Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
Pyle Center, Room 121 @ 4:00 pm
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 …
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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
Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium, Room 121 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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 …
Peter Ronald deSouza (University of Johannesburg)
206 Ingraham Hall & Zoom @ 12:00 pm
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
Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard College)
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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 …
Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Texas at Austin)
Sterling Hall, Conference Room 3401 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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 …
Nancy Bui (Executive Producer, Vietnamese Heritage Foundation)
1111 Mosse Humanities @ 4:00 pm
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 …
Bartu Ersen (UW-Madison)
Memorial Union and Online @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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, …
Pyle Center 313 @ 9:00 am - 5:15 pm
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 …
Gregory A. Daddis (Texas A&M University)
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Discovery Building @ 4:30 pm
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’ …