“A Cold War Life of the Buddha” Anne Hansen Professor of History, UW–Madison “Monuments of the German Baseness: German War Art & American Occupation in the Postwar Period” Jennifer Gramer History Ph.D. Candidate, UW–Madison Monday, April 23, 2018 11:50 – 1:20 PM Curti Lounge with Kathryn Ciancia as moderator
“Two Vultures? Freud’s Psychoanalysis between ‘Jewish Science’ and Humanism” Scott Spector – University of Michigan Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature Wednesday, April 14, 2018 4:00 – 5:30 PM Union South (1308 W Dayton St.) Sigmund Freud’s revolutionary approach to the human mind—psychoanalysis—was a new science, and yet one that was from the …
“Jewish Languages, Past and Present” Aaron Rubin Penn State University Monday, March 19, 2018 4:00 PM Pyle Center This presentation is devoted to the rich array of languages other than Hebrew that have been written and spoken by Jewish communities throughout history. Some Jewish languages have substantial written traditions in the Hebrew script, while others …
David McDonald has been chosen to receive a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!! In his nearly 30-year teaching career at UW–Madison Prof. McDonald has guided students through topics ranging from Imperial Russia to baseball in the post-WWII era. Congratulations David on this well-deserved honor! Listen to him talk about his award (YouTube). Read more about the …
“An Open Moment: My Seven Mothers and the World They Tried to Make” Pernille Ipsen Associate Professor Thursday, March 22, 2018 3:45pm 3401 Sterling Hall An Open Moment is the story of the seven women I called mother. When I was born, on New Years Eve, 1972, my mother lived with six other women in …
Wisconsin Public Television will be airing a Lee Palmer Wandel interview on University Place with Norman Gillard on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. University Place on Wisconsin Public Television
The Society for Military History recognized Chad Gibbs for his paper “Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research” with an honorable mention for the Carroll Award for best graduate student military history paper during the 2018 Missouri Valley History Conference (March 1-3, 2018). Chad’s paper discusses the lessons he …
The French Institut d’études avancées just published an interview with Viren Murthy on Pan-Asianism and China’s place in the world. A must read for the Sinologists among you who read French! Viren held a fellowship at the Institut d’études avancées (Nantes, France) in 2016.
“The Matter of the Liturgy” Lee Palmer Wandel Dept of History, UW–Madison Friday, March 2, 2018 2:30-4:00 PM 6191 Helen C. White Building
The legendary University of Wisconsin–Madison professor George Mosse taught courses in European cultural history, providing unique insight into racism and fascism. Mosse retired in 1987, but his work couldn’t be more relevant in an era plagued by increasing intolerance and authoritarianism. That helps explain the appeal of What History Tells, an online course featuring Mosse’s …