March 2015 2015 marks the 650th birthday of the University of Vienna. The foundation was celebrated by a host of events, including an exhibition of 14th-15thC manuscripts and artifacts in the splendid Prunksaal of the Austrian National Library, one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Mike Shank was the only non-European contributor to …
March 2015 Graduate student Scott Prinster will present “Finches in the Sanctuary: Evolutionary Thought in a Religious World” on Thursday, March 12, as part of the UW Evolution Seminar Series. The weekly seminars are held at noon in Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360. For more information about the series, see the full semester’s schedule at http://www.evolution.wisc.edu/node/30.
March 2015 The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has conferred its 2015 Friend of Darwin Award on Emeritus Professor Ronald L. Numbers, an award “presented annually to a select few whose efforts to support NCSE and advance its goal of defending the teaching of evolution and climate science have been truly outstanding.” In granting …
Professor Pablo Ariel Blitstein University of Heidelberg Wednesday, March 25, 2015 12:00 – 1:15 PM Red Gym’s “Maisley Media Room,” 716 Langdon Street Pablo Ariel Blitstein studied ancient Greek and Roman Literature and Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina) and Chinese history at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, …
Uta Poiger Professor of History Northeastern University Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:00 PM L140 Elvehjem Building The working group on the new materialism is thrilled to welcome Professor Uta Poiger to UW–Madison on March 19th for a lecture and roundtable discussion. Uta Poiger is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Social Sciences …
“Inside the Great Terror: The Trials and Tribulations of Stalin’s Secret Police in Ukraine.” presented by Prof. Lynne Viola University of Toronto Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:00 – 5:30 Pyle Center Supported by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History
Lt. Col. John Hall, Ph.D. If that combination of titles surprises you, it shouldn’t — not the way Hall, a UW–Madison professor of military history, sees it. As a cadet at West Point, he preferred courses like advanced hand-to-hand combat to the liberal arts classes he felt were being imposed on him. Now, he realizes …
Daniel Ussishkin Assistant Professor of History University of Wisconsin – Madison Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:00 PM University Club Room 212 A Burdick-Vary Lecture. Co-sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program in History and the Alice D. Mortenson / Petrovich Chair in Russian History
Harry Handler University of Wisconsin–Madison, History and Political Science, 1979 Finance Executive, 67th Floor, 2 World Trade Center Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:00 PM Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium, First Floor – 816 State St. Harry will tell us how his eyewitness experience coincides and is at odds with popular memory of that event. Presented by: …
“The ‘Jewish’ Michelangelo: German Jews, the Renaissance, and the Dream of Italy” Asher Biemann Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for German Studies, University of Virginia Monday, March 9, 2015 4:00 – 5:30 Union South (1308 W. Dayton Street) Why did Michelangelo matter to Jewish writers? What explains the cultural affinity of …