Two Concepts of Patriotism: Nationalist and Civic

Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave.
@ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

This special event with Professor Desmond Jagmohan (University of California, Berkeley) is part of  “1776/2026: The Declaration at 250”, a year-long series of campus events and public conversations.  This talk reconstructs two competing ideas of …

AfroAsianist Readings of Marx

Location information available soon
@ 5:00 pm

This event with Professor Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley) is presented by the UW-Madison Department of History, the Department of Asian American Studies, and the Center for the Humanities. The 1960s represented a conjuncture that gave …

Democracy, Commemoration, Peoplehood

Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave.
@ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

This special event with Professor Jason Frank (Cornell University) is part of  “1776/2026: The Declaration at 250”, a year-long series of campus events and public conversations.  John Quincy Adams once wrote that democracy “has no …

From Near Obscurity to Iconic Works: Bach’s Cello Suites

Hamel Music Center, Collins Recital Hall, 740 University Ave.
@ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A Focus on the Humanities Lecture and Performance with Edward Klorman with Matthew Zalkind The six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach—once dismissed as mere curiosities—are now revered as iconic works. They are performed …