Past Event Category: Lectures and Talks
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Jun 25Geographic and Geopolitical Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration “Crisis”
Kara Dempsey (UNC-Appalachian State University)
Memorial Library, Room 126 (728 State Street)
Boxed lunches provided with R.S.V.P. by 20 June: https://go.wisc.edu/r4qi3o Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at UNC-Appalachian State University. She studies international forced displacement, ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (2022), co-editor of Making …
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Apr 30Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Spanish Martial Nobility in Colonial Lima’s Black Militias
Sally Hayes
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
Seventeenth-century Lima, the Pacific gateway to the imperial silver of Potosí, was frequently threatened by Dutch and English ships seeking to seize its treasures. Lima’s Black citizens, who by the second decade of the century had formed officially recognized militia corps, were among the city’s fiercest defenders. They were able to trade on their military …
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Apr 25“From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961”
Sara B. Pritchard
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sara B. Pritchard (Cornell University) Historians, environmental humanists, and others have explored how the global Cold War, space race, International Geophysical Year, remote sensing, and their associated technologies enabled new conceptualizations of …
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Apr 24Karpat Zoom Lecture: The City and the Holy Mountain
Oya Pancaroğlu
Zoom
Zoom Link “The City and the Holy Mountain: The Long History of the Cultic Interface Between Caesarea/Kayseri and Mount Argaeus/Erciyes” OYA PANCAROĞLU (Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey) Mount Argaeus/Erciyes, the extinct volcano that rises to a height of 3917 meters in the central Anatolian plateau, has had a long history of sanctity, …
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Apr 18Behind the Scenes: The Perceived Empowerment Journey of Turkish Housewives Using Digital Secondhand Marketplaces
Asude Aydagül
Memorial Union, Check TITU
KARPAT TALKS Presented by Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91508590247?pwd=kzgmBDHv2377M4PbwNwu1nl9UkraaC.1 About the Talk: This engaging talk examines how everyday digital platforms are subtly transforming women’s positions, agency, and economic participation in contemporary Turkey. It offers a nuanced look into the experiences and self-perceptions of housewives as they navigate …
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Apr 16History Club Public Lecture: “Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire”
Leonora Neville
Pyle Center 226
“Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire” In the classical Roman empire politics and religion were inseparable, and maintaining the goodwill of the gods was one of the chief responsibilities of senators, consuls, and emperors. Did this religion of and for the state – known as civic religion – persist into the medieval phase …
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Apr 14“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong”
Prasenjit Duara
Hybrid Event: Zoom & Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108 Register Here for Zoom
“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong” Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) This event is presented in collaboration with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC). Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated …
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Apr 102025 Petrovich Lecture: “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”Michael D. Gordin
Pyle Center
2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean of the College, Princeton University) Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Sponsored by Department of History
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Apr 9Book Event: “A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany”
Cindy Schweich Handler and Harry H. Handler
Fluno Center, Skyview Room (8th Floor)
A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany Harry H. Handler and Cindy Schweich Handler In conversation with Prof. Brandon Bloch When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the WWI battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later …
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Apr 4“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing”
Sarah Richardson
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing” W.S. Miller Memorial Lectureship History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sarah S. Richardson (Harvard University) Sarah Richardson is Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, where she has taught …