“The Jew As Arsonist: State Discourses and Institutional Othering in Wisconsin, 1900-1940” Victor Jew, Ph.D. Asian American Studies Program UW–Madison Wednesday, February 14, 2018 12:00 PM CJW Conference Room (4233 Mosse Humanities Bldg.) Because the Center for Jewish Studies will provide lunch at this event, attendees must RSVP in advance to events-lectures@cjs.wisc.edu. RSVPs accepted until …
“Wisconsin and the Shaping of American Law” A discussion with Joseph A. Ranney Marquette Law Karl Shoemaker UW–Madison Law School and Department of History Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:00-1:30 PM Lubar Commons – 7200 Law Building Lunch will be available. Sponsored by the Institute for Legal Studies & the University of Wisconsin Press.
“Digesting Bodies: Status, Gender, and Mastery in Roman Society and Homes” Mira Green History, University of Washington Classics Monday, December 4, 2017 3:30 – 5:00 PM 212 University Club Providing a distinct window into the social and political developments of the early Roman Empire, my research focuses on Roman attitudes towards the digesting body and …
“Martin Luther & the Reformation” listen to Lee Palmer Wandel UW–Madison, Professor of History on Wisconsin Public Radios’ “University of the Air” He was a catalyst for a religious revolution and he remains controversial today. Five hundred years ago, an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther began questioning some of the fundamental practices and beliefs of …
“Engineers, Scientists, Musicians, and the Trautonium in Berlin in the 1930s” Myles Jackson Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New York University Friday, November 17, 2017 12:00 – 1:00 Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 humanities Bldg.) Radio and electrical engineers, physicists, and physiologists working on the synthesis and broadcasting of speech and music provided musicians with a …
“Rightwing Populism in Germany” Sebastian Voigt Research Fellow Institute for Contemporary History in Munich Dr. Voigt has been a fellow at the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum and a faculty member at the Ruhr University. He is a former Fulbright Scholar who has published widely in the field of Modern European History on such …
“Sacred Geographies: the Atlases of ‘Ali al-Sharafi (fl. 1551-1579)” Jeremy Ledger History, University of Michigan Solmsen Fellow Friday, November 3, 2017 12:00-1:30 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanitis Bldg.) The presentation will center on two nautical atlases produced by ‘Ali al-Sharafi (one in 1551, the other in 1571), a native of the Mediterranean port …
“Marx and the Kabbalah” Eliyahu Stern Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History, Judaic Studies, Religious Studies and History Yale University Thursday, November 2, 2017 3:00 – 4:30 PM Pyle Center Professor Eliyahu Stern uses previously unexamined archival and published sources addressing Jewish themes in Marx’s writings to recover an early religious and nationalist …
“World War 100” Marking the centennial observance of World War I, this conference brings together national and international scholars to examine the Great War and its legacy. Guest scholars include: Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St. Andrews John Cooper, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison David McDonald, Professor of History, …
“Reflections in a Shattered Mirror: The First World War in German, Polish, and Russian History” Jesse Kauffman Associate Professor of History Eastern Michigan University Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:00 – 5:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall About the Talk: This talk will examine the reasons why the First World War’s eastern front became the “unknown war,” as …