“Undercover Archives: Surveillance and Historical Interpretation” Featuring this year’s Sandoway Fellow, Athan Biss and Department Chair, Jim Sweet. Monday, February 22, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Curti Lounge (5243 Humanities Bldg) This event is open to the public. Click here to view event poster (pdf)
Tony Michels Professor, Department of History, UW–Madison Friday, February 19, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club In the 1920s, Americans traveled to the Soviet Union to witness the Russian Revolution up close. Some saw a daring social experiment that wedded scientific planning with ideals of equality in all areas of human endeavor. …
“Historical Authority, Gender, & a Clever Princess in 12th-century Constantinople” Leonora Neville “What’s Old is Queer Again: Antiques, Historic Preservation, & Normative Time in Small-Town WI” Christopher Hommerging Monday, January 25 11:50 – 1:20 Curti Lounge With Florencia Mallon as Moderator
September 4 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 11 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Stephen Neal, History of Science, UW–Madison “Making Science Global During the Cold War.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 18 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Stephen Young, Geography Department and International …
Willard Sunderland, Professor of Russian History, University of Cincinnati Friday, December 4, 2015 1:30 – 3:00 PM 212 University Club Sponsored by: Alice D. Mortensen/Petrovich Chair in Russian History, the George L. Mosse Program in History, the Harvey Goldberg Center, the Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), the Anonymous Fund and the …
Thursday December 3, 2015 Memorial Library Room 126 3:30 to 5:00 pm Kathryn Ciancia on Inter-war Poland Assistant Professor of History, UW–Madison Judd Kinzley on the Early People’s Republic of China Assistant Professor of History, UW–Madison Willard Sunderland on Imperial Russia Professor of History, University of Cincinnati This workshop will adopt a comparative perspective for …
November 2015 The UW Center for the Humanities has awarded History of Science Assistant Professor Nicole Nelson a First Book Award, one of the three UW junior faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to receive this support. The award will allow Nelson to assemble a “dream team” of readers for her first academic …
November 2015 The UW History of Science Department will be well-represented at the annual History of Science Society (HSS) meeting this month in San Francisco. Graduate students James Brannon, Melissa Charenko, Bridget Collins, Dana Freiburger, Molly Laas, and Daniel Liu are giving talks at this conference. Collins and Freiburger organized the sessions for their talks …
Emily Callaci Assistant Professor of History UW–Madison Nov. 23, 2015 3:30 – 4:30 PM 212 University Club Building Urban migration in Africa in the second half of the twentieth century has been one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in history. Yet in the midst of this urban revolution, many African nationalist intellectuals and political …
The second of three films apart of “Russia and America Through the Filmmaker’s Lens” Tuesday, November 15, 2016 7:00 – 8:30 PM 1651 Humanities Bldg. Join us in this 3-part series as we explore Russia and America through film. Each viewing will include a brief introduction and a moderated discussion after the viewing. The second …