Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:30 – 7:30 pm Lee Lounge, Pyle Center 702 Langdon Street Madison, WI YOU ARE INVITED! Open to all History Department alumni, their guests, and friends of the department. RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Please contact Christina Matta at christina.matta@wisc.edu to RSVP.
Kutler Lectures with Professor Roger Horowitz University of Delaware “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food” Wednesday, October 18th “Is Kosher a Brand?: Ruminations on the Intersections of Jewish Law and the Secular Marketplace” Thursday, October 19th 4:00 PM Room 325/326, Pyle Center Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. …
“Africa, France & the Future: Exile in Ndjolé (Gabon), ca. 1900 Cameroon” Gregory Mann Professor of History Columbia University Wednesday, October 18, 2017 206 Ingraham Hal l | 1 155 Observatory Drive Bring your lunch and enjoy complimentary African coffee roasted locally by JUST COFFEE.
“Land Grant Universities and the Wisconsin Idea, 1862-1912″ Adam Nelson Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History UW–Madison Tuesday, October 17, 2017 7:00 – 8:30 pm UWBC Auditorium, 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center (425 Henry Mall) Assigned Readings: “Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform” by Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, Donald M. Reid
History Sandwiched In: “Always on the Move – Mexican Migrant Workers in Mid-Twentieth Century Wisconsin” Sergio González UW–Madison, Dept. of History Graduate Student Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:15-1:00 PM Wisconsin Historical Museum, 30 North Carroll St. Join historian Sergio González as he examines the lives of Mexican-descent migrant workers who labored across Wisconsin throughout the …
The U.S. Department of Education has announced that four students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been selected as recipients of the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Awards for 2017. Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for …
“A Global History of Mathematics from 1650 to 2017” Tomoko Kitagawa University of California – Berkley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society Friday, October 13, 2017 4:00 PM Van Vleck Hall, 9th Floor Lounge Abstract: This is a talk on the global history of mathematics. We will first focus on France by revisiting some …
“Harry Steenbock and the Technoscience of Vitamines, 1885-1925” Friday, October 13, 2017 12:00 – 1:30 pm Kevin Walters UW–Madison, History Graduate Student
with Brian North UW–Madison, History Department Graduate Student Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00 – 4:30 PM City Bar on State Street 636 State St. Madison Additional Information Brian North will take the lead a two-part presentation. First he wants to go over the major themes of his previously published work Making the Difficult Routine, and …
“The Hemings Family of Monticello” Annette Gordon-Reed Harvard University Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History Wednesday, October 11, 2017 4:00 – 5:00 PM Wisconsin History Society Auditorium