College of Letters & Science
Treaties: How we come to be where we are Join us for a free, live virtual roundtable discussion to learn about treaties, the most important documents in any community, and how our ongoing nation-to-nation agreements with the Ho-Chunk Nation are fundamental to daily life here at Teejop (day-JOPE), the place currently known as Madison, Wisconsin. …
Know Your Madisonian: UW–Madison professor is teacher, actress, director, model, author
DRAMATIZING HISTORY AND OPERA AS ACTIVISM Led by dramaturg Cori Ellison With composers Jeremy Howard Beck Anthony Davis and Laura Kaminsky; librettists Thulani Davis, Richard Wesley, Stephanie Fleischmann, Kimberly Reed, and Mark Campbell; and memoirist Brian Castner This is a three-part seminar and roundtable occurring on the following dates: Part I: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 …
The UW–Madison Department of History & the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Present: The 2021 Paul J. Schrag Lecture “The American Influence on Nazi Race Law: Assessing U.S. Responsibility” James Q. Whitman (Yale) Co-sponsored by The Department of Afro-American Studies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $5 million to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Associate Professor Christy Clark-Pujara is part of this research team Selected as one of 16 winning projects in the Mellon Foundation’s “Just Futures Initiative” competition, the …
Dr. Franklin Delano Wilson (1942-2020) Dr. Franklin D. Wilson came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology in 1973 and retired as the distinguished William H. Sewell-Bacom Emeritus Professor of Sociology in 2007. Prior to arriving in Madison, he was an Instructor in Sociology at Grambling College in …
Statement of Solidarity in Support of George Floyd The Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is appalled, outraged and heartbroken by the brutal and senseless murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in our sister state of Minnesota. Unfortunately and sadly, we are not surprised. Mr. Floyd’s murder comes on the heels of the Louisville police shooting …