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.
News and Announcements
Short news items relevant to the Institute and current or past fellows including award announcements, calls for papers, new fellowship offerings, and significant changes to IRH policies.
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.
2021-2022 New IRH Fellow Announcements
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 Anne Vila French and Italian, UW-Madison. Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives …
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.
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.
IRH Fellows Lead on New Mellon project at UW-Madison
“Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy (HEAL) in the Sciences and Medicine” receives Mellon Grant.
Congratulations to Francine Hirsch on her ASIL Book Award
The IRH would like to congratulate Francine Hirsch (incoming IRH Senior Fellow 2021-2025) on her ASIL Book Award for her book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Congratulations to IRH Fellows Aparna Dharwadker and Patrick Iber on their NEH awards
The IRH would like to congratulate Aparna Dharwadker (IRH Resident Fellow 2016-2017) Patrick Iber (incoming IRH Resident Fellow 2021-2022) on being awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants.