“Domestic Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Gender and Social Change in Republican China” Gail Hershatter Distinguished Professor of History UC Santa Cruz Thursday, April 19, 2018 5:30 – 7:00 PM Elvehjem Building Room L140 800 University Avenue How can we re-create the world of a woman who left no trace in the public record? This talk considers the …
“Injectable Development: The Global Imaginaries of Depo-Provera in the 1970s” Emily Calacci History Department UW–Madison Friday, April 13, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, April 20th Friday, April 27th All Brown Bags are held in the Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) from 12:00-1:00 PM on Fridays.
“Two Vultures? Freud’s Psychoanalysis between ‘Jewish Science’ and Humanism” Scott Spector – University of Michigan Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature Wednesday, April 14, 2018 4:00 – 5:30 PM Union South (1308 W Dayton St.) Sigmund Freud’s revolutionary approach to the human mind—psychoanalysis—was a new science, and yet one that was from the …
“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
“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: May Sabe Phyu is a passionate and committed advocate for women’s rights and gender equality in Myanmar. She works actively …
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. This multi-disciplinary symposium will explore sensory aspects of African traditions of honoring ancestors. To learn more and register, visit whirlingancestors.wisc.edu. …
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. Congratulations Scott! We’re so glad to see your tireless efforts on behalf of our students recognized. Our undergraduate program would …
“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 20th Friday, April 27th All Brown Bags are held in the Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) from 12:00-1:00 PM …
“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 open to the public
“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 Religion Group, an open forum for graduate students across UW–Madison who study religion in all its forms, varieties, and expressions. …