Past Event Category: 2008-2009

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  • Mar 3
    The Myth of Religious Wars

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    Tuesday Discussion Lunch: David Chan Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) English, UW-Stevens Point

  • Mar 2
    The Myth of Religious Wars

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    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 fight for religious reasons? Is the conflict between Christianity and Islam unavoidable? The paper suggests that it is a misconception …

  • Feb 24
    Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Michael Bernard-Donals Resident Fellow (2008-2009) UW–Madison, English

  • Feb 23
    Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    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 Holocaust as a specific historical event. But what visitors learn, and see, and remember at the USHMM is often enough …

  • Feb 10
    Bodily Desire – Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Esther Bauer UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point

  • Feb 9
    Bodily Desire – Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    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 intended to upset bourgeois notions of gender, desire, and sexuality. At a time of far-reaching changes in male and female …

  • Feb 3
    Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Robert F. Berkhofer Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Western Michigan University

  • Feb 2
    Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    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 argues that both empirical and postmodern textualist approaches are necessary and important for understanding them. The paper also discusses the …

  • Dec 8
    Babylon and Degeneracy: Traditions of Descent and Racial Difference in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond

    Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204

    Monday Seminar Andrew Scheil Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Minnesota

  • Dec 5
    Meanings of Modern: South Asia before and after Colonialism

    Pyle Center, Room 226

    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 9:00 Keynote address: Susan Friedman, Director: The Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW–Madison: “Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of …

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