“Myanmar in Crisis: What will happen Next?” May Sabe Phyu Director: Gender Equality Network (GEN) Friday, April 13th 12:00pm-1:30pm Ingraham Room 206 Free and open to the public! Coffee and tea will be served. BIO: May Sabe Phyu is a passionate and committed advocate for women’s rights and gender equality in Myanmar. She works actively …
Honoring Ancestors in Africa: Arts & Actions A Conference hosted by the African Studies Program The conference spans a wide variety of disciplines and your department/program was identified as potentially interested in this exciting event. This multi-disciplinary symposium will explore sensory aspects of African traditions of honoring ancestors. To learn more and register, visit whirlingancestors.wisc.edu. …
Our undergraduate advisor extraordinaire, Scott Burkhardt, has just won this year’s L&S Academic Advising Award. UW–Madison College of Letters & Science gives out only two awards per year – one for faculty, one for staff. Congratulations Scott! We’re so glad to see your tireless efforts on behalf of our students recognized. Our undergraduate program would …
“Life as the History of Science in a Department of History.” Fritz Davis Friday, April 6, 2018 12:00 – 1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, April 13th Friday, April 20th Friday, April 27th All Brown Bags are held in the Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) from 12:00-1:00 PM …
“Thinking about the American Empire and Its Impending Decline” Alfred McCoy Harrington Professor of History UW–Madison with comments by Professor Patrick Iber Monday, April 9, 2018 5:00 – 6:30 PM Pyle Center Auditorium Free and open to the public
“Bridging the Gap: The Secular and Sacred in Evangelical Christian Zionism” Dan Hummel Institute for Research in the Humanities Wednesday, April 4, 2018 6:00 pm University Club 212 This is the inaugural of the Interdisciplinary Religion Group, an open forum for graduate students across UW–Madison who study religion in all its forms, varieties, and expressions. …
Congratulations to Kate Wersan, who has won the American Society for Environmental History’s 2017 Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. Her article, “The Early Melon and the Mechanical Gardener: Toward an Environmental History of Timekeeping in the Long Eighteenth Century,” appeared in the April 2017 issue. Advised by William Cronon, Kate has held fellowships …
“The Sense of a Beginning: Starting a History of Biology” Lynn K. Nyhart Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor of History of Science, UW–Madison History IRH Senior Fellow Monday, April 2, 2018 3:30 – 5:00 PM 212 University Club Bldg. In 1802, the word “Biologie” appeared for the first time, in French and German, to characterize a …
“Rethinking Ornamentals: Art and Music in Nineteenth-Century Common Schools” Margaret A. Nash University of California, Riverside Monday, April 2, 2018 12:00 – 1:30 PM Education 198
“Street Fighting Year: The Importance of 1968, Fifty Years On” Tariq Ali Writer, Journalist, Filmmaker Monday, April 2, 2018 7:00 PM Elvehjem L160 (Philips Auditorium) TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as …