Past Event Category: 2026
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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, …
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Mar 24“Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Popular Jewish Press”
Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto)
Memorial Union and Zoom
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 with diabetes.” And yet, Eastern European Jews were fascinated by Freud and psychoanalysis, flocking to lectures on the subject and …
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Mar 23“Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks of Jewish Resistance”
Chad S.A. Gibbs
Zoom
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Chad S.A. Gibbs, Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Comment by Jacob Flaws (Kean University) Chaired by Hanna Green (College of Charleston) Zoom Webinar Registration On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied …
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Mar 20“The Dubious Scientific Foundations of 21st Century Eugenics”
Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series
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Mar 18“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
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 in 2014. Naomi’s research examines the ways working people impact local and national political economies, and the ways workers participate …
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Mar 13“Byzantium, Historical Nostalgia, and Digital Extremism”
BERKE ÇETİNKAYA (UW-Madison, Department of History)
Memorial Union & Zoom
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, mobilized, and weaponized within contemporary ideological and extremist movements. In these contexts, Byzantium is mobilized within broader ideological frameworks with …
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Mar 11“Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City”
Nianshen Song (Tsinghua University)
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, The Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of Art History
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Mar 5“Ancient Writing and Reading: Culture and Communication Among the Graffiti of Pompeii”
Rebecca Benefiel (UW-Madison, Department of Classics)
19 Ingraham Hall
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Feb 27“Domesticity of Governance & Politics of Dependency in the Oyo Empire, 1600-1836”
Akin Ogundiran (Northwestern University)
Sewell Social Sciences, Rm 8417
Anthropology Colloquium This talk examines the Oyo Empire (ca. 1600–1836) through the lens of domesticity, household organization, and the politics of dependency. Multi-sited excavations in the metropolis (Oyo-Ile) and the colony of Ede-Ile suggest the Oyo Empire was constituted through layered domestic practices and that governance was deeply household-centered. Beyond solely formal political institutions, everyday …
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Feb 26“Cultural Life in Constantinople during the Siege of 1453”
Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago)
Education L196
War in Society and Culture Program’s Spring 2026 Speaker Series Marquee Lecture The fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked the end of the Roman (Byzantine) empire and enabled the Ottomans to become a world power. Most attention on the siege has focused on its military aspects, including the deployment of huge cannons against the city’s ancient walls. But the …