Past Events
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May 10History Undergraduate Commencement Celebration & Awards Ceremony
Wisconsin Historical Society (816 State St.)
RSVP required. Please contact Scott Burkhardt (stburkhardt@wisc.edu) with questions. Sponsored by Department of History
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May 3Department Reception
Pyle Center Alumni Lounge
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May 1Selçuk Esenbel, Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies & Center for East Asian Studies Event
Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons, Law School, 7th floor Room 7200
“‘Twilight Diplomacy’ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of Turkey” Selçuk Esenbel, Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey A discussion centered on Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in …
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Apr 29History Department Senior Thesis Presentations
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.) Room 335
Sponsored by the Department of History
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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 …
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Apr 18Annual Petrovich Lecture: Serhii Plokhy
Pyle Center Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St
“The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Historian” Serhii Plokhy (Harvard University) Lecture 4:00-5:30 PM, Reception 5:30-6:30 PM Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the start of the largest European conflict since the end of World War II came as a shock to the world at large. Why did Putin start the war―and why has …
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Apr 17History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium: Jaipreet Virdi
Curti Lounge (5233 Humanities Building)
“CALIBRATION: The Science of Deafness in Interwar Britain” Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware) Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology and disability. Her research and teaching interests include the history of medicine, the history of science, disability history, disability technologies and material/visual culture studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute for the History …
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Apr 9Michael Heinrich, “Marx, Hegel and the Problem of Value”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
“Marx, Hegel and the Problem of Value” Michael Heinrich (Editor of Prokla: Journal of Critical Social Science) Cosponsored by Department of History
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Apr 8Michael Heinrich, “Marx and Antisemitism”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
“Marx and Antisemitism” Michael Heinrich (Editor of Prokla: Journal of Critical Social Science) Event Sponsored by George L. Mosse / Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by Department of History
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Apr 5Dan Bouk, “Democracy and Data / The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray”
Orchard Room, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
“Democracy and Data/The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray” Dan Bouk, Colgate University The Haller Lecture Fund and the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology present Dan Bouk, Professor of History at Colgate University, former Faculty Fellow at the Data and Science Research Institute, and Member of the Max Planck Historicizing Big Data Working Group. He …