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 …
Elizabeth Lapina (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
This presentation, based on a recently published monograph, will discuss perceptions and representations of the crusades in Western Europe, specifically in France and England, as revealed in a type of source that few historians of …
Honghong Tinn (University of Minnesota)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard College)
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, where she works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. She is …
Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Texas at Austin)
Sterling Hall, Conference Room 3401 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Murillo’s talk examines the histories of Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and how they confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily …
Nancy Bui (Executive Producer, Vietnamese Heritage Foundation)
1111 Mosse Humanities @ 4:00 pm
Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus, referred to by many as “the boat people” resulted in nearly half dying …
Bartu Ersen (UW-Madison)
Memorial Union and Online @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Karpat Talks Bartu Ersen, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison This talk discusses how male professional soccer players in Turkey situate themselves within the neoliberal reorganization of their field. Drawing on interviews, …
Pyle Center 313 @ 9:00 am - 5:15 pm
Registration Link This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts (alongside the three organizers) to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate how competing …