“The Lost Case of St. Domingue Refugees in 19thCentury Louisiana…and Why Sociologists Need to Recover It” Angel Adams Parham Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola University-New Orleans Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:15 PM 8417 Social Sciences …
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Lecture: Lee Palmer Wandel
“The Matter of the Liturgy” Lee Palmer Wandel Dept of History, UW-Madison Friday, March 2, 2018 2:30-4:00 PM 6191 Helen C. White Building
History Department Colloquium – Pablo Gómez and Bridgette Werner
“Risky Corporeality: Slavery and the New Quantifiable Bodies of the Early Modern Atlantic” Pablo Gómez “A Spectacular Vengeance: Violence, State Intervention, and Peasant Autonomy in Revolutionary Bolivia” Bridgette Werner Moderated by Patrick Iber Monday, February …
History of Science Brown Bag – Jole Shackelford
“The History of Chronobiology: Constructing the Timescape of a New Scientific Field” Jole Shackelford University of Minnesota Friday, March 2, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5243 Mosse Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, …
Tobias Lecture – Nina Caputo
“Graphic Difference: Interpreting a Medieval Theological Debate through Comics” Nina Caputo Department of History University of Florida Monday, February 26, 2018 4:00 – 5:30 PM Pyle Center Nina Caputo works on Jewish-Christian relations in the …
New installment of What History Tells explores the rise of European racism
The legendary University of Wisconsin-Madison professor George Mosse taught courses in European cultural history, providing unique insight into racism and fascism. Mosse retired in 1987, but his work couldn’t be more relevant in an era …
Lecture – William Robichaud
“New Species, New Extinctions in Laos and Vietnam” William Robichaud Saola Conservation Program Coordinator Global Wildlife Conservation Friday, February 23rd 12:00 – 1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall
History of Science Brown Bag – Pablo Gómez and Lynn Nyhart
“How (Not) to Write a Book Review” Pablo Gómez and Lynn Nyhart Friday, February 23, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5243 Mosse Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, March 2nd Friday, March 9th …
Lecture: Lynn K. Nyhart
“The Great Disruption: Biologists, Revolutions, and the Values of Science ca. 1848” Lynn K. Nyhart Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor of History of Science University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5:30 PM L140 Conrad A. …
Diane Lindstrom (1944 – 2018)
The History Department sadly announces that Professor Emeritus Diane Lindstrom died on February 7, 2018. She was the first woman to earn tenure in the History Department. She also was the first person to teach …