Past Event Category: Lectures and Talks

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  • Apr 2
    CANCELLED: 2025 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture

    Kelly Lytle Hernández

    “The Whites-Only Immigration Regime” Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice Kelly Lytle Hernández (UCLA)   Event update: The 2025 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice scheduled for April 2 has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope that you can join us for next year’s lecture.  

  • Apr 2
    “Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”

    Samuel Fury Childs Daly

    Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive

    In Africa, the late twentieth century was a time of military coups and martial “revolutions.” In Nigeria and other former British colonies, the army officers who took power tried to remake their societies along military lines. They had utopian visions, and Samuel Fury Childs Daly describes the dismal ideology that they made: militarism. Co-sponsored by: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, African Studies Program

  • Mar 19
    “Ryan White, HIV/AIDS, and the Politics of Innocence” – Paul Renfro

    Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building

    “Ryan White, HIV/AIDS, and the Politics of Innocence” Paul Renfro (Florida State University)   In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through …

  • Mar 19
    “Uniform Fantasies”

    Zoom

    “Uniform Fantasies” Jeffrey Schneider (Vassar College) Comment by: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Chair: Chad Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Jeffrey Schneider is a Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well …

  • Mar 19
    “From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order” – Mario Novelli

    159 Education Building (Wisconsin Idea Room) or online Zoom

    “From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order” Mario Novelli (University of Sussex)   The Department of Educational Policy Studies is delighted to host Dr. Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex, for a guest lecture entitled From Education for …

  • Mar 17
    Mobilizing Chinese Information and Media in Early Modern France: How the History of Information Can Inform Global Conceptual and Intellectual Histories of Governance and Infrastructure

    Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)

    Ingraham Hall Room 206

    Professor Hilde De Weerdt is a historian of early modern Chinese and global history, specializing in information and intellectual history. She is also a leading figure in Digital Humanities. Using examples from her two latest research projects on the global history of medieval Sinitic political advice literature and the social history of Chinese material infrastructures, …

  • Mar 14
    “The Persian Destruction of Sardis: New Archeological Finds” – Eric Hensley

    Eric C. Hensley

    Memorial Union (Check TITU)

    This talk explores recent excavations shedding light on the sack of Sardis by the Persian destruction. The speaker will examine newly discovered evidence that enhances our understanding of the city’s destruction and its historical significance. Eric C. Hensley is a doctoral student at the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented by KARPAT …

  • Mar 12
    “Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” – Daniel Jackson

    Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building

    “Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” War in Society and Culture Program Event Daniel Jackson (PhD Candidate, Department of History)   Daniel Jackson spent 11 years as a pilot in Air Force Special Operations Command and served all over the globe, including two deployments as …

  • Mar 10
    “To Give life to Socialism with our Own Reality, in our Own Language: Education and the Globalization of Marxism” – Edward Baring

    Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)

    “To Give life to Socialism with our Own Reality, in our Own Language: Education and the Globalization of Marxism” Edward Baring (Princeton University)   In this talk, Edward Baring will examine the conditions that shaped the spread of Marxism around Europe and later the world in the first decades of the twentieth century. He argues …

  • Mar 7
    Rethinking Autocracy, Democracy, and University Autonomy in the 21st Century: Three Cases from Turkey

    BATUHAN AYDAGÜL

    Memorial Union, Capitol View

    This talk will explore the dynamic interplay between autocracy, democracy, and university autonomy in the 21st century through three illuminating case studies from Turkey. Batuhan Aydagül is a doctoral student at the Department of Educational Policy Studies, UW–Madison, with a concentration in Comparative International Education and Global Studies.   Presented by: KARPAT GRADUATE STUDENT SOCIETY …

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