Past Event Category: 2009-2010
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Mar 22Array
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 C. White Hall. Niklaus Largier is currently Chair of the German Department at the University of California-Berkeley. His recent …
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Mar 19Early Modern Humanism and the Humanities
Memorial Union
Center for Early Modern Studies Conference Friday, March 19, 2010 (All day) to Saturday, March 20, 2010 (All day). This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for Early Modern Studies.
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Mar 15The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination, 1905-1945
University Club, Room 212
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 of financially independent, sexually liberated, and socially conscious American women, among them well-known suffragists, socialists, journalists, educators, authors, reformers, and …
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Mar 8Queer Writing Matters: Literary Performativity in Contemporary Queer Women’s Writing in French
University Club, Room 212
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 the politico-literary contributions of contemporary women writers and by advocating a critical approach that values the performative force of literary …
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Mar 8Imperial India on Trial: Crime, Punishment, and Colonialism, 1880-1940
University Club, Room 212
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 legitimacy of imperialism itself. This project examines questions of imperial justice in British and Indian writers of the early twentieth …
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Feb 25Symposium on Globalization and the Humanities: Then and Now, Here and There
Pyle Center
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 reinvented as a result of globalization. The political, economic, and technological controversies about globalization often overshadow its cultural and philosophical …
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Feb 22To Russia With Love: Dorothy West’s Adventures in Moscow and Other Transatlantic Challenges to the Color Line
University Club, Room 212
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 reflections and publications about her Soviet sojourn in conversation with Nancy Prince’s 1825 narrative of her life in imperial Russia …
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Feb 15Japanese Sovereignty and Declarations of War
University Club, Room 212
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 informed discussions regarding the need for declarations of war prior to hostilities: within the Institut de droit international and at …
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Feb 8We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Music and the Experience of Vietnam Veterans
University Club, Room 212
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 a veteran-centered narrative of the Vietnam era. The book is grounded in over 100 interviews with Vietnam veterans: combat soldiers, …
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Feb 1Cannibalism and Colonialism
University Club, Room 212
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 century. The literature has thought long and hard on the ways in which cannibalism expresses dominant ideas about limits and …