September 10, 2019 to December 7, 2019

EXHIBITION | Queer Forms

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This multidisciplinary group exhibition and series of public programs investigates and celebrates the history, politics and culture of LGBTQ+ Liberation across a range of artistic forms and...

October 16, 2019

German Family Memory and the Nazi Past: A Reckoning across Generations

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What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? Drawing on her own history as the daughter of German parents who lived through the Nazi years, Bammer explores questions of guilt,...

October 16, 2019

The Roaring 1880s: Minneapolis and Saint Paul Come of Age

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The Roaring 1880s: Minneapolis and Saint Paul Come of Age Two-session short course, begins October 16, 2019 The 1880s were a time like no other in the history of the Twin Cities of...

October 18, 2019

CEMH Talk: Marcy Norton- "Chocolate and the Flowery World"

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Title: Chocolate and the Flowery World: Visual Culture, Sensory Experience, and the Columbian Exchange Abstract: This lecture centers around a chocolate still life (c. 1631) that is perhaps...

October 21, 2019

Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes: 1517-1798

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Piracy and captivity were banes of the early modern Mediterranean basin. Thousands of men and women and children were enslaved, bought and sold, ransomed or escaped. However, all the...

October 24, 2019

Incremental Love

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Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012) is set in a single restricted location, the Parisian apartment in which a dying, suffering woman is being cared for by her husband. The film plots an obsessive...

October 31, 2019

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered

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Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, will discuss the obscure yet fascinating career of the self-taught artist Morris Hirshfield (1872-...

November 1, 2019

CEMH Lecture: David Do Paço “Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century...

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“Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy” Based on L'Orient à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2015), this talk is an attempt to...

November 5, 2019

Maria Theresa and the Love of her Subjects

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35th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture: "Maria Theresa and the Love of her Subjects" by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor of History and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. To the...

November 8, 2019

CEMH Lecture: “Musical Passage: Listening in on Seventeenth Century Jamaica.”

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Dr. Laurent Dubois presents, “Musical Passage: Listening in on Seventeenth Century Jamaica.” This presentation presents and discusses the Musical Passage website (musicalpassage.org), which...

November 8, 2019

CEMH Lecture: Laurent Dubois " “Musical Passage: Listening in on Seventeenth...

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Title: “Musical Passage: Listening in on Seventeenth Century Jamaica.” Abstract: In this presentation, we will dialogue about the creation of the Musical Passage website (musicalpassage.org...

November 11, 2019

Union Pacific Fellows Roundtable

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Emma Snowden (History) "Muslim and Christian Apocalyptic Histories in Ninth-Century Iberia" Alexander Greff (HSTM) "Is This Going to Hurt? Reconstructing Medieval Martial Medical Practices...

November 13, 2019

Symposium: "The Great Replacement:" Conspiracy Theories and Far-Right...

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The election of Donald Trump could be described as both a symptom and cause of an uninhibited public discourse based on cultural/nationalist racism at best, biological racism at worst. In a...

November 15, 2019

CEMH Lecture: Benjamin Schmidt "From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat"

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"From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art, Christian Objects, and Christian Souls in Early Modern Japan” This talk will explore the idea and category of 'Christian art’ in Tokugawa...

November 21, 2019

Violence Against Women: How Colonial Korean Literature Imagined Racial and Class...

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As colonial Korea transitioned to capitalism, intellectuals embraced the idea of gender equality as well as equality among economic classes and ethnicities (Koreans, Japanese and Westerners...

December 2, 2019

Why did the PLO collect a Jewish Studies library?

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Some remember the PLO, in its founding years in the mid-1960s through the early-1980s, as a heroic group of freedom fighters; others recall a merciless group of terrorists. Largely...

December 3, 2019

Jonathan Gribetz Presents: "Jewish Women, Jewish Arabs, and the PLO Research...

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In this talk, Professor Jonathan Gribetz will discuss his current work on how the PLO Research Center in Beirut conceived of Jewish sub-groups in Israeli society, especially women and...

February 27, 2020

Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in 1948 and Today

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2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human...

April 16, 2020

Lauritsen Lecture 2020

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The History Department Presents our Lauritsen Lecture 2020 with guest lecturer Professor Susanna Elm of the University of California, Berkeley.

April 23, 2020

Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

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In 2014 the Anti-Defamation League appealed to Facebook to take down a page titled “Jewish Ritual Murder.” In 2018, the shooter at a synagogue near San Diego, referred to Simon of Trent, a...

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