A symposium organized by the Department of French & Italian.
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.
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.
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk to give talk at EPS conference
Slava will speak on Ukrainian philosophy during the war.
New article by Chad Alan Goldberg now published
The article is entitled “Horace Kallen’s Expanding Vision of Cultural Pluralism: Nationality, Race, and Democracy on the World Stage, 1918–39.”
Jack Stetter to give talk for English department
The talk is entitled “Deleuze on Spinoza’s Semiotics.”
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk wins Hume Studies essay prize
The essay, “Painted Red: The Soviet Interpretations of Hume’s Epistemology,” will be published in November 2025.
Book by Elizabeth Athens shortlisted for Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award
Winners of the award will be announced on April 7, 2025.