“An Open Moment: My Seven Mothers and the World They Tried to Make” Pernille Ipsen Associate Professor Thursday, March 22, 2018 3:45pm 3401 Sterling Hall An Open Moment is the story of the seven women I called mother. When I was born, on New Years Eve, 1972, my mother lived with six other women in …
“Capital Accumulation, Reproduction and the Reconstruction of the Commons” Silvia Federici Hofstra University “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons” Tuesday, February 20, 2018 4:00 PM 6191 Helen C. White “Reproduction and Capital Accumulation: Past and Present.” Wednesday, February 21, 2018 4:00 PM 6191 Helen C. White Open Seminar for students, faculty, and public Thursday, …
“Claiming Family and Freedom in the American Revolution: The Case of Enslaved New Englanders” Gloria Whiting Assistant Professor of History, UW–Madison Friday, February 9, 2018 – RSVP Required 12:00-1:30 PM Banquet Room, University Club How did slavery end in New England? Scholars have spilled much ink in attempt to answer this question, and their analysis …
Susan Johnson was recently interviewed for an episode of the history podcast BackStory (produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) on the California Gold Rush and the episode, All That Glitters? Legacies of the California Gold Rush. Here’s a link to the multi-segment episode (hers is the 4th segment).
“Digesting Bodies: Status, Gender, and Mastery in Roman Society and Homes” Mira Green History, University of Washington Classics Monday, December 4, 2017 3:30 – 5:00 PM 212 University Club Providing a distinct window into the social and political developments of the early Roman Empire, my research focuses on Roman attitudes towards the digesting body and …
“The Politics of Value” Jane Collins Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison Thursday, November 2, 2017 7:00 PM A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, 315 W Gorham Street The Great Recession not only shook Americans’ economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely …
“Queering Withdrawal in Novels by Achmat Dangor and Rozena Maart” Stephanie Selvick LGBT Coordinator UW-Whitewater Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00-1:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Dr. Selvick will analyze divergent representations of queer South African celibacies, and contend they serve as important artistic responses to the colonial legacy of radicalized sexual terror and its extension and …
“U.S. Cold War Immigration and the Politics of Sanctuary” Cindy I-Fen Cheng History, UW–Madison Asian American Studies Monday, October 2, 2017 3:30 PM 212 University Club This talk looks at how U.S. Cold War immigration policies structured the marginalization of Central Americans. Unlike Southeast Asians, Central Americans did not flee communist countries but countries where …
Congratulations to Susan Johnson, Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow. The Newberry Library’s fellowship program allows scholars the opportunity to pursue research that draws on the Newberry’s extensive archival collections. The fellowship program began with a $100,00 gift from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1944. Learn more about the Newberry library here, http://www.newberry.org/newberry-fellows
Panelists: Kathryn Ciancia Amos Bitzan Elizabeth Lapina Tony Michels Golnar Nikpour Monday, March 27, 2017 5:00 PM Memorial Library, Room 126 Sponsored by: Department of History, George L. Mosse Program, and Center for Humanities. Click to view event poster (pdf)