Past Event Category: History Events
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Feb 252025 George L. Mosse Lectures with Johannes von Moltke
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 213
““Metapolitics”: Acceleration, Appropriation, and Agitation in the New Right’s Culture Wars” 2025 George L. Mosse Lectures Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan) In this series of talks, Johannes von Moltke sheds light on the New Right’s mobilization of arts and ideas in today’s culture wars: its media strategies, identity politics, conspiracy theories, and efforts …
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Feb 14Karpat Talks: “‘I am not afraid of the exam; I am afraid of my mom’ : The Role of Family in Shaping Children’s High-Stakes Testing Experiences-Insights from Istanbul and Hatay”
Aydin Kaan Şenel
In-person: Memorial Union – Multicultural Greek Council Room (4th Floor) Virtual: Zoom Link Karpat Talks “‘I am not afraid of the exam; I am afraid of my mom’ : The Role of Family in Shaping Children’s High-Stakes Testing Experiences-Insights from Istanbul and Hatay” Aydin Kaan Şenel (Master’s Student, Department of Educational Policy Studies) About the …
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Feb 7Karpat Talks: From Plotinus to Rumi
Memorial Union
“From Plotinus to Rumi: Neoplatonism in Anatolian Sufi Thought” Karpat Talks Hakan Ozlen (Doctoral Student, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies) Presented by: Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies
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Feb 7“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” – Taylor M. Moore
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Taylor M. Moore (UC Santa Barbara) Taylor M. Moore is a historian of science, medicine, and race in the Modern Middle East, specializing in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Egypt. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections …
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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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Feb 4“What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Roots of Peace, Democracy, and War” – Van Jackson
Online via Zoom Register Here
“What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Roots of Peace, Democracy, and War” Van Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington) This event is presented in collaboration with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC). The concept of the “national interest” has become an underappreciated source of global insecurity. Not because …
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Jan 30“WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” – David Chang
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” David Chang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Join us for our first Spring semester lecture titled “WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” in the Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse …
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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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Dec 5Madison History Club Fall 2024 Public Lecture: “Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan”
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 225
“Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan” Sarah Thal (UW–Madison, Department of History) The Way of the Samurai (bushido) is often seen as a centuries-old traditional code of Japan’s elite warrior class. However, not only did the idea of a distinct Way of the Samurai only originate around 1600, but proponents …
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Nov 13Frances Tanzer, “Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
“Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City” Frances Tanzer (Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Jewish Culture, Clark University) Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss …