Past Event Category: 2009-2010
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May 3The Making of a Philosopher-Martyr
University Club, Room 212
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 half of the job. It is only through a complex social, political and cultural process that a dead body becomes …
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Apr 26The City and its Fragments: Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918
University Club, Room 212
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 of encounters between different groups, the paper shows that colonial Bombay was not simply the result of ideas emanating from …
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Apr 23Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowing: A Decolonial View on the Humanities
Pyle Center
2010 Hilldale Lecture: Walter Mignolo Spanish, Duke University
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Apr 212010 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities
University Club, Room 212
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 David Morgan, Senior Fellow, Professor of History, Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1987-1999; Series Editor, Cambridge …
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Apr 19Parallel and Interconnected Developments in the Early Modern World
University Club, Room 212
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 – demographic expansion, the growth of territorial states and bureaucracies, commercialization, and religious reformations – have had significant parallels in at …
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Apr 12The Chinese Must Go: Immigration, Deportation, and Violence in the 19th-Century American West
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Beth Lew-Williams ACLS Fellow Resident (2009-2010) History, Stanford University This project examines the dramatic and formative moment in American history when the federal government made its first major effort to control the movement of people across its borders—and failed. The result was America’s first illegal immigrants and a grassroots uprising against them. …
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Apr 9The Mongol Empire and its World
Lowell Center
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 9:15-10:00 a.m. David Morgan, University of Wisconsin–Madison “Persian and Non-Persian Historical Writing in the Mongol Empire” 10:00-11:00 a.m. Peter Jackson, …
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Apr 5Sentimental Literature: Directing the Flows of Sympathy in Enlightenment and Francophone Texts
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Stephanie Spadaro Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) French and Italian, UW–Madison In this presentation, I will examine the ways that certain philosophical notions of sympathy and various literary portrayals of sympathy define the human in eighteenth-century French slave narratives and contemporary Caribbean novels. I will also discuss methodological questions raised in my comparison …
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Apr 5Drinking Alfresco: The Erotics of the Pastoral Sympotic Mode
University Club, Room 212
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 archaic and classical periods, to the extent that the symposium itself became a common motif in literature and art. Later …
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Mar 22Making Sense of Bodies: Expert Imaginations and Unsafe Motherhood in Malawi
University Club, Room 212
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, their families, and those who are charged with their care in pregnancy and labor face an unexplained increase in maternal …