Past Event Category: 2024

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  • Aug 27
    New Grad Student Orientation

    Pyle Center 225

  • Aug 26
    Annual History Department Welcome Picnic

    Vilas Park Shelter

  • Jun 27
    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)

    “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 by the George L. Mosse Program in History & Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries. Please direct any event …

  • May 11
    History Graduate PhD Hooding Ceremony & Dinner

    Fluno Center

    History Graduate PhD Hooding Ceremony & Dinner For more information contact Lisa Normand (lnormand@wisc.edu)

  • May 10
    History Undergraduate Commencement Celebration & Awards Ceremony

    Wisconsin Historical Society (816 State St.)

    RSVP required. Please contact Scott Burkhardt (stburkhardt@wisc.edu) with questions.   Sponsored by Department of History

  • May 3
    Department Reception

    Pyle Center Alumni Lounge

  • May 1
    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

    “‘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 Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in …

  • Apr 29
    History Department Senior Thesis Presentations

    Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.) Room 335

    Sponsored by the Department of History

  • Apr 23
    History Club Event: “Unpacking Shogun”

    Ingraham 206

    “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 Hulu’s release of the final episode of “Shogun,” a historical drama set in early 17th-century Japan, the Center for East …

  • Apr 18
    Annual Petrovich Lecture: Serhii Plokhy

    Pyle Center Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St

    “The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Historian” Serhii Plokhy (Harvard University) Lecture 4:00-5:30 PM, Reception 5:30-6:30 PM Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the start of the largest European conflict since the end of World War II came as a shock to the world at large. Why did Putin start the war―and why has …

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