September 2017
Intellectual History Group Meeting
As many of you know, the IHG is an informal, interdisciplinary working group for faculty, staff, and graduate students interested in intellectual history and the history of ideas. Our aim is to investigate the various…
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Seminar: Cindy I-Fen Cheng
"U.S. Cold War Immigration and the Politics of Sanctuary" Cindy I-Fen Cheng History, UW-Madison Asian American Studies This talk looks at how U.S. Cold War immigration policies structured the marginalization of Central Americans. Unlike Southeast…
Find out more »Round Table Discussion: Nancy MacLean
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Nancy MacLean William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Duke University Thursday, October 5, 2017 12:00 - 1:30 pm…
Find out more »Lecture: Daniel Hummel
"Seeing is Believing: The Rise of Holy Land Tourism and Evangelical Christian Zionism after 1967" Daniel Hummel History, Harvard University Since the 1960s, American evangelical Christians have flocked to Holy Land sites in Israel and…
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Lecture: Joe Dennis
"Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation: Printing, Orality, and Legal Knowledge in China, 1595-1949" Joe Dennis Professor of History UW-Madison How did people form their attitudes towards law in early modern and Republican period…
Find out more »Intellectual History Group Meeting with Elizabeth Minnich
The Intellectual History Group invites you to attend a special round table on the moral imperative of thinking with Elizabeth Minnich Professor of Moral Philosophy and Senior Scholar Association of American Colleges & Universities Elizabeth…
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Seminar: Mira Green
"Digesting Bodies: Status, Gender, and Mastery in Roman Society and Homes" Mira Green History, University of Washington Classics Providing a distinct window into the social and political developments of the early Roman Empire, my research…
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Lecture – Ethelene Whitmire
Following in the Footsteps of African Americans in 20th Century Denmark Ethelene Whitmire School of Library & Information Studies, UW-Madison "While walking through a cemetery in Copenhagen in 2013, I noticed a name that seemed…
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Lecture – Elizabeth Hennessy
Hell and Eden at World’s End: Early Twentieth Century Settler Life on the Galápagos Islands Elizabeth Hennessy History, UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies The Galápagos Islands are best known today as a natural laboratory…
Find out more »Lecture – Melissa Charenko
Science as Prophecy: A History of Paleo Perspectives on Environmental Change Melissa Charenko Department of History Ph.D. Candidate UW-Madison My work explores the development of ecological ideas and techniques used to understand the changing dynamics…
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"Philosophical History, History of Philosophy" Joel Isaac - website University of Chicago John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought Readings: John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love Story (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016); and Joel Isaac, “Pain,…
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Intellectual History Group
"Narrative and Argument in the Writing of Ideas" Writing workshop with philosopher John Kaag UMass-Lowell Co-sponsored by The Harvey Goldberg Center and the Philosophy Department. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please…
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Lecture – Lynn K. Nyhart
"The Sense of a Beginning: Starting a History of Biology" Lynn K. Nyhart Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor of History of Science, UW-Madison History IRH Senior Fellow Monday, April 2, 2018 3:30 - 5:00 PM 212…
Find out more »Lecture – Dan Hummel
"Bridging the Gap: The Secular and Sacred in Evangelical Christian Zionism" Dan Hummel Institute for Research in the Humanities Wednesday, April 4, 2018 6:00 pm University Club 212 This is the inaugural of the Interdisciplinary…
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"Exceptional Essays of Ideas: Examining Useful Models" Readings: TBD The IHG is an informal, interdisciplinary working group for faculty, staff, and graduate students interested in intellectual history and the history of ideas. Our aim…
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"Scholars As Writers: The Fundamentals" Writing workshop with Alex Star - website Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History Department. If you would like to participate in…
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Intellectual History Group
"Free-range Research: Revisions, Venues, and Next Steps" Informal presentation of IHGers’ writing projects and progress The IHG is an informal, interdisciplinary working group for faculty, staff, and graduate students interested in intellectual history and…
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Seminar: Edward Schmitt
