Past Event Category: 2025
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Mar 19“Uniform Fantasies”
“Uniform Fantasies” Jeffrey Schneider (Vassar College) Comment by: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Chair: Chad Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Jeffrey Schneider is a Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well …
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Mar 19“From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order” – Mario Novelli
159 Education Building (Wisconsin Idea Room) or online Zoom
“From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order” Mario Novelli (University of Sussex) The Department of Educational Policy Studies is delighted to host Dr. Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex, for a guest lecture entitled From Education for …
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Mar 17Mobilizing Chinese Information and Media in Early Modern France: How the History of Information Can Inform Global Conceptual and Intellectual Histories of Governance and Infrastructure
Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)
Ingraham Hall Room 206
Professor Hilde De Weerdt is a historian of early modern Chinese and global history, specializing in information and intellectual history. She is also a leading figure in Digital Humanities. Using examples from her two latest research projects on the global history of medieval Sinitic political advice literature and the social history of Chinese material infrastructures, …
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Mar 15
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Mar 14“The Persian Destruction of Sardis: New Archeological Finds” – Eric Hensley
Eric C. Hensley
Memorial Union (Check TITU)
This talk explores recent excavations shedding light on the sack of Sardis by the Persian destruction. The speaker will examine newly discovered evidence that enhances our understanding of the city’s destruction and its historical significance. Eric C. Hensley is a doctoral student at the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented by KARPAT …
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Mar 12“Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” – Daniel Jackson
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” War in Society and Culture Program Event Daniel Jackson (PhD Candidate, Department of History) Daniel Jackson spent 11 years as a pilot in Air Force Special Operations Command and served all over the globe, including two deployments as …
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Mar 10“To Give life to Socialism with our Own Reality, in our Own Language: Education and the Globalization of Marxism” – Edward Baring
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“To Give life to Socialism with our Own Reality, in our Own Language: Education and the Globalization of Marxism” Edward Baring (Princeton University) In this talk, Edward Baring will examine the conditions that shaped the spread of Marxism around Europe and later the world in the first decades of the twentieth century. He argues …
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Mar 7Rethinking Autocracy, Democracy, and University Autonomy in the 21st Century: Three Cases from Turkey
BATUHAN AYDAGÜL
Memorial Union, Capitol View
This talk will explore the dynamic interplay between autocracy, democracy, and university autonomy in the 21st century through three illuminating case studies from Turkey. Batuhan Aydagül is a doctoral student at the Department of Educational Policy Studies, UW–Madison, with a concentration in Comparative International Education and Global Studies. Presented by: KARPAT GRADUATE STUDENT SOCIETY …
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Mar 7“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” – Ayo Adegbite
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Ayo Adegbite (UW–Madison) Sponsored by Department of History
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Mar 5“Of Doubtful Nature: Archive of an Amphibious Childhood in a Nuclear Age”
Finn Enke
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
Focus on the Humanities lectures are a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. This Focus lecture is also presented in partnership with the UW–Madison Art Department’s Visiting Artist Colloquium. What is the archive of a child who both did and did not exist? Archival assembly necessarily grapples with …