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George L. Mosse Program
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The George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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It's #MosseWednesday! Save the date for the inaugural #MosseLecture in Tokyo, “Migration in the 21st Century: What Elite Mobility Reveals About the Present and Future of International Migration” by Kristin Surak

🗓️ February 25, 2026
🕙 6-7:30 pm
📍Temple University, Japan Campus

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January 15, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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If you find yourself in #Berlin this #MosseWednesday, mark your calendar for the upcoming screening of Nathalie Borgers' “Narben eines Putsches/Scars of a Putsch” 🎥

🗓️ January, 20 @ 7:00PM
📍 Zeughauskino des DHM Berlin (Pei Building)

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2026: Film Screening, Nathalie Borgers, “Narben eines Putsches/Scars of a Putsch”
Film Screening: “Narben eines Putsches/Scars of a Putsch” Directed by Nathalie Borgers 20 January, 2026, 7:00PM CET Zeughauskino des DHM Berlin (Pei Building) Languages: German, French, and Turkish Ru...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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This #MosseWednesday, we'd like to remind you about Joseph Vogl's "Epoche des Amok," the final lecture in our Mosse lecture series in Vienna.

🗓️ January 8 @ 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
📍 Volkstheater

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2026: Joseph Vogl, “Epoche des Amok”
Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2026   Joseph Vogl (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Princeton University): »Epoche des Amok«
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December 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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This #MosseWednesday, we're spotlighting Irina Scherbakowa's recent #MosseLecture in Vienna, entitled "“The Long Shadow of Stalinism: Putin’s Russia 2025.”

🎥: mosselectures.wisc.edu/2025/11/20/s...

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2025: Irina Scherbakowa: “Der lange Schatten des Stalinismus. Putins Russland 2025” / “The Long Shadow of Stalinism: Putin’s Russia 2025”
Irina Scherbakowa, “Der Lange Schatten des Stalinismus. Putins Russland 2025” / “The Long Shadow of Stalinism: Putin’s Russia 2025” Thursday, 20 November 2025 19:00 CET Chaired by Burkhard Wolf (Unive...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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🚨 IEG Fellowships 2026! Apply now! 🚨

The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) offers fellowships for doctoral students in European history, history of religion and related fields.

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December 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Also in the Journal of Modern History, Alexandria N. Ruble reviewed Natalie Scholz' Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology, calling it an "impressive feat."

🔗https://journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738087

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December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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For #mossewednesday, we have two reviews to share! 🖊️

First, Richard J. Golsan reviewed Renée Poznanski's "well-documented" Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the“Jewish Question" for the Journal of Modern History.

🔗https://go.wisc.edu/c947p4

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December 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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On this chilly #MosseWednesday, stay inside and learn about sport in the Mamluk sultanate from Chris Herde's lecture, “No One Plays Like Them: Martial and Equestrian Sports in the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517”

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Lecture: Christopher Herde, “No One Plays Like Them: Martial and Equestrian Sports in the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517”
5 November 2025 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen   Michael Martoccio: Let me introduce our speaker tonight. Our speaker is Chris Herde. Chris is a PhD candidate. I am on his committee. So I will be …
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December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This #MosseWednesday, we're looking forward to the release of Alessandra Tarquini's Jews and the Italian Left: Socialism, Zionism, and Antisemitism from 1892 to 1992 next month! 📖

Order your copy today!
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Jews and the Italian Left
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November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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For #MosseWednesday this week, check out to Ofer Ashkenazi, @rmgrossmann.bsky.social, Shira Miron, and Sarah Wobick-Segev's talk about 📖 Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany, moderated by @emmakuby.bsky.social!

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Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Shira Miron, Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Still Lives"
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November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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🖊️ Diana Popescu reviewed Kathryn Brackney's Surreal Geographies, calling it "an ambitious, wide-ranging intervention into the study of Holocaust memory..."
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📽️ And for a refresher, watch Brackney's Mosse Lecture!

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November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Finally, join us and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies for the Kutler Lecture, "Why Do You Think They Call It the Oldest Hatred?
Antisemitism—Past & Present” by William I. Brustein.

📅 November 12 & 13
🕓 4:00 PM
📍 Memorial Union, Old Madison Room

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November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Next for #MosseWednesday, Rebecca Carter-Chand's Christian Nationalism and German Belonging is featured on Publisher's Weekly's "New and Forthcoming Academic Religion Books"! Congratulations @ushmm.bsky.social ! 🎉

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November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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We have lots to celebrate for #MosseWednesday! 🥳

The advanced copy of the Third Edition of Europe in the Sixteenth Century from the Collected Works of George L. Mosse arrived in our office!

Order a copy from @uwiscpress.bsky.social!
🔗 go.wisc.edu/rg41fp

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Europe in the Sixteenth Century
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November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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