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.
The April 1st lecture at 3:45 p.m. from the “Seeing the Invisible” series by Daniel Rosenberg has been canceled. The next lecture in the series on April 14, Daniel Garber – “Making the Spiritual World Visible: Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Witches and Ghosts” will take place as planned at 4:00 p.m. in Special …
A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Patrick William Kelly has been awarded the World History Association’s Dissertation Prize for his dissertation “Sovereignty and Salvation: Transnational Human Rights Activism in the Americas in the Long 1970s.” For more information, click here.
Former Senior Fellow Lee Wandel has published Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion. She has also been appointed to a five year named professorship through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. For more information, click here and here.
Senior Fellow Steve Stern will receive the 2015-2016 Hilldale Award in Arts and Humanities for his contributions to teaching, research, and service. For more information, click here.
Former Resident Fellow Katarzyna Olga Beilin has published In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain. For more information, click here.
Former UW System Fellow Theresa Kaminski has published Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II. For more information, click here.
Solmsen Fellow Andreas Schwab has been awarded a 2016-2017 Research Mobility Grant for his project “Religion in Ancient Narrative” through the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. The grant supports this interdisciplinary project in conjunction with scholars from Classics, Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and Religious Studies from Europe and the United States.
Former UW System Fellow David Krulger has published 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back. For more information, click here.
Former Solmsen Fellow Costica Bradatan has published a book, Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, which is being translated into several foreign language editions including Chinese, Dutch, Turkish, and Vietnamese. For more information on the Dutch translation, click here.