Elizabeth Lapina (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 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 …
Honghong Tinn (University of Minnesota)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Texas at Austin)
Sterling Hall, Conference Room 3401 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Murillo’s talk examines the histories of Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and how they confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily …
Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard College)
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, where she works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. She is …
Nancy Bui (Executive Producer, Vietnamese Heritage Foundation)
1111 Mosse Humanities @ 4:00 pm
Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus, referred to by many as “the boat people” resulted in nearly half dying …
Bartu Ersen (UW-Madison)
Memorial Union and Online @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Karpat Talks Bartu Ersen, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison This talk discusses how male professional soccer players in Turkey situate themselves within the neoliberal reorganization of their field. Drawing on interviews, …
Pyle Center 313 @ 9:00 am - 5:15 pm
Registration Link This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts (alongside the three organizers) to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate how competing …
Gregory A. Daddis (Texas A&M University)
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Discovery Building @ 4:30 pm
In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War’s fateful conclusion, faith in and a fear of war became central to Americans’ …
Golnar Nikpour (Dartmouth College)
Pyle Center (Room 313) @ 12:00 pm
The establishment and expansion of the modern prison system in Iran in the 20th and 21st centuries have led to an enduring and elemental transformation in Iranian lives and social and political worlds. This talk …
Amy Lonetree (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St), Room 121 @ 4:00 pm -
“Native American Museum Practices and the Ongoing Project of Truth Telling and Reclamation”: Wednesday, November 12, 4:00 PM As a result of Indigenous activism and new museum theory and practice, the relationship between Native Americans …