Past Events Category: Center for German & European Studies

October 5, 2026 @ 8:00 am - October 6, 2026 @ 6:00 pm

Afropean will convene scholars from around the country and Europe who offer both a breadth of research and expertise on the topic of Black people and Blackness in Europe since colonization and geographic variety including …

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
April 21, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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2025 American Historical Association George L. Mosse Prize Recipient The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman) Chaired by Professor Emma Kuby (University of Wisconsin-Madison) An in-depth look …

Katie Jarvis
Lubar Commons, UW-Madison Law School
April 16, 2026 @ 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 …

Rebecca Carter-Chand
April 7, 2026 @ 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 …

Chad S.A. Gibbs
March 23, 2026 @ 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
March 9, 2026 @ 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
November 14, 2025 @ 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 …

Daniela Spenser
5233 George L. Mosse Humanities, Curti Lounge
September 15, 2025 @ 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 …