Events Category: Historical

Hannah Swan
Ebling Library Historical Reading Room
09/23/2026 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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A pop-up event exhibiting ophthalmology and optometry materials from the Ebling Library Historical Collections. Presented in conjunction with the Vision Gallery of the McPherson Eye Research Institute at the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research. Part …

Hannah Swan
Ebling Library Historical Reading Room
10/16/2026 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Join Ebling Library’s Curator of Historical Collections for an exhibition open house of Craft/Work: A History of Occupational and Art Therapies, presented in conjunction with the Wisconsin Science Festival.

Instructors: Hannah Swan and Susan Vandagriff
Ebling Library Meeting Room
11/04/2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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This in-person workshop explores the role of playful pedagogy and games in instruction and offers attendees the chance to play Plagued! Age of Enlightenment, an instructional game created here at Ebling using sources from the …

Hannah Swan
UW-Madison Cinematheque, 821 University Ave, 4070 Vilas Hall (Fourth Floor)
11/06/2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Suppressed and unseen for decades, Huston's powerful documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of psychologically traumatized World War II veterans, revealing the human cost of war with uncommon empathy in conjunction with UW-Madison Cinematheque.

Hannah Swan
11/11/2026 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
https://ebling.library.wisc.edu/about-us/exhibitions-art/

Join Ebling Library’s Curator of Historical Collections for an exhibition open house of Craft/Work: A History of Occupational and Art Therapies. Additional materials related to military medicine and veterans' health in history will be displayed in celebration of Veterans' Day.

Hannah Swan
HSLC 3330
11/20/2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Join Hannah Swan, Ebling Library’s Curator of Historical Collections, for a lecture on the intersections of bookmaking, book arts, and occupational therapy.