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 Southeast Asia from its height in the 1920s to its end in the 1960s—may help advance the understanding of trans-Asia. …
Michele Thompson Professor of History Southern Connecticut University Friday, October 7, 2016 12:00-1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of History & the Department of the History of Science. Free and open to the public. View event poster (pdf)
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 …
At its annual meeting in Honolulu, the Association for Asian Studies awarded the George McT. Kahin Prize this year to Professor Alfred W. McCoy for his book “Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State” (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). The George McT. Kahin Prize of the …