Past Event Category: History Events
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Dec 7Rethinking Commemoration: Legacies of 1923 Exchange in the Civilizationist Present
Pyle Center Room 226, 702 Langdon Street
Fall 2023 KARPAT Lecture The Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies presents a talk by Aslı Iğsız The centennial of 1923 exchange between Muslims in Greece and the Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. This talk will address the legacies of this exchange in the contemporary …
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Dec 6History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: “Computing in the Time of Decolonization” with Dr. Dwaipayan Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Nov 30History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: ” AIDS, Global Health and Brazil: The End of Exceptionality” with Dr. Marcos Cueto (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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Nov 29History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: “Identity Politics and Science Communication during COVID-19: Large-Scale Case Studies of Social Media Engagement on US and Chinese Digital Platforms” with Dr. Kaiping Chen (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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Nov 17Then/Now: Modern Medievalisms
2:00 pm, Hagen Room (Elvehjem 150): Workshop - 5:00 pm, Elvehjem L140: Public lecture
Professor Chris Jones (English, University of Utah) 2:00 pm, Hagen Room (Elvehjem 150): Workshop for graduate students and faculty: “Carter Revard and Old English Riddles: an indigenous poet remaking “Anglo-Saxon” 5:00 pm, Elvehjem L140: Public lecture: “Anglo-Saxons, Brexit, the New English Nationalism and White Supremacy” Anglo-Saxonism (the reception of “Anglo-Saxon” culture in the postmedieval period) …
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Nov 13Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium 816 State Street
Samuel G. Freedman in conversation with Professor Kathryn McGarr, School of Journalism & Mass Communications 5:00-6:00 Presentation 6:00-7:00 Reception and Book Signing
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Nov 8Strong Women, Big Guns: Noblewomen, Artillery, and Arsenals During the French Wars of Religion
Pyle Center, Room 309
Speaker: Professor Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University Description: Prof. Sandberg’s research focuses on religion, violence, and political culture during the European Wars of Religion. He has authored a monograph entitled, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and held fellowships from the Institut d’Etudes Avancées …
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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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Nov 4Thinking About and Across Borders: Global Europe in the Twentieth Century
Pyle Center, Room 313
This conference will place questions of twentieth-century border-making and border-crossing in Europe in a global perspective. Sponsors: George L. Mosse Program, the Department of History, the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Mortenson-Petrovich Chair, Harvey Goldberg Center and CREECA.
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Nov 3Wheat as an Invasive Species? The Eucharist and Ecology in Early Medieval Europe
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building L150
Speaker: Professor Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan Description: The “cerealization” of Europe was pretty much complete by the eleventh century. In the process, a vast reduction in the biodiversity of agrarian landscapes and ecosystems and a simplification of foodways took place, as Europeans came to rely on a handful of staple crops for most of …