Past Event Category: 2025

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  • Oct 8
    “Politics of the Sword: Ideology and the Martial in Early Modern Japan”

    Michael Wert (Marquette University)

    Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)

    This talk explores how the notion of embodied martiality became central to the ideological underpinnings of Tokugawa rule. From martial esotericism to swordsmanship, being “never quite warrior enough” defined warrior status and, by appealing to desire, opened up opportunities for commoners and marginal warriors to become activists during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. …

  • Oct 7
    “The Return of the Tupinambá Cloak: Indigenous Art, Memory, and Politics”

    Elisa Frühauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University – Brazil (UFF))

    Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art

    This talk will explore the recent return of the Tupinambá cloak to Brazil and the broader questions it raises around Indigenous identity, cultural repatriation, and historical memory. Prof. Frühauf Garcia is an expert on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. Her current research focuses on the relationships between Native women and European men in the sixteenth …

  • Oct 7
    “Race, Immigration, and Mass Removals”

    Marla A. Ramírez (UW-Madison), Kevin R. Johnson (UC Davis), Elliott Young (Lewis and Clark College)

    UW Memorial Library, 126

    This panel explores the history of diverse immigrant communities in the United States, including Asian and Latinx/e experiences. The panelists provide a historical overview of immigration and exclusion across racial and ethnic lines. Combined, these presentations illuminate the drastic effects of immigration policies on historically marginalized communities. Despite their marginalization, as the panelists have shown, …

  • Oct 3
    “From Local Realities to Global Lessons: Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents in Educational Settings: A Perspective Grounded in Research from Turkiye”

    Orhan Kaya (UW-Madison)

    Memorial Union

    Karpat Talks Orhan Kaya, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher/Visiting Scholar, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology   Presented by Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies

  • Sep 15
    Surreal Geographies: A New Consciousness of Holocaust Consciousness

    Kathryn L. Brackney

    Webinar

    Mosse – Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series Webinar Link: https://go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt   Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced since1945, Kathryn Brackney shows how the Holocaust has developed into a figure for the destabilization and reformulation of the category of humanity and the problem of mourning across difference. Comment …

  • Jun 25
    Geographic and Geopolitical Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration “Crisis”

    Kara Dempsey (UNC-Appalachian State University)

    Memorial Library, Room 126 (728 State Street)

    Boxed lunches provided with R.S.V.P. by 20 June: https://go.wisc.edu/r4qi3o Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at UNC-Appalachian State University. She studies international forced displacement, ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (2022), co-editor of Making …

  • May 10
    PhD Hooding Ceremony and Dinner

    Fluno Center

  • May 2
    History Department Spring Reception

    Pyle Center

  • Apr 30
    Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Spanish Martial Nobility in Colonial Lima’s Black Militias

    Sally Hayes

    Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)

    Seventeenth-century Lima, the Pacific gateway to the imperial silver of Potosí, was frequently threatened by Dutch and English ships seeking to seize its treasures. Lima’s Black citizens, who by the second decade of the century had formed officially recognized militia corps, were among the city’s fiercest defenders. They were able to trade on their military …

  • Apr 25
    “From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961”

    Sara B. Pritchard

    Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)

    “From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sara B. Pritchard (Cornell University)   Historians, environmental humanists, and others have explored how the global Cold War, space race, International Geophysical Year, remote sensing, and their associated technologies enabled new conceptualizations of …

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