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Month: October 2015

Biruté Ciplijauskaité Honored with 2015 Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Advocacy

Posted on October 22, 2015

The Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board has unanimously selected Biruté Ciplijauskaité, Professor Emerita of Spanish and Emeriti Lifetime Fellow of the Institute, as the winner of the 2015 Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Advocacy. For …

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Anna Blume to Speak at the UW Arboretum

Posted on October 19, 2015

Former Honorary Fellow Anna Blume will speak on “The Aesthetics of Effigy Mounds” on Saturday, October 24 from 1-3 pm in the UW Arboretum Visitor Center. Registration is required. Dr. Blume conducted the research for …

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Craig Werner Co-Authors New Book

Posted on October 19, 2015

Doug Bradley and former Senior Fellow Craig Werner have co-authored We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (University of Massachusetts Press, October 2015). For more information, click here or here.  

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Rachel Feldhay Brenner Wins Book Prize

Posted on October 15, 2015

Former Senior Fellow Rachel Feldhay Brenner is receiving the 2015 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for her book, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from …

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Henry Drewal’s Lecture Postponed

Posted on October 13, 2015

Former Senior Fellow Henry Drewal’s Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture has been postponed. New lecture date TBA. For more information about this lecture, click here.

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Catherine Bates Wins the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

Posted on October 5, 2015

Former Solmsen Fellow Catherine Bates has received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences for her book Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (Oxford University Press). For more …

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Todd W. Reeser Weighs in on Academic Debates about Trigger Warnings

Posted on October 1, 2015

Former Solmsen Fellow Todd W. Reeser (French, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh) directs a program in which faculty recommend that students avoid using terms indicative of sexist language. For a discussion …

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