Delivered by Prof. John W. Hall, May 15, 2015 Thank you to the graduating seniors for the invitation to offer a few remarks on this special day. I’m especially glad to see in attendance so many parents and other loved ones, who are able to share with us in this celebration of your accomplishments. But …
January 23 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Special Guest: Jay Malone, History of Science Society Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 30 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Dana Freiburger, UW–Madison Developing new courses in history of science Location: 204 Bradley Memorial February 6 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: …
Finn Enke’s approach to teaching the history of sexuality and gender includes a focus on critical thinking, creating a classroom experience in which students say they are transformed, respected and educated. During 13 years of service, Enke has introduced trans scholarship to UW–Madison, teaching 14 different courses, including one of the nation’s first courses focused …
Professor William Reese was recently selected for a prestigious Vilas Research Professorship. The Vilas Professorship is one of the highest honors bestowed by UW–Madison. Selection criteria demand that candidates “be of proven research ability and possess unusual qualifications and promise. The individual must have contributed significantly to the research mission of the university and be …
The ACLS Fellowship Program awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences. Institutions and individuals contribute to the ACLS Fellowship Program and its endowment, including The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Council’s …
East Asian Connections The Transnational Humanities at the UW–Madison and Beyond Friday, April 17, 2015 1:00 – 3:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5243 Humanities) “The Socialization of Risk in the Neoliberal City” Sean Dinces / History “City Stories as National Allegory in Postcolonial Africa” Emily Callaci/ History “Tokyo-centrism, or the Ideology of the Metropolis” Louise …
Pernille Ipsen University of Wisconsin–Madison History and Gender & Women’s Studies Friday, April 10, 2015 3:30 – 5:00 PM 80 Science Hall Part of the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series Pernille Ipsen will discuss her new book about the production of race in the Atlantic world. When European and West African slave traders married one another …
Professor Dan Healey Department History St Antony’s College Thursday, April 9, 2015 4:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club Building Dan Healey is Professor of Modern Russian History at St Antony’s College. His research and publications have concentrated on the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He has been most interested …
Stanley I. Kutler, Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who specialized in U.S. legal and constitutional history, the Vietnam War and the Watergate era, died April 7th at Agrace Hospice Care in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. He was 80. A proud native of Cleveland, Ohio, Kutler made his home in Madison for more …
Karl Shoemaker, winner of the 2014 John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy, awarded for a distinguished first book in the field of medieval studies. The award is for Shoemaker’s book Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500 (Fordham Univ. Press, 2011). Karl accepted his prize at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval …