The Memory and Memorialization of World War II in Norway: Speakers from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Nord University
Van Hise 104Prof. Jon Reitan, “Memories and microhistories of the Holocaust” Prof. Trond Risto Nilssen, “The legal purges in Norwegian Post-war memory” Prof. Leiv Sem, “The traitors in Norwegian cultural memory” Co-sponsors: GNS+, Lectures Committee, Center …
2023 Ojibwe Winter Games
Dejope LawnOn Friday, February 3rd from 3PM to Sundown, stop by Lake Mendota near Dejope Lawn to play snow snake, hoop and spear, and more! The Opening Welcome will be held in the Mendota Room of …
Virtual Lecture: “Comanches, Captives, Germans: Transactions on the Texas Frontier, 1847”
Virtual (Zoom)VIRTUAL LECTURE PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) In 2021, three finely worked sketches dating back to the middle of the …
Skye Doney, Director, George L. Mosse Program in History, UW-Madison “The Persistence of the Sacred: German Catholic Pilgrimage, 1832-1937”
Curti Lounge, 5243 Mosse Humanities BuildingChaired by Laird Boswell, Professor of History For millions of Catholic believers, pilgrimage has offered possible answers to the mysteries of sickness, life, and death. The Persistence of the Sacred explores the religious worldviews …
“‘Harlem in Germany’: Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic” Lauren Stokes, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University
Pyle Center 235As West Germans discussed “difference” after 1945, they sought out a self-consciously “Western” and liberal way to discuss difference. The talk examines different examples of how US social science on race shaped policies on …