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 …
Month: October 2015
Anna Blume to Speak at the UW Arboretum
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 …
Craig Werner Co-Authors New Book
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.
Rachel Feldhay Brenner Wins Book Prize
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 …
Henry Drewal’s Lecture Postponed
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.
Catherine Bates Wins the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
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 …
Todd W. Reeser Weighs in on Academic Debates about Trigger Warnings
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 …