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
“Graphic Difference: Interpreting a Medieval Theological Debate through Comics” Nina Caputo Department of History University of Florida Monday, February 26, 2018 4:00 – 5:30 PM Pyle Center Nina Caputo works on Jewish-Christian relations in the middle ages with a focus on polemics, theological disputations, and the role played by converts as intermediaries between the two …
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 …
“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 …
“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 …
Kutler Lectures with Professor Roger Horowitz University of Delaware “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food” Wednesday, October 18th “Is Kosher a Brand?: Ruminations on the Intersections of Jewish Law and the Secular Marketplace” Thursday, October 19th 4:00 PM Room 325/326, Pyle Center Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. …
“Seeing is Believing: The Rise of Holy Land Tourism and Evangelical Christian Zionism after 1967” Daniel Hummel History, Harvard University Monday, October 9, 2017 3:30 PM 212 University Club Building Since the 1960s, American evangelical Christians have flocked to Holy Land sites in Israel and Palestine in ever-increasing numbers. In 2016, more than 380,000 American …
Citizenship & Its Discontents: Ho-Chunk & Other Histories Stephen Kantrowitz From Oaths to Passports: Ottoman & Russian Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century Berke Torunoglu with Tony Michels as moderator Monday, September 25, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5233 Humanities Bldg.)