Past Event Category: All Events
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Apr 9Book Event: “A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany”
Cindy Schweich Handler and Harry H. Handler
Fluno Center, Skyview Room (8th Floor)
A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany Harry H. Handler and Cindy Schweich Handler In conversation with Prof. Brandon Bloch When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the WWI battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later …
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Apr 4“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing”
Sarah Richardson
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing” W.S. Miller Memorial Lectureship History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sarah S. Richardson (Harvard University) Sarah Richardson is Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, where she has taught …
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Apr 2CANCELLED: 2025 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture
Kelly Lytle Hernández
“The Whites-Only Immigration Regime” Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice Kelly Lytle Hernández (UCLA) Event update: The 2025 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice scheduled for April 2 has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope that you can join us for next year’s lecture.
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Apr 2“Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
In Africa, the late twentieth century was a time of military coups and martial “revolutions.” In Nigeria and other former British colonies, the army officers who took power tried to remake their societies along military lines. They had utopian visions, and Samuel Fury Childs Daly describes the dismal ideology that they made: militarism. Co-sponsored by: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, African Studies Program
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Mar 19“Ryan White, HIV/AIDS, and the Politics of Innocence” – Paul Renfro
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“Ryan White, HIV/AIDS, and the Politics of Innocence” Paul Renfro (Florida State University) In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through …
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Mar 19“Uniform Fantasies”
“Uniform Fantasies” Jeffrey Schneider (Vassar College) Comment by: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Chair: Chad Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Jeffrey Schneider is a Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well …
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Mar 19“From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order” – Mario Novelli
159 Education Building (Wisconsin Idea Room) or online Zoom
“From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order” Mario Novelli (University of Sussex) The Department of Educational Policy Studies is delighted to host Dr. Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex, for a guest lecture entitled From Education for …
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Mar 17Mobilizing Chinese Information and Media in Early Modern France: How the History of Information Can Inform Global Conceptual and Intellectual Histories of Governance and Infrastructure
Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)
Ingraham Hall Room 206
Professor Hilde De Weerdt is a historian of early modern Chinese and global history, specializing in information and intellectual history. She is also a leading figure in Digital Humanities. Using examples from her two latest research projects on the global history of medieval Sinitic political advice literature and the social history of Chinese material infrastructures, …
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Mar 14“The Persian Destruction of Sardis: New Archeological Finds” – Eric Hensley
Eric C. Hensley
Memorial Union (Check TITU)
This talk explores recent excavations shedding light on the sack of Sardis by the Persian destruction. The speaker will examine newly discovered evidence that enhances our understanding of the city’s destruction and its historical significance. Eric C. Hensley is a doctoral student at the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented by KARPAT …