Past Event Category: Lectures and Talks
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Apr 3Stephen Houlgate, “Hegel, Spinoza and the Future of Critical Philosophy”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
“Hegel, Spinoza and the Future of Critical Philosophy” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) “In this lecture, I will consider the different ways in which Kant and Hegel understand what it means to think critically about our most fundamental categories – those we take for granted more than any others. I will do so by examining Hegel’s critique …
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Apr 2Stephen Houlgate, “Civil Society & its Discontents: Hegel on Poverty”
4308 Sewell Building
“Civil Society & its Discontents: Hegel on Poverty” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) Cosponsored by Borghesi Mellon Workshop for Hegel and Social Theory, University Lectures Fund, The Goldberg Center, Department of History, Department of Philosophy
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Apr 1George L. Mosse Program Event: Pamela H. Smith
This event is a webinar. Register via Zoom
“From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in Early Modern World” Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University Comment: Professor Alice M. Goff (University of Chicago) Chair: Professor Michael Martoccio (University of Wisconsin–Madison) In “From Lived Experience to the Written Word,” Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople …
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Mar 21Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice
Pyle Center, Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St.
To attend this event virtually, join us via Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95629916725 “On Racial Capitalism (Redux)” Walter Johnson, Harvard University Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African American Studies Walter Johnson grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and is a member of the Rock Bridge High School Hall of Fame (2006). His prize-winning books, Soul by Soul: Life Inside …
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Mar 19Lecture by Chloe Ireton
University Club Room 212
“Defining Freedom: Infrastructures of Black Political Knowledge in the Early Spanish Atlantic” Professor Chloe Ireton, Department of History, University College London This talk explores the development of diverse infrastructures of Black political knowledge in the early Atlantic world. These infrastructures enabled Black individuals and communities across different regions of the Spanish empire to develop the …
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Feb 8Laurie Marhoefer, Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
Virtual, registration link: https://go.wisc.edu/37ivc9
Speaker: Professor Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington Description: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas. Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and …
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Feb 1Shermans, and Tigers, and T-34s, Oh My! Playing Pretend and Playing WWII
Pyle Center, Room 209, 702 Langdon St.
Historian Jeremy Best will discuss his research on the history of wargaming and historical memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As a prelude to playing some modern wargames, he will discuss the implications of a hobby obsessed with accuracy but built on forgetting. RSVP requested to eframe@wisc.edu Co-sponsored by, the George L. Mosse …
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Dec 7Rethinking Commemoration: Legacies of 1923 Exchange in the Civilizationist Present
Pyle Center Room 226, 702 Langdon Street
Fall 2023 KARPAT Lecture The Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies presents a talk by Aslı Iğsız The centennial of 1923 exchange between Muslims in Greece and the Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. This talk will address the legacies of this exchange in the contemporary …
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Dec 6History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: “Computing in the Time of Decolonization” with Dr. Dwaipayan Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Nov 30History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: ” AIDS, Global Health and Brazil: The End of Exceptionality” with Dr. Marcos Cueto (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)