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  • Sep 15
    Surreal Geographies: A New Consciousness of Holocaust Consciousness

    Kathryn L. Brackney

    Webinar

    Mosse – Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series Webinar Link: https://go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt   Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced since1945, Kathryn Brackney shows how the Holocaust has developed into a figure for the destabilization and reformulation of the category of humanity and the problem of mourning across difference. Comment …

  • Jun 25
    Geographic and Geopolitical Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration “Crisis”

    Kara Dempsey (UNC-Appalachian State University)

    Memorial Library, Room 126 (728 State Street)

    Boxed lunches provided with R.S.V.P. by 20 June: https://go.wisc.edu/r4qi3o Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at UNC-Appalachian State University. She studies international forced displacement, ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (2022), co-editor of Making …

  • May 10
    PhD Hooding Ceremony and Dinner

    Fluno Center

  • May 2
    History Department Spring Reception

    Pyle Center

  • Apr 30
    Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Spanish Martial Nobility in Colonial Lima’s Black Militias

    Sally Hayes

    Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)

    Seventeenth-century Lima, the Pacific gateway to the imperial silver of Potosí, was frequently threatened by Dutch and English ships seeking to seize its treasures. Lima’s Black citizens, who by the second decade of the century had formed officially recognized militia corps, were among the city’s fiercest defenders. They were able to trade on their military …

  • 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 …

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