• Apr 7
    Chinese Badgers/Badgers in China

    Memorial Library, Room 126

    Chinese Badgers/Badgers of China: Profiles of early UW–Madison students presented in the context of a 19th-century Chinese debate over the value of student exchanges   The annual spring “Chinese Badgers” workshop offers opportunities for students to present profiles of early UW–Madison students who came to Madison from—or worked in—China. This year’s workshop will place these …

  • Mar 18
    “A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community”

    Naomi Williams (Rutgers University), in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)

    Memorial Union Room 126

    Naomi R Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2014. Naomi’s research examines the ways working people impact local and national political economies, and the ways workers participate …

  • Apr 9
    Book 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 …

  • Sep 20
    The Wisconsin School of French History Conference (1985-2024)

    Pyle Center Event Page

    Day 1: Friday, September 20, 2024 (Pyle Center, Room 209) 8:15 – Welcome 8:30-10:00am: Panel 1: War 10:15-11:45am: Roundtable 1: Historians in Public Service 12:00-1:30: Lunch 1:00-2:30pm: Panel 2: Colonialism, Empire, and their Reverberations 3:00-5:00pm: Roundtable 2: Teaching Outside of the University 5:00-6:00pm: Pyle Center Reception (AT&T Lounge)   Day 2: Saturday, September 21, 2024 …