Category: South Asian History

Histories of the Present: Postimperial Asia in the World

Burdick-Vary Symposium Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Pyle Center Session One – 10:00-12:30 – “Neo-Nationalisms and Empire” Daniel Ussishkin, UW Francine Hirsch, UW Laird Boswell, UW Louise Young, UW Viren Murthy, UW Session Two: –  2:00-4:30 – East Asian Regionalisms Sayuri Shimizu, Rice University Shelly Chan, UW Anne Hansen, UW Kim …

All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2016

January 22 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, UW–Madison “Blood Testing and Fear of the False in British India.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Scott Gerard Prinster …

Global Reformations: Religion and the Making of the Modern World

An International Conference at the University of Wisconsin–Madison May 6 – 7, 2016 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM University Club, 803 State St. Featuring: Ali Akhtar (Bates College) Wendy Laura Belcher (Princeton) Alexander Bevilacqua (Harvard) Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University) Elaine Fisher (UW–Madison) Pablo F. Gómez (UW–Madison) Janet Gyafso (Harvard) John Stratton (Columbia) J. Michelle …

City/State/Nation: Historians on Twentieth Century Urbanism

East Asian Connections The Transnational Humanities at the UW–Madison and Beyond Friday, April 17, 2015 1:00 – 3:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5243 Humanities) “The Socialization of Risk in the Neoliberal City” Sean Dinces / History “City Stories as National Allegory in Postcolonial Africa” Emily Callaci/ History “Tokyo-centrism, or the Ideology of the Metropolis” Louise …

All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2014

September 5 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 12 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Michael Shank, History of Science, UW–Madison “Rethinking Mathematical Culture from Pythagoras to Cusa: David Albertson’s Mathematical Theologies (Oxford, 2014).” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 19 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, …