The Making of a Philosopher-Martyr

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Costica Bradatan Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) Philosophy, Texas Tech University   This paper explores the “conditions of possibility” of philosophical martyrdom. Becoming a martyr can be an extremely difficult process as dying is only …

The City and its Fragments: Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Preeti Chopra Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison   This paper is a study of the role of native communities in the physical transformation of colonial Bombay. Exploring the impact …

2010 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities

University Club, Room 212
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

  Workshop and Panel Discussion: Susan Stanford Friedman, Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities and Co-Editor of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Oxford University Press Journal, 2007 -Today. Gwen Walker, Acquisitions Editor, University of Wisconsin Press …

Parallel and Interconnected Developments in the Early Modern World

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: André Wink Senior Fellow (2009-2013) History, UW-Madison   By today’s standard, early modernization does not always look like sweeping change. Yet there is growing consensus among historians that sixteenth-century developments in Europe – …

The Mongol Empire and its World

Lowell Center
@ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

2010 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: David Morgan Peter Jackson Timothy May Uli Schamiloglu Anne Broadbridge Morris Rossabi Reuven Amitai Angus Stewart Andre Wink   Schedule: FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 9:00 a.m. David Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Welcome …

Drinking Alfresco: The Erotics of the Pastoral Sympotic Mode

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Kristen Ehrhardt Robert J. Reinhold Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) Classics, UW-Madison   The institution of private drinking parties, symposia, played an important part in the cultural and political lives of Greek men in the …

Making Sense of Bodies: Expert Imaginations and Unsafe Motherhood in Malawi

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Claire Wendland Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Departments of Anthropology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Medical History and Bioethics, UW-Madison   In one of the poorest countries in a poor region of the world, Malawian women, …