Past Event Category: 2008-2009
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Oct 13African Politics in African Literature: A Cultural History
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Tejumola Olaniyan English; African Language and Literature, UW–Madison Senior Fellow (2007-2011; 2012-2013)
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Oct 7Heaven is Round: Earth is Square. French Sinology and Chinese Travel Accounts Linking Mountain and Sea in Early China
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Robert André LaFleur Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) History and Anthropology, Beloit College
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Oct 3Discussion of Franco Moretti, “The Novel: History and Theory” (New Left Review, July/August 2008)
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 332
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 This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities.
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Sep 30Who is the Superior God?: Contending Religious faiths in South India in the 13th and 16th centuries
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Lunch Discussion: V. Narayana Rao Senior Fellow (2005-2010) Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW–Madison
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Sep 29Who is the Superior God?: Contending Religious faiths in South India in the 13th and 16th centuries
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: V. Narayana Rao Senior Fellow (2005-2010) Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW–Madison
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Sep 23Warsaw Polish Writers-Diarists Witnessing the Holocaust: An Inquiry into the Capacity for Empathy – The Case of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Seminar: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Senior Fellow (2008-2013) Hebrew Studies, UW–Madison
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Sep 16The Futures of Interdisciplinarity for the Humanities
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Lunch Discussion
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Sep 15The Futures of Interdisciplinarity for the Humanities
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
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
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Sep 9Catered Lunch to Introduce Members of the Institute for Research in the Humanities
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Welcome Lunch. RSVP required.
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Feb 7Freedom’s Journal’s “Love Ditties” and Other Writings of Courtship and Marriage in Early African America
2008 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Frances Smith Foster