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.

Darshana Mini to give Friday Lunch Talk at the Center for the Humanities

The talk is entitled "Sembawang’s Malayali Settlement: Fiction, Memoirs and Literature as Inter-Asian Method."

Event: Focus on the Humanities lecture by Mario Ortiz-Robles

The talk is entitled "Rewilding the Zoo: Animal Captivity and the Future of Extinction."

Matthew Rarey to give lecture for Department of Art History

The talk is entitled "Renaming the Fetish in the Eighteenth-Century African Atlantic."

Former IRH fellow Kasey Keeler co-launches Mapping Teejop tool

The tool guides users through self-paced walking tours that highlight Ho-Chunk history.

New book by former IRH fellow Anne F. Widmayer

Gender and Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2024)

Lisa H. Cooper to give Friday lunch talk at Center for the Humanities

The talk is entitled "Knives Out: Medieval Recipes, Culinary Violence, and Literary Character"

Vincent Lloyd to give lecture for Religious Studies Program

"Beyond Human: Audre Lorde, Spirituality, Judgment"

Reminder: IRH external fellowship applications due October 24

Applications for Solmsen, Kingdon, and Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellowships close in a week.

Former IRH fellow Jennifer Gaddis to give book talk at Wisconsin Book Festival

Jennifer's talk will be based on her co-edited book, Transforming School Food Politics around the World.

Former IRH Project Assistant Lizzie Neary featured on the Chicago news

Lizzie talks about a new beer history fellowship launched by the Newberry Library and Beer Culture Center.