Tag: History
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Midwest Viking Festival offers another look at Vikings | Spectrum News 1
GREEN BAY, Wis. — You’ll usually find Wade Kaiser working at the Advanced Power Systems Laboratories at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Other times, you can find him at places like The Midwest Viking Festival, demonstrating how blacksmiths worked during the Scandinavian Iron Age. “What better way to really understand how metal works than to bring it…
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UW-Green Bay Prof. David Voelker publishes book chapter
Professor David Voelker (Humanities and History) recently published a book chapter titled “Inner Tracking: A Reflective Practice for Transformative Learning” in Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Bridging the Disciplines, edited by Greta Gaard and Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp (Routledge, 2022). The “Inner Tracking” reflective practice is available on his website.
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Comic Studies & Practices Symposium session occurring at Green Bay Campus
Professors Bryan Carr and Clifton Ganyard will discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent simultaneous runs on the Black Panther and Captain America series in the context of the skepticism, hope, and desire to challenge historical myth as seen in long-form works like Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power. They argue that…
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Faculty and staff note: Luke Konkol and Prof. Kevin Kain contribute to newly open art museum exhibition
UW-Green Bay Prof. Kevin Kain (Humanities, History and Global Studies) and Luke Konkol (CATL and UWM Anthropology) have created a virtual heritage installation featured in the current exhibition “Images of Atheism: The Soviet Assault on Religion” at the Museum of the Russian Icons in Clinton, MA (May 5-October 2, 2022). The virtual “Godless Corner” uses…
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UW-Green Bay Well-Represented at 2022 OPID Spring Conference
The 2022 OPID Spring Conference was held virtually this year on April 22 and 29. UW-Green Bay was well represented in the roster of presenters in this signature UW System event. They included: Stacie Christian (AVC for Inclusive Excellence), Kate Farley (Cofrin Library), Jennifer Ham (German & Humanities), Derek Jeffreys (Religion & Humanities), Mark Karau…
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Faculty note: Emeritus faculty Gregory Aldrete publication
UW-Green Bay Professor Emeritus Gregory Aldrete (History and Humanities) had an article published in the peer-reviewed journal “Film and History” Winter 2021, Vol. 51(2) pp. 12-22. The article is titled “Bread and Circuses: Ancient Rome, Modern Science Fiction and the Art of Political Distraction,” and it traces the surprisingly widespread influence that a line from…
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In Phoenix-fashion, Eric Friedland has a way of re-incarnating himself
It’s the resilient who pick themselves up and start all over again. Eric Friedland is notable in that regard—he’s picked himself up a few times and started all over again—even after being successful. His current professional re-incarnation is as a financial advisor at Edward Jones. A position, he admits, that he’s just getting started at.…
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UW-Green Bay faculty will lead a roundtable on the war in Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing war is now in its fourth week. The conflict is having a devastating effect. History professors Clifton Ganyard, Mark Karau, Eric Morgan, and Heidi Sherman will discuss the war in Ukraine and its significance on Thursday, March 24, 12:30-2:00, in MAC 107 on the Green Bay Campus.…
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The history between Russia and Ukraine with Prof. Heidi Sherman
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Philospher George Santayana said, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Well, Russia and Ukraine have a history dating back more than 1,000 years. Chris Roth speaks to a professor of Russian history at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Heidi Sherman. Sherman talks about the…
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UW-Green Bay History professors host open forum to better understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, March 14
Gain a better understanding of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Brown County Library invites you to attend a round table discussion with three faculty members from UW-Green Bay’s history program, Monday, March 14, 2022, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Central Library Auditorium. Parking is free after 6 p.m. Guest panelists are professors Heidi…