“Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City”

Nianshen Song (Tsinghua University)
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Co-sponsored by the Department of History, The Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of Art History

“Byzantium, Historical Nostalgia, and Digital Extremism”

BERKE ÇETİNKAYA (UW-Madison, Department of History)
Memorial Union & Zoom
@ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

In-person and Online 📍 Memorial Union, Beefeaters Room, Third Floor 💻 Zoom: (link here)   This talk investigates how digital platforms such as 4chan and TikTok have become arenas where the Byzantine past is reimagined, …

“A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community”

Naomi Williams (Rutgers University), in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Memorial Union Room 126
@ 4:00 pm

Naomi R Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …

“Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Popular Jewish Press”

Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto)
Memorial Union and Zoom
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Memorial Union, Old Madison Room 800 Langdon St (Madison, WI) Also available on Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/mhu3k6mBT0WCMDomo4JDEw#/registration   The Austrian journalist Karl Kraus reportedly quipped, “Psychoanalysis is the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews make do …

“The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France”

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman)
Zoom
@ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Zoom Webinar Registration

2025 American Historical Association George L. Mosse Prize Recipient: The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman) Chaired by Professor Emma Kuby (University of Wisconsin-Madison) An in-depth look …