Emma Kuby (UW-Madison, Department of History)
206 Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Drive, Madison) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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. …
Elizabeth Lapina (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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 …
Emily Callaci (UW-Madison)
Pyle Center, Room 226 (702 Langdon St.) @ 6:30 pm
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 …
Marla A. Ramírez (UW-Madison), Kevin R. Johnson (UC Davis), Elliott Young (Lewis and Clark College)
UW Memorial Library, 126 @ 4:00 pm
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 …
Sally Hayes
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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 …
Leonora Neville
Pyle Center 226 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
“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 …
Finn Enke
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue @ 5:00 pm
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 …
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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: …