Recent Publications
Frontier Narratives Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Steven Hutchinson
Grimoire
Cherene Sherrard
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Upcoming Events
Designating the Meanings of Images
How Journalists Might Care: Identity Work in Engagement Practices & Trust Building for a Failing Industry
“The Handsome Groom of Camberwell” & a “Perhapser”: Trans Masculinity in Victorian Periodicals & Fiction
Remapping Lost Geographies: “Pearl Harbor”, Kahoʻolawe, and Spaces of Indigenous (Re)Emergence
News and Announcements
Jelena Todorović invites people to attend Francesca da Rimini’s ecumenic flash mob: a tribute to Dante Alighieri
Jelena Todorović invites people to attend a worldwide virtual flash mob reading verses from Dante’s Inferno V. on the morning of Monday, March, 8, from 10:00am until 10:15am.
2021-2022 New IRH Fellow Announcements
Senior Fellows 2021-2025 Francine Hirsch History, UW-Madison. Enemies, A Love Story: An Entangled History of Russia and America Mario Ortiz-Robles English, UW-Madison. Future Anterior: How Nineteenth-Century Institutions Framed the Future of Animals Anne Vila French and Italian, UW-Madison. Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives …
Jessica Cooley Receives Transforming the Discipline Award: “Crip Materiality and the Care of Eva Hesse”
Jessica Cooley received the Transforming the Discipline Award from the Department of Art History. She will give a talk titled: “Crip Materiality and the Care of Eva Hesse” on March 5th at 1:30 pm CST.
Passing of Rachel Feldhay Brenner
It is with great sadness that the Institute for Research in the Humanities notes the passing of one of its former senior fellows, Rachel Brenner (1946-2021). Rachel, a long-time member of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies, was a major scholar of modern Hebrew literature, and a beloved teacher of UW-Madison students for many years. She was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities from 2008 to 2013.
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