Past Events
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Oct 11Film Screening: Far From Home
Cinematheque @ 4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Avenue) Facebook Event Page
Film Screening: Far from Home (Dar Ghorbat) FAR FROM HOME (DAR GHORBAT) West Germany, Iran | 1975 | DCP | 93 min. | Turkish, German with English subtitles Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless Cast: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Sayyad) endures a monotonous existence as a “guest worker” in ’70s West Berlin, sharing …
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Oct 10Energy Citizenship: The History of Coal and the Future of Democracy
1163 Mechanical Engineering (1513 University Avenue)
“Energy Citizenship: The History of Coal and the Future of Democracy” Trish Kahle (Georgetown University) The history of the modern United States is the history of coal—and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning …
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Oct 8Village by Town by City: The Religious Rape Conquest of Neolithic-Derived Civil Societies
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities Building)
“Village by Town by City: The Religious Rape Conquest of Neolithic-Derived Civil Societies” War in Society and Culture Speaker Series Kathy Gaca (Vanderbilt University) Kathy L. Gaca (got’-sa) is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Member of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Her main research interests are Greek and Roman philosophy, mainly Platonic, Stoic, …
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Sep 20The Wisconsin School of French History Conference (1985-2024)
Pyle Center Event Page
Day 1: Friday, September 20, 2024 (Pyle Center, Room 209) 8:15 – Welcome 8:30-10:00am: Panel 1: War 10:15-11:45am: Roundtable 1: Historians in Public Service 12:00-1:30: Lunch 1:00-2:30pm: Panel 2: Colonialism, Empire, and their Reverberations 3:00-5:00pm: Roundtable 2: Teaching Outside of the University 5:00-6:00pm: Pyle Center Reception (AT&T Lounge) Day 2: Saturday, September 21, 2024 …
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Sep 11Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
Sewell Social Science (1180 Observatory Drive), Room 8417 Zoom: Register for the event here.
“Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality” Colin Gordon (University of Iowa) Colin Gordon is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (University of Chicago Press, 2019); Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate …
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Sep 5Amy Stanley, “Revisiting the ‘Comfort Girls’ of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire”
Pyle Center 209
“Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire” Amy Stanley (Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History, Northwestern University) Amy Stanley (Ph.D., Harvard, 2007) is a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, with special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. …
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Aug 27New Grad Student Orientation
Pyle Center 225
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Aug 26Annual History Department Welcome Picnic
Vilas Park Shelter
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Jun 27Eliana Chavkin, “A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead”
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St, Room TBD (Consult “Today in the Union” upon arrival)
“A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union & UW Madison’s War Dead” Eliana Chavkin, University of Minnesota Free and open to the public. Lunch provided (please RSVP by June 24). RSVP link: https://go.wisc.edu/3405e2 Sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program in History & Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries. Please direct any event …
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May 11History Graduate PhD Hooding Ceremony & Dinner
Fluno Center
History Graduate PhD Hooding Ceremony & Dinner For more information contact Lisa Normand (lnormand@wisc.edu)