Jensen Suther (Harvard University)
Elvehjem Building L166 @ 5:30 pm
In Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious, he develops an “allegorical” approach to Marxist criticism, according to which literary works are “coded” representations of class struggle. Jameson understands literary works as “symbolic acts” that respond to …
Peter Ronald deSouza (University of Johannesburg)
206 Ingraham Hall & Zoom @ 12:00 pm
Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/8rg7q4 Presented by Center for South Asia Co-sponsored by the Harvey Goldberg Center and the UW Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Stephanie Canizales (UC Berkeley), Gina Pérez (Oberlin College), Gilberto Rosas (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Memorial Library 126 & Online @ 4:00 pm
Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies Program Speaker Series: Building Communities of Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis This panel focuses on migration and the resiliency of immigrants and displaced citizens as they navigate legal terrains, …
Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago)
Education L196 @ 6:00 pm
War in Society and Culture Program’s Spring 2026 Speaker Series Marquee Lecture
Naomi Williams (Rutgers University), in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Memorial Union Room 126 @ 4:00 pm
Naomi R Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium, Room 121 @ 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 …
Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 12:00 pm
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series
Chad S.A. Gibbs
Zoom @ 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 (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
History of Science Medicine and Technology Colloquium Series 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 @ 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 …