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 Resident fellow, back to IRH in the fall!
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.
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, and the Environment‘s 2017-2018 Speaker Series. See flyer here.
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 identified as a finalist for the American Studies Association’s 2017 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize. The New Mutants is …
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, enter coupon code E17CALLA during checkout).
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.
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.
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 exhibition Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection. For details and time/location information, see here.
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 more information on Jeremy’s talk, and the location, click here. (Image credit: from ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad al-Sharafī al-Ṣifāqsī’s 1571 atlas …
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.
