News and Announcements
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.
Steven Nadler Named Vilas Research Professor
Steven Nadler, IRH Director, has been named Vilas Research Professor.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson’s essay, “Sensing Black Coral,” published in International Studies in Literature and Environment
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's essay, "Sensing Black Coral," first presented at the Monday Seminar, has been published in International Studies in Literature and Environment.
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Upcoming Events
The Very Edge of Fiction. Karl Ove Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel
Raging Women and Crying Men: Taboo Gendered Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Ford Foundation, the Social Sciences, and Chilean Democracy
Crossroads of Ideas: What is Consciousness?
Recent Publications
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro
The Politics of Patronage
Benjamin Márquez
Les Remontrances: Textes et commentaires
Ullrich Langer and Paul-Alexis Mellet
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