5 November 2025 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Michael Martoccio: Let me introduce our speaker tonight. Our speaker is Chris Herde. Chris is a PhD candidate. I am on his committee. So I will be …
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John Boonstra, review of Terrence G. Peterson, “Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency”
John Boonstra, review of Terrence G. Peterson. Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 240 PP. Cloth $46.95. ISBN: 9781501776960. In Rachid Bouchareb’s 2006 film, Indigènes [Days …
Kara E. Dempsey, Lecture: “Geographic Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration ‘Crisis’”
Well, thank you all for being here. My name is Skye Doney. I’m the director of the George L. Mosse Program in History here at UW Madison and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, …
Michael E. O’Sullivan, review of Anthony J. Steinhoff, Jeffrey T. Zalar, eds., “Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe”
Anthony J. Steinhoff and Jeffrey T. Zalar eds. Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. 485 PP. Cloth $171.99. ISBN: 9783110573671. The so-called “religious turn” in modern European history started during …
Taili Hardiman, “Conference Report, 60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited”
60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited, Jan 9th-13th 2025, Sapienza Università di Roma and The American Academy in Rome, On-site and Recorded The “60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited” conference, held 9–12 January 2025, at Sapienza Università …
Tiffany VanWinkoop, Teaching “Women, Sex, and Power in the Mediterranean World (c. 450BCE – 1200 CE)”
When I entered graduate school, I knew that teaching would be a major component of my training; I did not, however, imagine how much teaching would impact my research. I began crafting this course, “Women, …
Quinn Slobodian, review of Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley, eds. “Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History”
Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley, eds. Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 464 PP. $48.00 Cloth. ISBN 9780226481623. In a 1987 book …
Jim Coons, “Here Are the People: The Scholarly Empathy of Laird Boswell, Suzanne Desan, and Mary Louise Roberts”
Conference program here. Photos from the event. Laird Boswell, Suzanne Desan, and Mary Louise Roberts have always placed people at the center of their scholarship. Speakers returned to this focus throughout the conference commemorating the …
Ludwig Decke, Conference Report: “Berlin Art Patrons and Their Country Houses as Places for the Private Display of Collections”
Sammlerinnen und Sammler des Berliner Mäzenatentums und ihre Landhäuser als Orte der privaten Kunstpräsentation Kunsthistorisches Institut der FU-Berlin Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin Raum A 163, 27. September 2024 Sponsored by: Freie Universität zu Berlin Deutsche …
Collin Bernard, Teaching European Urban History
As a George L. Mosse Teaching Fellow, I crafted and taught a history course entitled “Europe’s Urban Age: From 1900 to Today” in the Spring 2024 semester. Over fourteen weeks, seventeen UW-Madison undergraduates and I …
Matthew Yokell, review of Piotr Puchalski “Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939”
Piotr Puchalski. Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939. Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge: Abingdon and New York, 2022. xvi + 312 PP. Cloth $180.00; Paper $54.99. ISBN: 9780367674700. …