Past Event Category: Lectures and Talks
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Nov 29History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: “Identity Politics and Science Communication during COVID-19: Large-Scale Case Studies of Social Media Engagement on US and Chinese Digital Platforms” with Dr. Kaiping Chen (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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Nov 17Then/Now: Modern Medievalisms
2:00 pm, Hagen Room (Elvehjem 150): Workshop - 5:00 pm, Elvehjem L140: Public lecture
Professor Chris Jones (English, University of Utah) 2:00 pm, Hagen Room (Elvehjem 150): Workshop for graduate students and faculty: “Carter Revard and Old English Riddles: an indigenous poet remaking “Anglo-Saxon” 5:00 pm, Elvehjem L140: Public lecture: “Anglo-Saxons, Brexit, the New English Nationalism and White Supremacy” Anglo-Saxonism (the reception of “Anglo-Saxon” culture in the postmedieval period) …
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Nov 15Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust
Ingraham Hall Room 206
Speaker: Professor Andrew Port (Professor of History, Wayne State University) Description: As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Balkans to prevent a genocide, or would departing from postwar Germany’s pacifist tradition open the door to renewed …
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Nov 13Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium 816 State Street
Samuel G. Freedman in conversation with Professor Kathryn McGarr, School of Journalism & Mass Communications 5:00-6:00 Presentation 6:00-7:00 Reception and Book Signing
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Nov 8Strong Women, Big Guns: Noblewomen, Artillery, and Arsenals During the French Wars of Religion
Pyle Center, Room 309
Speaker: Professor Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University Description: Prof. Sandberg’s research focuses on religion, violence, and political culture during the European Wars of Religion. He has authored a monograph entitled, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and held fellowships from the Institut d’Etudes Avancées …
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Nov 6The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell
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Nov 4Thinking About and Across Borders: Global Europe in the Twentieth Century
Pyle Center, Room 313
This conference will place questions of twentieth-century border-making and border-crossing in Europe in a global perspective. Sponsors: George L. Mosse Program, the Department of History, the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Mortenson-Petrovich Chair, Harvey Goldberg Center and CREECA.
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Nov 3Wheat as an Invasive Species? The Eucharist and Ecology in Early Medieval Europe
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building L150
Speaker: Professor Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan Description: The “cerealization” of Europe was pretty much complete by the eleventh century. In the process, a vast reduction in the biodiversity of agrarian landscapes and ecosystems and a simplification of foodways took place, as Europeans came to rely on a handful of staple crops for most of …
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Nov 3Thinking About and Across Borders: Global Europe in the Twentieth Century
Pyle Center, Room 313
This conference will place questions of twentieth-century border-making and border-crossing in Europe in a global perspective. Sponsors: George L. Mosse Program, the Department of History, the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Mortenson-Petrovich Chair, Harvey Goldberg Center and CREECA.
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Nov 1History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: “Los Alamos and Historical Analysis in a Sacred Pueblo World” with Dr. Dmitri Brown (University of Michigan)