National History Day: Southeastern Region Contest

UW-Milwaukee 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WI, United States

UW-Milwaukee will host the National History Day Southeastern Regional Competition on March 7, 2015, based on the national theme, "Leadership and Legacy in History." Event entries are $7.00 each. For more information and to download entry forms, visit the History …

Public History and Reparations: Social Mobilization and the Legacy of Slavery in the African Diaspora Today

American Geographic Society Library Golda Meir Library, 3rd Floor East, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Stephen Small, University of California, Berkley. Sponsored by Department of Africology, Department of History, Program in Museum Studies (Anthropology Department), Center for 21st Century Studies and Cultures & Communities. Professor Small’s talk will center on public history, museums, memory, and …

Attending to Early Modern Women Conference

UW-Milwaukee 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Taking as its inspiration the fact that 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the first Attending to Early Modern Women conference, the ninth conference, “It’s About Time,” will focus on time and its passing, allowing us to archive our achievements, …

43rd Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History

Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile 633 North Saint Clair Street, Chicago, IL, United States

The forty-third annual meeting of the Western Society for French History will be held in Chicago, from November 5-7, 2015, at the Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile hotel. To recognize the internal and external economic, cultural, political, and social engagements that …

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Oct. 21: Transland Under Siege: A Brief History

From 2-3pm on October 21, Lawrence University's Helen Boyd Cramer will give an online lecture on the history and current status of the movements for Trans rights. The event is co-sponsored by the History Department, History Graduate Student Association, LGTBQ …

From Roe to Dobbs: The End of Legal Abortion

From 5:00-6:30pm on Nov. 17, Rutger University’s Johanna Schoen will give an online lecture on the history and post-Roe status of reproductive rights. The event is co-sponsored by the History Department, History Graduate Students Association, LGTBQ Studies, the LGBTQ+ Resource …

Media, Technology, and Society in Late Imperial China

From 2:00-3:30pm on Nov. 18, UWM's "Asia in Conversation" series will offer an online roundtable about printing, paper-based media, and books in Chinese culture and society from the 1500s through the early-1900s. The event will feature the History Department's Xin …

Lecture on Gambling and the Civil Service in 19th Century China

Betting on the Civil Service Examinations in Nineteenth-Century China: How was it possible and why did it matter? En LiAssistant Professor in HistoryUniversity of Texas in Dallas 2:30-3:30 pm CST, Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023Holton Hall 341, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee For …

McGaffey Lecture to Present Ukraine Expert Dr. Andrey Ivanov on April 11

UWM Union Wisconsin Room

Please join us for the the 4th Annual Jere D. McGaffey Lecture, "Frontiers of Freedom: Negotiating the Nation in Multiethnic Ukraine 1648-1922," presented by Dr. Andrey V. Ivanov of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. The event will be held at 4pm on …