Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 12:00 pm
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series
Past Events
2026 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture: “Fear and Fury: Bernie Goetz, White Rage, and the Long Reach of the Reagan 80s”
Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium, Room 121 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice Fear and Fury: Bernie Goetz, White Rage, and the Long Reach of the Reagan 80s In 1984, as the Reagan Revolution was taking its toll on …
“A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community”
Naomi Williams (Rutgers University), in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
Memorial Union Room 126 @ 4:00 pm
Naomi R Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
“Byzantium, Historical Nostalgia, and Digital Extremism”
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, …
“Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City”
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
“Ancient Writing and Reading: Culture and Communication Among the Graffiti of Pompeii”
Rebecca Benefiel (UW-Madison, Department of Classics)
19 Ingraham Hall @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
“Domesticity of Governance & Politics of Dependency in the Oyo Empire, 1600-1836”
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 …
“Cultural Life in Constantinople during the Siege of 1453”
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 …
“Moroccan Jews, American Jews, and French Decolonization in North Africa, 1945-1955”
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. …
“Migration, Resilience, and Community Building in Times of Crisis”
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, …