Patrick William Kelly 2015-2017 A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Friday, February 10, 2017 12:00-1:00 PM Banquest Room, University Club We live in a world where the idea of “human rights” animates people across the globe. But what are the roots of our era of global human rights politics? Kelly’s talk draws on case studies of Brazil, …
Professor emeritus Jan Vansina, one of the world’s foremost historians of Africa, died peacefully in Madison on Wednesday, February 8, 2017. He was surrounded by his wife, Claudine, and his son, Bruno. Diagnosed with lung cancer in the Fall of 2015, Vansina underwent chemotherapy for a few weeks and enjoyed a remission in the summer …
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. …
Yanni Kotsonis Professor of European History New York University Thursday, February 2, 2017 4:00-5:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Presented by the Center for Russia, East Europe, & Central Asia. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History. View event poster (pdf)
January 2016 Susan E. Lederer, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics and department chair, will spend Spring 2016 in North Carolina. She will be the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. In addition to co-teaching a course with UNC professor Rebecca …
January 2016 Assistant Professor Pablo Gómez has been awarded a UW Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) residential fellowship for the coming Fall semester. Pablo will be working on his second book project during his time at the Institute.
January 22 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, UW–Madison “Blood Testing and Fear of the False in British India.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Scott Gerard Prinster …
January 2017 Andrew Stuhl, a History of Science department alumni who earned his Ph.D. in 2013 and is now Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, has been awarded a 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars for his dissertation Empires on Ice: Science, Nature, and the Making of the Modern Arctic. This …
January 2017 Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s forthcoming book, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, will come out in April from University of North Carolina Press. As described by the publisher, “Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body …
January 20 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Rachel Gross, History “Wear a hat to keep your feet warm, and other lessons from the Science of Dressing during World War II.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 27 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Judy Houck & Nicole Nelson, History of Science “Getting your first article published.” Location: …