Category: European History

A Hot Debate Over A Cold War: The Plan for a Cold War Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

Dr. Andreas Etges Amerika-Institut University of Munich Monday, April 17, 2017 4:00-5:30 PM Curti Lounge (5233/43 Humanities) Funded by the Center for European Studies Co sponsored by: Department of History, The Center for European Studies, and the Department of German, Nordic, & Slavic. Click to view event poster (pdf)

History & Politics Seminar Series

“Temporal Loops, Prophesy, and Apocalypse in the Assemblage of the Nazi New Man.” Stefanos Geroulanos NYU Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:00-6:00 PM Curti Lounge Sponsored by the Center for European Studies. Event organized by Giuliana Chamedes.

Confronting Antisemitism and Islamophobia : From the Middle Ages to Today

Panelists: Kathryn Ciancia Amos Bitzan Elizabeth Lapina Tony Michels Golnar Nikpour Monday, March 27, 2017 5:00 PM Memorial Library, Room 126 Sponsored by: Department of History, George L. Mosse Program, and Center for Humanities. Click to view event poster (pdf)

History Department Colloquium

“Soviet International Law & the Postwar Politics of Human Rights” Francine Hirsch “France at the Kitchen Debates? Creating a ‘Quality’ Consumer Culture during the Cold War” Grace Allen Monday, March 27, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curt Lounge (Rm. 5243 Humanities) Click here to view event poster (pdf)

Histories of the Present: Postimperial Asia in the World

Burdick-Vary Symposium Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Pyle Center Session One – 10:00-12:30 – “Neo-Nationalisms and Empire” Daniel Ussishkin, UW Francine Hirsch, UW Laird Boswell, UW Louise Young, UW Viren Murthy, UW Session Two: –  2:00-4:30 – East Asian Regionalisms Sayuri Shimizu, Rice University Shelly Chan, UW Anne Hansen, UW Kim …

History & Politics Seminar Series

“Pain, Torture, Rights: Political Violence and the Modern State in Pre-Revolutionary Iran” Golnar Nikpour (UW–Madison, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow) Friday, March 10, 2017 3:30-5:00 PM Curti Lounge Sponsored by the Department of History. Event organized by Giuliana Chamedes.

A Quiet Revolution: Tax Reform in Russia and the North Atlantic from the Eighteenth Century to the 1920’s

Yanni Kotsonis Professor of  European History New York University Thursday, February 2, 2017 4:00-5:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Presented by the Center for Russia, East Europe, & Central Asia. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History. View event poster (pdf)

Post-Soviet Lustration and Contemporary Hierarchical Relations with Russia

Professor Yuval Weber National Research University — Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall A key challenge for post-authoritarian governments is to consolidate political authority; one of the most difficult decisions new leaders make is to evaluate the fate of officials associated with the ousted regime. Beyond the …

The Ottoman Empire Through a Greek Lens

Molly Greene Professor of History and Hellenic Studies Princeton University Wednesday, Novemeber 30, 2016 5:00-7:00 PM Rm 225 Pyle Center Molly Greene studies the history of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the Greek world. Her interests include the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the experience of Greeks under Ottoman rule, …

Stitching Wartime History: The Case of the French Resistance

Enjoy a special afternoon with textile-collection donors and friends of the School of Human Ecology featuring Stitching History from the Holocaust, an original exhibit created by and on loan from the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee. Sunday, November 6, 2016 Nancy Nicholas Hall, Room 2235 Schedule of Events 1:00 – Doors open 1:30 – Keynote Speaker: …