Past Event Category: Lectures and Talks
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Dec 4“Reproductive Justice in the US-Mexico Borderlands: A History”
Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Texas at Austin)
Sterling Hall, Conference Room 3401
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 funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican …
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Nov 18GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening of “Vietnamerica”
Nancy Bui (Executive Producer, Vietnamese Heritage Foundation)
1111 Mosse Humanities
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 while in flight, battling the elements, starvation, and pirates. Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee …
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Nov 14“Beyond the Pitch: Changing Narratives of Professionalism in Men’s Professional Soccer”
Bartu Ersen (UW-Madison)
Memorial Union and Online
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, media materials, and internal team practices, it analyzes the move from club-centered loyalty toward individualized self-management. It focuses on the …
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Nov 14Workshop: “Migration and Memory in Postwar and Contemporary Europe”
Pyle Center 313
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 historical narratives (of World War II-era genocide and expulsion, postwar labor migrations, Communism, decolonization, and/or EU expansion) shaped elite and …
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Nov 13“Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War since 1945”
Gregory A. Daddis (Texas A&M University)
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Discovery Building
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’ thinking about the world around them. With war pervading nearly all aspects of American society, an interplay between blind faith …
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Nov 13“The Making of the Carceral State in Modern Iran”
Golnar Nikpour (Dartmouth College)
Pyle Center (Room 313)
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 traces the making of the carceral state in Iran, the resulting incarceration of millions of people over several decades, responses …
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Nov 122025 Merle Curti Lectures with Amy Lonetree
Amy Lonetree (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St), Room 121
“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 and mainstream museums has changed significantly over the last several decades. These changes include the sharing of curatorial authority, collaborative …
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Nov 5“No One Plays Like Them: Martial and Equestrian Sports in the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)”
Christopher Herde (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
For a mamluk soldier, one of the highest virtues was furusiyyah. This complicated term literally means “horsemanship”, but by the Mamluk period encapsulated a range of skills and codes of behavior including the use of weapons, falconry, veterinary knowledge, and the proper organization and conduct of aristocratic mujahidin. Often compared to the European concept of Chivalry, furusiyyah was the structuring principle of …
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Nov 4“Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron
Zoom
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Tuesday, 4 November 2025 11:00 CST, ZOOM Register for Zoom webinar Sponsored by: George L. Mosse Program in History Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies UW–Madison Center for German and European Studies Still Lives …
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Oct 29“Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement”
Emily Callaci (UW-Madison)
Pyle Center, Room 226 (702 Langdon St.)
Presented by Madison History Club. This event will be recorded by PBS Wisconsin University Place In the 1970s, a network of feminists across the globe came together to make a deceptively simple demand: Wages for Housework! When invoked today, the phrase commonly refers to the cash payment that was its signature demand, yet for the …