Past Events Category: UW-Madison Department of History

455 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706
May 15, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
April 21, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Zoom Webinar Registration

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 …

Benjamin Nathans
Pyle Center Room 121
April 16, 2026 @ 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
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 …

Katie Jarvis, Patrick Travens
Curti Lounge
April 15, 2026 @ 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
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 …

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 …

William I. Brustein
Memorial Union
November 12, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - November 13, 2025 @ 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)
November 5, 2025 @ 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 …

Terrence G. Peterson
Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center
October 22, 2025 @ 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