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  • Feb 25
    “Moroccan Jews, American Jews, and French Decolonization in North Africa, 1945-1955”

    Emma Kuby (UW-Madison, Department of History)

    206 Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Drive, Madison)

    Africa at Noon In the aftermath of the Holocaust, some American Jewish organizations turned their attention to French colonial North Africa as “one of the great reservoirs of Jewish life” that remained on the globe. Indeed, the nearly half million Jews who lived under French rule in Algeria, Tunisia, and especially Morocco in 1945 outnumbered …

  • 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 …

  • Oct 29
    “Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement”

    Emily Callaci (UW-Madison)

    Pyle Center, Room 226 (702 Langdon St.)

    Presented by Madison History Club. This event will be recorded by PBS Wisconsin University Place In the 1970s, a network of feminists across the globe came together to make a deceptively simple demand: Wages for Housework! When invoked today, the phrase commonly refers to the cash payment that was its signature demand, yet for the …

  • Oct 7
    “Race, Immigration, and Mass Removals”

    Marla A. Ramírez (UW-Madison), Kevin R. Johnson (UC Davis), Elliott Young (Lewis and Clark College)

    UW Memorial Library, 126

    This panel explores the history of diverse immigrant communities in the United States, including Asian and Latinx/e experiences. The panelists provide a historical overview of immigration and exclusion across racial and ethnic lines. Combined, these presentations illuminate the drastic effects of immigration policies on historically marginalized communities. Despite their marginalization, as the panelists have shown, …

  • Apr 30
    Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Spanish Martial Nobility in Colonial Lima’s Black Militias

    Sally Hayes

    Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)

    Seventeenth-century Lima, the Pacific gateway to the imperial silver of Potosí, was frequently threatened by Dutch and English ships seeking to seize its treasures. Lima’s Black citizens, who by the second decade of the century had formed officially recognized militia corps, were among the city’s fiercest defenders. They were able to trade on their military …

  • Apr 16
    History Club Public Lecture: “Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire”

    Leonora Neville

    Pyle Center 226

    “Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire” In the classical Roman empire politics and religion were inseparable, and maintaining the goodwill of the gods was one of the chief responsibilities of senators, consuls, and emperors. Did this religion of and for the state – known as civic religion – persist into the medieval phase …

  • Mar 5
    “Of Doubtful Nature: Archive of an Amphibious Childhood in a Nuclear Age”

    Finn Enke

    Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue

    Focus on the Humanities lectures are a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. This Focus lecture is also presented in partnership with the UW–Madison Art Department’s Visiting Artist Colloquium. What is the archive of a child who both did and did not exist? Archival assembly necessarily grapples with …

  • 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 …

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