Fluno Center
Past Events
History Department Spring Reception
Pyle Center @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Spanish Martial Nobility in Colonial Lima’s Black Militias
Sally Hayes
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Seventeenth-century Lima, the Pacific gateway to the imperial silver of Potosí, was frequently threatened by Dutch and English ships seeking to seize its treasures. Lima’s Black citizens, who by the second decade of the century …
“From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961”
Sara B. Pritchard
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
“From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sara B. Pritchard (Cornell University) Historians, environmental humanists, and others have explored …
Karpat Zoom Lecture: The City and the Holy Mountain
Oya Pancaroğlu
Zoom @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Zoom Link “The City and the Holy Mountain: The Long History of the Cultic Interface Between Caesarea/Kayseri and Mount Argaeus/Erciyes” OYA PANCAROĞLU (Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey) Mount Argaeus/Erciyes, the extinct volcano …
Behind the Scenes: The Perceived Empowerment Journey of Turkish Housewives Using Digital Secondhand Marketplaces
Asude Aydagül
Memorial Union, Check TITU @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
KARPAT TALKS Presented by Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91508590247?pwd=kzgmBDHv2377M4PbwNwu1nl9UkraaC.1 About the Talk: This engaging talk examines how everyday digital platforms are subtly transforming women’s positions, agency, and …
History Club Public Lecture: “Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire”
Leonora Neville
Pyle Center 226 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
“Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire” In the classical Roman empire politics and religion were inseparable, and maintaining the goodwill of the gods was one of the chief responsibilities of senators, consuls, and …
“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong”
Prasenjit Duara
Hybrid Event: Zoom & Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Register Here for Zoom
“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong” Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) This event is presented in collaboration with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS …