Historian Marc Rodriguez on Campus 5/1 @ 12pm--Latino Politics in Wisconsin

“The History and Prospects for Latino Politics in Wisconsin: From the Chicano Movement to the Present” by Marc Rodriguez, Ph.D., historian and UWM Alumus
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 • 12:00-1:00 p.m. • Golda Meir Library, Fourth Floor Conference Center • 2311 E. Hartford Ave.

Dr. Rodriguez will give the same presentation on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 • 5:30 p.m. • UMOS, Inc., Board Room • 2701 S. Chase Ave.

Both Presentations are Free & Open to the Public.

Dr. Rodriguez will discuss the Latino political topics explored in his book _The Tejano Diaspora_ with an eye to the development of Latino/a Politics in Wisconsin since the 1960s and offer some reflections upon the current state of Latino/a politics in Wisconsin.

"Occupy and Organize: Can Social Movements Fix the Urban Crisis?" Saturday, 4/28 @ 3PM

What? Keynote by Prof. Peter Dreier (Occidental College)
Title: "Occupy and Organize: Can Social Movements Fix the Urban Crisis?""
When? 3 p.m. Saturday, April 28, 2012
Where? UW-Milwaukee's Zelazo Center, 2419 E. Kenwood Ave.

Student presentations for this year's Urban Studies Forum start at the Zelazo Center at 9:15 AM. For a full program, go to the following link: UW-Milwaukee | Urban Studies Programs | Forum 2012

Friday, 4/27 @ 2p.m. Lecture--"Why Women Went Unseen at Treaty Negotiations: Material Culture Artifacts in the Social Construction of Ojibwe Treaty Sites"

You are invited to a lecture....

Title? "Why Women Went Unseen at Treaty Negotiations:  Material Culture Artifacts in the Social Construction of Ojibwe Treaty Sites"
Who? Dr. Rebecca Kugel, University of California-Riverside
When? Friday April 27, 2:00pm 

Where? UWM Student Union Room 240

In addition, you are invited to attend a brown-bag lunch with Rebecca Kugel, University of California-Riverside, and Cary Miller, UWM to discuss the Role and Significance of American Indians in US History on Friday April 27 at 12:00 to 1:30pm Friday April 27th in Holton Hall room 357.

Sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Department of History, and the Women’s Resource Center.

Tuesday, 4/24 @ 6pm: Lecture on George Washington and Maps + Noon Brown Bag

What? "Mapping a Life, Mapping a Nation: George Washington and His Vision of America"--Lecture by Historian Barnet Schecter
When? Tuesday, April 24 @ 6pm (reception at 5pm)
Where? American Geographical Society Library (Golda Meir Library Building, 3rd Floor, East Wing)
Cost? Free
Related events? Brown Bag Lunch on Tuesday, April 24 @ 12pm in the American Geographcial Society Library

New York author and lecturer, Barnet Schecter ( George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps ), who also leads walking tours of New York City, will present " George Washington's New York ," based on his walking tour of Lower Manhattan, at noon in the AGS Library. The talk will be tied to the 1766 map of New York by John Montresor as a sort of trail guide for discovering the many features that still remain from the 18th century.

Mr. Schecter is in town to deliver the annual Holzheimer Maps and America lecture , which will be held Tuesday evening (talk at 6 pm, reception at 5 pm)

We cordially invite you to join us to hear Mr. Schecter, Tuesday noon, but also for the Maps and America talk in the evening.

Graduate Student Essay Prize--Michigan Historical Review (due July 2, 2012)

The Michigan Historical Review announces competition for the 2012 Graduate Student Essay Prize. The winning essay will be published in the Review and awarded a cash prize of $1,000.00. The Review accepts essays written by graduate students relating to Michigan and Great Lakes history. We welcome essays on American, Canadian, and midwestern history that directly or indirectly explore important themes related to Michigan's past.  Submissions are due by July 2, 2012.

