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.

Costica Bradatan’s “In Praise of Failure” Will Come Out Shortly

"In Praise of Failure Four Lessons in Humility" (Harvard University Press) will be available in January 2023.

Guillermina De Ferrari’s Routledge Companion Now Available

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms (Routledge, 2023)

Kyle Kajihiro featured in CNN article about Hawaii Tourism

Former ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow (2020-2021), Kyle Kajihiro, was featured in the CNN article about how tourism is harmful for Native Hawaiians.

Chris Yogerst reviews Jon Lewis’s “Road Trip to Nowhere”

Chris Yogerst, former UW-System Fellow (2021-2022), reviewed Jon Lewis’s book “Road Trip to Nowhere” in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Laura McClure named Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Literature

Laura McClure, current Senior Fellow (2019-2023), has been appointed Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Literature Studies.

Jonathan Z. S. Pollack Lecture at the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies

Jonathan Z. S. Pollack, former MATC Fellow (2008-2009) and Honorary Fellow, will give an online lecture tonight (July 6 at 6:30pm CT) at the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies.

Katherine M. Robiadek writes about civic education in the wake of Jan. 6 hearings

IRH honorary fellow Katherine M. Robiadek writes in the Washington Post about the need for greater civic education after Jan. 6 hearings

Simon Newman’s Book “Freedom Seekers” Reviewed in London Review of Books

Fara Dabhoiwala reviews Freedom Seekers (Univ. of London Press, 2022) by Simon P. Newman in the latest issue of London Review of Books

Kasey Keeler receives seed grant from the Wisconsin Idea Endowment

Former IRH fellow Kasey Keeler receives seed grant from Wisconsin Idea Endowment

Mercedes Alcalá-Galán’s New Book Now Available

“Con esta carga nacemos las mujeres”: discursos sobre el cuerpo femenino en la España de Cervantes (Iberoamericana, 2022)