2025 Merle Curti Lectures with Amy Lonetree

Amy Lonetree (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St), Room 121
@ 4:00 pm -

“Native American Museum Practices and the Ongoing Project of Truth Telling and Reclamation”: Wednesday, November 12, 4:00 PM As a result of Indigenous activism and new museum theory and practice, the relationship between Native Americans …

“Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”

Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron
Zoom
@ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Tuesday, 4 November 2025 11:00 CST, ZOOM Register for Zoom webinar Sponsored by: …

“Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement”

Emily Callaci (UW-Madison)
Pyle Center, Room 226 (702 Langdon St.)
@ 6:30 pm

Presented by Madison History Club. This event will be recorded by PBS Wisconsin University Place In the 1970s, a network of feminists across the globe came together to make a deceptively simple demand: Wages for …

“Hegel and the Dutch Painting of the Golden Age”

Klaus Vieweg (University of Jena)
Hagen Room (Room 150), Elvehjem Building
@ 3:00 pm

Event sponsored by University Lectures Fellowship, Goldberg Center, Department of History, and Department of Art History

“Decolonization, the Algerian War, and the Making of Modern Counterinsurgency”

Terrence G. Peterson (Florida International University)
Fluno Center - Howard Auditorium 
@ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

The Algerian War was a pivotal event in the global struggle for decolonization. In this discussion of his new book, Terrence G. Peterson highlights how the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern …