Past Event Category: 2026
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Sep 29“AfroAsianist Readings of Marx”
Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall
Co-sponsored by: Department of History, The Asian American Studies Program, The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, and The Center for the Humanities
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Sep 24“Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937–1945”
Jennifer Yip (National University of Singapore)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N Park St
Historian Jennifer Yip (葉郁琳）of the National University of Singapore will offer a talk on her latest book, just published by Cambridge University Press: Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937–1945. Professor Yip is a historian of war, strategy, and the socio-economic effects of war mobilization, with a focus on Republican …
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Sep 23Beto Torrens y Bomba Soberao
Puerto Rican Studies Hub
Helmsley Theater
The Puerto Rican Studies Hub invites you to an evening of music and conversation with Beto Torrens y Bomba Soberao, featuring musicians and students from Bembé Drum & Dance, a Milwaukee-based cultural arts organization centered on Afro-Latino musical traditions. Part of our Luisa Capetillo Cultural Series, the program will explore the history, rhythms, and communal …
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Sep 22“Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia”
Paula Oppermann
Zoom webinar
Zoom Webinar Registration College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Paula Oppermann, Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025). Comment by Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin) Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Sponsored by: Mosse Lectures George L. Mosse Program in History Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the …
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May 14“Is Democratic Education Possible? Memoirs of a Chronic Optimist”
Jonathan Zimmerman (University of Pennsylvania)
Education Building 298
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Apr 23“Freedom Seekers: Declaring Independence from Slavery during the American Revolution”
Gloria McCahon Whiting (UW-Madison)
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium (816 State St.)
4:00 – 5:00pm Poster Exhibition: The Art of Freedom 5:00 – 6:00pm Keynote Storytelling Lecture: “Freedom Seekers: Declaring Independence from Slavery during the American Revolution” To attend either session, please reserve your free ticket online at https://go.wisc.edu/j7q5g9. For more information about the Freedom Seekers project, visit www.freedom-seekers.org.
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Apr 21“The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France”
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman)
Zoom 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 at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history. Every year, the chilly mistral …
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Apr 152026 Karpat Lecture: “Managing Byzantine Heritage in the Modern World: The Development of Byzantine Studies in Turkey”
Koray Durak (Boğaziçi University)
Curti Lounge — 5233 Mosse Humanities
This lecture traces the evolution of Byzantine studies in Turkey from the late Ottoman period to the present, with particular emphasis on the roles played by both state and non-state actors, as well as local and foreign contributors. It examines how shifting political ideologies—including Kemalism, nationalism, Westernism, and religious conservatism—have shaped and reshaped the study …
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Apr 7Chinese Badgers/Badgers in China
Memorial Library, Room 126
Chinese Badgers/Badgers of China: Profiles of early UW–Madison students presented in the context of a 19th-century Chinese debate over the value of student exchanges The annual spring “Chinese Badgers” workshop offers opportunities for students to present profiles of early UW–Madison students who came to Madison from—or worked in—China. This year’s workshop will place these …
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Apr 7“Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism”
Rebecca Carter-Chand (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Zoom
Zoom link: https://go.wisc.edu/12if5x George L. Mosse First Book Prize Recipient: Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism – Rebecca Carter-Chand Comment by: Brandon Bloch (UW–Madison) Chaired by: Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ever since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, …