Edward N. Peterson Lecture Series


The lecture series honors the memory of Professor Ed Peterson, who taught at UWRF from 1954 to 2005. It addresses issues that were the focus of Dr. Peterson's academic life and are still relevant today: war and peace, abuses and limits of power, the struggle for democracy in the twentieth century.


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Past Events

Friday, Oct. 26, 2012

On Stillness: European Political Fiction in the Age of Extremes
Professor Rudy J. Koshar,link St. Olaf College

Photoslink by Kathy Helgeson
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Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010

Security Against Democracy: The Legacy of the Cold War at Home
Professor Elaine Tyler May
, University of Minnesota

Photos by Jens Gunelson
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Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

Human Rights: A Revisionist History from the French Revolution to the Present
Professor Eric D. Weitzlink, University of Minnesota

Photos by Jens Gunelson
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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008

Joseph McCarthy and His Times: Fifty Years Later
Professor Richard Friedlink, University of Illinois at Chicago

Photos by Jens Gunelson
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The inaugural event


Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007

When 'Never Again' is a Cliché: The Complicated Role of Rescuers in Genocide
Professor Stephen Feinstein
, University of Minnesota and UWRF Professor Emeritus

Photos by Jens Gunelson
Press release

Dr. Stephen Feinstein (1943-2008), Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, directed the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies for the last ten years. A scholar of Russian and Soviet history, Professor Feinstein began teaching courses on the Holocaust at UW-River Falls. He taught and lectured on issues related to genocide throughout the world; he published numerous articles on holocaust and post-holocaust art, served as a curator for traveling exhibits and co-edited works on artistic memory of the holocaust. His book,Absence/Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust,link was published by Syracuse University Press in 2005. The Center he established and directed until his death, hosts conferences, sponsors lectures and exhibits, and fosters research and scholarship on the holocaust and genocide.


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Contributions may be added to the fund over time. Any questions may be directed to Betty Bergland, History and Philosophy Department, betty.a.bergland@uwrf.edumail, 715-425-3164 or UWRF Foundation Office, foundation@uwrf.edumail, 715-425-3505. 

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