Past Event Category: Madison History Club
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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 …
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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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Dec 5Madison History Club Fall 2024 Public Lecture: “Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan”
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 225
“Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan” Sarah Thal (UW–Madison, Department of History) The Way of the Samurai (bushido) is often seen as a centuries-old traditional code of Japan’s elite warrior class. However, not only did the idea of a distinct Way of the Samurai only originate around 1600, but proponents …
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Apr 23History Club Event: “Unpacking Shogun”
Ingraham 206
“Unpacking Shogun: Perspectives from UW–Madison Faculty on the latest dramatization of James Clavell’s novel” Comments from professors Lori Lopez (Asian American Studies), Steve Ridgely (Modern Japan Studies), and Sarah Thal (Department of History) To mark Hulu’s release of the final episode of “Shogun,” a historical drama set in early 17th-century Japan, the Center for East …