Category: News and Announcements

Short news items relevant to the Institute and current or past fellows including award announcements, calls for papers, new fellowship offerings, new publications, and changes at the IRH.

SubStance: A New IRH Fellowship

The fellowship will fund a scholar working in modern humanities, and is likely to be available 2028-2029.

Freedom Seekers: Echoes in Jazz Co-Organized by Simon Newman

The event includes a reception, exhibition, and concert.

Lecture by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece for the Center of Visual Culture and Performance Studies

Against—and in defense of—Hallucination

Special Issue of the Journal of Religion in Africa guest-edited by KD Thompson

KD is also the author of the introduction, and has an additional article included in the issue.

Book by Ethelene Whitmire Now Published

The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love

Book by Darshana Sreedhar Mini wins Bonnier Ritter Book Award

The IRH congratulates Darshana on this impressive achievement.

Lisa Cooper and Jordan Zweck Speaking at Wisconsin Science Festival Pre-Festival Event

Badgers on Tap—Medieval Literature

Special Issue of Communication and Democracy edited by Robert Asen

Futures for Rhetoric and Democracy

New Article by Viacheslav Zahorodniuk

Locke, The Dialectical Materialist

New Article by Brandon Smith

Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life