Benjamin Nathans
Pyle Center Room 121 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Benjamin Nathans, “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement” 2026 Petrovich Lecture Reception to follow in Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge Abstract: How do orthodoxies generate their own …
Katie Jarvis
Lubar Commons, UW-Madison Law School @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
“‘Natural and Social Right’: Founding Declarations in Dialogue in American and French Revolutions” Katie Jarvis (Notre Dame) Comment by Emma Kuby (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Discourses of liberty, rights, and political legitimacy shot through both the …
Katie Jarvis, Patrick Travens
Curti Lounge @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Katie Jarvis, “Tribunals of Men and God: Reconceptualizing Forgiveness in the French Revolution” Abstract: In the context of the French Revolution, this paper explores how, when the power to pardon was wrest from the crown …
Rebecca Carter-Chand
@ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
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Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism Rebecca Carter-Chand (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) George L. Mosse First Book Prize Recipient Comment by: Brandon Bloch (UW-Madison) Chaired by: Ofer …
Memorial Union, Old Madison Room, 800 Langdon St. @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto), “Psychoanalysis for Diabetics Freud in the Popular Jewish Press” Tuesday, 24 March 2006 16:00 CST Memorial Union, Old Madison Room 800 Langdon St. The Austrian journalist Karl Kraus reportedly quipped, …
Chad S.A. Gibbs
@ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
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College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks of Jewish Resistance Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Comment by Jacob Flaws Chaired by Hana Green Sponsored by: George L. Mosse …
Nathan Taylor
Van Hise 1418, 1220 Linden Dr, Madison, WI 53706 @ 4:00 pm
Nathan Taylor has served as Research Director of the Frankfurt Humanities Center since 2023. His research focuses on German-language and transnational literature since the late 18th century, asking how aesthetic forms relate to shifting social …
Pyle Center, Room 313 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Workshop: Migration and Memory in Postwar and Contemporary Europe This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate …
William I. Brustein
Memorial Union @ 4:00 pm - @ 4:00 pm
These lectures will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Click here to register and receive the Zoom link. Sponsored by: Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies George L. Mosse Program UW-Madison Department of History “Why do you think they …
Christopher Herde
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Christopher Herde (2025-2026 Mosse Teaching Fellow) “No One Plays Like Them: Martial and Equestrian Sports in the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)” Wednesday, 5 November 2025 16:00 CST 5233 Mosse Humanities 455 N. Park St. Madison, WI …
@ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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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: George …
Terrence G. Peterson
Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Terrence G. Peterson, “Decolonization, the Algerian War, and the Making of Modern Counterinsurgency” Fluno Center, Howard Auditorium 18:30 CST Sponsored by: UW-Madison Department of History War in Society and Culture Program Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Anne Rethmann
Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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Politics, Society, and Culture Workshop with Dr. Anne Rethmann October 7, 2025 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Title: Judging Antisemitism? Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil, Then and Now Abstract: Hannah Arendt’s reports on the Eichmann trial and …
Derek Penslar
Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Sponsored by: UW-Madison Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies George L. Mosse Program in History This talk examines how the public in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Latin America perceived the post-World War II …
5233 George L. Mosse Humanities, Curti Lounge @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Bad Neighbors: Race and Violence through the Letterbox Jordanna Bailkin (University of Washington) Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 16:00 CST George L. Mosse Humanities Building 5233, Curti Lounge 455 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 Sponsored …
Daniela Spenser
5233 George L. Mosse Humanities, Curti Lounge @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Echoes of Exile: A Family’s Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War Daniela Spenser (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico City) Monday, 15 September 2025, 16:00 George L. Mosse Humanities Building …
Kathryn Brackney
Zoom @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
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College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Kathryn Brackney (Universiteit Leiden) Comment by Sheer Ganor Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs Sponsored by: Mosse Lectures George L. Mosse Program in …
Memorial Library, Room 126 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Geographic Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration ‘Crisis’ Kara E. Dempsey (UNC-Applachian State University) 25 June, noon to 1:00 P.M. Memorial Library, Room 126 728 State Street, Madison Sponsored by: George L. Mosse …
A.D White House, Ithaca, NY @ 4:45 pm - 6:30 pm
Cornell University, Annual Mosse Lecture “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)” Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU) This Annual Mosse Lecture is cosponsored by the departments of Romance Studies, History, and German Studies, by the Programs of Jewish …
Michael D. Gordin
Pyle Center @ 4:00 pm
Michael D. Gordin Pyle Center 10 April 2025, 16:00 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 …
Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10027 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Mirjam Brusius, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture” Thursday, March 27th, 2025 from 6-8PM With a reception to follow Register here Hosted at Deutsches Haus 420 …
Jeffrey Schneider
@ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
History Department event page
March 19, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Zoom Jeffrey Schneider (Vassar College) Comment by: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Chair: Chad Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Jeffrey Schneider is a Professor of German Studies, …