Gregory A. Daddis (Texas A&M University)
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Discovery Building @ 4:30 pm
In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War’s fateful conclusion, faith in and a fear of war became central to Americans’ …
Golnar Nikpour (Dartmouth College)
Pyle Center (Room 313) @ 12:00 pm
The establishment and expansion of the modern prison system in Iran in the 20th and 21st centuries have led to an enduring and elemental transformation in Iranian lives and social and political worlds. This talk …
Amy Lonetree (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St), Room 121 @ 4:00 pm -
“Native American Museum Practices and the Ongoing Project of Truth Telling and Reclamation”: Wednesday, November 12, 4:00 PM As a result of Indigenous activism and new museum theory and practice, the relationship between Native Americans …
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 …