Senior Fellows Incoming 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” …
Year: 2021
Carolyn J. Eichner’s Book Finalist for the Prix Augustin Thierry
Carolyn Eichner’s book Franchir les barricades: Les femmes dans la Commune de Paris (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020) has been short-listed for the Prix Augustin Thierry, awarded by the city of Paris.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives
Paola Hernández
Newly Published Article by Nan Goodman
Nan Goodman’s article titled “From the Northern Parts of Virginia to ‘Cape-Cod’ A Mayflower Thesaurus” was recently published in the journal Early American Literature.
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.
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.
Children’s Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure’: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle
Anne Stiles
The Ciceronian Tradition in Political Theory
Dan Kapust
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.
Tanya Tiffany, IRH UW System Fellow, will give the Center for the Humanities Friday Lunch Talk on 2/26/2021
Center for the Humanities Friday Lunch Talk on Feb. 26th, 2021 will be given by Tanya Tiffany, IRH UW System Fellow. The virtual lecture titled “Humbleness and Opulence: Velázquez’s Genre Scenes and Elite Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century Spain” requires a reservation to attend.