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The George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
For #MosseWednesday, come ✨THIS AFTERNOON✨ to see Mosse teaching fellow Christopher Herde present his fascinating research on mamluk sport!

📅 Nov. 5th
🕓 4:00-5:30 PM
📍 Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)

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2025: Christopher Herde, “No One Plays Like Them: Martial and Equestrian Sports in the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)”
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 Humaniti...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's #MosseWednesday! 🎉 Congratulations to Catherine Tatiana Dunlop for winning @historians.org's George L. Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History for her new book, The Mistral: A Windswept History Of Modern France. 🎉

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October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It's #MosseWednesday! Next week, @tgpeterson.bsky.social
will present “Decolonization, the Algerian War, and the Making of Modern Counterinsurgency.” Reception (read: food!) to follow.

🗓️ October 22, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
📍Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center

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2025: Terrence G. Peterson, “Decolonization, the Algerian War, and the Making of Modern Counterinsurgency”
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 Soc...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It's #MosseWednesday! Join the Center for Humanities for Michael Rothberg's talk, "Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy & the Politics of Holocaust Memory"
tomorrow.

🗓️ October 9 at 5 in the Elvehjem Building

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Humanities Without Boundaries: Michael Rothberg
Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory Why do we turn to the past in order to confront the crises of the present? Michael Rothberg approaches this question f...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
For #MosseWednesday, check out Kathryn L. Brackney's
interview with @joncatlin.bsky.social on the Journal of the History of Ideas' blog about her book, Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness.

www.jhiblog.org/2025/10/01/s...

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October 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's #mossewednesday! Check out Valerie Deacon's review of Reneé Poznanski's newly translated Propaganda and Persecution in the American Historical Review.

Read it here: academic-oup-com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ahr/article/...

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September 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It's #MosseWednesday! Join us Thursday for Derek Penslar's talk, "Beyond Sympathy and Antisemitism: The International Community and the Palestine Question, 1947-1949."

🗓️ September 18th at the Pyle Center, or on Zoom.
Learn more at: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/penslar

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2025: Derek Penslar, “Beyond Sympathy and Antisemitism: The International Community and the Palestine Question, 1947-1949”
Sponsored by: UW-Madison Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies George L. Mosse Program in History This talk examines how the public in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Latin America percei...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Get ready! Kathryn Brackney's talk on her book, Surreal Geographies, begins in a half an hour!

You can tune in through Zoom- go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Mosse-Zucker/Goldberg New Books Webinar with Kathryn Brackney, Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness. After registering, you will re...
Kathryn Brackney, Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Comment by Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota) Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Surreal Geographie...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Tenure-track job opportunity! Louisiana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of modern European history. Follow the link below for more information:

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Assistant Professor - Modern European History
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Its #MosseWednesday! Join us on Zoom for Kathryn L. Brackney’s talk, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness” on September 15th.

Register here: go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt

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2025: Kathryn Brackney, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness”
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Kathryn Brackney (Universiteit Leiden) Comment by Sheer Ganor Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs Sponsored by:...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday! Available now to order, Antonella Salomoni’s The Ashes of Babi Yar explores the aftermath of the 1941 massacre, focusing particularly on how the arts shaped collective memory.

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The Ashes of Babi Yar
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August 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday! Join Steven Ascheim tomorrow, May 15, for his Mosse Lecture in Berlin, “Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel.” For more information: mosselectures.wisc.edu/event/ascheim/
2025: Steven Ascheim, “Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel”
Humboldt University Mosse Lecture Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel Steven Ascheim (Hebrew Universi...
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May 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The tenth volume of the Collected Works of George L. Mosse, German Jews Beyond Judaism, has just arrived at our office! Preorder a copy for yourself today!

Check it out here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/G/Germ...
German Jews Beyond Judaism
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May 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday!

Up now on the Mosse Lectures website, a recording of Stefanos Geroulanos’ talk from last month, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983).”

Check it out here: mosselectures.wisc.edu/2025/04/15/g...
May 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's #MosseWednesday!
Available now for pre-order, Celia Applegate’s The Work of Music. In The Work of Music, Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich.

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April 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday! Just released, the covers for two of the Mosse First Book winners, out this October. Thunder Cross by Paula A, Oppermann: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/Thun... Christian Internationalism and German Belonging by Rebecca Carter-Chand: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...
April 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on our website, the spring 2025 newsletter! Check it out to learn about what the Program has been up to over the past semester. Here's the link: mailchi.mp/history/spri...
Spring 2025: Mosse Lectures Series, Undergraduate Projects, and More
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April 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Join us today at 4 for Michael D. Gordin's lecture, "“After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” in the Pyle Center! mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/
2025: Michael D. Gordin, “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”
Michael D. Gordin Pyle Center 10 April 2025, 16:00 2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean ...
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April 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Don't forget to join us tomorrow at 4pm in the Pyle Center for Michael D. Gordin’s lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986-2002,” this year’s Michael B. Petrovich Lecture. mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/
2025: Michael D. Gordin, “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”
Michael D. Gordin Pyle Center 10 April 2025, 16:00 2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean ...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on the blog, Julià Gómez Reig’s review of Los Orígenes Intelectuales del Tercer Reich, the Spanish translation of George L. Mosse’s The Crisis of German Ideology, published by La Esfera de los Libros.

Read his review here: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/03/31/r...
April 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday!

Join Stefanos Geroulanos on April 15th for his talk, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)”, this year’s Annual Mosse Lecture at Cornell.

For more information: 🔗: mosselectures.wisc.edu/event/geroul...
2025: Stefanos Geroulanos, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)”
Cornell University, Annual Mosse Lecture “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)” Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU) This Annual Mosse Lecture is cosponsored by the departments of Romance Studies, History, an...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Join us this Thursday, April 3rd at 4pm for “Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe,” a book talk by Agnieszka Pasieka, part of the CREECA lecture series.
For more information: creeca.wisc.edu/event/living...
April 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Join us Thursday, April 10th, at 4pm in the Pyle Center for Michael D. Gordin’s lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986-2002,” this year’s Michael B. Petrovich Lecture.

For more information: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/
2025: Michael D. Gordin, “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”
Michael D. Gordin Pyle Center 10 April 2025, 16:00 2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean ...
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March 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday!
Join Mirjam Brusius tomorrow, March 27th, for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.
March 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on our YouTube channel, the recordings of Johannes von Moltke’s lecture series, Metapolitics: Acceleration, Agitation, and Appropriation in the New Right’s Culture Wars, held earlier this month.

Check them out here: www.youtube.com/@georgelmoss...
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March 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM