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September 2008
Catered Lunch to Introduce Members of the Institute for Research in the Humanities
Welcome Lunch. RSVP required.
Find out more »The Futures of Interdisciplinarity for the Humanities
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, Chancellor, UW-Madison Susan Friedman, Director, IRH Ullrich Langer, English, UW-Madison Jon McKenzie, East Asian Languages and Culture, UW-Madison Nicole Huang, Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison Suzette Spencer
Find out more »The Futures of Interdisciplinarity for the Humanities
Tuesday Lunch Discussion
Find out more »Warsaw Polish Writers-Diarists Witnessing the Holocaust: An Inquiry into the Capacity for Empathy – The Case of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Seminar: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Senior Fellow (2008-2013) Hebrew Studies, UW-Madison
Find out more »Who is the Superior God?: Contending Religious faiths in South India in the 13th and 16th centuries
Monday Seminar: V. Narayana Rao Senior Fellow (2005-2010) Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
Find out more »Who is the Superior God?: Contending Religious faiths in South India in the 13th and 16th centuries
Tuesday Lunch Discussion: V. Narayana Rao Senior Fellow (2005-2010) Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
Find out more »October 2008
Discussion of Franco Moretti, “The Novel: History and Theory” (New Left Review, July/August 2008)
Literature/s Research Workshop with Humanities without Boundaries Lecturer: Franco Moretti Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Brittingham Scholar in Residence
Find out more »Heaven is Round: Earth is Square. French Sinology and Chinese Travel Accounts Linking Mountain and Sea in Early China
Monday Seminar: Robert André LaFleur Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) History and Anthropology, Beloit College
Find out more »African Politics in African Literature: A Cultural History
Monday Seminar: Tejumola Olaniyan English; African Language and Literature, UW-Madison Senior Fellow (2007-2011; 2012-2013)
Find out more »African Politics in African Literature: A Cultural History
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Tejumola Olaniyan English and African Language and Literature, UW-Madison Senior Fellow (2007-2011; 2012-2013)
Find out more »Conversation with Franco Moretti
Literature/s Research Workshop with Humanities without Boundaries Lecturer: Franco Moretti Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Brittingham Scholar in Residence
Find out more »The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Conference organized by Len Kaplan, Honorary Fellow (2008-2011).
Find out more »Mimetic Failure and Moral Autonomy in a Schubert Song
Monday Seminar: Brian Hyer Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Music, UW-Madison
Find out more »November 2008
Jewish Networks at the University of Wisconsin, 1865-1924
Seminar: Jonathan Z. S. Pollack Madison Area Technical College Fellow (2008-2009) History, MATC
Find out more »Catechisms and the Construction of the Reformation
Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Lee Palmer Wandel Senior Fellow (2004-2009) History, UW-Madison In the sixteenth century, the world as Europeans knew it spun apart. Christian divided from Christian, sundering families, towns,…
Find out more »Feminine Sanctity in Imperial Spain: Diego Velazquez’s Portrait of Mother Jeronima de la Fuente
Monday Seminar: Tanya Tiffany UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Find out more »Feminine Sanctity in Imperial Spain: Diego Velazquez’s Portrait of Mother Jeronima de la Fuente
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Tanya Tiffany UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Find out more »Seminar with Ellen Amster
Monday Seminar: Ellen Amster Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Find out more »Followup Discussion with Ellen Amster
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Ellen Amster UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Find out more »December 2008
Meanings of Modern: South Asia before and after Colonialism
2008 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: Susan Friedman Partha Chatterjee Sanjay Subrahmanyam Vinay Dharwadker Chris Chekuri V. Narayana Rao David Shulman Satya P. Mohanty Charles Hallisey Aparna Dharwadker Rama Sundari Mantena Schedule: Friday December 5. Morning…
Find out more »“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
Monday Seminar Andrew Scheil Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Minnesota
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
Find out more »February 2009
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…
Find out more »Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction
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…
Find out more »Bodily Desire – Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele
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…
Find out more »Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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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