“Stalin and the World” presented by Professor Stephen Kotlin Princeton University Monday, May 2, 2016 4:00 – 5:30 PM Pyle Center, Rm DE235 Supported by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History Reception to follow. Click to view event poster (pdf)
Monday, May 2, 2016 11:50 – 1:20 PM Curti Lounge Jeanne Essame “Blackness in Motion: Haitian émigrés’ shifting identities in the Congo and Québec, 1950s-1960s” Pernille Ipsen “Colonial Haunting, Race, and Interracial Marriage in Hans Christian Andersen’s Mulatten” Click to view event poster (pdf)
April 2016 Professor Susan E. Lederer, Robert Turell Professor of History of Medicine and Bioethics, Professor of History of Science, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will give the Fielding H. Garrison Lecture at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) in …
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Albert Guérard Professor in Literature Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, and German Studies Stanford University Tuesday, April 26, 2016 4:30-6:00 PM Elvehjem, Room L140 Hegel was both irritated and fascinated by Diderot’s intellectual style (above all by “Rameau’s Nephew” as its fictional embodiment). And this irritation is but one of …
Igor Fedyukin Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center Thursday, April 21, 2016 4:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Part of the CREECA Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Department of History
Faith and Hope: My Life in Baseball with Allan H. “Bud” Selig Commissioner Emeritus Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 4:00 – 5:30 PM 1131 Humanities Bldg. Click to view event poster (pdf)
April 2016 Assistant Professor Catherine Jackson visited the Chemistry Department at De Pauw University, Indiana, in April 2016 to deliver the 23rd Burkett Lectures (see lecture brochure for more information and a list of previous speakers). The Burkett Lectures are endowed by alumni of De Pauw’s Chemistry Department to honor the memory of esteemed teacher and …
Join us for a presentation to learn how a new online course is successfully blending old and new media to engage lifelong learners at a distance from the Madison campus. The course, “What History Tells: George L. Mosse on European Cultural History,” revives recorded lectures given by legendary history professor George L. Mosse (1918 to …
Kathryn Ciancia Assistant Professor, Department of History, UW–Madison Friday, April 8, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club Kathryn Ciancia is an assistant professor in the History department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her PhD in History from Stanford University in 2011 and went on to work as a postdoctoral lecturer …
Professor Stern has been selected to receive the Hilldale Award in the Arts and Humanities for 2015-16. Given annually since 1986-87, the Hilldale Awards recognize distinguished career contributions to teaching, research and service. One faculty member is honored in each division. Recipients receive a $7,500 cash prize. Steve will be honored by Chancellor Blank at …