February 2013 On 15-16 February 2013, over 60 friends and colleagues of Ronald L. Numbers participated in a conference: Science without God: Religion, Naturalism and the Sciences: A Conference to Honour Ronald L. Numbers. Organized by Peter Harrison and Jon Roberts and hosted by Michael Ruse at Florida State University, the conference goal was to …
February 2013 The Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST), a division under the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, has selected Mitch Aso’s dissertation, Forests without birds: A history of ecology and health on the rubber plantations of French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1954, for a Young Scholars Prize. The prize is …
Theodore’s Obituary Click here to read Theodore Hamerow’s full obituary (Cress Funeral Home) A Memorial service will be held April 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM in the Grand Hall at Capitol Lakes Retirement Center, 333 West Main Street, Madison, WI. Memorial contributions may be made in Ted’s honor to UW Memorial Library, 728 State St. …
Cronon to lead AHA annual meeting – January 3 – 6, 2013 When historians gather in New Orleans in January for the 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the UW–Madison History Department will be especially well represented. Bill Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, is the president of the …
UW–Madison News Gerda Lerner, Robinson Edwards Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Wednesday, Jan. 2 in an assisted-living facility in Madison. She was 92 years old. “Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique,” says social and political activist Gloria Steinem. “She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her …
December 2012 Doctoral candidate Scott Prinster has received a Vilas Research Travel Grant in support of his dissertation that explores the scientific critique of religious authority as higher biblical criticism spread in the United States. He will use this grant for travel to Biola University in Los Angeles to study how evangelical Christians in the …