Past Event Category: European History
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Oct 28“Hegel and the Dutch Painting of the Golden Age”
Klaus Vieweg (University of Jena)
Hagen Room (Room 150), Elvehjem Building
Event sponsored by University Lectures Fellowship, Goldberg Center, Department of History, and Department of Art History
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Sep 15Surreal Geographies: A New Consciousness of Holocaust Consciousness
Kathryn L. Brackney
Webinar
Mosse – Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series Webinar Link: https://go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced since1945, Kathryn Brackney shows how the Holocaust has developed into a figure for the destabilization and reformulation of the category of humanity and the problem of mourning across difference. Comment …
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Jun 25Geographic and Geopolitical Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration “Crisis”
Kara Dempsey (UNC-Appalachian State University)
Memorial Library, Room 126 (728 State Street)
Boxed lunches provided with R.S.V.P. by 20 June: https://go.wisc.edu/r4qi3o Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at UNC-Appalachian State University. She studies international forced displacement, ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (2022), co-editor of Making …
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Apr 102025 Petrovich Lecture: “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”Michael D. Gordin
Pyle Center
2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean of the College, Princeton University) Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Sponsored by Department of History
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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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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 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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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 4“X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII”
Memorial Union, Old Madison Room (800 Langdon St.)
“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 Jewish refugees who had escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers were a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most …
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Jan 960 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited
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 and countries to analyze the history of Nazism and Italian Fascism, just eighteen years after World War II. Their discussions …