Past Event Category: Lectures and Talks
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Mar 7“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” – Ayo Adegbite
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Ayo Adegbite (UW–Madison) Sponsored by Department of History
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Mar 5“Of Doubtful Nature: Archive of an Amphibious Childhood in a Nuclear Age”
Finn Enke
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
Focus on the Humanities lectures are a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. This Focus lecture is also presented in partnership with the UW–Madison Art Department’s Visiting Artist Colloquium. What is the archive of a child who both did and did not exist? Archival assembly necessarily grapples with …
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Feb 252025 George L. Mosse Lectures with Johannes von Moltke
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 213
““Metapolitics”: Acceleration, Appropriation, and Agitation in the New Right’s Culture Wars” 2025 George L. Mosse Lectures Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan) In this series of talks, Johannes von Moltke sheds light on the New Right’s mobilization of arts and ideas in today’s culture wars: its media strategies, identity politics, conspiracy theories, and efforts …
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Feb 14Karpat Talks: “‘I am not afraid of the exam; I am afraid of my mom’ : The Role of Family in Shaping Children’s High-Stakes Testing Experiences-Insights from Istanbul and Hatay”
Aydin Kaan Şenel
In-person: Memorial Union – Multicultural Greek Council Room (4th Floor) Virtual: Zoom Link Karpat Talks “‘I am not afraid of the exam; I am afraid of my mom’ : The Role of Family in Shaping Children’s High-Stakes Testing Experiences-Insights from Istanbul and Hatay” Aydin Kaan Şenel (Master’s Student, Department of Educational Policy Studies) About the …
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Feb 14“Selling Anti-Communism: USIS and Thai Government Cold War Public Relations, 1957 to 1979” – P. Mike Rattanasengchanh
206 Ingraham Hall Event Page
“Selling Anti-Communism: USIS and Thai Government Cold War Public Relations, 1957 to 1979” Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum Dr. P. Mike Rattanasengchanh (Midwestern State University) Free and open to the public | Coffee, tea, and donuts will be served
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Feb 13Humanities NOW: Dissent on Campus
Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave
Police violence, the war in Gaza, and reproductive rights are among the events fueling campus protests and demonstrations in recent months (and years). But what exactly does dissent on campus look like today? In collaboration with the Human Rights Program, this Humanities NOW discussion will dive deep—beyond the events that fuel dissent—to explore the politics, …
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Feb 7Karpat Talks: From Plotinus to Rumi
Memorial Union
“From Plotinus to Rumi: Neoplatonism in Anatolian Sufi Thought” Karpat Talks Hakan Ozlen (Doctoral Student, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies) Presented by: Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies
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Feb 7“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” – Taylor M. Moore
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Taylor M. Moore (UC Santa Barbara) Taylor M. Moore is a historian of science, medicine, and race in the Modern Middle East, specializing in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Egypt. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections …
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Feb 4“X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII”
Memorial Union, Old Madison Room (800 Langdon St.)
“X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII” Leah Garrett (Hunter College, CUNY) In June of 1942, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff formed an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who had escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers were a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most …
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Feb 4“What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Roots of Peace, Democracy, and War” – Van Jackson
Online via Zoom Register Here
“What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Roots of Peace, Democracy, and War” Van Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington) This event is presented in collaboration with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC). The concept of the “national interest” has become an underappreciated source of global insecurity. Not because …