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  • Oct 15
    “Playing the Game: How State Colleges Used Athletics to Expand Educational Opportunity”

    Marc A. VanOverbeke (University of Illinois Chicago)

    Room 198, Education Building

    Presented by UW–Madison Department of Educational Policy Studies

  • Oct 13
    ‘“No More Nice Girls:” Women’s Liberation, Cosmopolitan Jews, and Expanding the Boundaries of American Intellectual Life’ | 2026 Stanley I. Kutler Lectures in American Jewish History

    Ronnie Grinberg (University of Oklahoma)

    Memorial Union (Check “Today in the Union” screens for exact room)

    Also available on Zoom – Register Here: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/MG-BXxgeRfuktd_ITDMdPg#/registration “No More Nice Girls: Women’s Liberation, Cosmopolitan Jews, and Expanding the Boundaries of American Intellectual Life” In the 1970s, feminist writers challenged the axiom that the intellectual vocation was inherently masculine, along with its corollary—that a woman needed to write like a man to be taken seriously. …

  • Oct 12
    “Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and The New York Intellectuals” | 2026 Stanley I. Kutler Lectures in American Jewish History

    Ronnie Grinberg (University of Oklahoma)

    Memorial Union (Check “Today in the Union” screens for exact room)

    Also available on Zoom – Register Here: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/MG-BXxgeRfuktd_ITDMdPg#/registration “Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and The New York Intellectuals” In the years following World War II, a group of mostly male and Jewish writers—raised in the immigrant ghettos of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx—became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. …

  • Oct 10
    “Professor Kemal H. Karpat and His Legacy”

    Professor Hakan Kırımlı (Bilkent University)

    AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center (702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI)

    Co-sponsored by: Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies Kemal H. Karpat Professorship Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) 2026 OTSA Conference University of Wisconsin–Madison Pyle Center October 9-11, 2026 | 9:30am – 6:00pm This conference is about the study of the Ottoman Empire and modern and contemporary Turkey from across the humanities and social …

  • Oct 8
    “The Crimean Tatars: Between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine”

    Hakan Kırımlı (Bilkent University)

    206 Ingraham Hall & Zoom

    Time: 4:00 – 5:15pm CREECA, Co-sponsored by the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies In-person and online event For livestream, join Zoom Meeting https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98180503406 Meeting ID: 981 8050 3406 The Turkic and Muslim Crimean Tatars are the native people of Crimea. They are heirs to the Crimean Khanate, which ruled the peninsula for centuries …

  • Oct 7
    “Three Things to Know about Africa and the Great War (since the Centenary)”

    Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University)

    Room 206, Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706 & via Zoom

    UW–Madison Africa at Noon Africa, Africans, and the First World War Michelle Moyd (Associate Professor, Michigan State University) Hosted by Jeremy Foltz Join Zoom Livestream Sponsored by: UW–Madison African Studies Program UW–Madison Department of History George L. Mosse Program

  • Oct 5
    Francisco Scarano Lecture: “Como anguila: Eel Translations and the Colonial Embodiments of Language”

    Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

    Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium

    Drawing from a work in progress, Roque will explore translations that have irrevocably marked Puerto Rican history and develop a theory of decolonial, eel-like translations. The lecture pays homage to the slippery movements we make to escape a colonial grasp and will be followed by an opportunity for audience questions and conversation. The event is …

  • Oct 5
    “Afropean: An Examination of Black People and Blackness in Europe”

    Location to be announced!

    Afropean will convene scholars from around the country and Europe who offer both a breadth of research and expertise on the topic of Black people and Blackness in Europe since colonization and geographic variety including Germany, Italy, Denmark, France, Sweden and the former Soviet Union. Scholars will partake in public panel discussions that will place …

  • Oct 2
    “A Variation on the Violence of War”

    Sabrina Thomas (UW-Madison)

    Room 2212, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall

    Presented by the War in Society and Culture Program Reception to follow Co-sponsored by War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, and the Center for European Studies

  • Oct 2
    HSMT Colloquium: “Making History and Telling Stories: Bernard de Colmont and the Lost Maya”

    Richard Jobs (Pacific University)

    Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N Park St.

    History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Coloquium Series Richard Ivan Jobs (Rick) is Professor of Modern European History at Pacific University in Oregon, USA. His books include In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism with Steven Van Wolputte (MQUP, 2025), Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago, 2017), …

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