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December 2008
“Like very honest and substantial citizens”: Performance and Identity in Early Modern Cony-Catching Pamphlets
Monday Seminar: Anupam Basu English, UW-Madison Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009)
Find out more »Babylon and Degeneracy: Traditions of Descent and Racial Difference in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond
Tuesday Discussion Lunch Andrew Scheil Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Minnesota
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Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction
Monday Seminar: Robert F. Berkhofer Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Western Michigan University The seminar examines two types of sources, forgery and historical writings, and discusses the relationship between them in Europe circa 900-1200 and…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Robert F. Berkhofer Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Western Michigan University
Find out more »Bodily Desire – Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele
Monday Seminar Esther K. Bauer UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point The seminar proposes that early-twentieth-century authors Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka and artists Christian Schad and Egon Schiele created characters…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Esther Bauer UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point
Find out more »Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Monday Seminar: Michael Bernard-Donals Resident Fellow (2008-2009) English, UW-Madison The US Holocaust Memorial Council and the designers of the US Holocaust Museum attempted to ensure, through the museum's design, that visitors would remember the…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Michael Bernard-Donals Resident Fellow (2008-2009) UW-Madison, English
Find out more »March 2009
The Myth of Religious Wars
Monday Seminar: David Chan Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point Are religious wars more violent than imperialistic wars, civil wars and wars of liberation? Would the world be more peaceful if people did not…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: David Chan Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) English, UW-Stevens Point
Find out more »Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice and Public Health Nutrition in Early Twentieth-Century America
Monday Seminar: Andrew Ruis William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009) History of Science, UW-Madison
Find out more »Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion
Monday Seminar: Catherine Martin Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Memphis The paper asks a question that hasn't been addressed for over 50 years: how and why did a young, virtually unknown, and staunchly…
Find out more »Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Catherine Martin Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Memphis
Find out more »Clothing Saints in the Carolingian World
Monday Seminar: Valerie Garver Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Northern Illinois University Both religious and laypeople wished to clothe saints appropriately in the Carolingian world. Whether describing the appropriate dress of saints in vitae, making…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Valerie Garver Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Northern Illinois University
Find out more »Virgil’s Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Latin Poetry and Ethnohistory in Colonial Mexico
Lecture: Andrew Laird Classical Literature, Warwick University Virgil's epic on the fall of Troy and foundation of Rome came to Mexico in the wake of the Spanish conquest. The poem had a role in…
Find out more »April 2009
Conversation and Lunch with Herbert Kessler
Co-Sponsored Luncheon: Herbert Kessler Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University Professor Kessler will speak for about 5 minutes about his current work to open up a discussion in which all are urged to participate. Sponsored…
Find out more »The Sanctifying Serpent: Christ’s Pictured Body as a Source of Healing
Lecture: Herbert Kessler Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University The lecture will explore ways in which the Brazen Serpent trope gets mapped onto images of the Crucifixion, from the ninth-century through the twelfth, to trigger…
Find out more »Plato’s Noble Lie
Monday Seminar: David Lay Williams Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point The tradition of the political lie infamously commences with Plato's Noble Lie in the Republic. The lie is woven with…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: David Williams Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point
Find out more »Toleration 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…
Find out more »An Introduction to Chester Himes’s Detective Fiction Series
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…
Find out more »Followup Discussion with Norlisha Crawford
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Norlisha Crawford UW System Fellow (2008-2009) English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh
Find out more »Other People’s Thinking: Language and Mentality in England before the Conquest
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…
Find out more »Getting What You Want
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…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Russ Shafer-Landau Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Madison
Find out more »Transposed Signs of Modernity: German Orientalism and the Indian ‘Timespace’
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"…
Find out more »Followup Discussion with Venkat Mani
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: B. Venkat Mani Resident Fellow (2008-2009) German, UW-Madison
Find out more »May 2009
The Fleshly School: Matter in Books and Bodies in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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…
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Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Nancy Rose Marshall Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Madison
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