Past Event Category: 2025
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Apr 162026 Petrovich Lecture: “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement”
Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
Pyle Center, Room 121
Reception to follow: 5:30 PM | Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge Half a century ago, the Soviet Union found itself unexpectedly challenged by a group of Soviet citizens who achieved global fame in the longest battle of the Cold War—the battle of ideas. The struggle of Soviet dissidents for the rule of law and human …
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Apr 10“Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Re-thinking Abortion in Early America”
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
History of Science Medicine and Technology Colloquium Series Co-sponsored by History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Program and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics
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Mar 192026 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture: “Fear and Fury: Bernie Goetz, White Rage, and the Long Reach of the Reagan 80s”
Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium, Room 121
Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice Fear and Fury: Bernie Goetz, White Rage, and the Long Reach of the Reagan 80s In 1984, as the Reagan Revolution was taking its toll on cities across the country, a white loner named Bernie Goetz would gun down four Black teens on a NYC subway …
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Feb 19“Why Did Mrs. Gandhi Impose the Emergency, and Why Did She Lift It? Revising the Indian Emergency of 1975”
Peter Ronald deSouza (University of Johannesburg)
206 Ingraham Hall & Zoom
Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/8rg7q4 Presented by Center for South Asia Co-sponsored by the Harvey Goldberg Center and the UW Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
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Dec 4“Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”
Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard College)
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417
Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, where she works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton 2025) and the co-author of A Planet to …
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Dec 4“Reproductive Justice in the US-Mexico Borderlands: A History”
Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Texas at Austin)
Sterling Hall, Conference Room 3401
Murillo’s talk examines the histories of Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and how they confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican …
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Nov 18GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening of “Vietnamerica”
Nancy Bui (Executive Producer, Vietnamese Heritage Foundation)
1111 Mosse Humanities
Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus, referred to by many as “the boat people” resulted in nearly half dying while in flight, battling the elements, starvation, and pirates. Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee …
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Nov 14“Beyond the Pitch: Changing Narratives of Professionalism in Men’s Professional Soccer”
Bartu Ersen (UW-Madison)
Memorial Union and Online
Karpat Talks Bartu Ersen, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison This talk discusses how male professional soccer players in Turkey situate themselves within the neoliberal reorganization of their field. Drawing on interviews, media materials, and internal team practices, it analyzes the move from club-centered loyalty toward individualized self-management. It focuses on the …
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Nov 14Workshop: “Migration and Memory in Postwar and Contemporary Europe”
Pyle Center 313
Registration Link This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts (alongside the three organizers) to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate how competing historical narratives (of World War II-era genocide and expulsion, postwar labor migrations, Communism, decolonization, and/or EU expansion) shaped elite and …
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Nov 13“Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War since 1945”
Gregory A. Daddis (Texas A&M University)
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Discovery Building
In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War’s fateful conclusion, faith in and a fear of war became central to Americans’ thinking about the world around them. With war pervading nearly all aspects of American society, an interplay between blind faith …