Past Events
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Dec 7Rethinking Commemoration: Legacies of 1923 Exchange in the Civilizationist Present
Pyle Center Room 226, 702 Langdon Street
Fall 2023 KARPAT Lecture The Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies presents a talk by Aslı Iğsız The centennial of 1923 exchange between Muslims in Greece and the Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. This talk will address the legacies of this exchange in the contemporary …
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Dec 6History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: “Computing in the Time of Decolonization” with Dr. Dwaipayan Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Nov 30History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: ” AIDS, Global Health and Brazil: The End of Exceptionality” with Dr. Marcos Cueto (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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Nov 29History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Series: “Identity Politics and Science Communication during COVID-19: Large-Scale Case Studies of Social Media Engagement on US and Chinese Digital Platforms” with Dr. Kaiping Chen (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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Nov 17Then/Now: Modern Medievalisms
2:00 pm, Hagen Room (Elvehjem 150): Workshop - 5:00 pm, Elvehjem L140: Public lecture
Professor Chris Jones (English, University of Utah) 2:00 pm, Hagen Room (Elvehjem 150): Workshop for graduate students and faculty: “Carter Revard and Old English Riddles: an indigenous poet remaking “Anglo-Saxon” 5:00 pm, Elvehjem L140: Public lecture: “Anglo-Saxons, Brexit, the New English Nationalism and White Supremacy” Anglo-Saxonism (the reception of “Anglo-Saxon” culture in the postmedieval period) …
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Nov 15Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust
Ingraham Hall Room 206
Speaker: Professor Andrew Port (Professor of History, Wayne State University) Description: As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Balkans to prevent a genocide, or would departing from postwar Germany’s pacifist tradition open the door to renewed …
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Nov 13Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium 816 State Street
Samuel G. Freedman in conversation with Professor Kathryn McGarr, School of Journalism & Mass Communications 5:00-6:00 Presentation 6:00-7:00 Reception and Book Signing
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Nov 9Unsettling Colonialism: History, Identity and Self-Determination in Settler Societies
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
Speaker: Professor Miranda Johnson, University of Otago (New Zealand) Description: Miranda Johnson is associate professor of History at the University of Otago, where she teaches and researches in areas of decolonization, colonialism, race, rights, settler identity and indigeneity, primarily in the South Pacific but also with comparisons to North America and Southern Africa. Her first …
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Nov 8Strong Women, Big Guns: Noblewomen, Artillery, and Arsenals During the French Wars of Religion
Pyle Center, Room 309
Speaker: Professor Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University Description: Prof. Sandberg’s research focuses on religion, violence, and political culture during the European Wars of Religion. He has authored a monograph entitled, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and held fellowships from the Institut d’Etudes Avancées …
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Nov 6The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell