Past Event Category: European History
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Oct 5“Afropean: An Examination of Black People and Blackness in Europe”
Location to be announced!
Afropean will convene scholars from around the country and Europe who offer both a breadth of research and expertise on the topic of Black people and Blackness in Europe since colonization and geographic variety including Germany, Italy, Denmark, France, Sweden and the former Soviet Union. Scholars will partake in public panel discussions that will place …
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Oct 2HSMT Colloquium: “Making History and Telling Stories: Bernard de Colmont and the Lost Maya”
Richard Jobs (Pacific University)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N Park St.
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Coloquium Series Richard Ivan Jobs (Rick) is Professor of Modern European History at Pacific University in Oregon, USA. His books include In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism with Steven Van Wolputte (MQUP, 2025), Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago, 2017), …
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Sep 22“Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia”
Paula Oppermann
Zoom webinar
Zoom Webinar Registration College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Paula Oppermann, Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025). Comment by Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin) Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Sponsored by: Mosse Lectures George L. Mosse Program in History Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the …
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Apr 21“The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France”
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman)
Zoom Zoom Webinar Registration
2025 American Historical Association George L. Mosse Prize Recipient: The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman) Chaired by Professor Emma Kuby (University of Wisconsin–Madison) An in-depth look at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history. Every year, the chilly mistral …
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Apr 162026 Petrovich Lecture: “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement”
Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
Pyle Center, Room 121
Reception to follow: 5:30 PM | Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge Half a century ago, the Soviet Union found itself unexpectedly challenged by a group of Soviet citizens who achieved global fame in the longest battle of the Cold War—the battle of ideas. The struggle of Soviet dissidents for the rule of law and human …
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Apr 7“Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism”
Rebecca Carter-Chand (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Zoom
Zoom link: https://go.wisc.edu/12if5x George L. Mosse First Book Prize Recipient: Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism – Rebecca Carter-Chand Comment by: Brandon Bloch (UW–Madison) Chaired by: Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ever since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, …
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Mar 23“Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks of Jewish Resistance”
Chad S.A. Gibbs
Zoom
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Chad S.A. Gibbs, Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Comment by Jacob Flaws (Kean University) Chaired by Hanna Green (College of Charleston) Zoom Webinar Registration On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied …
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Mar 5“Ancient Writing and Reading: Culture and Communication Among the Graffiti of Pompeii”
Rebecca Benefiel (UW-Madison, Department of Classics)
19 Ingraham Hall
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Jan 29“Depicting the Holy War: Crusader Imagery in Medieval French and English Murals”
Elizabeth Lapina (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
This presentation, based on a recently published monograph, will discuss perceptions and representations of the crusades in Western Europe, specifically in France and England, as revealed in a type of source that few historians of the crusades have discussed: twelfth and thirteenth-century mural paintings in France and England. The talk will attempt to demonstrate that …
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Nov 14Workshop: “Migration and Memory in Postwar and Contemporary Europe”
Pyle Center 313
Registration Link This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts (alongside the three organizers) to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate how competing historical narratives (of World War II-era genocide and expulsion, postwar labor migrations, Communism, decolonization, and/or EU expansion) shaped elite and …