September 9 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester. For the remainder of the hour, we’ll have an informal discussion about current problems with academic publishing, which seems increasingly dysfunctional. Check out this recent Atlantic article for a quick overview of some of the key issues. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial …
Professor Yuval Weber National Research University — Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall A key challenge for post-authoritarian governments is to consolidate political authority; one of the most difficult decisions new leaders make is to evaluate the fate of officials associated with the ousted regime. Beyond the …
Marc Hertzman Professor of History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:30 – 5:00 PM 8417 Social Science This presentation explores the contours and significance of prolonged searches for African origins of two of Brazil’s most cherished, recognizable symbols: samba music and Zumbi, the last leader of the famous 17th-century quilombo (runaway …
November 2016 History of Science alumna Megan Raby has received the 2016 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize presented at the recent History of Science Society (HSS) annual meeting in Atlanta. Awarded for the best article in the HSS journal Isis published in issues three years prior to the year in which the award is given, Megan …
Enjoy a special afternoon with textile-collection donors and friends of the School of Human Ecology featuring Stitching History from the Holocaust, an original exhibit created by and on loan from the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee. Sunday, November 6, 2016 Nancy Nicholas Hall, Room 2235 Schedule of Events 1:00 – Doors open 1:30 – Keynote Speaker: …
October 2016 Catherine Jackson, Assistant Professor in the History of Science department, gave the keynote talk at the recent meeting of the Midwest Section of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society (ASGS) held on September 24th at the UW–Madison campus. She spoke about the kaliapparat – a new kind of glass apparatus developed in 1830 by …
September 2016 Melissa Charenko, a dissertator in the History of Science dept., will be presenting details on her research work at the upcoming 2016 Introductory Symposium put on by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine based in Philadelphia. This event will be streamed ‘live’ starting at 9:50 AM (EDT) on September 28, …
Kate Brown Professor of History University of Maryland, Baltimore County Friday, March 4, 2016 4:30 – 6:00 PM Wisconsin Historical Society Opening Talk Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies: A Vocabulary for the Repressed: Native Presence, American Trauma, and John Muir’s Wisconsin Sponsored by: Department of Geography, Harvey Goldberg Center for …