Professor Dan Healey Department History St Antony’s College Thursday, April 9, 2015 4:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club Building Dan Healey is Professor of Modern Russian History at St Antony’s College. His research and publications have concentrated on the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He has been most interested …
Stanley I. Kutler, Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who specialized in U.S. legal and constitutional history, the Vietnam War and the Watergate era, died April 7th at Agrace Hospice Care in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. He was 80. A proud native of Cleveland, Ohio, Kutler made his home in Madison for more …
Karl Shoemaker, winner of the 2014 John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy, awarded for a distinguished first book in the field of medieval studies. The award is for Shoemaker’s book Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500 (Fordham Univ. Press, 2011). Karl accepted his prize at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval …
March 2015 2015 marks the 650th birthday of the University of Vienna. The foundation was celebrated by a host of events, including an exhibition of 14th-15thC manuscripts and artifacts in the splendid Prunksaal of the Austrian National Library, one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Mike Shank was the only non-European contributor to …
March 2015 Graduate student Scott Prinster will present “Finches in the Sanctuary: Evolutionary Thought in a Religious World” on Thursday, March 12, as part of the UW Evolution Seminar Series. The weekly seminars are held at noon in Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360. For more information about the series, see the full semester’s schedule at http://www.evolution.wisc.edu/node/30.
March 2015 The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has conferred its 2015 Friend of Darwin Award on Emeritus Professor Ronald L. Numbers, an award “presented annually to a select few whose efforts to support NCSE and advance its goal of defending the teaching of evolution and climate science have been truly outstanding.” In granting …
Professor Pablo Ariel Blitstein University of Heidelberg Wednesday, March 25, 2015 12:00 – 1:15 PM Red Gym’s “Maisley Media Room,” 716 Langdon Street Pablo Ariel Blitstein studied ancient Greek and Roman Literature and Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina) and Chinese history at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, …
Uta Poiger Professor of History Northeastern University Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:00 PM L140 Elvehjem Building The working group on the new materialism is thrilled to welcome Professor Uta Poiger to UW–Madison on March 19th for a lecture and roundtable discussion. Uta Poiger is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Social Sciences …
“Inside the Great Terror: The Trials and Tribulations of Stalin’s Secret Police in Ukraine.” presented by Prof. Lynne Viola University of Toronto Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:00 – 5:30 Pyle Center Supported by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History
Lt. Col. John Hall, Ph.D. If that combination of titles surprises you, it shouldn’t — not the way Hall, a UW–Madison professor of military history, sees it. As a cadet at West Point, he preferred courses like advanced hand-to-hand combat to the liberal arts classes he felt were being imposed on him. Now, he realizes …