Christopher Herde (UW-Madison)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm
For a mamluk soldier, one of the highest virtues was furusiyyah. This complicated term literally means “horsemanship”, but by the Mamluk period encapsulated a range of skills and codes of behavior including the use of weapons, falconry, …
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron
Zoom @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Tuesday, 4 November 2025 11:00 CST, ZOOM Register for Zoom webinar Sponsored by: …
Emily Callaci (UW-Madison)
Pyle Center, Room 226 (702 Langdon St.) @ 6:30 pm
Presented by Madison History Club. This event will be recorded by PBS Wisconsin University Place In the 1970s, a network of feminists across the globe came together to make a deceptively simple demand: Wages for …
Francisco A. Scarano (UW-Madison)
Chazen Museum Auditorium @ 5:30 pm
4:30pm Reception; 5:30pm Lecture
Klaus Vieweg (University of Jena)
Hagen Room (Room 150), Elvehjem Building @ 3:00 pm
Event sponsored by University Lectures Fellowship, Goldberg Center, Department of History, and Department of Art History
Klaus Vieweg (University of Jena)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities Building) @ 3:30 pm
Event sponsors: University Lectures Fellowship, Goldberg Center, Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, Department of History
Terrence G. Peterson (Florida International University)
Fluno Center - Howard Auditorium @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
The Algerian War was a pivotal event in the global struggle for decolonization. In this discussion of his new book, Terrence G. Peterson highlights how the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern …
Andrew Bernstein (Lewis and Clark College)
Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Dr) @ 12:00 pm
Mount Fuji commands attention. Visible to millions in Tokyo, its iconic silhouette is recognizable around the world. At the same time, industries and military bases located on and around the mountain connect it to economic …
Michael Wert (Marquette University)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
This talk explores how the notion of embodied martiality became central to the ideological underpinnings of Tokugawa rule. From martial esotericism to swordsmanship, being “never quite warrior enough” defined warrior status and, by appealing to …
Elisa Frühauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University – Brazil (UFF))
Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art @ 5:00 pm
This talk will explore the recent return of the Tupinambá cloak to Brazil and the broader questions it raises around Indigenous identity, cultural repatriation, and historical memory. Prof. Frühauf Garcia is an expert on the …