BERKE ÇETİNKAYA (UW-Madison, Department of History)
Memorial Union & Zoom @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
In-person and Online 📍 Memorial Union, Beefeaters Room, Third Floor 💻 Zoom: (link here) This talk investigates how digital platforms such as 4chan and TikTok have become arenas where the Byzantine past is reimagined, …
Nianshen Song (Tsinghua University)
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, The Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of Art History
Rebecca Benefiel (UW-Madison, Department of Classics)
19 Ingraham Hall @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Akin Ogundiran (Northwestern University)
Sewell Social Sciences, Rm 8417 @ 12:00 pm
Anthropology Colloquium This talk examines the Oyo Empire (ca. 1600–1836) through the lens of domesticity, household organization, and the politics of dependency. Multi-sited excavations in the metropolis (Oyo-Ile) and the colony of Ede-Ile suggest the …
Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago)
Education L196 @ 6:00 pm
War in Society and Culture Program’s Spring 2026 Speaker Series Marquee Lecture The fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked the end of the Roman (Byzantine) empire and enabled the Ottomans to become a world power. Most …
Emma Kuby (UW-Madison, Department of History)
206 Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Drive, Madison) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Africa at Noon In the aftermath of the Holocaust, some American Jewish organizations turned their attention to French colonial North Africa as “one of the great reservoirs of Jewish life” that remained on the globe. …
Stephanie Canizales (UC Berkeley), Gina Pérez (Oberlin College), Gilberto Rosas (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Memorial Library 126 & Online @ 4:00 pm
Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies Program Speaker Series: Building Communities of Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis This panel focuses on migration and the resiliency of immigrants and displaced citizens as they navigate legal terrains, …
Peter Ronald deSouza (University of Johannesburg)
206 Ingraham Hall & Zoom @ 12:00 pm
Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/8rg7q4 Presented by Center for South Asia Co-sponsored by the Harvey Goldberg Center and the UW Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Jensen Suther (Harvard University)
Elvehjem Building L166 @ 5:30 pm
In Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious, he develops an “allegorical” approach to Marxist criticism, according to which literary works are “coded” representations of class struggle. Jameson understands literary works as “symbolic acts” that respond to …
Tuba Baykara (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University)
Memorial Union & Online @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Karpat Talks This talk examines how Yuva (2012; originally Home, a novel written in English by Toni Morrison and later translated into Turkish) and Cümbezin Kızı (2023, a novel originally written in Turkish by …