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SUMMARY:Margo Anderson to Speak on Her Recently Published Co-Authored Book
DESCRIPTION:As part of our noon talk tradition\, the Department of History is pleased to announce that our colleague Margo Anderson is stepping in to deliver a talk based on her recently published co-authored book\, Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II.   Thanks to the department’s sunshine fund\, we will also have some light snacks. \nTitle:  \nDon’t Do It Again: The Relevance of the “Japanese Internment” during World War II to the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Harass\, Intimidate and\nControl Americans\, Deport Immigrants\, and Reshape the American State\,  \nMargo Anderson\, Distinguished Professor Emerita\, History & Urban Studies \n  \nA Reading \nSubjects of Japanese internment\nFrom my new book with William Seltzer\, Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II [New York: Springer Nature\, 2024]\, the talk will delve into our research process and relate the historical narrative of the Nikkei incarceration during WWII to the Trump II issues of immigration control\, birthright citizenship\, and the role of “data” in the American state. \nThe Story: \nBetween late February and August 1942\, the U.S. Army Western Defense Command\, based in San Francisco\, rounded up and incarcerated 100\,000+ West Coast Americans of Japanese ancestry\, who were housed in concentration camps across the country during the war. The Census Bureau provided technical expertise\, small area tabulations from the 1940 Census [down to block level in cities where available]\, and developed and administered a population registration system to monitor the incarcerated. Two thirds were U.S. citizens. The incarcerated did not receive due process hearings\, on the grounds that ‘military necessity’ required their rapid removal. Courts and Congress at the time supported the program. \nIn the 1960s and 1970s\, the Japanese American community and civil rights supporters formed a “redress” movement to reexamine the program. The congressional Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians repudiated the program in 1982\, finding that “racial prejudice\, wartime hysteria\, and a failure of political leadership\,” not “military necessity\,” were the “causes” of the program. The government provided token reparations to survivors.  In 2000\, the Census Bureau acknowledged its role in the incarceration and apologized. \nThe Message: \nHow and why did the federal government do it?  And what are the lessons for our current crisis? \n 
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/margo-anderson-to-speak-on-her-recently-published-co-authored-book/
LOCATION:Holton Hall 341
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SUMMARY:Greg Carter at Boswell Books
DESCRIPTION:Boswell Book Company presents an evening with UWM History Professor Greg Carter\, who appears with his new book I’d Just as Soon Kiss a Wookiee: Uncovering Racialized Desire in the Star Wars Galaxy. He will be joined in conversation by Lilly J Goren\, Professor of Political Science at Carroll University. \nThe Star Wars saga takes place in a galaxy far\, far away\, but its social structures—in particular its racial realities—are thoroughly American. So argues Greg Carter in this thought-provoking analysis\, which blends historical and theoretical treatments of science fiction cinema and Star Wars fandom to explore the subtle mirroring between fantasy and the communities that create and consume it. \nGreg Carter is Associate Professor of History at UWM. He is author of The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing. \nPlease register for the event via Boswell’s Everbrite link\, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greg-carter-author-of-id-just-as-soon-kiss-a-wookiee-a-boswell-event-tickets-1351603706069
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/greg-carter-at-boswell-books/
LOCATION:Boswell Books\, 2259 N. Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Asia in Conversation Series Continues
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URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/asia-in-conversation-series-continues/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:Book talk: "Mountain Dharma" by David DiValerio
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URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/book-talk-mountain-dharma-by-david-divalerio/
LOCATION:Curtin Hall 939
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SUMMARY:"The Black Dollar in 19th Century Baltimore"
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 17\, 2025 at 1:00 pm in Mitchell Hall room 206 as Dr. Marcus Allen from the Department of History presents\, “The Black Dollar in 19th Century Baltimore.” In Baltimore’s nineteenth century black community\, poverty and material prosperity existed together. Dr. Marcus Allen’s presentation inspects this unique paradox and its significance. \nPlease RSVP at www.bit.ly/Allen_AADS \n 
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/the-black-dollar-in-19th-century-baltimore/
LOCATION:Mitchell Hall 206
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SUMMARY:Doris Bergen Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, October 22\, 2025 as Doris Bergen\, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto\, presents “We have been lied to”: How Antisemitism\, Anti-Black Racism\, and Misogyny are Linked. \nWhat is the relationship between anti-Black racism\, antisemitism\, sexism\, and Naziism? Why did the white supremacists who marched at Charlottesville in 2017 to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee carry swastika flags and shout\, “Jews will not replace us?” Why did the number of lynchings in the United States spike in 1933\, the year Hitler came to power in Germany? Howard University professor Kelly Miller noted a “striking analogy” between “race prejudice” against Blacks in America and Jews in Germany\, and other African American and Caribbean observers at the time expressed similar views. Why have their insights been largely forgotten? This talk addresses such questions by looking back at the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and analyzing connections to our own times.
