Category: Lectures

CANCELLED – History of Science Brown Bag – Elizabeth Hennessy

“A Laboratory of Sustainability?” Elizabeth Hennessy Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies UW–Madison Friday, March 9, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, March 16th Friday, March 23rd Friday, April 6th Friday, April 13th Friday, April 20th Friday, April 27th Friday, May 4th All Brown Bags are held …

Africa at Noon – Samuel Childs Daly

“The Deep History of 419: Law and Crime in the Nigerian Civil War” Samuel Childs Daly Assistant Professor of African & American Studies Duke University Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:00 – 1:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hal, 1 155 Observatory Drive Bring your lunch and enjoy complimentary African coffee roasted locally by JUST COFFEE.

Talk: Andrew and Alex Lichtenstein

Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Photo-Historical Collaboration Alex Lichtenstein Current editor of the American Historical Review Andrew Lichtenstein Documentary photographer, Journalist, and Educator Friday, Mar 9, 2018 2:00 PM UW Memorial Library (728 State St.) Photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein and his brother, historian Alex Lichtenstein, will speak about their collaborative Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American …

Lecture: Angel Adams Parham

“The Lost Case of St. Domingue Refugees in 19thCentury Louisiana…and Why Sociologists Need to Recover It” Angel Adams Parham Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola University-New Orleans Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:15 PM 8417 Social Sciences Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University-New Orleans. Her work engages the intersection of race, migration, …

Lecture: Lee Palmer Wandel

“The Matter of the Liturgy” Lee Palmer Wandel Dept of History, UW–Madison Friday, March 2, 2018 2:30-4:00 PM 6191 Helen C. White Building

History Department Colloquium – Pablo Gómez and Bridgette Werner

“Risky Corporeality: Slavery and the New Quantifiable Bodies of the Early Modern Atlantic” Pablo Gómez “A Spectacular Vengeance: Violence, State Intervention, and Peasant Autonomy in Revolutionary Bolivia” Bridgette Werner Moderated by Patrick Iber Monday, February 26, 2018 11:50 – 1:20 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5243 Mosse Humanities Bldg.)

History of Science Brown Bag – Jole Shackelford

“The History of Chronobiology: Constructing the Timescape of a New Scientific Field” Jole Shackelford University of Minnesota Friday, March 2, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5243 Mosse Humanities Bldg.)   Future Brown Bags Friday, March 9th Friday, March 16th Friday, March 23rd Friday, April 6th Friday, April 13th Friday, April 20th Friday, April 27th …

Tobias Lecture – Nina Caputo

“Graphic Difference: Interpreting a Medieval Theological Debate through Comics” Nina Caputo Department of History University of Florida Monday, February 26, 2018 4:00 – 5:30 PM Pyle Center Nina Caputo works on Jewish-Christian relations in the middle ages with a focus on polemics, theological disputations, and the role played by converts as intermediaries between the two …

Lecture – William Robichaud

“New Species, New Extinctions in Laos and Vietnam” William Robichaud Saola Conservation Program Coordinator Global Wildlife Conservation Friday, February 23rd 12:00 – 1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall

History of Science Brown Bag – Pablo Gómez and Lynn Nyhart

“How (Not) to Write a Book Review” Pablo Gómez and Lynn Nyhart Friday, February 23, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5243 Mosse Humanities Bldg.)   Future Brown Bags Friday, March 2nd Friday, March 9th Friday, March 16th Friday, March 23rd Friday, April 6th Friday, April 13th Friday, April 20th Friday, April 27th Friday, May …