News and Announcements
Chad Alan Goldberg Awarded Martindale-Bascom Professorship
Congratulations to Chad Alan Goldberg, REI Fellow 2021-2022, on his appointment as Martindale-Bascom Professor.
Simon P. Newman Awarded Charles Warren Center Faculty Fellowship
Newman has been selected as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Warren Center for Studies in American History, working with the Center's 2021-2022 research theme of "Slavery and the Universities."
Simon Newman Launches “Runaways” Project
Taking the historical work of Simon Newman and Dr. Peggy Brunache as the starting point, Runaways’ poets Abena Essah, Gboyega Odubanjo, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Momtaza Mehri and Memoona Zahid, and artists Tasia Graham and Olivia Twist investigate archival silences.
Francine Hirsch Receives Book Awards for Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
Francine Hirsch's book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg, has received the 2021 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, as well as the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.
Book Festival Talk: When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People
Steven Nadler (IRH Director) and Lawrence Shapiro (IRH Senior Fellow, 2017-2021) will give a talk at the Wisconsin Book Festival on 10/23 at 11:00am in the DeLuca Forum of the Discovery Building.
Yuhang Li’s book wins the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award
"Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China" (Columbia University Press) by Yuhang Li (Art History, UW–Madison, Resident Fellow, 2017) has won the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award from the American Academy of Religion.
Congratulations to Kayci Olson Harris on Successfully Defending Her Dissertation
The IRH would like to congratulate Kayci Olson Harris(History, UW-Madison, IRH Dana-Allen Fellow 2020-2021) on successfully defending her dissertation.
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Upcoming Events
England’s Weedy Renaissance
Learning in the Age of Loneliness: Reimagining Education for the Anthropocene
The Warner Brothers: How an Immigrant Family Came to Hollywood and Changed America
The Arts of Mnemosyne: Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in Renaissance Spain
Recent Publications
Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama
James M. Bromley
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro
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