Canceled due to Covid
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
Events
History and Philosophy Banquet
Our 2023 banquet has been CANCELED.
The department newsletter will be emailed and posted online by early April.
Parking & directionsParking is available in Pay 2 Lot (south of University Center). A permit may be purchased at the parking lot pay station.
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Students!
Awards will be presented at the banquet for:
History & Philosophy Essay Competition
Deadline—2023 date to be determined
Hard copies only—in Dr. Kiril Petkov's mailbox
ELIGIBLE — All History, HIST-BFSS, and Philosophy majors/minors
Past banquets
2020, 2021, 2022
2019
Friday, Apr. 19
Keynote speaker: Dr. Samuel Gale, Adjunct Instructor of History, UWRF
Topic: Escaping Jack Johnson’s Shadow: Race & Sports in the 20th Century U.S.
2018
Friday, Apr. 20
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christopher Simer, Adjunct Instructor, UWRF
Topic: "20 Million Gas Masks: Britain and the Fear of the Bomber, 1919-1939"
2017
Friday, Apr. 28
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ryan Fischer, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, UWRF
Topic: "Cattle Colonialism: The Hide and Tallow Trade and the Making of the Trans-Pacific West"
2016
Friday, Apr. 29
UC Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: Kurt Leichtle, Professor Emeritus of History, UWRF
Topic: "Boy Scouts: The Complexity of Creating a Symbolic Icon"
About Dr. Leichtle
2015
Event photos (Flickr.com)
Friday, May 1
UC Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: Robert Entenmann, Professor of History, St. Olaf College
Topic: "The Indigenization of Christianity in Late Imperial China: Chinese Catholic Priests Between Two Worlds"
2014
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Event photos (Flickr.com) Friday, Apr. 27 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jill Zahniser, Independent Scholar Topic: History, Memory, and Alice Paul |
2013
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Event photos (Flickr.com) Friday, Apr. 26 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tim Howe, Professor of History, St. Olaf College |
2012
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Friday, Apr. 20 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joe Fitzharris, professor emeritus, University of St. Thomas Topic: "Going to War with the 25th Wisconsin—in Minnesota! Post-Dakota Uprising Service in 1862" |
2011
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Friday, Apr.29 Keynote Speaker: W. Thomas White, Ph.D., UWRF History and Philosophy Topic: "James J. Hill and the Presidents: When Big Money Comes to Politics" |
2010
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Friday, Apr.23 Keynote Speaker: Tim Ericson, past archivist at UWRF's Area Research Center Topic: "The Prescott Project: Discovering Northwestern Wisconsin's First African American Community" |
2009
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Event photos (Flickr.com) Friday, Apr.24 Keynote Speaker: Annette Atkins, Flynn Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History, Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict Topic: "Making History? An Exploration of Remembering, Researching, and Creating the Past, Our Past." Dr. Atkins spoke about the function of history as well as its creation, using Creating Minnesota as a jumping off point and for examples. She drew listeners into thinking about their personal and our collective pasts and what that means. |
2006
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Friday, Apr. 18 Keynote Speaker: Peter Rachleff, Professor of History, Macalester College Topic: "Unpacking History"—Dr. Rachleff opened his historical suitcase to reveal a song which connects Count Basie, Richard Wright, Paul Robeson and the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement. |
Our thanks
We are so grateful to all who have contributed to our Foundation funds over the years!
Gifts to the History Department Foundation fund, in particular, have enabled more students to attend the banquet by holding the student ticket price to an affordable rate, even as costs rise.
We are truly fortunate to have such dedicated and enthusiastic alumni and friends!
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