4:00-5:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Presented by the Center for Russia, East Europe, & Central Asia. Co-sponsored by the Department of History …
2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars to Andrew Stuhl
January 2017 Andrew Stuhl, a History of Science department alumni who earned his Ph.D. in 2013 and is now Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, has been awarded a 2017 DHST …