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  • Oct 27
    “Environmental Justice and Sustainability: A Hegelian Perspective”

    Klaus Vieweg (University of Jena)

    Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities Building)

    Event sponsors: University Lectures Fellowship, Goldberg Center, Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, Department of History

  • Oct 22
    “Decolonization, the Algerian War, and the Making of Modern Counterinsurgency”

    Terrence G. Peterson (Florida International University)

    Fluno Center - Howard Auditorium 

    The Algerian War was a pivotal event in the global struggle for decolonization. In this discussion of his new book, Terrence G. Peterson highlights how the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern warfare. As the French Army attempted to counter the struggle for Algerian independence, it fashioned a radical project of armed …

  • Oct 13
    “Fuji: the Making of a Global Mountain”

    Andrew Bernstein (Lewis and Clark College)

    Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Dr)

    Mount Fuji commands attention. Visible to millions in Tokyo, its iconic silhouette is recognizable around the world. At the same time, industries and military bases located on and around the mountain connect it to economic and political networks with global reach. By examining both the representation and material exploitation of Fuji over the past several …

  • Oct 8
    “Politics of the Sword: Ideology and the Martial in Early Modern Japan”

    Michael Wert (Marquette University)

    Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)

    This talk explores how the notion of embodied martiality became central to the ideological underpinnings of Tokugawa rule. From martial esotericism to swordsmanship, being “never quite warrior enough” defined warrior status and, by appealing to desire, opened up opportunities for commoners and marginal warriors to become activists during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. …

  • Oct 7
    “The Return of the Tupinambá Cloak: Indigenous Art, Memory, and Politics”

    Elisa Frühauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University – Brazil (UFF))

    Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art

    This talk will explore the recent return of the Tupinambá cloak to Brazil and the broader questions it raises around Indigenous identity, cultural repatriation, and historical memory. Prof. Frühauf Garcia is an expert on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. Her current research focuses on the relationships between Native women and European men in the sixteenth …

  • 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, …

  • Oct 3
    “From Local Realities to Global Lessons: Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents in Educational Settings: A Perspective Grounded in Research from Turkiye”

    Orhan Kaya (UW-Madison)

    Memorial Union

    Karpat Talks Orhan Kaya, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher/Visiting Scholar, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology   Presented by Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies

  • Sep 15
    Surreal Geographies: A New Consciousness of Holocaust Consciousness

    Kathryn L. Brackney

    Webinar

    Mosse – Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series Webinar Link: https://go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt   Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced since1945, Kathryn Brackney shows how the Holocaust has developed into a figure for the destabilization and reformulation of the category of humanity and the problem of mourning across difference. Comment …

  • Jun 25
    Geographic and Geopolitical Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration “Crisis”

    Kara Dempsey (UNC-Appalachian State University)

    Memorial Library, Room 126 (728 State Street)

    Boxed lunches provided with R.S.V.P. by 20 June: https://go.wisc.edu/r4qi3o Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at UNC-Appalachian State University. She studies international forced displacement, ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (2022), co-editor of Making …

  • May 10
    PhD Hooding Ceremony and Dinner

    Fluno Center

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