Ingraham 206 @ 4:30 pm
“Unpacking Shogun: Perspectives from UW-Madison Faculty on the latest dramatization of James Clavell’s novel” Comments from professors Lori Lopez (Asian American Studies), Steve Ridgely (Modern Japan Studies), and Sarah Thal (Department of History) To mark …
Pyle Center Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
“The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Historian” Serhii Plokhy (Harvard University) Lecture 4:00-5:30 PM, Reception 5:30-6:30 PM Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the start of the largest European conflict since the end of …
Curti Lounge (5233 Humanities Building) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
“CALIBRATION: The Science of Deafness in Interwar Britain” Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware) Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology and disability. Her research and teaching interests include the history of medicine, the history …
All Meetings will be hybrid (in Curti Lounge and on Zoom) Dates for Spring 2024 February 19th March 18th April 15th
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building @ 5:15 pm
“Marx, Hegel and the Problem of Value” Michael Heinrich (Editor of Prokla: Journal of Critical Social Science) Cosponsored by Department of History
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building @ 4:00 pm
“Marx and Antisemitism” Michael Heinrich (Editor of Prokla: Journal of Critical Social Science) Event Sponsored by George L. Mosse / Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by Department of History
Orchard Room, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery @ 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
“Democracy and Data/The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray” Dan Bouk, Colgate University The Haller Lecture Fund and the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology present Dan Bouk, Professor of History at Colgate University, former Faculty …
Hagen Room, Elvehjem 150 @ 5:30 pm
“Hegel, Danto and the End of Art” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) We will discuss a paper by Professor Houlgate for this talk. Please contact Viren Murthy (vmurthy2@wisc.edu) or Daniel Spaulding (dmspaulding@wisc.edu) for the paper. …
Pyle Center 232 @ 4:00 pm
“An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era” Beth Bailey (University of Kansas) Even as US troops fought in Vietnam, Black and white soldiers battled each other in …
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building @ 4:00 pm
“Hegel, Spinoza and the Future of Critical Philosophy” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) “In this lecture, I will consider the different ways in which Kant and Hegel understand what it means to think critically about our most …