Past Event Category: 2008-2009
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May 5Followup Discussion with Nancy Marshall
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Nancy Rose Marshall Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Madison
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May 4The Fleshly School: Matter in Books and Bodies in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Nancy Rose Marshall Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Madison Focusing on one case study, a picture by British poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this talk explores the rapidly shifting understandings of the mind-body relationship in the Victorian era. Working with certain new conceptions of matter, Rossetti’s painting constituted a particular type of embodied …
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Apr 28Followup Discussion with Venkat Mani
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: B. Venkat Mani Resident Fellow (2008-2009) German, UW-Madison
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Apr 27Transposed Signs of Modernity: German Orientalism and the Indian ‘Timespace’
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: B. Venkat Mani Resident Fellow (2008-2009) German, UW-Madison The paper intervenes in recent scholarship on modernity, to diagnose a specific kind of insularity promoted in registers of “self-referentiality” (Luhmann: 1998) and “singularity” (Jameson: 2002). The paper tries to argue that conjectures of modernity in the Western European geo-cultural space, especially in Germany, …
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Apr 21Followup Discussion with Russ Shafer-Landau
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Russ Shafer-Landau Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Madison
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Apr 20Getting What You Want
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Russ Shafer-Landau Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Madison Many have thought that a person’s quality of life is determined by the extent to which his or her desires are satisfied. The paper considers the attractions of this view, and then subjects it to critical scrutiny. The tentative conclusion proposed is that this theory …
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Apr 17Other People’s Thinking: Language and Mentality in England before the Conquest
Pyle Center
2009 Burdick-Vary Symposium The effort to understand the inherited ideas that are operative in a society other than one’s own can require a historian’s patience, a linguist’s precision, a philosopher’s finesse, and an anthropologist’s tact. How did the people of the earliest period of English history and culture (the Anglo-Saxon period, ca. 500-1100 …
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Apr 14Followup Discussion with Norlisha Crawford
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Norlisha Crawford UW System Fellow (2008-2009) English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh
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Apr 13An Introduction to Chester Himes’s Detective Fiction Series
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar Norlisha F. Crawford UW System Fellow (2008-2009) English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh From 1957-1993 Chester Himes’s ten-volume crime fiction series was published, set in a place he called Harlem. In nine of the ten novels in the series Himes highlights characters who mirror the most egregiously racist stereotypes in play in …
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Apr 10Toleration and Persecution in the Early Modern Period
2009 Center for Early Modern Studies Conference: The conference aims to consider the definitions and limits of toleration in the early modern period, as well as the different kinds of religious persecution practiced during the early modern period. The conference will also consider some of the fierce debates and controversies that were stirred …