The George Mosse Program in History has recently featured on their blog an oral history interview with Jane Williams, the former graduate admissions coordinator for our Department of History. Jane started the position in 1988 …
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Undergraduate History Majors Highlighted for Mosse Program Research
Two of our History majors, Piper Brown-Kingsley and Claire Hitter, have been George L. Mosse Program Undergraduate Interns for the past several months, working at Wisconsin Historical Society and listening to oral history interviews from Wisconsin’s Jewish …
Smithsonian Magazine highlights the efforts of George Mosse’s nephew, Roger Strauch, to track down the Mosse family artworks that had been seized by the Nazis.
In the final months of the 19th century, a German sculptor named Walter Schott began drawing up plans for a massive work he hoped would represent the pinnacle of his 15-year career. Cast in bronze, …
The Paul J. Schrag Lecture: Scott Spector
“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 …
Lecture – Aaron Rubin
“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 …
New installment of What History Tells explores the rise of European racism
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 …
Seminar: Victor Jew
“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 …
Lecture: Dr. Zach Fredman
“The Jeep Girl Crisis of 1945: American Servicemen and Chinese Women in Wartime China” Dr. Zach Fredman U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow Dartmouth College Thursday, November 30, 2017 3:30 – 5:00 Masley Media …
George L. Mosse Exchange Faculty Exchange Fellow – 2009-2010
Diego Olstein Areas of Research and Teaching Medieval Iberia My first field of research is Medieval Iberia. To date, my contributions to this field are contained in my book La Era Mozarabe. Los mozárabes de …