"Biographing Social Change: Dick Gregory in Recent American History " Edward Schmitt History, UW-Parkside UW System Fellow, IRH Monday, October 15, 2018 3:30-5:00 PM 212 University Club Building Dick Gregory was a pivotal figure in…
Find out more »Seminar – Judd C. Kinzley
"The Phantom Stockpile and Other Pernicious American Myths About China in World War II " Judd C. Kinzley Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday, October 22, 2018 3:30 PM 212 University Club The…
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Workshop: Little Technologies / Big Histories
“Little Technologies / Big Histories” Click to view full size A one-day workshop featuring on-going and in-progress research by UW students, fellows, and faculty. The workshop highlights the trans-regional, global, and “big” histories of small,…
Find out more »Panel Discussion: Thomas Mullaney
“The Chinese Typewriter: A History” Click for full size. A panel discussion with Thomas Mullaney Associate Professor of Chinese History Stanford University Friday, November, 16, 2018 12:00 PM University Club Funding generously provided by the…
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Seminar: Zachary Purvis
"Melanchthon and the "Corpus Reformatorum," or Protestantism and Progress in Nineteenth-Century Germany" Zachary Purvis School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh Kingdon Fellow, IRH< Monday, March 11, 2019 3:30 PM 212 University Club Building In shaping modern…
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IRH Seminar – Leonora Neville
"God and Taxes in the Medieval Roman Empire" Leonora Neville John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, History Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW-Madison IRH Resident…
Find out more »Lecture: Lu Liu
"Away/With the Pest: Biosocial Abjection and Subject Formation in China, 1930s-1980s" Lu Liu Asian Languages and Cultures, UW-Madison Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow, IRH Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30 PM 212 University Club Building My dissertation studies…
Find out more »Lecture: Paul-Alexis Mellet
"Circumventing the Violence – Remonstrances as a Means of Negotiation and Resistance during the European Civil Wars between 1550 and 1650 (France, the Low Countries, England)" Paul-Alexis Mellet History, University of Tours; Center for Renaissance…
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Lecture: Giuliana Chamedes
"A Twentieth Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe" Giuliana Chamedes Assistant Professor of History University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, May 3, 2019 12:00-1:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club Drawing on new archival research…
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Seminar: Stephen Kantrowitz
"A Ho-Chunk History of Citizenship" Stephen Kantrowitz Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, History; Affiliate Faculty Member, Afro-American Studies; America Indian Studies Program, UW-Madison IRH Senior Fellow Monday, September 9, 2019 3:30 PM Room 212, University Club…
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Seminar: Gloria Whiting
"The Troubled History of Family and Slavery in New England" Gloria Whiting E. Gordon Fox Assistant Professor of History History, UW-Madison Monday, October 14, 2019 3:30-5:00 PM University Club, Room 212 New England has long…
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Seminar: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
"The American Ways of Wisdom" Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Professor of History, UW-Madison Monday, November 11, 2019 3:30-5:00 PM University Club, Room 212 The American Ways of Wisdom is a history of “philosophy” (the love of wisdom)…
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Lunch Talk: Paige Glotzer
"How American Cities Became Segregated" Paige Glotzer Assistant Professor and John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy UW-Madison Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00 PM Banquet…
Find out more »History of Science Brown Bag
"Sovereignty and the Politics of Knowledge: Royal Society, Leibniz, Wolff, and Peter the Great’s Academy of Sciences" Kirill Ospova Friday, February 14, 2020 12:00-1:00 PM IRH Seminar Room, University Club 212 All Brown Bags are…
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Lecture: Dr. Tim Whitmarsh
"The Wandering Text: Books and the Imperial Migration Machine in the early Roman Empire" Dr. Tim Whitmarsh A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture University of Cambridge Thursday, March 5, 2020 4:30- 5:30 PM 212 University…
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Lunch Talk: Carmine Grimaldi
Topic: TBA Carmine Grimaldi A.W. Mellon Postdoctural Fellow UW-Madison Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club Carmine Grimaldi is a historian and filmmaker. He earned his PhD in the Department of History…
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Ph.D. Graduation Celebration
Department of History Graduate Program Friday, May 8, 2020 11:30-1:30 PM University Club
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