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/doris-bergen-lecture/
LOCATION:Golda Meir Library\, 4th Floor\, 2311 East Hartford Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Town of Milwaukee\, Glendale\, and the North Shore: Exploring the History of Suburban Governance in Wisconsin.
DESCRIPTION:The UW-Milwaukee Department of Geography Colloquium Series proudly welcomes Dr. Amanda I. Seligman\, Professor in the Department of History\, Urban Studies Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with The Town of Milwaukee\, Glendale\, and the North Shore: Exploring the History of Suburban Governance in Wisconsin.\nThis presentation explores the evolution of governance on Milwaukee’s North Shore\, from the 19th century Town of Milwaukee into the present. It focuses especially on the emergence of cooperation in service provision that is taken for granted in contemporary suburban government practices. \nDate: October 31st\nTime: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm\nLocation: American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) \nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/the-town-of-milwaukee-glendale-and-the-north-shore-exploring-the-history-of-suburban-governance-in-wisconsin/
LOCATION:American Geographical Society Library (AGSL)
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SUMMARY:Literature and Justice: Language and the Fight Against Feminicides
DESCRIPTION:The UW-Milwaukee Department of History Welcomes Dr. Diana Aldrete\, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and Human Rights\, Trinity College for Literature and Justice: Language and the Fight Against Feminicides.\nThis talk explores how contemporary Mexican women writers transform literature into a space of ethical and political resistance amid feminicidal violence and systemic impunity. It examines how language itself becomes an instrument of justice—naming violence\, preserving memory\, and refusing erasure when institutions fail to protect or acknowledge victims. Engaging feminist\, decolonial\, and human rights frameworks\, the talk considers how writing practices grounded in care\, mourning\, and collective testimony redefine justice beyond the confines of law. Ultimately\, it argues for a defense of literature as integral to political and human rights work: not as a supplement to activism or legal reform\, but as a vital mode of articulating rights denied and envisioning forms of justice that legal and institutional systems have yet to realize. \nDate: November 07\, 2025\nTime: 12:00 pm\nLocation: Holton Hall 341 \nFree and open to the public\, also available by Zoom. Snacks will be provided.
