This Saturday, April 30th, Professor Emeritus William Cronon will be back on the UW-Madison campus to participate in “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World,” a day-long conference organized by his former PhD students that …
Lectures
Video: “Still Fighting, Seventy Years Later: The Strange Afterlife of World War II in Japan and Asia”
Professor Louise Young, recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presents her research on World War II memory politics in Japan. Seventy years after Japan’s surrender, why does the conduct and interpretation …
Video: “The History of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison”
Professor Emerita Colleen Dunlavy presents her research about the history and significance of UW-Madison’s Department of History. Presented and recorded Blackboard Collaborate on Thursday, April 16, 2020. The video can be found here: “The History …
Department of History launches the Madison History Club
In keeping with the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the Department recently created the Madison History Club, which brings together people who are curious about the past and eager to discuss history with others. The …
Lecture: John von Heyking
“Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship” John von Heyking Professor, Political Science University of Lethbridge Alberta, Canada Thursday, May 24, 2018 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Upper Lounge, Brocach Irish Pub Sponsored by the Center for …
Lecture: Christopher P. Loss
“Whatever Happened to the Educational Left? San Diego in the 1960s” Christopher P. Loss Vanderbilt University Monday, May 7, 2018 3:30-5:00 pm Education 245 Sponsored by the Educational Policy Studies department
Roundtable – European Antisemitism
The state of the field on European antisemitism Hosted by Renato Moro and John Connolly Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:00 PM Curt Lounge (Rm 5233 Mosse Humanities Bldg.) Co-sponsored by the Mosse Program and the …
MA Thesis Research Presentation: Nicholas Seay
“REVOLUTION LOCALIZED: PORTRAYALS OF TAJIKISTAN IN SOVIET LITERATURE, 1927-1941” MA candidate Nicholas Seay presents his master’s thesis. Thursday, May 3, 2018 4:00-5:30 PM 336 Ingraham Hall
Charles Cohen gives talk in Milwaukee
Badger Café: “Jews and Muslims in Christian America” Charles Cohen, an award-winning professor emeritus in the UW–Madison Department of History and the founding director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions, teaches …
Performing History
“Performing History: Documenting and Enacting the Asian American Midwest” Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Mitchell Theater, Vilas Hall 7:00 PM: “Our Stories, Our History”: Snapshots of Asian America in the Midwest A performance piece composed …