For more information, see the following link.....Graduate Student Essay Prize--Michigan Historical Review

Grad Student Presentations, 4/24 @ 5:30pm

From the Alliance of History Graduate Students:

"Come hear graduate students Monica Drake and Steven Colagiovanni present their research on the Socinians, power in the archive, and more."

When?: Tuesday, April 24 @ 5:30pm-6:30pm
Where?: Wisconsin Room Lounge

Milwaukee Civil Rights Museum Exhibition Opening on April 20, 4-8pm--"March To Equality-200 Nights In Milwaukee"

See the following link for more information about "March to Equality--200 Nights in Milwaukee"

Gallery Night: March To Equality-200 Nights In Milwaukee - 4/20/2012 - Milwaukee Public Schools:

"The 1960s-the years of seeking equality. Learn and witness the 1960s, a time when Father Groppi, Vel Phillips, the NAACP Youth Council and other activists changed Milwaukee's history forever. The exhibition, created by Nova High School students, will leave you filled with knowledge about the Milwaukee Civil Rights Movement. You will see the city of Milwaukee from different perspectives and realize that Milwaukee's future, with the help of its youth, can be infinitely brighter.

-Experience the 1967 March on Milwaukee.
-Learn about how much people sacrificed for equality.
-Experience what it's like to live through 200 nights.

Friday, April 20th, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. & Saturday, April 21st, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Gallery @ Large
908 S. 5th Street, Milwaukee WI, 53204"


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This Week! Annual Meeting of Organization of American Historians/National Council on Public History

The annual meeting of the OAH/NCPH will be held this week (April 18-22) in Milwaukee. For a program including a complete list of events and registration information, go to the following link:

http://annualmeeting.oah.org/

I recommend that all graduate students, regardless of field, attend at least some portion of this event.

Our own PhD student, Joe Walzer, will be leading a special reception and tavern tour for graduate students attending the conference:

http://uwmhistorygradprog.blogspot.com/2012/04/special-opportunity-for-grad-students.html

Graduating in Spring 2012 (or Summer or Fall 2012)?

Do you aspire to graduate soon?

You can find a detailed list of graduation procedures here:

http://www.graduateschool.uwm.edu/students/current/graduation/

You can find a list of upcoming deadlines here:

http://www.graduateschool.uwm.edu/students/current/graduation/deadlines/

Important upcoming deadlines include the following:

* May 1, 2012—Informal Deadline to Verify Thesis/Dissertation Format with the Graduate School (for individuals graduating in Spring 2012)

* May 7, 2012—Deadline to Defend a Thesis, Dissertation, or Comprehensive Exam (for individuals graduating in Spring 2012)

* May 14, 2012—Deadline to Submit a Thesis or Dissertation to the Graduate School (for individuals graduating in Spring 2012)

* May 20, 2012—Graduation for Spring 2012

* June 1, 2012--Deadline to Apply to Graduate in Summer 2012

* June 8, 2012-- Informal Deadline to Verify Thesis/Dissertation Format with the Graduate School (for individuals graduating in Summer 2012 who previously applied to graduate in Spring 2012)

* June 15, 2012—Deadline to Defend a Thesis, Dissertation, or Comprehensive Exam (for individuals graduating in Summer 2012 who previously applied to graduate in Spring 2012)

* June 22, 2012—Deadline to Submit a Thesis or Dissertation to the Graduate School (for individuals graduating in Summer 2012 who previously applied to graduate in Spring 2012)

* August 6, 2012— Deadline to Defend a Thesis, Dissertation, or Comprehensive Exam (for individuals graduating in Summer 2012)

* August 13, 2012—Deadline to Submit a Thesis or Dissertation to the Graduate School (for individuals graduating in Summer 2012)

* September 18, 2012--Deadline to Apply to Graduate in Fall 2012

* December 3, 2012— Deadline to Defend a Thesis, Dissertation, or Comprehensive Exam (for individuals graduating in Summer 2012)

Enrolling in Fall 2012?

