UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
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.
Sponsored by
- Edward N. Peterson Lecture Series Endowment
- History and Philosophy Foundation
- College of Arts and Sciences
- History and Philosophy Department
Past Events
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Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 Time, Space, and China's Tibetan Frontier in the 20th Century Brief biography of Dr. Liu |
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Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 German Immigrants, Transatlantic Ties, and the Perils of American Pluralism, 1840-1940 Photos by Kathy Helgeson |
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Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 On Stillness: European Political Fiction in the Age of Extremes Photos |
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Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 Security Against Democracy: The Legacy of the Cold War at Home Photos by Jens Gunelson |
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Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 Human Rights: A Revisionist History from the French Revolution to the Present Photos by Jens Gunelson |
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Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008 Joseph McCarthy and His Times: Fifty Years Later Photos by Jens Gunelson |
The inaugural event
When 'Never Again' is a Cliché: The Complicated Role of Rescuers in Genocide Photos by Jens Gunelson 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, |
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Contributions may be added to the fund over time. Any questions may be directed to Zhiguo Yang, History and Philosophy Department, zhiguo.yang@uwrf.edu |
