Events Category: History Events

Honghong Tinn (University of Minnesota)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
January 23, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Elizabeth Lapina (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
January 29, 2026 @ 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 …

Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago)
TBD
February 26, 2026 @ 6:00 pm

War in Society and Culture Program’s Spring 2026 Speaker Series Marquee Lecture

Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium, Room 121
March 19, 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice Fear and Fury: Bernie Goetz, White Rage, and the Long Reach of the Reagan 80s In 1984, as the Reagan Revolution was taking its toll on …

Chad S.A. Gibbs
Zoom
March 23, 2026 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Chad S.A. Gibbs, Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Comment by Jacob Flaws (Kean University) Chaired by Hanna Green …

Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)
Curti Lounge
April 10, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Co-sponsored by History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Program and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics

Koray Durak (Boğaziçi University)
Curti Lounge — 5233 Mosse Humanities
April 15, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This lecture traces the evolution of Byzantine studies in Turkey from the late Ottoman period to the present, with particular emphasis on the roles played by both state and non-state actors, as well as local and foreign …

Norman Naimark (Stanford University)
April 16, 2026