Past Events Category: 2024
New Grad Student Orientation
Pyle Center 225 @ 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Annual History Department Welcome Picnic
Vilas Park Shelter @ 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Eliana Chavkin, “A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead”
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St, Room TBD (Consult “Today in the Union” upon arrival) @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
“A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead” Eliana Chavkin, University of Minnesota Free and open to the public. Lunch provided (please RSVP by June 24). RSVP link: https://go.wisc.edu/3405e2 Sponsored …
Department Reception
Pyle Center Alumni Lounge @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Selçuk Esenbel, Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies & Center for East Asian Studies Event
Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons, Law School, 7th floor Room 7200 @ 4:30 pm
“‘Twilight Diplomacy’ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of Turkey” Selçuk Esenbel, Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey A discussion centered on Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book …
History Department Senior Thesis Presentations
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.) Room 335 @ 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Sponsored by the Department of History
Department Council Meetings
Dates for Spring 2024 February 5th March 4th April 1st April 29th
History Club Event: “Unpacking Shogun”
Ingraham 206 @ 4:30 pm
“Unpacking Shogun: Perspectives from UW-Madison Faculty on the latest dramatization of James Clavell’s novel” Comments from professors Lori Lopez (Asian American Studies), Steve Ridgely (Modern Japan Studies), and Sarah Thal (Department of History) To mark …