Past Event Category: 2024
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Apr 17History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium: Jaipreet Virdi
Curti Lounge (5233 Humanities Building)
“CALIBRATION: The Science of Deafness in Interwar Britain” Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware) Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology and disability. Her research and teaching interests include the history of medicine, the history of science, disability history, disability technologies and material/visual culture studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute for the History …
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Apr 9Michael Heinrich, “Marx, Hegel and the Problem of Value”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
“Marx, Hegel and the Problem of Value” Michael Heinrich (Editor of Prokla: Journal of Critical Social Science) Cosponsored by Department of History
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Apr 8Michael Heinrich, “Marx and Antisemitism”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
“Marx and Antisemitism” Michael Heinrich (Editor of Prokla: Journal of Critical Social Science) Event Sponsored by George L. Mosse / Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by Department of History
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Apr 5Dan Bouk, “Democracy and Data / The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray”
Orchard Room, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
“Democracy and Data/The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray” Dan Bouk, Colgate University The Haller Lecture Fund and the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology present Dan Bouk, Professor of History at Colgate University, former Faculty Fellow at the Data and Science Research Institute, and Member of the Max Planck Historicizing Big Data Working Group. He …
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Apr 4Stephen Houlgate, “Hegel, Danto and the End of Art”
Hagen Room, Elvehjem 150
“Hegel, Danto and the End of Art” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) We will discuss a paper by Professor Houlgate for this talk. Please contact Viren Murthy (vmurthy2@wisc.edu) or Daniel Spaulding (dmspaulding@wisc.edu) for the paper. “Hegel’s idea of the ‘end of art’ has been a topic of ongoing discussion in the philosophy of art since …
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Apr 4Beth Bailey, War in Society and Culture Program Lecture
Pyle Center 232
“An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era” Beth Bailey (University of Kansas) Even as US troops fought in Vietnam, Black and white soldiers battled each other in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into the streets of towns and cities in the United States and around the …
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Apr 3Stephen Houlgate, “Hegel, Spinoza and the Future of Critical Philosophy”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
“Hegel, Spinoza and the Future of Critical Philosophy” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) “In this lecture, I will consider the different ways in which Kant and Hegel understand what it means to think critically about our most fundamental categories – those we take for granted more than any others. I will do so by examining Hegel’s critique …
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Apr 2Stephen Houlgate, “Civil Society & its Discontents: Hegel on Poverty”
4308 Sewell Building
“Civil Society & its Discontents: Hegel on Poverty” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) Cosponsored by Borghesi Mellon Workshop for Hegel and Social Theory, University Lectures Fund, The Goldberg Center, Department of History, Department of Philosophy
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Apr 1George L. Mosse Program Event: Pamela H. Smith
This event is a webinar. Register via Zoom
“From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in Early Modern World” Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University Comment: Professor Alice M. Goff (University of Chicago) Chair: Professor Michael Martoccio (University of Wisconsin–Madison) In “From Lived Experience to the Written Word,” Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople …
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Mar 21Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice
Pyle Center, Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St.
To attend this event virtually, join us via Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95629916725 “On Racial Capitalism (Redux)” Walter Johnson, Harvard University Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African American Studies Walter Johnson grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and is a member of the Rock Bridge High School Hall of Fame (2006). His prize-winning books, Soul by Soul: Life Inside …