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 …
Lectures
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 …
History of Science Brown Bag – Nicole Nelson
“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.)
Lecture: Kevin Walters
“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 …
History of Science Colloquium
“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 …
Panel: Legacies of Constitutional Interpretation
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 …
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 …
Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics
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 …
“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 …