Past Event Category: 2024

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  • Mar 19
    Lecture by Chloe Ireton

    University Club Room 212

    “Defining Freedom: Infrastructures of Black Political Knowledge in the Early Spanish Atlantic” Professor Chloe Ireton, Department of History, University College London This talk explores the development of diverse infrastructures of Black political knowledge in the early Atlantic world. These infrastructures enabled Black individuals and communities across different regions of the Spanish empire to develop the …

  • Mar 16
    Graduate Program Recruitment Weekend, March 16-17, 2024

    Multiple in-person events open to current History department grad students, faculty, and invited graduate recruits. For more information contact Lisa Normand (lnormand@wisc.edu)

  • Feb 8
    Laurie Marhoefer, Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

    Virtual, registration link: https://go.wisc.edu/37ivc9

    Speaker: Professor Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington Description: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas.   Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and …

  • Feb 1
    Shermans, and Tigers, and T-34s, Oh My! Playing Pretend and Playing WWII

    Pyle Center, Room 209, 702 Langdon St.

    Historian Jeremy Best will discuss his research on the history of wargaming and historical memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As a prelude to playing some modern wargames, he will discuss the implications of a hobby obsessed with accuracy but built on forgetting. RSVP requested to eframe@wisc.edu Co-sponsored by, the George L. Mosse …

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