Please check your PAWS (UW-Milwaukee’s online database) account for news regarding your "enrollment appointment.” This enrollment appointment represents your first opportunity to enroll in courses in the fall semester of 2012. You can find a link to PAWS on the UW-Milwaukee homepage:

http://www4.uwm.edu/

Enrollment appointments start on April 16, 2012.

The online schedule of fall courses can be found at the following link:

http://www4.uwm.edu/schedule/index.cfm?a1=subject_details&subject=HIST&strm=2129

A list of course descriptions for graduate courses offered by the History Department can be found at the following link:

https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/smia/public/Grad%20Courses%20Fall%202012.pdf

Message from Alliance of History Graduate Students

Message from John Terry of the Alliance of History Graduate Students:

"Hello grad students,

The Alliance of History Graduate Students has booked the Wisconsin room for 4:00 on Tuesday, April 24.  We are wondering if anyone is interested in presenting any work or research.  Our intention is to give students who haven't done many (or any) conferences a chance to put a line on their CV and get comfortable with presenting in front of a friendly crowd.  If we get some responses we can plan from there, if not we can try find another way to use the room (we are open to suggestions).  If anyone has a paper they could present or is interested at all please email John Terry (jrterry@uwm.edu) as soon as you can.  Thank you!

AHGS"

Baseball History Events at Marquette--Thursday, 4/12 @ 6:30pm

There will be a showing of "El Juego de Cuba" ("The Cuban Game"), a Spanish documentary about baseball in Cuba and US-Cuban relations on Thursday, April 12 at 6:30pm  Marquette University, Cudahy Hall 001. The director will be present. The evening kicks off with a roundtable of scholars at 6:30pm followed by a film showing at 7:30pm, which will be followed in turn by a "talk-back" with the director. For more information, see the link:
http://www.marquette.edu/fola/documents/ElJuegodeCubacorr.pdf

"Pre-Occupy" Symposium, Friday, 4/13 @ 1:30pm

Friday, April 13  1:30 pm, Curtin 175


"Our Pre-Occupy symposium addresses how earlier occupations and protests in California (particularly surrounding Oscar Grant and the University of California) and in Wisconsin (especially the occupation of the state capitol) set the stage for the current occupations across the globe. Such pre-occupations, we would contend, acted as forms of pre-acceleration or incipient movement without which Occupy Wall Street may never have happened."

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Center for 21st Century Studies:

Poetry reading by Joshua Clover
Saturday, April 14
7:00 pm Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E Locust Street, Milwaukee
Free of charge

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Special Opportunity for Grad Students at the OAH/NCPH, April 20

A message regarding a special opportunity for graduate students at the annual meeting of the OAH/NCPH on April 20--
from PhD Student Joe Walzer--jbwalzer AT uwm DOT edu:

RSVP by 4/13/12 to  jbwalzer AT uwm DOT edu:

"The OAH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee is fast approaching! There will be many events to attend, but only one social event especially for Graduate Students to socialize and network with their graduate student colleagues - the Graduate Student Reception and Tavern Tour of Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood on Friday, April 20, from 5:00pm-11:00pm.

A significant nineteenth century industrial, German and Polish ethnic neighborhood, Riverwest is today home to many cultural organizations, collectively owned businesses, and large numbers of students – including many history graduate students.

A reception will be held at the meeting hall of the Milwaukee branch of the Polish Falcons of America – a Polish-American social organization that has had a branch in Riverwest for over ninety–five years. Beverages and a meal will be included with your ticket to this reception, highlighting some of the neighborhood’s unique flavors.

After the reception, there will be a walking tour of Riverwest, featuring a couple of the neighborhood’s distinct taverns. Drink purchases will be on your own during this portion of the event.

