Senior Fellow Ronald Radano and former Senior Fellow Tejumola Olaniyan have published the co-edited volume, Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique. For more information, click here.
Former Solmsen Fellow Todd W. Reeser has published Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance. For more information, click here.
Senior fellow Steven Nadler served on a committee co-sponsored by the University of Amsterdam to reinvestigate Baruch Spinoza’s 1656 excommunication from the Jewish community. Alongside other Spinoza scholars, Nadler provided reasons against rescinding the excommunication, a decision that was supported by the Amsterdam congregation. For more information, click here and here.
Doug Bradley and former Senior Fellow Craig Werner’s book We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (University of Massachusetts Press, October 2015) named one of the best music books of 2015 by Rolling Stone. For more information, click here.
Honorary Fellow Paul Taylor (The Warburg Institute, University of London) recently published Condition: The Ageing of Art (Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2015), which James Hall has reviewed on The Guardian. For the review, click here.
Resident Fellow Jennifer Gipson (French and Italian, UW-Madison) is a co-recipient of the Larry Schehr Memorial Award for best essay by junior faculty at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association Colloquium. Her paper, “The Newspaper vs. the Storyteller: Phantasms of Orality and the Quarrel of the roman-feuilleton,” which she presented at the 2015 Colloquium at Princeton …
The Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board has unanimously selected Biruté Ciplijauskaité, Professor Emerita of Spanish and Emeriti Lifetime Fellow of the Institute, as the winner of the 2015 Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Advocacy. For more information, click here or here.
Former Honorary Fellow Anna Blume will speak on “The Aesthetics of Effigy Mounds” on Saturday, October 24 from 1-3 pm in the UW Arboretum Visitor Center. Registration is required. Dr. Blume conducted the research for this talk during summer 2015, while a fellow at the Institute. For more information, click here.
Doug Bradley and former Senior Fellow Craig Werner have co-authored We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (University of Massachusetts Press, October 2015). For more information, click here or here.
Former Senior Fellow Rachel Feldhay Brenner is receiving the 2015 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for her book, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Northwestern University Press). The prize is awarded by the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. Dr. …
