April 2017 The ILS TA Excellence Award ($500) is presented each year to a TA who is nominated by faculty for their outstanding contribution to the ILS Program at UW–Madison. This year the ILS awards committee selected history of science graduate student James Barnes from a strong field of nominees. James TAs both history of …
Panelists: Kathryn Ciancia Amos Bitzan Elizabeth Lapina Tony Michels Golnar Nikpour Monday, March 27, 2017 5:00 PM Memorial Library, Room 126 Sponsored by: Department of History, George L. Mosse Program, and Center for Humanities. Click to view event poster (pdf)
“Soviet International Law & the Postwar Politics of Human Rights” Francine Hirsch “France at the Kitchen Debates? Creating a ‘Quality’ Consumer Culture during the Cold War” Grace Allen Monday, March 27, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curt Lounge (Rm. 5243 Humanities) Click here to view event poster (pdf)
Cindy I-Fen Cheng has been in the unusual and challenging position of having to do an enormous amount of curriculum development. When she arrived at UW–Madison, there was no established curriculum for Asian American History in either the Department of History or the Program in Asian American Studies. To design such a curriculum, Cheng developed …
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 …
“Pain, Torture, Rights: Political Violence and the Modern State in Pre-Revolutionary Iran” Golnar Nikpour (UW–Madison, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow) Friday, March 10, 2017 3:30-5:00 PM Curti Lounge Sponsored by the Department of History. Event organized by Giuliana Chamedes.
Virginia H. Aksan Emeritus Professor of History McMaster University (Ontario) Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:00-7:00 PM Union South (check TITU for room) This talk will concentrate on new approaches to the study of the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey as reflected in research agendas such as trans-cultural, or inter-imperial history; emphasizing specifically the rewards and …
Omri Shafer Raviv “Early Dilemmas of the Israeli Occupation: Pacification, Modernization & the Reshaping of Palestine” Hye-Eun Choi “Munye-bu and Korean Record Production in the 1930s” Monday, February 27, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge Click to view event poster (pdf)
Louise Young Professor of Japanese History, UW–Madison Wednesday, February 22, 2017 5:30-7:00 PM 212 University Club Building Japan built a wartime empire in Asia in the 1930s, and after losing that empire in 1945 created trading imperium under the American cold war umbrella. What are the lessons that imperial Japan can teach us about the …
Professor Daniel Gutwein University of Haifa Department of Jewish History “The Class Deficiency of the Israeli Left” Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 – 3:45 pm 6102 Social Sciences “The Populist Spell of the Israeli Right” Thursday, February 23, 2:30 – 4:00pm 8417 Social Sciences Professor Gutwein is one of the most prominent and influential thinkers in …