Past Events
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Apr 4Stephen Houlgate, “Hegel, Danto and the End of Art”
Hagen Room, Elvehjem 150
“Hegel, Danto and the End of Art” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) We will discuss a paper by Professor Houlgate for this talk. Please contact Viren Murthy (vmurthy2@wisc.edu) or Daniel Spaulding (dmspaulding@wisc.edu) for the paper. “Hegel’s idea of the ‘end of art’ has been a topic of ongoing discussion in the philosophy of art since …
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Apr 4Beth Bailey, War in Society and Culture Program Lecture
Pyle Center 232
“An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era” Beth Bailey (University of Kansas) Even as US troops fought in Vietnam, Black and white soldiers battled each other in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into the streets of towns and cities in the United States and around the …
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Apr 3Stephen Houlgate, “Hegel, Spinoza and the Future of Critical Philosophy”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Building
“Hegel, Spinoza and the Future of Critical Philosophy” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) “In this lecture, I will consider the different ways in which Kant and Hegel understand what it means to think critically about our most fundamental categories – those we take for granted more than any others. I will do so by examining Hegel’s critique …
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Apr 2Stephen Houlgate, “Civil Society & its Discontents: Hegel on Poverty”
4308 Sewell Building
“Civil Society & its Discontents: Hegel on Poverty” Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick) Cosponsored by Borghesi Mellon Workshop for Hegel and Social Theory, University Lectures Fund, The Goldberg Center, Department of History, Department of Philosophy
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Apr 1George L. Mosse Program Event: Pamela H. Smith
This event is a webinar. Register via Zoom
“From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in Early Modern World” Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University Comment: Professor Alice M. Goff (University of Chicago) Chair: Professor Michael Martoccio (University of Wisconsin–Madison) In “From Lived Experience to the Written Word,” Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople …
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Mar 21Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice
Pyle Center, Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St.
To attend this event virtually, join us via Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95629916725 “On Racial Capitalism (Redux)” Walter Johnson, Harvard University Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African American Studies Walter Johnson grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and is a member of the Rock Bridge High School Hall of Fame (2006). His prize-winning books, Soul by Soul: Life Inside …
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Mar 19Lecture by Chloe Ireton
University Club Room 212
“Defining Freedom: Infrastructures of Black Political Knowledge in the Early Spanish Atlantic” Professor Chloe Ireton, Department of History, University College London This talk explores the development of diverse infrastructures of Black political knowledge in the early Atlantic world. These infrastructures enabled Black individuals and communities across different regions of the Spanish empire to develop the …
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Mar 16Graduate Program Recruitment Weekend, March 16-17, 2024
Multiple in-person events open to current History department grad students, faculty, and invited graduate recruits. For more information contact Lisa Normand (lnormand@wisc.edu)
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Feb 8Laurie Marhoefer, Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
Virtual, registration link: https://go.wisc.edu/37ivc9
Speaker: Professor Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington Description: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas. Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and …
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Feb 1Shermans, and Tigers, and T-34s, Oh My! Playing Pretend and Playing WWII
Pyle Center, Room 209, 702 Langdon St.
Historian Jeremy Best will discuss his research on the history of wargaming and historical memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As a prelude to playing some modern wargames, he will discuss the implications of a hobby obsessed with accuracy but built on forgetting. RSVP requested to eframe@wisc.edu Co-sponsored by, the George L. Mosse …