Sep 9 2008
12:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
'Catered lunch to introduce members of the Institute for Research in the Humanities'
Sep 15 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, Chancellor, UW-Madison
Susan Friedman, Director, IRH
Ullrich Langer,
Jon McKenzie, English, UW-Madison
Nicole Huang, East Asian Languages and Culture, UW-Madison
Suzette Spencer, Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison
'The Futures of Interdisciplinarity for the Humanities'
Sep 16 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
'The Futures of Interdisciplinarity for the Humanities'
Sep 23 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Rachel Brenner
Hebrew Studies, UW-Madison
'Warsaw Polish Writers-Diarists Witnessing the Holocaust: An Inquiry into the Capacity for Empathy - The Case of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz'
Sep 28 2008
'Welcome Potluck hosted by Jean B. Lee'
Sep 29 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
V. Narayana Rao
Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
'Who is the superior god?: Contending Religious faiths in South India in the 13th and 16th centuries'
Sep 30 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
V. Narayana Rao
Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
'Who is the superior god?: Contending Religious faiths in South India in the 13th and 16th centuries'
Oct 3 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 332 Bradley Memorial
'Discussion of Franco Moretti, "The Novel: History and Theory" (New Left Review, July/August 2008)'
Oct 7 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Robert LaFleur
History and Anthropology, Beloit College
'Heaven is Round: Earth is Square. French Sinology and Chinese Travel Accounts Linking Mountain and Sea in Early China'
Oct 13 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Tejumola Olaniyan
English and African Language and Literature, UW-Madison
'African Politics in African Literature: A Cultural History'
Oct 14 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Tejumola Olaniyan
English and African Language and Literature, UW-Madison
'African Politics in African Literature: A Cultural History'
Oct 20 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 332 Bradley Memorial
Franco Moretti
'Conversation with Franco Moretti'
Humanities without Boundaries Lecture
Oct 24 2008 - Oct 26 2008
Pyle Center
'The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology and Law'
Organized by Len Kaplan
Oct 27 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Brian Hyer
Music, UW-Madison
'Mimetic Failure and Moral Autonomy in a Schubert Song'
Oct 28 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Brian Hyer
Music, UW-Madison
'Mimetic Failure and Moral Autonomy in a Schubert Song'
Nov 4 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Jonathan Pollack
History, MATC
'Jewish Networks at the University of Wisconsin, 1865-1924'
Nov 5 2008
5:00 PM, Pyle Center
Lee Palmer Wandel
History, UW-Madison
'Catechisms and the Construction of the Reformation'
Focus on the Humanities: Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Nov 10 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Tanya Tiffany
Art History, UW-Milwaukee
'Feminine Sanctity in Imperial Spain: Diego Velazquez's Portrait of Mother Jeronima de la Fuente'
Nov 11 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Tanya Tiffany
Art History, UW-Milwaukee
'Feminine Sanctity in Imperial Spain: Diego Velazquez's Portrait of Mother Jeronima de la Fuente'
Nov 17, 2008 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Ellen Amster
Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Nov 18 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Ellen Amster
Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Dec 5 2008 - Dec 6 2008
226 Pyle Center
'Meanings of Modern: South Asia Before and After Colonialism'
Organizer: V. Narayana Rao
Dec 8 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Anupam Basu
English, UW-Madison
'"Like very honest and substantial citizens": Performance and Identity in Early Modern Cony-Catching Pamphlets'
Dec 8 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Andrew Scheil
English, University of Minnesota
'Babylon and Degeneracy: Traditions of Descent and Racial Difference in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond'
Dec 9 2008
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Andrew Scheil
English, University of Minnesota
'Babylon and Degeheracy: Traditions of Descent and Racial Difference in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond'
SeminarFeb 2 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Robert Berkhofer
History, Western Michigan University
'Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction'
The seminar examines two types of sources, forgery and historical writings, and discusses the relationship between them in Europe circa 900-1200 and argues that both empirical and postmodern textualist approaches are necessary and important for understanding them. The paper also discusses the relationship of modernist historical science to the interpretation of forgeries and medieval historical writings around three contested issues: the question of intention/pious fraud, the nature of proof, especially documentary evidence, and historical narratives as distinct from literary ones.
Feb 3 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Robert Berkhofer
History, Western Michigan University
'Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction'
Feb 9 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Esther Bauer
Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point
'Bodily Desire--Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele'
The seminar proposes that early-twentieth-century authors Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka and artists Christian Schad and Egon Schiele created characters intended to upset bourgeois notions of gender, desire, and sexuality. At a time of far-reaching changes in male and female social roles and sexual politics, these authors and artists presented the body as the site of a reevaluation of gender roles and of the organization of desire, subverting and eventually transcending traditional bourgeois structures. As Kafka and Schiele focus on the physical dimension of relationships, they make the human body the site of struggles for dominance. In their works, the demise of a clear-cut gender matrix leads to instability in the traditional social hierarchies that organize the access to bodies, revealing gender merely as a construct regulating the distribution of power within society. As Mann and Schad work toward collapsing the traditional notions of masculinity and femininity and experiment with forms of corporeal desire that are no longer organized along gendered structures, they present the body as the place where the gender category can be overcome.
Esther Bauer is an UW Systems Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She received her Ph.D. in German Literature from Yale University. She is currently on leave from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she is an Assistant Professor of German. At the Institute, she is working on a book manuscript entitled "Bodily Desire - Desired Bodies: Gender and Desire in Early Twentieth-Century Novels and Paintings." Her area of specialization is German literature and culture since the mid-nineteenth century, and her research focuses on questions of subjectivity, gender, desire, and visualizations of bodies. She has published and presented on writers Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Vicki Baum, and Judith Hermann, and on painters Egon Schiele and Christian Schad.
Feb 10 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Esther Bauer
Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point
'Bodily Desire--Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele'
Feb 23 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Michael Bernard-Donals
English, UW-Madison
'Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum'
The US Holocaust Memorial Council and the designers of the US Holocaust Museum attempted to ensure, through the museum's design, that visitors would remember the Holocaust as a specific historical event. But what visitors learn, and see, and remember at the USHMM is often enough an event or clusters of events that are at best only tangentially related to the Holocaust. The seminar, part of a project which tries to explain how and why such a conflation of memories occurs, takes account of some of the earliest discussions about the shape of the museum and the contents of its permanent exhibit.
Michael Bernard-Donals is a UW-Madison Faculty Fellow at the IRH. He received his PhD in English from Stony Brook University, and went on to teach at Mississippi State University and the University of Missouri-Columbia before coming to the English Department at the University of Wisconsin in 1998. His work falls into three principal areas of research: rhetorical theory, literary criticism and theory, and Holocaust Studies. He is an affiliate member of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and has recently ended a four-year term as chair of the English Department.
Feb 24 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Michael Bernard-Donals
UW-Madison, English
'Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum'
SeminarMar 2 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
David Chan
English, UW-Stevens Point
'The Myth of Religious Wars'
Are religious wars more violent than imperialistic wars, civil wars and wars of liberation? Would the world be more peaceful if people did not fight for religious reasons? Is the conflict between Christianity and Islam unavoidable? The paper suggests that it is a misconception to answer "yes" to such questions. Not only are there myths about what takes place in so-called religious wars, but once we dispel these myths, the whole business of religious war per se is itself placed in question.
David K. Chan is an Honorary Fellow at the IRH and an associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. His research interests include moral psychology, virtue ethics, the ethics of war, medical ethics, and Greek philosophy. He studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne in Australia (B.A. Honors) and at Stanford University (Ph.D.). He is the editor of an anthology on Moral Psychology Today: Essays on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will (Springer Books, 2008). At the Institute for Research in the Humanities, he is researching and writing a book entitled Rethinking the Ethics of War and Justice.
Mar 3 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
David Chan
English, UW-Stevens Point
'The Myth of Religious Wars'
Mar 9 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Andrew Ruis
History of Science, UW-Madison
'Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice and Public Health Nutrition in Early Twentieth-Century America'
SeminarMar 23 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Catherine Martin
English, University of Memphis
'Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion'
The paper asks a question that hasn't been addressed for over 50 years: how and why did a young, virtually unknown, and staunchly Protestant poet manage to make so many friends among aristocratic and famous Italian Catholics, including several priests, during his year-long visit to Italy? Why did he ignore standard warnings against "evil" Italy, and why does he relate no religious misunderstandings or other obstacles arising between himself and his hosts? Why did he almost exclusively use their tributes to preface his first volume of verse, and in what sense did these experiences make John Milton who he turned out to be? These are biographical questions, but the project also focuses heavily on theoretical questions involving paradigm formation, reception theory, and the "death" and rebirth of major authors.
Catherine G. Martin is Solmsen Fellow at the Institute. She specializes in early modern literature, religion, philosophy, and rhetoric (chiefly allegory). She has written two books and edited two essay collections, and won prizes from the Milton Society of America as well as the John Donne Society. She is currently expanding her main areas of expertise (England and France) to include early modern Italy.
Mar 24 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Catherine Martin
English, University of Memphis
'Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion'
SeminarMar 30 2009
2:45 PM - 4:30 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Valerie Garver
History, Northern Illinois University
'Clothing Saints in the Carolingian World'
Both religious and lay people wished to clothe saints appropriately in the Carolingian world. Whether describing the appropriate dress of saints in vitae, making and selecting textiles to support or wrap the relics of saints, or depicting saints' clothing in pictorial form, conscious choices concerning the dressing of saints and their relics reveal how crucial clothing and textiles were to contemporary perceptions of sanctity and acts of religious devotion. The desire to preserve relics and the memory of saints also provides opportunities to consider early medieval textile trade and production in a new light.
Valerie L. Garver, a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute, is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. Her research interests center upon the social, cultural, and religious history of the Carolingian Empire. Questions concerning women, gender, and family and the historical and interdisciplinary study of material culture lie at the heart of her work. She is the author of Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2009), and her most recent article is "Learned Women? Liutberga and the Instruction of Carolingian Women," in Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World, ed. Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 121-38.
Mar 31 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Valerie Garver
History, Northern Illinois University
'Clothing Saints in the Carolingian World'
Mar 31 2009
4:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Andrew Laird
Classical Literature, Warwick University
'Virgil's Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Latin Poetry and Ethnohistory in Colonial Mexico'
Virgil's epic on the fall of Troy and foundation of Rome came to Mexico in the wake of the Spanish conquest. The poem had a role in the earliest accounts of Aztec traditions compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his native collaborators, and in the transmission of classical learning that had begun to develop in New Spain in the 1520s. From the mid-1600s, the reading and literary imitation of Virgil in Latin inspired poetic panegyrics of the 'Dark Virgin', the Lady of Guadalupe, who supposedly appeared to a native Mexican in 1531. This lecture seeks to show how Virgil (and some other classical authors) informed constructions of creole identity and indigenous history during the colonial period, and to highlight the richness and complexity of Latin culture in Mexico.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Early Modern Studies.
Andrew Laird is Professor in Classical Literature at Warwick University in the United Kingdom. He currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and a Méndez Plancarte visiting professorship (2009-10) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His publications include Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power (Oxford 1999), Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford 2006) and a forthcoming volume on Italy and the classical tradition. As a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities in UW-Madison during 2003-4, he worked on a study of an 18th century Hispano-Latin poet from Guatemala: The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael Landívar and the Rusticatio Mexicana (London 2006).
Apr 2 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Herbert Kessler
Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University
'Conversation and lunch with Herbert Kessler'
Professor Kessler will speak for about 5 minutes about his current work to open up a discussion in which all are urged to participate. Sponsored by Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Medieval Studies Program, Art History, and the Religious Studies Program. Catered light lunch included. Please notify Loretta Freiling (262-3855, freiling@wisc.edu) on intention to eat catered lunch, come just to listen and talk, or brownbag it.
Apr 2 2009
5:00 PM, L 150 Elvehjem Building
Herbert Kessler
Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University
'The Sanctifying Serpent: Christ's Pictured Body as a Source of Healing'
The lecture will explore ways in which the Brazen Serpent trope gets mapped onto images of the Crucifixion, from the ninth-century through the twelfth, to trigger the notion of spiritual and carnal curing through the process of looking at art.
A graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A.) and Princeton University (M.F.A. , Ph.D.), Professor Kessler is author of a dozen books on medieval and Byzantine art and culture. Recent research has focused on vision and materiality in medieval art (e.g. Seeing Medieval Art (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2004; Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).) He has taught at the University of Chicago and has been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University.
SeminarApr 6 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
David Williams
Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point
'Plato's Noble Lie'
The tradition of the political lie infamously commences with Plato's Noble Lie in the Republic. The lie is woven with great care into his utopian state on the premise that Philosopher-Rulers are incorruptible wielders of political power. Most treatments of the Noble Lie understand this and then proceed to dismiss Plato on the basis of his unrealistic assumptions about human nature. But when consideration of these themes is extended to the Laws, one finds a far more nuanced and relevant Plato, uncomfortable with the practice of political deception. This essay elaborates on the Noble Lie and its assumptions, and then explains how the later Plato changed his conception of human nature and his attitude toward truth in politics.
David Lay Williams, an Honorary fellow at the Institute, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His research is in the history of political thought with an emphasis in foundational assumptions undergirding theories of legitimacy. He is the author of Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment (Penn State, 2007), and has published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, History of Political Thought, the Critical Review, Telos, and Polity. His present research project being undertaken at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, "Noble and Nefarious Lies: Deception in Western Political Thought," addresses canonical theories of political deception from Plato through Hannah Arendt.
Apr 7 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
David Williams
Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point
'Plato's Noble Lie'
Center for Early Modern Studies ConferenceApr 10 2009 - Apr 11 2009
'Toleration and Persecution in the Early Modern Period'
The conference aims to consider the definitions and limits of toleration in the early modern period, as well as the different kinds of religious persecution practiced during the early modern period. The conference will also consider some of the fierce debates and controversies that were stirred by the topic of religious toleration. It will examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the tensions between emerging ideas of religious toleration and various kinds of intolerance that were practiced during this period. One of the key questions the conference will attempt to address is: to what degree do we find evidence in the early modern period of toleration defined as the peaceful or stable coexistence of people of different faiths living together in the same village, town, city, or nation?
Visit the conference page for details.
SeminarApr 13 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Norlisha Crawford
English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh
'An Introduction to Chester Himes's Detective Fiction Series'
From 1957-1993 Chester Himes's ten-volume crime fiction series was published, set in a place he called Harlem. In nine of the ten novels in the series Himes highlights characters who mirror the most egregiously racist stereotypes in play in U.S. popular culture: pickpockets, pimps, prostitutes, madams, murderous drug underworld kingpins, unscrupulous politicians, and religious schemers and scammers, among others. I argue that in focusing on those character types as the anti-heroes for the series Himes determined to force readers to rethink the easy assumptions that Jim Crow segregation and racism promoted regarding black Americans, their various cultural forms, genetic traits, and desires. Rather than choosing to operate outside of idealized middle-class national norms of conduct, his black criminals were simply making rational decisions akin to the decisions made every day in legitimate money-driven markets for achieving exactly the same goal: access to the American Dream via the socioeconomic avenues made available to them.
UW-System Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Norlisha Crawford is an Assistant Professor in the Dept of English at UW-Oshkosh and Director for the African American Studies Program (AASP). She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2001. She was a faculty member in the Dept of English at Bucknell University (PA) for five years before going to UW Oshkosh, in 2005, specifically to direct the AASP. Her main areas of research interest are African American crime fiction, African American women's literature, post WW II, and African American science fiction. She is spending academic year 2008-2009 working at the Institute, completing revisions on a manuscript about Chester Himes's Harlem crime series.
Apr 14 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Norlisha Crawford
English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh
Burdick-Vary SymposiumApr 17 2009 - Apr 18 2009
Pyle Center
Organizer: John Niles
'Other People's Thinking: Language and Mentality in England before the Conquest'
The effort to understand the inherited ideas that are operative in a society other than one's own can require a historian's patience, a linguist's precision, a philosopher's finesse, and an anthropologist's tact. How did the people of the earliest period of English history and culture (the Anglo-Saxon period, ca. 500-1100 ad) conceive of their place in the world that they inhabited? To what extent do the textual records from that era reflect underlying assumptions that may have no exact equivalents today, and that require explication if those records, and hence this historical era in general, are not to be misunderstood? And what evidence from non-textual sources, or from other times and places, can help to promote this inquiry?
Visit the conference page for schedule and abstracts.
SeminarApr 20 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Russ Shafer-Landau
Philosophy, UW-Madison
'Getting What You Want'
Many have thought that a person's quality of life is determined by the extent to which his or her desires are satisfied. The paper considers the attractions of this view, and then subjects it to critical scrutiny. The tentative conclusion proposed is that this theory of human well-being is mistaken, and that its failings can help us identify some of the important elements in a more plausible theory of the good life.
Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses primarily on the foundations of ethical theory. His publications include Moral Realism: A Defense (Oxford University Press 2003); Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (Oxford University Press 2004); and The Fundamentals of Ethics (Oxford University Press 2009). He is the editor of the series Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and the editor of The Ethical Life (Oxford University Press 2009), Metaethics: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Routledge 2008) and Ethical Theory (Blackwell 2007). Shafer-Landau received his B.A. at Brown University, his M.A. at Oxford University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona.
Apr 21 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Russ Shafer-Landau
Philosophy, UW-Madison
SeminarApr 27 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Venkat Mani
German, UW-Madison
'Transposed Signs of Modernity: German Orientalism and the Indian 'Timespace''
The paper intervenes in recent scholarship on modernity, to diagnose a specific kind of insularity promoted in registers of "self-referentiality" (Luhmann: 1998) and "singularity" (Jameson: 2002). The paper tries to argue that conjectures of modernity in the Western European geo-cultural space, especially in Germany, inherently referenced the "Other," turning the Other into a 'timespace' continuum that was selectively labeled as "antiquarian" or "pre-modern." To illustrate these arguments the paper focuses on German engagements with Sanskrit texts in the early 19th century and the beginnings of the discipline of Comparative Philology.
B. Venkat Mani is Associate Professor, Department of German and faculty affiliate of the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, Global Studies, Women's Studies Research Center, and Program in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at UW-Madison. Mani's teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th century German and European literatures and philosophy. His work considers theories of multiculturalism, postcolonialism, migration, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. His publications include Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk (University of Iowa Press, 2007). At the IRH he is working on his second book manuscript, Transposed Signs of Modernity, a study of German engagements with India.
Apr 28 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Venkat Mani
German, UW-Madison
SeminarMay 4 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Nancy Marshall
Art History, UW-Madison
'The Fleshly School: Matter in Books and Bodies in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti'
Focusing on one case study, a picture by British poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this talk explores the rapidly shifting understandings of the mind-body relationship in the Victorian era. Working with certain new conceptions of matter, Rossetti's painting constituted a particular type of embodied viewer, and, like his poetry, reoriented the hierarchy of matter and spirit in controversial ways. In its examination of this hierarchy, the talk also considers the current state of the field of art history.
A UW-Madison Resident Fellow at the Institute, Nancy Rose Marshall is an associate professor in the Art History Department at UW-Madison, where she teaches nineteenth century French and British Visual Culture and specializes in Victorian Britain. Her book City of Gold and Mud: Representing Victorian London is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
May 5 2009
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, 204 Bradley Memorial
Nancy Marshall
Art History, UW-Madison