“X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII”

Memorial Union, Old Madison Room (800 Langdon St.)
@ 5:00 pm

“X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII” Leah Garrett (Hunter College, CUNY)   In June of 1942, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff formed an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of …

60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited

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Live Streaming on YouTube

See the full schedule at mosseprogram.wisc.edu/rome/. Event times are Rome local. Stream seminar proceedings here.   In 1963, historian George L. Mosse led a landmark seminar at Stanford University, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines …

Film Screening: Far From Home

Cinematheque @ 4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Avenue)
@ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Film Screening: Far from Home (Dar Ghorbat) FAR FROM HOME (DAR GHORBAT) West Germany, Iran | 1975 | DCP | 93 min. | Turkish, German with English subtitles Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless Cast: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan …

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

Pyle Center
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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: …

Annual Petrovich Lecture: Serhii Plokhy

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 …

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium: Jaipreet Virdi

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 …

George L. Mosse Program Event: Pamela H. Smith

This event is a webinar.
@ 1:00 pm
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“From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in Early Modern World” Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University Comment: Professor Alice M. Goff (University of Chicago) Chair: Professor Michael Martoccio (University of Wisconsin-Madison) In …

“Global Histories of Austerity, Past and Present”

Pyle Center, Room 309
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Frameworks: Austerities Past and Present (9:00 AM -12:00 PM) Julia Elyachar (Princeton) Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barabara) Comments: Amy Offner (UPenn) Inventing Austerity (3:15 PM – 6:00 PM) Clara Mattei (New School) Priya Lal (Boston …

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