“Sacco & Vanzetti: Day of Remembrance” What can we learn from their story? Come to a special meeting of the Campus Workers Collective. Guest Speaker: Giuliana Chamedes Assistant Professor of History UW-Madison Thursday, September 22, …
Lectures
The Trial Nobody Expected: A Tale of Torture, Music, and Human Rights in the Americas
Professor Steve Stern History, UW-Madison Monday, September 19, 2016 3:30 PM 212 University Club Building This is an extraordinary true-life story. It’s a tale of murder, human rights, and social justice in the Americas. It’s …
Polish Towns? Jewish Towns?: Urban Development in Eastern Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Kathryn Ciancia Assistant Professor, Department of History, UW-Madison Friday, April 8, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club Kathryn Ciancia is an assistant professor in the History department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …
John Tedeschi Book Talk and Signing
Italian Jews Under Fascism, 1939-1945: A Personal and Historical Narrative Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. University Club, 803 State St. The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries will be hosting a book talk, …
To ‘The Land of Social Revolution’ and Back: American Encounters with Soviet Russia
Tony Michels Professor, Department of History, UW-Madison Friday, February 19, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club In the 1920s, Americans traveled to the Soviet Union to witness the Russian Revolution up close. …
Workshop: Rethinking Borderlands
Thursday December 3, 2015 Memorial Library Room 126 3:30 to 5:00 pm Kathryn Ciancia on Inter-war Poland Assistant Professor of History, UW-Madison Judd Kinzley on the Early People’s Republic of China Assistant Professor of History, …
Ujamaa Urbanists: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania
Emily Callaci Assistant Professor of History UW-Madison Nov. 23, 2015 3:30 – 4:30 PM 212 University Club Building Urban migration in Africa in the second half of the twentieth century has been one of the …
City/State/Nation: Historians on Twentieth Century Urbanism
East Asian Connections The Transnational Humanities at the UW-Madison and Beyond Friday, April 17, 2015 1:00 – 3:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5243 Humanities) “The Socialization of Risk in the Neoliberal City” Sean Dinces / …