Past Event Category: 2024
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Dec 5Madison History Club Fall 2024 Public Lecture: “Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan”
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 225
“Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan” Sarah Thal (UW-Madison, Department of History) The Way of the Samurai (bushido) is often seen as a centuries-old traditional code of Japan’s elite warrior class. However, not only did the idea of a distinct Way of the Samurai only originate around 1600, but proponents …
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Dec 5Stefan Aune, “Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire” Stefan Aune (Williams University) Stefan Aune is a Professor of American Studies at Williams University. Professor Aune is an interdisciplinary historian of the global United States. His research examines the intersections of race, colonialism, and violence. Sponsored by: the War in Society and Culture …
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Nov 13Frances Tanzer, “Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
“Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City” Frances Tanzer (Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Jewish Culture, Clark University) Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss …
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Oct 18HSMT Colloquium: Travis Weisse, “The Atomic Balm: Diet, Radiation, Cancer, and the Cold War”
Curti Lounge (Mosse Humanities, Room 5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series “The Atomic Balm: Diet, Radiation, Cancer, and the Cold War” Travis Weisse (New Mexico State University) Travis Weisse is a Visiting College Assistant Professor in Sociology and in Public Health at New Mexico State University. His research examines the social and cultural history of dieting, longevity, wellness, …
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Oct 11Film Screening: Far From Home
Cinematheque @ 4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Avenue) Facebook Event Page
Film Screening: Far from Home (Dar Ghorbat) FAR FROM HOME (DAR GHORBAT) West Germany, Iran | 1975 | DCP | 93 min. | Turkish, German with English subtitles Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless Cast: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Sayyad) endures a monotonous existence as a “guest worker” in ’70s West Berlin, sharing …
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Oct 10Energy Citizenship: The History of Coal and the Future of Democracy
1163 Mechanical Engineering (1513 University Avenue)
“Energy Citizenship: The History of Coal and the Future of Democracy” Trish Kahle (Georgetown University) The history of the modern United States is the history of coal—and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning …
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Oct 8Village by Town by City: The Religious Rape Conquest of Neolithic-Derived Civil Societies
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities Building)
“Village by Town by City: The Religious Rape Conquest of Neolithic-Derived Civil Societies” War in Society and Culture Speaker Series Kathy Gaca (Vanderbilt University) Kathy L. Gaca (got’-sa) is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Member of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Her main research interests are Greek and Roman philosophy, mainly Platonic, Stoic, …
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Sep 20The Wisconsin School of French History Conference (1985-2024)
Pyle Center Event Page
Day 1: Friday, September 20, 2024 (Pyle Center, Room 209) 8:15 – Welcome 8:30-10:00am: Panel 1: War 10:15-11:45am: Roundtable 1: Historians in Public Service 12:00-1:30: Lunch 1:00-2:30pm: Panel 2: Colonialism, Empire, and their Reverberations 3:00-5:00pm: Roundtable 2: Teaching Outside of the University 5:00-6:00pm: Pyle Center Reception (AT&T Lounge) Day 2: Saturday, September 21, 2024 …
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Sep 11Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
Sewell Social Science (1180 Observatory Drive), Room 8417 Zoom: Register for the event here.
“Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality” Colin Gordon (University of Iowa) Colin Gordon is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (University of Chicago Press, 2019); Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate …
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Sep 5Amy Stanley, “Revisiting the ‘Comfort Girls’ of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire”
Pyle Center 209
“Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire” Amy Stanley (Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History, Northwestern University) Amy Stanley (Ph.D., Harvard, 2007) is a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, with special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. …