Past Event Category: George Mosse Program
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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 …
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Sep 20The 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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Jun 27Eliana Chavkin, “A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead”
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St, Room TBD (Consult “Today in the Union” upon arrival)
“A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead” Eliana Chavkin, University of Minnesota Free and open to the public. Lunch provided (please RSVP by June 24). RSVP link: https://go.wisc.edu/3405e2 Sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program in History & Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries. Please direct any event …
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Apr 1George 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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Feb 8Laurie Marhoefer, Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
Virtual, registration link: https://go.wisc.edu/37ivc9
Speaker: Professor Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington Description: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas. Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and …
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Feb 1Shermans, and Tigers, and T-34s, Oh My! Playing Pretend and Playing WWII
Pyle Center, Room 209, 702 Langdon St.
Historian Jeremy Best will discuss his research on the history of wargaming and historical memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As a prelude to playing some modern wargames, he will discuss the implications of a hobby obsessed with accuracy but built on forgetting. RSVP requested to eframe@wisc.edu Co-sponsored by, the George L. Mosse …
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Nov 6The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell
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Sep 14“Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms”
Virtually
“Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms” with speaker Professor Kira Thurman (University of Michigan), comments by Professor Lauren Stokes (Northwestern University), and chaired by Professor Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and …