“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 Giuliana Chamedes.
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 Empire and Republican Turkey as reflected in research agendas such as trans-cultural, or inter-imperial history; emphasizing specifically the rewards and …
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 to view event poster (pdf)
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 trading imperium under the American cold war umbrella. What are the lessons that imperial Japan can teach us about the …
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, February 23, 2:30 – 4:00pm 8417 Social Sciences Professor Gutwein is one of the most prominent and influential thinkers in …
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 what are the roots of our era of global human rights politics? Kelly’s talk draws on case studies of Brazil, …
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 cancer in the Fall of 2015, Vansina underwent chemotherapy for a few weeks and enjoyed a remission in the summer …
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 Southeast Asia from its height in the 1920s to its end in the 1960s—may help advance the understanding of trans-Asia. …
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 and the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History. View event poster (pdf)
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 Prize for Young Scholars for his dissertation Empires on Ice: Science, Nature, and the Making of the Modern Arctic. This …