Four faculty members have received Vilas Professorships and Awards this year! Professor Francine Hirsch (Russian & European History) received the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as outstanding efforts in teaching and service. This Professorship will provide five years of research funding. Professors Nan Enstad (U.S. History) and Neil Kodesh …
In work for his 1979 book The Death Camp Treblinka, Alexander Donat began the process of locating survivors of the camp and recording their histories. In a telling testament to the lethality of this place, he could identify only sixty-eight survivors. Analysis of Donat’s early findings—emerging six years prior to the publication of any major …
White supremacy is a language of unease. It does not describe racial domination so much as worry about it. White supremacy connotes many grim and terrifying things, including inequality, exclusion, injustice, and state and vigilante violence. Like whiteness itself, white supremacy arose from the world of Atlantic slavery but survived its demise. Yet while the …
“Street Fighting Year: The Importance of 1968, Fifty Years On” Tariq Ali Writer, Journalist, Filmmaker Monday, April 2, 2018 7:00 PM Elvehjem L160 (Philips Auditorium) TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as …
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 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 Room, Red Gym Sponsored by: Center for East Asian Studies, George L. Mosse Program in History, Harvey Goldberg Center for …
“World War 100” Marking the centennial observance of World War I, this conference brings together national and international scholars to examine the Great War and its legacy. Guest scholars include: Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St. Andrews John Cooper, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison David McDonald, Professor of History, …
“Reflections in a Shattered Mirror: The First World War in German, Polish, and Russian History” Jesse Kauffman Associate Professor of History Eastern Michigan University Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:00 – 5:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall About the Talk: This talk will examine the reasons why the First World War’s eastern front became the “unknown war,” as …
“Asia Rising” Come hear UW–Madison History faculty Judd Kinzley, Al McCoy, and Charles Kim at Asia Rising, a panel discussion on the presence of Asia in global politics and economics. A reception for alumni and friends of the department will follow in Lee Lounge. We look forward to seeing you there! Thursday, October 19, 2017 …
with Brian North UW–Madison, History Department Graduate Student Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00 – 4:30 PM City Bar on State Street 636 State St. Madison Additional Information Brian North will take the lead a two-part presentation. First he wants to go over the major themes of his previously published work Making the Difficult Routine, and …