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  • Nov 13
    Frances Tanzer, “Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City”

    Ingraham Hall, Room 206

    “Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City” Frances Tanzer (Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Jewish Culture, Clark University) Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss …

  • Oct 11
    Film Screening: Far From Home

    Cinematheque @ 4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Avenue) Facebook Event Page

    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 Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Sayyad) endures a monotonous existence as a “guest worker” in ’70s West Berlin, sharing …

  • 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 …

  • Apr 18
    Annual Petrovich Lecture: Serhii Plokhy

    Pyle Center Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St

    “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 World War II came as a shock to the world at large. Why did Putin start the war―and why has …

  • Apr 17
    History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium: Jaipreet Virdi

    Curti Lounge (5233 Humanities Building)

    “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 of science, disability history, disability technologies and material/visual culture studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute for the History …

  • Apr 1
    George L. Mosse Program Event: Pamela H. Smith

    This event is a webinar. Register via Zoom

    “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 “From Lived Experience to the Written Word,” Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople …

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    May 24
    “Global Histories of Austerity, Past and Present”

    Pyle Center, Room 309

    Frameworks: Austerities Past and Present (9:00 AM -12:00 PM) Inventing Austerity (3:15 PM – 6:00 PM) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Pyle Center, Room 309 Race, Empire, and the Making of Our Times (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM) Roundtable: Austerity and Resistance (1:00 PM – 3:15 PM) Sponsored by: The Brittingham Wisconsin Trust Grant, UW–Madison Department …

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