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Year: 2017

Steven Nadler Appointed New IRH Director

Posted on December 19, 2017

The College of Letters and Sciences announced this week that Steven Nadler has been appointed the new IRH Director. For the full announcement, see here. Please join us in welcoming Steve, a former Senior and …

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2018 Burdick-Vary Symposium Announced: Call for Abstracts

Posted on December 11, 2017

This year’s Burdick-Vary Symposium, co-organized by IRH Senior Fellow Theresa M. Kelley, now has a live website: Color: Pixels, Palettes, and Perception. To submit an abstract before January 15, 2018, see here.

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Susan Brewer to Present “A Place Called Home: Family and Identity on Oneida Land”

Posted on December 4, 2017

Former IRH UW-System Fellow Susan Brewer will be presenting “A Place Called Home: Family and Identity on Oneida Land” on December 5th at 4pm as the final fall installment of the Center for Culture, History, …

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Ramzi Fawaz’s Book Awarded 2017 ASAP Book Prize

Posted on November 30, 2017

IRH Resident Fellow Ramzi Fawaz’s book The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics recently won the 2017 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize and was …

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Emily Callaci Publishes “Street Archives and City Life”

Posted on November 16, 2017

Former IRH Resident Fellow Emily Callaci has published Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania – now available from Duke University Press. For more information, click here. (To order the paperback at a 30% discount, …

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Tejumola Olaniyan Publishes “State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa”

Posted on November 15, 2017

Former IRH Senior fellow and former IRH Interim Director Tejumola Olaniyan has edited the volume State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings – now available through IUP Press. For more on the book, see here. 

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Ali Humayun Akhtar Publishes “Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs”

Posted on November 9, 2017

Former Kingdon Fellow Ali Humayun Akhtar‘s new book Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad is now available through Cambridge University Press. For more on the publication, see here.

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Ramzi Fawaz Lecture at the Chazen Museum 11/16

Posted on November 7, 2017

IRH Resident Fellow Ramzi Fawaz (English, UW-Madison) will be giving a talk titled “The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics” on Thursday, November 16, 2017 in conjunction with the Chazen Museum …

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Jeremy Ledger to give Brown Bag Lecture

Posted on October 31, 2017

This Friday, November 3, 2107 Jeremy Ledger (IRH Solmsen Fellow) will be presenting his talk “Sacred Geographies: the Atlases of ‘Ali al-Sharafi (fl. 1551-1579)” as part of the History of Science Brown Bag Series. For …

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Victor Lenthe Publishes Essay in SEL

Posted on October 3, 2017

Former IRH Dana-Allen Fellow Victor Lenthe has published the essay “Ben Jonson’s Antagonistic Style, Public Opinion, and Sejanus” in the Spring 2017 edition of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. See here.

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