“A Global History of Mathematics from 1650 to 2017” Tomoko Kitagawa University of California – Berkley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society Friday, October 13, 2017 4:00 PM Van Vleck Hall, 9th Floor Lounge …
East Asian History
Lecture: Florence Hsia
“How to Use a Chinese Dictionary: The Four-Corner Index” Florence Hsia Professor History of Science UW-Madison Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:00-1:00 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr View or download event poster (pdf)
History Department Colloquium
ROUNDTABLE: History & the Present With UW-Madison History Faculty: Liz Hennessey, Patrick Iber, Rudy Koshar, Karl Shoemaker, & Sarah Thal Monday, October 2, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Limits & possibilities …
Roundtable on the North Korea Crisis
How did we reach this point? How is the crisis affecting East Asia and international relations? What are possible outcomes and solutions? A free public discussion Friday, September 22, 2017 3:00 PM – Coffee/tea and …
Involuntary Resistance: Against Normalizing Society in Recent South Korean Film
Christopher Hanscom UCLA Korean literature professor. Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:15-6:00 PM Ingraham Hall, Room 22 Prof. Christopher Hanscom will discuss two recent South Korean films, exploring connections between the portrayal of “involuntary resistances” and …
Histories of the Present: Postimperial Asia in the World
Burdick-Vary Symposium Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Pyle Center Session One – 10:00-12:30 – “Neo-Nationalisms and Empire” Daniel Ussishkin, UW Francine Hirsch, UW Laird Boswell, UW Louise Young, UW Viren Murthy, …
History Department Colloquium
Omri Shafer Raviv “Early Dilemmas of the Israeli Occupation: Pacification, Modernization & the Reshaping of Palestine” Hye-Eun Choi “Munye-bu and Korean Record Production in the 1930s” Monday, February 27, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge Click …
Rethinking Empire in the Twentieth Century: Lessons from Imperial and Post-Imperial Japan
Louise Young Professor of Japanese History, UW-Madison Wednesday, February 22, 2017 5:30-7:00 PM 212 University Club Building Japan built a wartime empire in Asia in the 1930s, and after losing that empire in 1945 created …
“Histories that Don’t Fit: The Chinese ‘South Seas’ and its End in the Twentieth Century”
Shelly Chan UW-Madison Assistant Professor of History Friday, February 3, 2017 12:00 – 1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall This talk asks how Chinese diaspora histories across the “South Seas” (Nanyang)—a maritime region connecting East and …
History Department Colloquium
Panel on “Intimate Labors and Home Ownership” with April Haynes (early American republic) “Sweet Home and Elusive Homeownership in South Korea from the 1960s to 1970s” Eunhee Park Monday, October 24, 2016 11:50-1:20 PM Curti …