11th Annual Michael B. Petrovich Lecture supported by the Alice D. Mortensen/Petrovich Chair in Russian History “Soviet Americana: or How Russians Learned to Love and Hate America” Sergei I. Zhuk Professor of History, Ball State University April 27th, 2018 4:00-5:30pm DE235 Pyle Center Reception to follow
The Graduate Early Modern Student Society Presents the 2018 GEMSS Symposium “(Mis)appropriating the Past: The Uses and Abuses of History: The Uses and Abuses of History” Dr. Steven Nadler William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities, Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, and Department of Philosophy Friday, April 27, 2018 8:00 AM …
“Scholars As Writers: The Fundamentals” Writing workshop with Alex Star – website Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History Department. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please RSVP to Jennifer Stitt (stitt2@wisc.edu). The IHG is an informal, interdisciplinary working group for faculty, staff, …
A Room of One’s Own is honored to welcome the the fifth Annual Feminist Faculty Book Party! This year, we convene to celebrate the recently released work of: Emily Callaci Shelly Chan Kathryn Moeller Nicole C. Nelson Sue Robinson Sami Schalk Cherene Sherrard! Friday, April 27th, 2018 6:00 PM A Room Of One’s Own Bookstore …
“The Many Africas of the Grey Parrot” Nancy Jacobs Professor of History Brown University Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Bring your lunch and enjoy complimentary African coffee roasted locally by JUST COFFEE.
“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 …