Events
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Oct 5“Afropean: An Examination of Black People and Blackness in Europe”
Location to be announced!
Afropean will convene scholars from around the country and Europe who offer both a breadth of research and expertise on the topic of Black people and Blackness in Europe since colonization and geographic variety including Germany, Italy, Denmark, France, Sweden and the former Soviet Union. Scholars will partake in public panel discussions that will place …
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Oct 5Francisco Scarano Lecture: “Como anguila: Eel Translations and the Colonial Embodiments of Language”
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium
Drawing from a work in progress, Roque will explore translations that have irrevocably marked Puerto Rican history and develop a theory of decolonial, eel-like translations. The lecture pays homage to the slippery movements we make to escape a colonial grasp and will be followed by an opportunity for audience questions and conversation. The event is …
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Oct 7“Three Things to Know about Africa and the Great War (since the Centenary)”
Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University)
Room 206, Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706 & via Zoom
UW–Madison Africa at Noon Africa, Africans, and the First World War Michelle Moyd (Associate Professor, Michigan State University) Hosted by Jeremy Foltz Join Zoom Livestream Sponsored by:UW–Madison African Studies ProgramUW–Madison Department of HistoryGeorge L. Mosse Program
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Oct 8“The Crimean Tatars: Between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine”
Hakan Kırımlı (Bilkent University)
206 Ingraham Hall & Zoom
CREECA, Co-sponsored by the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies In-person and online eventFor livestream, join Zoom Meeting https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98180503406Meeting ID: 981 8050 3406 The Turkic and Muslim Crimean Tatars are the native people of Crimea. They are heirs to the Crimean Khanate, which ruled the peninsula for centuries until the Russian Empire annexed Crimea …
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Oct 10“Professor Kemal H. Karpat and His Legacy”
Professor Hakan Kırımlı (Bilkent University)
AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center (702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI)
Co-sponsored by:Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish StudiesKemal H. Karpat ProfessorshipOttoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) 2026 OTSA ConferenceUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Pyle CenterOctober 9-11, 2026 | 9:30am – 6:00pm This conference is about the study of the Ottoman Empire and modern and contemporary Turkey from across the humanities and social sciences. It especially focuses on …
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Oct 30HSMT Colloquium: “In Search of the New Farmers of America: Brief Notes on Black Farm Boys”
Bobby J. Smith II (University of Illinois)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N. Park St.
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series In this talk, Dr. Bobby J. Smith II discusses his new book, Black Farm Boys: The Untold Story of the New Farmers of America, examining the rise, influence, and disappearance of the New Farmers of America (NFA). Founded in 1935, the NFA was the nation’s first national organization for …
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Nov 13HSMT Colloquium: “Rewarding Supporters and Alienating Workers: Towards a Critical History of Health Insurance, Medicine, and Idealogy in China and Taiwan”
Wayne Soon (University of Minnesota)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N. Park St.
This presentation examines the history of health insurance in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China in Taiwan and argues that both states privileged key political supporters while often failing the workers they claimed to serve from the 1950s to 1980s. Health insurance programs for party cadres in China and civil servants …
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Apr 82027 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice
Details to be announced!
Details to be announced!
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