The Parallel Press at the UW–Madison Libraries has published a collection of essays to honor the long and distinguished career of the noted UW–Madison historian of fascism, and of contemporary Spain. The book Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne is co-edited by three former Payne students Brian Bunk, …
In honor of the memory of William A. Brown, who passed away recently, a group of his friends, colleagues, and alumni/e have launched a drive to establish the William A. Brown Memorial Lecture Fund. Income from the fund will be used to fund an annual lecture on Islam and Islamic Culture in West African History, …
September 5 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 12 (Friday) at Noon James Secord, Cambridge “Paper Comets: Prophecy, Science and the End of the World in the Nineteenth-century Press.” September 15 (Monday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Harriet Ritvo, MIT “The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the Victorian Environment.” co-sponsored with the Center for …
Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2008)
January 25 (Friday) at Noon Walton Schalick, UW–Madison “Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disability and Children, 1000-1400.” February 1 (Friday) at Noon Scott Prinster, UW–Madison “Who’s Watching the Watchers? Why Some Historians Call Institutional Review Boards a Threat to Academic Freedom.” February 8 (Friday) at Noon Visual Culture Symposium No Brown Bag February 13 (Wednesday) …
November 2008 Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science, received the Sarton Medal at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Pittsburg. It is the highest honor conferred by the society and given in recognition of a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished scholar, selected from the …
October 2008 For the second time, Eric Schatzberg has won the Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, a prize given to the author of the best scholarly work published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society. It was awarded for his article “Technik Comes to America: Changing …
September 2008 Michael Shank was named a Herbert and Evelyn Howe Bascom Professor in Integrated Liberal Studies for 2008-2010. The professorship honors contributions Evelyn Howe, emerita lecturer in ILS, and Herbert Howe, professor emeritus of classics and ILS, made to the Ford Scholars program in the 1950s, to ILS, and to undergraduate education at UW–Madison. …
January 26 (Friday) at Noon Christina Matta and Richard Staley, UW–Madison “A Graduate Student’s Guide to Publishing.” February 2 (Friday) at Noon Kellen Backer, UW–Madison February 8 (Thursday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego “Opportunities and Opportunism: How Cold War Military Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists Who …
September 7 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 12 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Ann Blair, Harvard University “Managing Information in Big Books, 1500-1700.” Location: 6104 Social Science September 14 (Friday) at Noon Claire Wendland, UW–Madison “Politics, history and medicine in post-Banda Malawi.” September 21 (Friday) at Noon Daniel Siegel, UW–Madison “Isaacson on Einstein: …