Past Event Category: Gender and Women’s History
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Oct 29“Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement”
Emily Callaci (UW-Madison)
Pyle Center, Room 226 (702 Langdon St.)
Presented by Madison History Club. This event will be recorded by PBS Wisconsin University Place In the 1970s, a network of feminists across the globe came together to make a deceptively simple demand: Wages for Housework! When invoked today, the phrase commonly refers to the cash payment that was its signature demand, yet for the …
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Apr 4“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing”
Sarah Richardson
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing” W.S. Miller Memorial Lectureship History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sarah S. Richardson (Harvard University) Sarah Richardson is Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, where she has taught …
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Mar 5“Of Doubtful Nature: Archive of an Amphibious Childhood in a Nuclear Age”
Finn Enke
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
Focus on the Humanities lectures are a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. This Focus lecture is also presented in partnership with the UW–Madison Art Department’s Visiting Artist Colloquium. What is the archive of a child who both did and did not exist? Archival assembly necessarily grapples with …
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Sep 5Amy Stanley, “Revisiting the ‘Comfort Girls’ of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire”
Pyle Center 209
“Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire” Amy Stanley (Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History, Northwestern University) Amy Stanley (Ph.D., Harvard, 2007) is a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, with special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. …
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May 24“Global Histories of Austerity, Past and Present”Pyle Center, Room 309
Frameworks: Austerities Past and Present (9:00 AM -12:00 PM) Inventing Austerity (3:15 PM – 6:00 PM) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Pyle Center, Room 309 Race, Empire, and the Making of Our Times (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM) Roundtable: Austerity and Resistance (1:00 PM – 3:15 PM) Sponsored by: The Brittingham Wisconsin Trust Grant, UW–Madison Department …