Religion – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Moses Altsech

mreinfeldt — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:33:19 +0000

An award-winning professor, keynote speaker, trainer, and consultant, Dr. Moses Altsech has over 30 years’ teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate level. As a consultant and researcher he has worked with dozens of clients from over thirty industries across the US and overseas, and as a speaker he has received praise from business and community leaders and–to his great delight–one Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Dr. Altsech’s talks can also be offered in Greek and French.

A speaker fee may apply.

Laird Boswell

jnweaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 19:57:22 +0000

Laird Boswell is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is an expert on modern French history, French politics and society, the history of nationalism, and the contemporary extreme right in Europe.

Eric Carlsson

mreinfeldt — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:55:30 +0000

Eric Carlsson is a historian of early modern Europe, with an emphasis on intellectual and religious history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His teaching and research focus on the Enlightenment, early modern Christianity, the supernatural, theology and biblical scholarship, and belief and unbelief. He is currently writing on the emergence of “liberal theology” in the context of the German Enlightenment’s debates over the nature and viability of religion in the modern world.

Anthony Cerulli

fpuleo — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:08:49 +0000

Anthony Cerulli is an historian of religions, whose work looks at issues central to the study of religion, such as ritual, comparitivism, and the politics of religious rhetoric. His work also contributes to the fields of narrative medicine and medical humanities. Most of his work is in the field of South Asian Studies, where his research combines ethnographic and philological methods to probe associations between Indian religions and healing systems.

Giuliana Chamedes

jbedermann — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:12:50 +0000

Giuliana Chamedes is Mellon-Morgridge and Vilas Associate Professor of European History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She completed an MPhil in European History at the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Her first book, _A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe_, came out with Harvard University Press in 2019, and won the Michael Hunt Prize in International History (2020) as well as the Marraro Prize (2019). She is currently drafting her second book, tentatively titled _Failed Globalists: European Socialists, the Welfare State, and the Challenge of the Global South, 1919-2019_.

Charles L. Cohen

jnweaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 19:58:01 +0000

Charles L. Cohen, the E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, Emeritus, has taught and written about colonial British North America, American religious history, and the braided histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. His scholarship has been recognized by, among other awards, the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for his work on the psychology of Puritan religious experience, terms on the councils of both the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and the American Society for Church History, and appointment as Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians. His teaching has been honored by two awards from the UW-Madison History Department, the Emil Steiger Award for Excellence by UW-Madison, a Phi Beta Kappa award from UW-Madison, and listing in Who’s Who of American Teachers. He created UW-Madison’s Advanced Placement Summer Institute; directed the Religious Studies Program from 1997-2005; and was Founding Director the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions (LISAR), whose mission was to create better understandings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by encouraging ongoing discussion of these traditions and their interrelationships among scholars, members of those traditions, and the general public. His book, “Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction,” will be published in 2019 by Oxford University press.

Daniel Hummel

jnweaver — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:02:39 +0000

Daniel G. Hummel is the Program Curator for Academic Communities at Upper House, a Christian study center located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow with UW-Madison’s History Department. A historian of U.S. religion and foreign relations, Daniel is the author of Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) and has written for the Washington Post, Jerusalem Post, Aeon Magazine, and Religion News Service.

Nam Kim

mreinfeldt — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:21:36 +0000

Dr. Nam C. Kim is an anthropological archaeologist interested in early forms of governments, states, and cities. His work also explores the complex relationships between modern politics, descendant communities, cultural heritage, and the material record. He is also interested in the cultural contexts and social consequences of organized violence and warfare, as manifested in various cultural, spatial and temporal settings. Much of his recent fieldwork has been geographically focused on East and Southeast Asia, including excavations at the legendary capital of ancient Vietnam (known as Co Loa).

Mark Louden

jnweaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:03:32 +0000

Mark Louden is a linguist who received his training in Germanic linguistics at Cornell University. A fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, he has published extensively on this language and other German-American varieties, as well as Yiddish. In addition to his position as the Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, he directs the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies and is affiliated with the Religious Studies and Language Sciences programs and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. He serves as an interpreter and cultural mediator for Plain people (Amish and traditional Mennonites) in multiple settings, especially health care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FMvGTeBorg&t=1s

Jan Miernowski

mreinfeldt — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:35:01 +0000

Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1959. High school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. M.A. in Warsaw, Poland. PhD in Paris, France. At UW-Madison since 1989. For publications and awards, see: https://frit.wisc.edu/staff/jan-miernowski/

Areas of Expertise, continued: Humanism, Antihumanism, Posthumanism, and Transhumanism; Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern Christian Theology.

Professor Miernowski’s talks can also be offered in French and Polish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Dg6PiMejw&t=6s