The deadline for preregistration through the OAH was April 1. This included bus transportation to and from the event. However, we would like to see as many graduate students from Milwaukee there as we can. If you are interested in attending the reception and have your own means of transportation, but were unable to sign up before the deadline, please contact Joe Walzer (jbwalzer AT uwm DOT edu) no later than Friday, April 13. The fee for the reception, without transportation included, will be $10. We need an accurate count for the caterer, so an RSVP to Joe before April 13 is necessary for this portion.

Otherwise, if you are unable to join us for the reception, you are more than welcome to meet us out at the tavern stops at any time. We will be making two stops, listed with rough times below:

Riverwest Public House (8:45-9:45)
815 E. Locust St.

Art Bar (10:00-11:00)
722 E. Burleigh St.

Alliance of History Graduate Students Meeting on Friday, April 13 @ 5:30pm

Friday
April 13th
Paddy's Pub
5:30 PM

From Jacob Glicklich:
"I hope you can join us this Friday for the last Alliance meeting and social of the semester this Friday, April 13th. Our meeting will start at 5:30 PM in the upper level of Paddy's Pub, 2339 N. Murray Ave. On the agenda is planning end of the semester party, building up to the pending AHGS movie night, report on the series of pedagogy and cv workshops, and deciding on faculty awards for the holiday party. Should be a lot to talk about. Come for the meeting, stay for the socializing."

Come hear Andrew Kahrl, assistant professor of history at Marquette University, discuss his recently released book, The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South (Harvard University Press).

When: Wednesday, April 18th, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Where: Sweet Water Organics, 2151 South Robinson Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53207
Questions: carriere@msoe.edu
This is a pay-what-you-can benefit for Sweet Water Foundation. All proceeds will help the foundation create a hybrid community science-art space on the grounds of Sweet Water Organics.

Course Descriptions for History Graduate Courses in Fall 2012

Please find course descriptions of the History Department's graduate courses for Fall 2012 at the following link:

https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/smia/public/Grad%20Courses%20Fall%202012.pdf

Enrollment appointments begin on April 16.

Picturing Milwaukee--2012 Summer Field School

Please see the link below for more information regarding this excellent opportunity for any graduate student interested in the history of Milwaukee or public history more generally.

http://www.blcfieldschool.blogspot.com/

Apocalypse Now? Mayan Astronomy Lecture, 4/16/12

Prof. Anthony Aveni (Colgate University) will speak on the Mayan calendar and supposed predictions of the world's end in 2912. Prof. Aveni is an expert on ancient and cultural astronomy. 

Date/Time: Monday, April 16, 2012, 7:30 PM

Place: Emily Clark Hall 111, Marquette University

Parking Available in the Wells Street Parking Structure, located at 1240 W. Wells St.

Identification of Important Historical Document from Mexico in the American Geographical Society Library (UW-Milwaukee)

An intrepid group of people including the staff of the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) at UW-Milwaukee, Prof. Laura Matthew (Marquette U.), and Dr. Michel Oudijk (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) has succeeded in identifying a 300-year-old document found in the collections of the AGSL. Please read more about this fascinating story on Prof. Matthew's blog:
http://marquettehistorians.wordpress.com/

Grant Opportunity for PhD Students at Newberry Library--Applications due May 1, 2012

Please see this link for more information, including an application for the Newberry Library's "Graduate Scholar-in-Residence" fellowship. Applications are due on May 1.
http://www.newberry.org/graduate-scholar-residence-program

Workshop on CV Writing

April 6th
1:00-2:30 PM
Holton 355
Alliance of History Graduate Students workshop on building one's curriculum vitae
Session lead by PhD candidate Bill Reck

There have now been two sessions on applied teaching methods, well-attended and with interesting exchanges. There will be more sessions in this theme to come, but more immediately AHGS is addressing another item of concern to surveyed membership, how to build experience relevant to one's cv, and how to effectively present it.

Bring your questions, your experiences and your concerns. We'll be meeting at 1:00 in Holton 355, the common room. Hope to see you there Friday.

Regards,
Jacob