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.

Event: Department of French & Italian Research Seminar with Anne C. Vila

"How the Jansenist convulsionnaires Passed into Nineteenth-Century French Fiction: The Case of Léon Hennique's Elisabeth Couronneau"

Full List of Incoming and Returning IRH Fellows 2025-2026

IRH Director Steven Nadler is pleased to announce the full cohort of incoming and returning IRH Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Event: Spanish Fashion and the Threads of Empire in the Global Early Modern

A talk organized by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Sarah Ensor to celebrate release of first book

Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World

Emily Callaci to host reading of new book

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight against Unpaid Labor

Event: Rethinking the Italian Eighteenth Century and Its Transnational Connections

A symposium organized by the Department of French & Italian.

New book by IRH fellow Esther Fernández

The Life of the Soul in Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2025)

Allison Prasch wins named professorship award

The Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik award honors faculty focused on teaching and researching American democracy.

Two former IRH fellows win UW–Madison teaching awards

IRH congratulates Jennifer Gaddis and Claus Elholm Andersen on this remarkable achievement.

IRH fellows to organize Early Modern Philosophy Workshop

Brandon Smith, Jack Stetter, and Viacheslav Zahorodniuk will present new research.