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September 2009
Globalization and the Humanities
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Find out more »Autonomy in Relation
Monday Seminar Andrea Westlund UW System Fellow (2009-2010) Philosophy, UW-Milwaukee In recent years feminist philosophers have offered trenchant critiques of traditional, individualistic ideals of autonomy and have developed alternative relational conceptions that highlight social…
Find out more »The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Early Modern Diplomatic Writing
Monday Seminar: Mark Netzloff UW System Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Milwaukee Netzloff's paper examines the social and material life of the early modern embassy. In his discussion of the career and correspondence of Sir Henry…
Find out more »October 2009
Post-Race Pop? Interrogating Strategies for Ethnic Diversity in Millennial Media Culture
Monday Seminar: Mary Beltrán Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) Communication Arts and Chicana/o & Latino/a Studies, UW-Madison This paper will focus on ethnic representation in U.S. television and media culture with respect to…
Find out more »Communist Baiting and the Politics of National Belonging
Monday Seminar: Cindy I-Fen Cheng Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) History; Asian American Studies, UW-Madison Cindy I-Fen Cheng is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Asian American…
Find out more »Roomscape: Reading Space in the British Museum
Monday Seminar: Susan David Bernstein Resident Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Madison This talk examines a specific site — the Reading Room of the British Museum — as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential…
Find out more »“Martial Acts Virtuously Enacted by Women”: Gender and Violence in the French Wars of Religion
Monday Seminar: Brian Sandberg History, Northern Illinois University Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) This paper concerns the gendered nature of violence and political culture in early modern French history. Religious identities and animosities sharply divided…
Find out more »November 2009
The Fullness of Time: Tocqueville and the Democratic Moment
Monday Seminar: Richard Avramenko Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Political Science, UW-Madison This paper examines the concept of time in Tocqueville’s thought through the lens of the philosophy of internal time-consciousness. While Tocqueville himself offers no…
Find out more »National Colors: Race, Nation, and the Census in Latin America
Monday Seminar: Mara Loveman Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Sociology, UW-Madison Why do some states classify their populations by race in censuses while other states do not? What purpose have race queries on census forms served…
Find out more »At the Table of the Other: Eating and Ethics in Early Modern England
Monday Seminar David B. Goldstein Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) English, York University This paper explores the meanings and functions of food in early modern English culture, arguing that for the Renaissance writer, the rhetoric of…
Find out more »Real American Girls and the American Girl in the Movies in the 1910s
Monday Seminar: Leslie Midkiff DeBauche UW System Fellow (2009-2010) Communication Arts, UW-Stevens Point In the United States in the 1910s the most popular movie stars, including Mary Pickford, Billie Burke, Irene Castle, and serial…
Find out more »From Statelessness to State Sovereignty: People and Politics on an Early American Frontier
Monday Seminar: Rob Harper ACLS Residency Fellow (2009-2010) History, UW-Stevens Point This paper reassesses the Anglo-American conquest of the trans-Appalachian west by examining the relationships between local politics, frontier violence, and state formation. It…
Find out more »December 2009
Planetarity: Global Epistemologies in Modernist Studies
Monday Seminar: Susan Stanford Friedman IRH Director English, UW-Madison This paper, written for a keynote address at the Modernist Studies Association (November, 2009), explores the “transnational turn” in modernist studies and the anxiety in…
Find out more »January 2010
In Love With Russia: U.S. Women, Sexual Revolution, and Revolutionary Tourism, 1921-1935
Jay C. and Ruth Hall Lecture: Julia Mickenberg Honorary Fellow (2009-2010) American Studies, Univ of Texas at Austin The lecture examines how the modern sexual revolutions in Russia and the U.S. inspired American women's…
Find out more »We Have to Invent Him: Harley Lyrics, Hereford Maps, and the Life of Roger de Breynton, c.1290-1351
Monday Seminar: Daniel Birkholz Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) English, University of Texas at Austin This interdisciplinary study brings together two major documents of a forgotten period and a backwater region—the Hereford Cathedral Mappamundi (c.1305), and…
Find out more »February 2010
Cannibalism and Colonialism
Monday Seminar: Florence Bernault Resident Fellow (2009-2010) History, UW-Madison This paper explores cannibalism as a central trope of colonial engagements in West Equatorial Africa (Gabon) from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth…
Find out more »We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Music and the Experience of Vietnam Veterans
Monday Seminar: Craig Werner Senior Fellow (2009-2013) Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison This project, a collaboration between UW Professor Craig Werner and Vietnam veteran and veteran advocate Doug Bradley, uses music as a touchstone for constructing…
Find out more »Japanese Sovereignty and Declarations of War
Monday Seminar: Douglas Howland UW System Fellow (2009-2010) History, UW-Milwaukee The paper treats the controversy surrounding Japan's commencement of hostilities against Russia in February 1904, and examines how that start to the Russo-Japanese War…
Find out more »To Russia With Love: Dorothy West’s Adventures in Moscow and Other Transatlantic Challenges to the Color Line
Monday Seminar: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Madison This paper draws on a chapter in a book-in-progress, Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color. It places West’s personal…
Find out more »Symposium on Globalization and the Humanities: Then and Now, Here and There
IRH 50th Anniversary Symposium: The Symposium will address a number of vital debates about globalization, focusing on what the humanities can contribute to understanding globalization as well as how the humanities are being…
Find out more »March 2010
Queer Writing Matters: Literary Performativity in Contemporary Queer Women’s Writing in French
Monday Seminar: Kristina Kosnick Germaine Brée Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) French and Italian, UW-Madison This presentation will examine recent trends in queer-centered (French) literary criticism. It will also break with these trends both by foregrounding…
Find out more »Imperial India on Trial: Crime, Punishment, and Colonialism, 1880-1940
Monday Seminar: Kate Merz Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Madison In the last decades of the British Raj, anti-colonial writers staged scenes of crime and punishment, trial and testimony, in order to interrogate the…
Find out more »The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination, 1905-1945
Monday Seminar: Julia Mickenberg Honorary Fellow (2009-2010) American Studies, University of Texas at Austin This presentation will offer an overview of a book-in-progress that seeks to understand Russia's place in the imagination and self-fashioning…
Find out more »Early Modern Humanism and the Humanities
Center for Early Modern Studies Conference Co-sponsored Event Friday, March 19, 2010 (All day) to Saturday, March 20, 2010 (All day).
Find out more »Array
Lunch Workshop/Seminar Niklaus Largier German, University of California-Berkeley Niklaus Largier will also give a lecture on “Bodies in Prayer: Sense, Sensation, and the Art of Desire” on Monday, March 22, 5:30pm, in 7191 Helen…
Find out more »Making Sense of Bodies: Expert Imaginations and Unsafe Motherhood in Malawi
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,…
Find out more »April 2010
Drinking Alfresco: The Erotics of the Pastoral Sympotic Mode
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…
Find out more »Sentimental Literature: Directing the Flows of Sympathy in Enlightenment and Francophone Texts
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…
Find out more »The Mongol Empire and its World
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…
Find out more »The Chinese Must Go: Immigration, Deportation, and Violence in the 19th-Century American West
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…
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