Past Event Category: All Events
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Mar 12“Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” – Daniel Jackson
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” War in Society and Culture Program Event Daniel Jackson (PhD Candidate, Department of History) Daniel Jackson spent 11 years as a pilot in Air Force Special Operations Command and served all over the globe, including two deployments as …
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Mar 10“To Give life to Socialism with our Own Reality, in our Own Language: Education and the Globalization of Marxism” – Edward Baring
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“To Give life to Socialism with our Own Reality, in our Own Language: Education and the Globalization of Marxism” Edward Baring (Princeton University) In this talk, Edward Baring will examine the conditions that shaped the spread of Marxism around Europe and later the world in the first decades of the twentieth century. He argues …
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Mar 7Rethinking Autocracy, Democracy, and University Autonomy in the 21st Century: Three Cases from Turkey
BATUHAN AYDAGÜL
Memorial Union, Capitol View
This talk will explore the dynamic interplay between autocracy, democracy, and university autonomy in the 21st century through three illuminating case studies from Turkey. Batuhan Aydagül is a doctoral student at the Department of Educational Policy Studies, UW–Madison, with a concentration in Comparative International Education and Global Studies. Presented by: KARPAT GRADUATE STUDENT SOCIETY …
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Mar 7“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” – Ayo Adegbite
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Ayo Adegbite (UW–Madison) Sponsored by Department of History
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Mar 5“Of Doubtful Nature: Archive of an Amphibious Childhood in a Nuclear Age”
Finn Enke
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
Focus on the Humanities lectures are a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. This Focus lecture is also presented in partnership with the UW–Madison Art Department’s Visiting Artist Colloquium. What is the archive of a child who both did and did not exist? Archival assembly necessarily grapples with …
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Feb 252025 George L. Mosse Lectures with Johannes von Moltke
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 213
““Metapolitics”: Acceleration, Appropriation, and Agitation in the New Right’s Culture Wars” 2025 George L. Mosse Lectures Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan) In this series of talks, Johannes von Moltke sheds light on the New Right’s mobilization of arts and ideas in today’s culture wars: its media strategies, identity politics, conspiracy theories, and efforts …
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Feb 14Karpat Talks: “‘I am not afraid of the exam; I am afraid of my mom’ : The Role of Family in Shaping Children’s High-Stakes Testing Experiences-Insights from Istanbul and Hatay”
Aydin Kaan Şenel
In-person: Memorial Union – Multicultural Greek Council Room (4th Floor) Virtual: Zoom Link Karpat Talks “‘I am not afraid of the exam; I am afraid of my mom’ : The Role of Family in Shaping Children’s High-Stakes Testing Experiences-Insights from Istanbul and Hatay” Aydin Kaan Şenel (Master’s Student, Department of Educational Policy Studies) About the …
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Feb 14“Selling Anti-Communism: USIS and Thai Government Cold War Public Relations, 1957 to 1979” – P. Mike Rattanasengchanh
206 Ingraham Hall Event Page
“Selling Anti-Communism: USIS and Thai Government Cold War Public Relations, 1957 to 1979” Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum Dr. P. Mike Rattanasengchanh (Midwestern State University) Free and open to the public | Coffee, tea, and donuts will be served
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Feb 13Humanities NOW: Dissent on Campus
Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave
Police violence, the war in Gaza, and reproductive rights are among the events fueling campus protests and demonstrations in recent months (and years). But what exactly does dissent on campus look like today? In collaboration with the Human Rights Program, this Humanities NOW discussion will dive deep—beyond the events that fuel dissent—to explore the politics, …
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Feb 7Karpat Talks: From Plotinus to Rumi
Memorial Union
“From Plotinus to Rumi: Neoplatonism in Anatolian Sufi Thought” Karpat Talks Hakan Ozlen (Doctoral Student, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies) Presented by: Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies