SEMINAR: Nov 30 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
History, UW-Stevens Point
'From Statelessness to State Sovereignty: People and Politics on an Early American Frontier'
This paper reassesses the Anglo-American conquest of the trans-Appalachian west by examining the relationships between local politics, frontier violence, and state formation. It argues that the United States achieved effective sovereignty over the region less because of its inherent might than because of revolutions in the politics of the region’s American Indian and white settler communities. This paper illustrates these political transformations by discussing the work of political brokers who sought to link Ohio Valley inhabitants and colonial states in tenuous coalitions. These coalitions arose and thrived because of the weakness of formal political institutions, but they ultimately formed the foundation of state authority.
Rob Harper is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellow for 2009-2010 at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. In 2008, he completed his PhD at UW-Madison under the direction of the late Jeanne Boydston. His work has appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly and the Journal for Genocide Research. His book-in-progress is tentatively entitled Revolution and Conquest: Violence and State Formation in the Ohio Valley.
SEMINAR: Dec 7 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
UW-Madison
SEMINAR: Dec 14 2009
212 University Club Building
SEMINAR: Jan 25 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
English, University of Texas at Austin
SEMINAR: Feb 1 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
History, UW-Madison
SEMINAR: Feb 15 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
History, UW-Milwaukee
SEMINAR: Feb 22 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
English, UW-Madison
SYMPOSIUM: Feb 25 2010 - Feb 27 2010
'Symposium on Globalization and the Humanities: Then and Now, Here and There'
The Symposium will address a number of vital debates about globalization, focusing on what the humanities can contribute to understanding globalization as well as how the humanities are being reinvented as a result of globalization. The political, economic, and technological controversies about globalization often overshadow its cultural and philosophical dimensions. Social science debates typically focus on the pros and cons of globalization in the context of conflictual relations between the "West" and the rest of the world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The humanities have much to learn from these debates but also much to contribute.
SEMINAR: Mar 1 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
History, UW-Madison
SEMINAR: Mar 8 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
SEMINAR: Mar 15 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
SEMINAR: Mar 22 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
Departments of Anthropology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Medical History and Bioethics, UW-Madison
SEMINAR: Apr 5 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
SEMINAR: Apr 12 2010
212 University Club Building
SEMINAR: Apr 19 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
History, Stanford University
SEMINAR: Apr 26 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
SEMINAR: MaY 3 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building
Philosophy, Texas Tech University
REFLECTIONS: OPEN DISCUSSION: May 10 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 212 University Club Building