Prof. Soto Laveaga will be lecturing on her book about the origins of the birth control pill in rural Mexico. hm 3/31/10

What distinguishes political language from daily-life language in thePeople's Republic of China? In what ways have different sorts of people (officials, protesters, ordinary folk) used or responded to the official language? Ludwig Wittgenstein used the term "language game" (Sprachspiel) to understand how people get through life using words. Can this notion help us understand official […]

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Ninth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture: Referring to and proceeding from his book with the above title (co-edited with Anette Storeide and published in 2006), Professor Lothe will focus on both the possibilities and challenges of narrating about the historical event of the […]

Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and their Conceptual Frontiers McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th floor) Friday, 4/16, 1:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, 4/17, 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Sunday, 4/18, 8:30 am ? 2:00 pm Borderlands: frontier zones lying along given boundaries, limits beyond which something-- a discipline, an ethnic group, a "nation"-- transforms into something […]

Prof. Andrews will discuss his new book, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, which reconsiders the 1914 Ludlow Massacre from the perspectives of labor and environmental history. It won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history--an honor Professor Andrews shared with our own Pekka Hämäläinen. This talk is part of […]