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/literature-and-justice-language-and-the-fight-against-feminicides/
LOCATION:Holton Hall 341
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SUMMARY:Ofer Ashkenazi\, “Navigating Profound Uncertainty: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how German Jews used private photography to record and interpret their lives under National Socialism. Drawing on a database of some 15\,000 images\, it examines how these photographs documented daily experiences and reflected Jewish responses to escalating antisemitic measures. The analysis treats photographs as narrative tools that conveyed emotions\, beliefs\, and expectations. This approach reveals new insights into German Jews’ self-perceptions and strategies for navigating a time of profound uncertainty.  \nOfer Ashkenazi is Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and current George Mosse Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research explores German-Jewish cultural history\, Jewish experience under Nazism\, migration and political activism\, and the memory of Nazi violence. His recent books include the monographs Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (2025\, with Rebekka Grossmann\, Shira Miron\, and Sarah Wobick-Segev) and Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape\, 1918–1968 (2020)\, as well as the edited volume Rethinking Jewish History and Memory through Photography (2025\, co-edited with Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan).  \nCosponsors: Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center and UWM’s Departments of Anthropology\, Art History\, Communication\, and History; and Programs in German; Journalism\, Advertising\, and Media Studies; and Digital Arts and Culture \nRegister for Zoom at https://bit.ly/4lX2yMe
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/ofer-ashkenazi-navigating-profound-uncertainty-jewish-photography-in-nazi-germany/
LOCATION:Golda Meir Library\, 4th Floor\, 2311 East Hartford Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI\, United States
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SUMMARY:History's Brown Bag Series Continues
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the final History Department Brown Bag series event of the fall\, 2026 semester.  Johnathan J. Kasparek presents “The Politician as Folk Hero: The Posthumous Career of Robert M. ‘Fighting Bob’ LaFollette.” Event is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be provided. \nFriday\, December 5\, 2026 at 12:00 noon in Holton Hall 341 or by Zoom \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/93499439614?pwd=2hwJNLxt7CqkSRMbDCjET4PgF8dbbz.1\n\nMeeting ID: 934 9943 9614\nPasscode: 511934
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/historys-brown-bag-series-continues/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lisa Silverman\, The Postwar Antisemite: Culture & Complicity After the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Silverman in Conversation with Alan Singer  \nDecades before the Nazi persecution of the Jews would emerge as a master moral paradigm of evil in popular culture\, the constructed Antisemite became part of a forceful narrative structure that allowed stereotypes about Jews to persist\, even as explicit antisemitism became taboo. In the recently released The Postwar Antisemite\, Lisa Silverman examines the crucial development and implications of the figural Antisemite in a range of events in Austria\, Germany\, and the United States including the trials of Nazi star director Veit Harlan for crimes against humanity\, the works of authors Anna Seghers and Rudolf Brunngraber\, and films including Gentleman’s Agreement. Join us at Boswell for an important conversation about this history and what it reveals about antisemitism. \nRegister for event: lisasilvermanmke.eventbrite.com \nLisa Silverman is Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in modern German and Austrian Jewish cultural history\, with a focus on gender\, visual culture\, and antisemitism. She is also author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford\, 2012) and co-author with Daniel H. Magilow of Holocaust Representations in History: an Introduction (Bloomsbury\, 2015; 2nd ed. 2019). \nAlan H. Singer is Associate Teaching Professor in UWM’s Honors College\, where he teaches courses on social\, intellectual\, and political history. His courses include: “The Oldest Hatred: The Jewish People as the Perpetual Other”\, “We\, Ourselves: Nations and Nationalisms in the Modern World”\, and “Transatlantic Revolutions: Resistance\, Rebellion and Social Conflict\, 1650-1800”.  His research focuses on how cultural representations of Jews were used in political and social conflict. \nIn partnership with Boswell Books. Cosponsored by UWM’s History Department and Honors College.
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/book-launch-lisa-silverman-the-postwar-antisemite-culture-complicity-after-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Boswell Books\, 2259 N. Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Latin Table: Spring Semester
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, 4:00–5:00pm \nCurtin Hall\, Room 866 \nPractice spoken Latin! Everyone is welcome!
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/latin-table-spring-semester/2026-03-05/
LOCATION:Curtin Hall 866
CATEGORIES:Classics
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SUMMARY:McGaffey Lecture Series: Dr. Nathan Connolly with "Letters From Our Ancestors: Family History and Our Capitalist Future"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Connolly traces four generations of his Caribbean family to explore how working people navigated racism and economic precarity. In a world of shrinking protections for woman and people of color\, the experiences of colonized families continue to shape how we engage institutions\, define our aspirations\, and tell our own stories. \nThursday\, April 02\, 2006 at 3:00 pm\nStudent Union Alumni Fireside Lounge\nPublic welcome. Refreshments served. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Urban Studies
URL:https://uwm.edu/history/event/mcgaffey-lecture-series-dr-nathan-connolly-with-letters-from-our-ancestors-family-history-and-our-capitalist-future/
LOCATION:Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge
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