Thursday, September 21st, 6:00 – 7:30 pm “Song for the Beloved” An Art Performance by Honor Ford Smith Friday, September 22nd, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Workshop Alejandra Bronfman (University of British Columbia) Honor Ford-Smith (York University) Paul C. Johnson (University of Michigan) Roshini Kempadoo (University of Westminster, London) Jeannine Murray-Román (Florida State University) Juan …
Showdown in the South China Sea: Beijing and Washington Struggle for Dominion over the “World Island” Alfred McCoy Harrington Professor of History, UW–Madison Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00-1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Today, the shoals of the South China Sea are arguably the only place on the planet where there is a risk of …
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 snacks 3:30-5:00 PM – Comments and Q&A Room 213, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street With four UW–Madison experts: Eunsook Jung …
“What (not) to Do in a Talk” Nicole Nelson UW–Madison Friday, September 22 2017 12:00 – 1:30 pm Curti Lounge (Rm 5233 humanities Bldg.)
“Think Local, Act Global: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the Soil of the Wisconsin Idea” Kevin Walters is a Historian and Strategic Research Coordinator for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and a PhD Candidate in the UW- Madison History Department. Although much of his family comes from the Midwest, he grew up in …
“From Virus Hunting to Alien Exploration: How Colonial Science Shaped the Late 20th Century Search for Life in Outer Space.” Professor Joanna Radin Yale University Friday, September 15, 2017 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library The easiest way to get to Special Collections is to take the separate elevator down the …
Join us for three talks and a panel discussion concerning the perennial debate: how should we interpret the Constitution? Featuring distinguished constitutional scholars reflecting on the traditions and resources at our disposal for answering this question in our own times. Jack Rakove (Stanford University) Jeremy Bailey (University of Houston) Lynn Uzzell (University of Virginia) This …
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 to view event poster (pdf)
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 trading imperium under the American cold war umbrella. What are the lessons that imperial Japan can teach us about the …
Patrick William Kelly 2015-2017 A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Friday, February 10, 2017 12:00-1:00 PM Banquest Room, University Club We live in a world where the idea of “human rights” animates people across the globe. But what are the roots of our era of global human rights politics? Kelly’s talk draws on case studies of Brazil, …