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  • Apr 25
    “From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961”

    Sara B. Pritchard

    Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)

    “From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sara B. Pritchard (Cornell University)   Historians, environmental humanists, and others have explored how the global Cold War, space race, International Geophysical Year, remote sensing, and their associated technologies enabled new conceptualizations of …

  • Apr 24
    Karpat Zoom Lecture: The City and the Holy Mountain

    Oya Pancaroğlu

    Zoom

    Zoom Link “The City and the Holy Mountain: The Long History of the Cultic Interface Between Caesarea/Kayseri and Mount Argaeus/Erciyes” OYA PANCAROĞLU (Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey) Mount Argaeus/Erciyes, the extinct volcano that rises to a height of 3917 meters in the central Anatolian plateau, has had a long history of sanctity, …

  • Apr 18
    Behind the Scenes: The Perceived Empowerment Journey of Turkish Housewives Using Digital Secondhand Marketplaces

    Asude Aydagül

    Memorial Union, Check TITU

    KARPAT TALKS Presented by Karpat Graduate Student Society of Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91508590247?pwd=kzgmBDHv2377M4PbwNwu1nl9UkraaC.1 About the Talk: This engaging talk examines how everyday digital platforms are subtly transforming women’s positions, agency, and economic participation in contemporary Turkey. It offers a nuanced look into the experiences and self-perceptions of housewives as they navigate …

  • Apr 16
    History Club Public Lecture: “Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire”

    Leonora Neville

    Pyle Center 226

    “Religion and Politics in the Long Roman Empire” In the classical Roman empire politics and religion were inseparable, and maintaining the goodwill of the gods was one of the chief responsibilities of senators, consuls, and emperors. Did this religion of and for the state – known as civic religion – persist into the medieval phase …

  • Apr 14
    “BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong”

    Prasenjit Duara

    Hybrid Event: Zoom & Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108 Register Here for Zoom

    “BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong” Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) This event is presented in collaboration with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC). Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated …

  • Portrait of guest speaker Dr. Michael Gordin. The subject is staring at the camera. He is wearing a blue plaid suit and tie with geometric shapes. Behind the subject is a building covered in green ivy.
    Apr 10
    2025 Petrovich Lecture: “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”

    Michael D. Gordin

    Pyle Center

    2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean of the College, Princeton University)   Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Sponsored by Department of History

    Portrait of guest speaker Dr. Michael Gordin. The subject is staring at the camera. He is wearing a blue plaid suit and tie with geometric shapes. Behind the subject is a building covered in green ivy.
  • Apr 9
    Book Event: “A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany”

    Cindy Schweich Handler and Harry H. Handler

    Fluno Center, Skyview Room (8th Floor)

    A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany Harry H. Handler and Cindy Schweich Handler In conversation with Prof. Brandon Bloch   When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the WWI battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later …

  • Apr 4
    “Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing”

    Sarah Richardson

    Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)

    “Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing” W.S. Miller Memorial Lectureship History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sarah S. Richardson (Harvard University)   Sarah Richardson is Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, where she has taught …

  • Apr 2
    CANCELLED: 2025 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture

    Kelly Lytle Hernández

    “The Whites-Only Immigration Regime” Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice Kelly Lytle Hernández (UCLA)   Event update: The 2025 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice scheduled for April 2 has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope that you can join us for next year’s lecture.  

  • Apr 2
    “Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”

    Samuel Fury Childs Daly

    Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive

    In Africa, the late twentieth century was a time of military coups and martial “revolutions.” In Nigeria and other former British colonies, the army officers who took power tried to remake their societies along military lines. They had utopian visions, and Samuel Fury Childs Daly describes the dismal ideology that they made: militarism. Co-sponsored by: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, African Studies Program

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