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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 …

  • Oct 8
    “The Crimean Tatars: Between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine”

    Hakan Kırımlı (Bilkent University)

    206 Ingraham Hall & Zoom

    Time: 4:00 – 5:15pm 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 …

  • 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

  • Oct 5
    Francisco 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Oct 2
    “A Variation on the Violence of War”

    Sabrina Thomas (UW-Madison)

    Room 2212, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

    Presented by the War in Society and Culture Program Reception to follow Co-sponsored by War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, and the Center for European Studies

  • Oct 2
    HSMT Colloquium: “Making History and Telling Stories: Bernard de Colmont and the Lost Maya”

    Richard Jobs (Pacific University)

    Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N Park St.

    History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Coloquium Series Richard Ivan Jobs (Rick) is Professor of Modern European History at Pacific University in Oregon, USA. His books include In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism with Steven Van Wolputte (MQUP, 2025), Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago, 2017), …

  • Sep 29
    “AfroAsianist Readings of Marx”

    Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley)

    Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

    Co-sponsored by: Department of History, The Asian American Studies Program, The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, and The Center for the Humanities

  • Sep 24
    “Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937–1945”

    Jennifer Yip (National University of Singapore)

    Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N Park St

    Historian Jennifer Yip (葉郁琳）of the National University of Singapore will offer a talk on her latest book, just published by Cambridge University Press: Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937–1945. Professor Yip is a historian of war, strategy, and the socio-economic effects of war mobilization, with a focus on Republican …

  • Sep 23
    Beto Torrens y Bomba Soberao

    Puerto Rican Studies Hub

    Helmsley Theater

    The Puerto Rican Studies Hub invites you to an evening of music and conversation with Beto Torrens y Bomba Soberao, featuring musicians and students from Bembé Drum & Dance, a Milwaukee-based cultural arts organization centered on Afro-Latino musical traditions. Part of our Luisa Capetillo Cultural Series, the program will explore the history, rhythms, and communal …

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