“Reading, Writing, & Racism: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and African American Literacy in Cold War America” Kristin Matthews Bringham Young University Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:00 PM 4191F Helen C. White
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Lecture – May Sabe Phyu
“Myanmar in Crisis: What will happen Next?” May Sabe Phyu Director: Gender Equality Network (GEN) Friday, April 13th 12:00pm-1:30pm Ingraham Room 206 Free and open to the public! Coffee and tea will be served. BIO: …
Honoring Ancestors in Africa: Arts & Actions
Honoring Ancestors in Africa: Arts & Actions A Conference hosted by the African Studies Program The conference spans a wide variety of disciplines and your department/program was identified as potentially interested in this exciting event. …
Scott Burkhardt wins L&S Academic Advising Award
Our undergraduate advisor extraordinaire, Scott Burkhardt, has just won this year’s L&S Academic Advising Award. UW-Madison College of Letters & Science gives out only two awards per year – one for faculty, one for staff. …
History of Science Brown Bag – Fritz Davis
“Life as the History of Science in a Department of History.” Fritz Davis Friday, April 6, 2018 12:00 – 1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, April 13th Friday, April …
Lecture – Alfred McCoy
“Thinking about the American Empire and Its Impending Decline” Alfred McCoy Harrington Professor of History UW-Madison with comments by Professor Patrick Iber Monday, April 9, 2018 5:00 – 6:30 PM Pyle Center Auditorium Free and …
Lecture – Dan Hummel
“Bridging the Gap: The Secular and Sacred in Evangelical Christian Zionism” Dan Hummel Institute for Research in the Humanities Wednesday, April 4, 2018 6:00 pm University Club 212 This is the inaugural of the Interdisciplinary …
Kate Wersan wins the Leopold-Hidy Prize
Congratulations to Kate Wersan, who has won the American Society for Environmental History’s 2017 Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. Her article, “The Early Melon and the Mechanical Gardener: Toward an Environmental History …
Lecture – Lynn K. Nyhart
“The Sense of a Beginning: Starting a History of Biology” Lynn K. Nyhart Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor of History of Science, UW-Madison History IRH Senior Fellow Monday, April 2, 2018 3:30 – 5:00 PM 212 …
Lecture – Margaret A. Nash
“Rethinking Ornamentals: Art and Music in Nineteenth-Century Common Schools” Margaret A. Nash University of California, Riverside Monday, April 2, 2018 12:00 – 1:30 PM Education 198