Past Events Category: 2008-2009

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
May 5, 2009 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Nancy Rose Marshall Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Madison

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
May 4, 2009 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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 …

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
April 28, 2009 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Tuesday Discussion Lunch: B. Venkat Mani Resident Fellow (2008-2009) German, UW-Madison

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
April 27, 2009 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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” …

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
April 21, 2009 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Russ Shafer-Landau Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Madison

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
April 20, 2009 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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 …

Pyle Center
April 17, 2009 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

  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 …

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
April 14, 2009 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Norlisha Crawford UW System Fellow (2008-2009) English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh

Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
April 13, 2009 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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 …

April 10, 2009 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

  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 …