Past Event Category: Lectures and Talks
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Sep 11Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
Sewell Social Science (1180 Observatory Drive), Room 8417 Zoom: Register for the event here.
“Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality” Colin Gordon (University of Iowa) Colin Gordon is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (University of Chicago Press, 2019); Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate …
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Sep 5Amy Stanley, “Revisiting the ‘Comfort Girls’ of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire”
Pyle Center 209
“Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire” Amy Stanley (Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History, Northwestern University) Amy Stanley (Ph.D., Harvard, 2007) is a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, with special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. …
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Jun 27Eliana Chavkin, “A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead”
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St, Room TBD (Consult “Today in the Union” upon arrival)
“A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead” Eliana Chavkin, University of Minnesota Free and open to the public. Lunch provided (please RSVP by June 24). RSVP link: https://go.wisc.edu/3405e2 Sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program in History & Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries. Please direct any event …
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May 1Selçuk Esenbel, Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies & Center for East Asian Studies Event
Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons, Law School, 7th floor Room 7200
“‘Twilight Diplomacy’ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of Turkey” Selçuk Esenbel, Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey A discussion centered on Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in …
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Apr 23History Club Event: “Unpacking Shogun”
Ingraham 206
“Unpacking Shogun: Perspectives from UW–Madison Faculty on the latest dramatization of James Clavell’s novel” Comments from professors Lori Lopez (Asian American Studies), Steve Ridgely (Modern Japan Studies), and Sarah Thal (Department of History) To mark Hulu’s release of the final episode of “Shogun,” a historical drama set in early 17th-century Japan, the Center for East …
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Apr 18Annual Petrovich Lecture: Serhii Plokhy
Pyle Center Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St
“The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Historian” Serhii Plokhy (Harvard University) Lecture 4:00-5:30 PM, Reception 5:30-6:30 PM Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the start of the largest European conflict since the end of World War II came as a shock to the world at large. Why did Putin start the war―and why has …
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Apr 17History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium: Jaipreet Virdi
Curti Lounge (5233 Humanities Building)
“CALIBRATION: The Science of Deafness in Interwar Britain” Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware) Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology and disability. Her research and teaching interests include the history of medicine, the history of science, disability history, disability technologies and material/visual culture studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute for the History …
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Apr 5Dan Bouk, “Democracy and Data / The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray”
Orchard Room, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
“Democracy and Data/The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray” Dan Bouk, Colgate University The Haller Lecture Fund and the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology present Dan Bouk, Professor of History at Colgate University, former Faculty Fellow at the Data and Science Research Institute, and Member of the Max Planck Historicizing Big Data Working Group. He …
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Apr 4Stephen Houlgate, “Hegel, Danto and the End of Art”
Hagen Room, Elvehjem 150
“Hegel, Danto and the End of Art” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) We will discuss a paper by Professor Houlgate for this talk. Please contact Viren Murthy (vmurthy2@wisc.edu) or Daniel Spaulding (dmspaulding@wisc.edu) for the paper. “Hegel’s idea of the ‘end of art’ has been a topic of ongoing discussion in the philosophy of art since …
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Apr 4Beth Bailey, War in Society and Culture Program Lecture
Pyle Center 232
“An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era” Beth Bailey (University of Kansas) Even as US troops fought in Vietnam, Black and white soldiers battled each other in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into the streets of towns and cities in the United States and around the …