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 …
Jewish History
Lecture: Lee Palmer Wandel
“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
Tobias Lecture – Nina Caputo
“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 …
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: Eliyahu Stern
“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 …
Kutler Lectures
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 …
Lecture: Daniel Hummel
“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 …
History Department Colloquium
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 …
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 …